Same ship, same asteroid belt, same detail options options.

Test rig:
E6500
4gb ram
Ati 6850
Win7 x64

On TQ, 50-60 fps.
On Sisi, 30 fps.

Explanation:
On TQ framerate drops with the amount of missiles on screen, trails, smoke and shock-wave effects on hits, it is frustrating but manageable to play.

On SiSi, warping to a belt, targeting 1 roid, and shooting 1 (only one, yes) missile, framerate instantly drops from smooth 60 to 30, 10-15 seconds after the missile hits the roid and effects go away, framerate goes back to 60 fps. Same thing with multiple missiles on screen, always drops directly to 30fps. One or dozen missiles, same fps hit.
Disabled GPU particles and its back to working 60 fps.

Something is really broken since missiles got a new effect to be visible from medium-far distance. As it is, its unplayable on sisi.

Some strange thing i noticed, on TQ (currently), in missile fight, cpu/gpu usage is both high, around 80-90%.
On Sisi with latest issues, fps is 30, but i got overall lower cpu/gpu usage, around 60% for both. Using interval default setting.

Can a anyone confirm this?

@CCP is this a known issue ( yes i reported it ) and is it gonna go live to TQ since a few last SiSi patches did not address this issue.

they just need to do away with the ******* smoke trails, and add on some faint light trails.

no way man, that smoke is combustion and atmospheric interactions . . in space.

what are you suggesting, some futuristic fuel's plasma glow out the tail end of the missile? get real

no way man, that smoke is combustion and atmospheric interactions . . in space.

what are you suggesting, some futuristic fuel's plasma glow out the tail end of the missile? get real

Confirmed.

Test rig:
Intel i7-2600K
8gb ram
Ati 6850
Win7 x64

My fixed 75FPS drop to 38FPS when i shot alone with missiles any objects.

same setup, but a GTX 460. no fps drop.

FPS get halved on ATI cards only.

Tested v-sync, its not it.
With interval imd. i get around 130 fps, Gpu particles on and drops to 30-35.
Interval def. 60 fps drops to 30-35.

So if other ati card works without issues, and TQ doesn't have this problem.... drivers maybe? I am running 12.4 currently.

Jumping into a belt on TQ with my ATI 5870 cripples my fps without even firing missiles. Please CCP make ATI cards work a little bit better can't really afford anything new at the moment.

Shadows on high maybe?

With me, if a missile gets fired, my fps drops to 10 or below from 60, plus my entire screen freaks out with a series of gigantic yellow squares that cover the screen at first, and then slowly shrink until they disappear and then my fps goes back to normal, even if missiles are still getting fired.

This only happens once per undock, not sure about system change. Changing my graphics settings around doesnt help much except for resource cache, resource cache makes it worse but disabling it does not fix it.

I too need to have my missiles effects off or my fps goes from a steady 60-65 fps to 10-12 ! nvidia 9500 gt quad cuore or whatever, 4gb ram and the graphic card is like 2 gb or so ..I dont understan much about computers but this one seems to run EVE very decently untill the new missiles effects got in

Hi!

We know about this issue, but we are still investigating our options for fixing / improving it. The issue is present on Tranquility, but it is indeed more pronounced now on Singularity with Inferno 1.1 (at least on some cards).

Workaround: Disable GPU particles in the settings menu.

what about with space dusts in mission or anomalies ?

Brilliant answer, honestly.
From noticeable FPS drop on TQ it goes to insane fps drop on SISI, and best advice is to disable GPU particles.
How about finding whats wrong and making it work, or at least rollback to TQ missiles setting that didnt make it unplayable. All that was added were small flares on missiles and it screwed things up.

This is being worked on this and we hope to regain at least the performance loss compared to TQ. I'll post more info as soon as we know more.

I have a fix :) increase missile velocity by 100% on all ships (that means ships that already have speed bonus, gets additional speed)... once this is done, adjust flight time to match same range as before...

Why you ask? to reduce the number of missiles in space at a given time... (it will also make sniping with missiles more viable than it already is)

It is a brilliant answer, stop being a tard he said they are working to find what is causing it, and to fix it. As the GPU particles is a new feature the fact that you have to disable it isn't like its some huge change from the past lol, just disable the gpu particles for a while till the source of the issue is found.

"Data Package Unavailable. The server you are connecting to doesn't have a published update package. Client update was unsuccessful" No option to click play button.

Now this may be a known problem and you may have published some workaround until you fix the launcher. But really I'll just wait til the launcher is fixed.

Hi again!

We made some changes to missiles yesterday evening, which reached Singularity this morning. Please check out your performance with missiles on ATI cards - on my test machine it looks like we are back at the level of current TQ. Please reply here with your observations and please send bugreports, if you find any related bugs. Thanks in advance!

Confirmed.
Much-much better after new patch.
Obvious advance. Today i tried the missile affects with high settings and the frame drop decreased.
From 75FPS to 50-52FPS and the FPS normalized back to 75 FPS after first salvo. Nice work.
Please check the other fps drops too, when camera turning toward the sun.
And a button would be nice too for turning off space dust in anomalies/mission spots.

was just on sisi and missile effects still kill my fps at least i can now see them with the effect turned off

Also as some people mentioned, when testing FPS make sure you use Interval Immediate.
For normal gameplay this is not recommended, because it tells your GPU to go as fast as it can, and therefor it might get rather hot. But for testing you should use that, otherwise you can really report only two values: "60" or "30 and lower", with nothing in between. Thanks!

And no one want to test or playing without vsync (Interval Immediate) because no one want to boil his VGA, but that setting really make VGA cards to hot in fully load.

I don't get this problem

i7-950
6gb ram
gtx 470

I did notice an issue pre-patch (been having it for months), where my FPS would drop in the manner you describe while in station, then struggle for a minute or two and resume normal behaviour