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Frozen Eddie Johnson
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.12.07 11:48:00 -
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Mara Rinn wrote:I'll file a bug report, but the new clouds are much worse for me than the old ones. My 6yo iMac w/X1600 video card (which isn't officially supported) was able to get decent frame rates even with clouds on screen (by decent, I mean I was able to click the overview and warp out before the ship blew up). With the new clouds, I'm getting hard locks on warp-in, meaning the mouse and keyboard aren't even usable. The framerate will drop to about 2fps when clouds are on screen (any cloud in "Massive Attack" vs Sanshas, handed to me by an agent in Sasoutikh which I completed just before DT, if that helps CCP narrow it down at all).
Maybe it's just time for me to upgrade to a newer computer, but my other computers (2 yrs old) also have much lower frame rates with clouds onscreen (the clouds never really bothered them before).
The new clouds are also FAR worse for me, and I'm using a GTX 580. On max settings minus HDR (dont' like how bright it makes some things), I usually hover around 50% GPU utilization. In heavy battles it will maybe spike to 60-70%. This is with a steady 60 FPS with vsync enabled. However, since the patch, ANY mission/plex pocket with a cloud of any type will spike my GPU to 99% constantly, with spiky framerate hits. it is completely unplayable if I try to dual box, but again, only when there are gas clouds.
Changing my graphics settings seems to have no effect at all on this.
I am using the most recent 306.97 Nvidia drivers released on 2012.10.10. I do NOT want to use beta drivers unless I know they fix the problem, because I've had bad luck with beta drivers in the past, and everything else runs perfectly fine on my system.
Honestly, most of these clouds don't really even add anything visually and they've been a source of GPU issues for a while, just give us the option to disable them. |
Frozen Eddie Johnson
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.12.23 09:36:00 -
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Could we get an update on this? Ever since the Retribution changes, any and all cloud effects kill my framerate, and it seems like the devs disappeared as soon as people started commenting that it has gotten worse. |
Frozen Eddie Johnson
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.01.08 04:11:00 -
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Typical CCP, reply to the topic when people are positive, but then when people start reporting problems, go away and never comment again =/.
As an aside, a lot of the "new" clouds look horrible. The ones in Blood Raider Blockade look like mini-suns wrapped in plastic. with the same terrible framerate hit/GPU usage spike. |
Frozen Eddie Johnson
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.03.03 21:15:00 -
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Good to see CCP STILL hasn't returned to this thread. Still as bad as ever, and yes, it is EVERY DAMN CLOUD. Filing a petition listing specific ones, lol. |
Frozen Eddie Johnson
Sheep Can Hear A Zipper From A Mile Away
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Posted - 2013.03.30 02:18:00 -
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Many of the Retribution-tweaked clouds are downright fugly, yet still cause a major performance hit. For extra laughs, zoom out a bit in Blood Raider Blockade (one of the worst for clouds); it looks like something that would be rendered by a Nintendo 64. They look that bad. |
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