Client Performance (Updated June 16)

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Caydellass wrote:

So are you guys finally going to fix the issues with the engine when playing on an ATI/AMD based system? 'Cause that has been a plight for me since day 1.

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Islidox wrote:

- Encountering spells/skill effects for the first time: I'm not sure why this is still an issue, but it is an issue for me when an ally or enemy activates a skill for the first time and I get a momentary screen freeze due to the loading of said effects. This is especially noticeable on particle heavy skills like Firestorm or Summon Skeletons and the ilk. Hopefully this also gets worked on the near future as well.

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cronus wrote:

my computer running an intel i7 with 8GB ram and a gtx570 card really had problems displaying normal game content and in parties frame rates sometimes dropped to unplayable levels. the card had even problems displaying some effects from mictrotransactions of players just standing in town.

after i upgraded my harddisk to an ssd and my gfx card to a gtx780 all is fine. i'm first in new map instances, wheather effects don't bother me and in parties the frame rate rarely drops below 60 fps.

with one exclusion: some guy had the new spiky ground slam - skill combined with "increased area of effect" or something which made my framerate go down to 5 dps.



@hilbert: computational effects destroying hardware is bullshit, if a card can't compute some effects it either overheats which results in the gpu to slow down itself and/or the framerate just drops.

if you have a bad cooling system in your rig which results in the gpu running on the temperature limit all the time you surely can decrease the life expectancy of your graphics card, but thats your rig being crappy and not the game's fault.

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

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sidtherat wrote:

im pretty sure that existing maphacks can tell you if map has an corrupted area/strongbox already

They've said they're working to remedy that/deliver map/chunk data in segments as you explore instead of all at once the instant you enter a zone.

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Caydellass wrote:

So you're telling me that when I'm running maps with no weather effects, and don't have heavy skill effects going on, that my random frame drops on a build that isn't a year old is a "general optimization issue?"

I know several players who had been having problems with their AMD builds, switched to a Nvidia card and now get 60 FPS steady.

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jstq wrote:

Initial game loading time is terrible. Game is on ramdisk with 4770k. Loading time is around 2-3 minutes.

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666DalmatiaN wrote:

Oh and give us option to load ALL effects ready, / command or something. I don't mind waiting for a little bit longer on 1st loading screen if it reduces lag spikes. 10 seconds or even minute, I don't care. Strongboxes, skeletons, arctic breath etc are pain in the ass :p

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jstq wrote:

5 gb from 16 gb