Since being angry about Lag in PC has given me nothing apart from a very unpleasant headache I decided to try to be constructive about the issue, in this thread I will try to keep a discussion going about possible issues, causes, remedies, fixes, reports, findings, testings, and general observations any one can offer so we can hopefully help CCP absolve the issue.

This is what I have so far:

Steps to remedy:
- Restart before PC game (Doesn't Help anymore)
- switch to wired connection and ensure connection is free and not backed up (Helps, but barely)
- Defragment PS3 (People claim it aids in better performance, but it is minimal at best)
- Delete Dust514 Save file (Doesn't Help)
- Reinstall Dust514 (Doesn't Help)
- Do a rain dance in your backyard wearing nothing but a loincloth in the dead of winter (Testing to be completed soon, Results TBD)
- Hard reset of PS3 when already deployed in warbarge (Shown to be effective, further testing required)

Potential Causes:
- Equipment Spam (Rampant in PC, if you dont spam you dont win)
- EVE Support (Have noticed more Lag in games where either side has EVE support)
- Explosive Spam (Rampant in PC, if you dont spam you dont win)
- Having a mix of EU/NA/Asia server players
- Transitioning between city and outside objectives (When in a PC and you continuously move in and out of the city area it will cause game breaking lag coupled with almost immediate framerate drop - the only duplicatable bug that I have personally tested)

Please add anything else you can think of regarding the issue here

As usual please keep it constructive, you know the deal.

When I'm depressed, I cut myself......A BIG SLICE OF CHOCOLATE CAKE!.

Keeping chat rooms to a minimum
preload all fits in warbage helps spawn quicker at the very start of game
sometimes leaving match and rejoining helps me out, but useless if its not your corp lol
playing on standard definition tv instead of Hd really helps reduce framerate issues
Ive noticed I shoot rubber bullets and throw water ballons when my girl watches netflix on her tablet( also seems to mess with timer on grenades and adds a couple more seconds before detonating)
It also seems like the PlayStation notifications will increase frame rate issues

It's equipment spam. If you have EVE support try using a Caldari orbital strike on a hot spot that might reduce lag (this strike destroys all equipment in I believe a 100m radius).

i think equipment might be part of the problem because when ever i lag in a pc its generally where the most equipment is placed i.e. one time on a 5 point map with two points inside the city i was inside the city where equipment was spammed the lag was pretty bad then i had to go to an objective outside the city where there was equipment but not as much and the lag seemed to stop. one more thing are OH and AE having PC matches for fun maybe you guys can try to put a limit on the equipment used in them to see if thats a problem.

Ok so i wrote a post about this earlier (kind of).
here's the link but id rather discuss what it has to do with your post.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1526022#post1526022

TL:DR
What i think is the Bubble glitch is one of the reason of lag in pc!
People used to mute everyone except for their squad and squad leaders would keep each other un-muted.
we can't do that now that the bubble glitch exists
The past Dev blog also told us that everyone using voice at the same time was also the cause of PC Lag, fixing the Bubble glitch would reduce PC lag.!

It's equipment spam. If you have EVE support try using a Caldari orbital strike on a hot spot that might reduce lag (this strike destroys all equipment in I believe a 100m radius).

ooooooooh but then it would destroy friendly equipment, no? Friendly Fire is on, right??

The Caldari orbital strike is hybrid based, not EMP.
EMP is the Minmatar/projectile orbital.

I assume so, I haven't tried this my corp was just discussing this after an insanely laggy PC and we came to the conclusion that it was the Equipment. This is because we hadn't lagged the first battle when there wasn't as much equipment spam but when they brought in experienced ringers the lag greatly increased as well as the number of equipment. This was a recommended solution, we will be attacking again shortly so if we employ this tactic I'll tell you if it worked in a couple of days.

I've found that turning the graphics/textures down helps in PC quite a bit. Occasionally I'll still lag in areas with high volume of equipment and explosions, but not nearly as bad as having all graphics settings on high.

bump

Are you saying the in-game graphics setting? I've heard people say that it doesn't do much but I will try it too

Other people have changed the systems resolution settings down to 480 or 520? Im not sure, but I've tried it and it really destroys how the game looks, despite making it run a lot smoother

Of topic but goddammit that sig always gets me.

It is equipment, when too much logi drop way too much equipment that can be happen even in pub

I believe there are other factors that affect the major lag and terrible frame rate issues.

Care to elaborate on your thoughts?

I am adding another video to this thread

more pc lag. VIDEO