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Jadd Hatchen
Psygod9 D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
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Posted - 2013.12.04 03:09:00 -
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It actually applies to both PC and non-PC matches and this is just my theory from what I've experienced personally from the behavior I had in game.
It's the sound!
It's something to do with the sounds that every deployed object makes. I know in EVE for a very long time, in order to reduce lag in large fleet fights everyone would always disable the sound to prevent the client from crashing. Apparently you have somehow recreated the same problem in DUST. Only we don't get the option to disable the sound.
I'll use drop uplinks for my example. If you put down one drop uplink, it makes that nice soothing "woom woom" noise if you are withing a certain proximity to it. Well if you put down another one, it also wants to make that same woom woom noise only now it's competing with the original uplink and they are BOTH making the noise and sometime they don't mesh together well. No multiply this by like 2 dozen separate instances of "woom woom" all within proximity of you. If you step outside the area where they make the noise, no lag... Renter the area, suddenly all kinds of lag! Kinda like how in beta when you went from outside a building to inside the building and the game would glitch as it loaded the stuff it needed for the inside of the building.
So if it is indeed the sound processing choking the hell out of everything because it's trying to make 2 dozen instances of all the noises simultaneously while still running everything else, then I have a possible idea on a solution. So instead of trying to make 2 dozen noises, just make ONE. Whenever you check for proximity to any equipment to make the "noise" instead of continuing to check for others and wasting processing to do it, just set a flag to only check when not within proximity of the original object making the noise and make only the one noise not 2 dozen. Then when you leave prox of first one or if it is destroyed, then go back to original check for proximity to equipment and if true make the ONE noise again. If none, then stop.
Seriously, I don't need to hear a cacophony of 2 dozen uplinks to know that they are there. Just make one woom woom noise and good to go.
Anyways, just a thought and hopefully it gives you guys something more to go on as to the possible cause of all the lag.
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DaNizzle4shizle
The dyst0pian Corporation Zero-Day
101
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Posted - 2013.12.04 03:32:00 -
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wow................. YOUR A GENIUS!!!!!!! +1
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Spectral Clone
Dust2Dust. Top Men.
767
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Posted - 2013.12.04 09:19:00 -
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If this really is the cause of lag in Dust 514 gameplay, you should get the freaking nobel prize of game devs.
KDR > ALL
ME > KDR
ME > ALL
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Aoena Rays
Bragian Order Amarr Empire
408
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Posted - 2013.12.04 10:41:00 -
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Ok someone that has PC framerate issues needs to go and test this out. And really test it. |
Jadd Hatchen
Psygod9 D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
123
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Posted - 2013.12.04 16:49:00 -
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Spectral Clone wrote:If this really is the cause of lag in Dust 514 gameplay, you should get the freaking nobel prize of game devs.
Oooh! That reminds me of another small thing that they could add into DUST. The ability for medals to be awarded like they do in EVE now... ;)
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Spectral Clone
Dust2Dust. Top Men.
775
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Posted - 2013.12.04 16:52:00 -
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OP: Did you submit a bug report? Hopefully CCP can reproduce this.
Make sure you record a video (cell phone cam) and publish it on youtube.
Maybe xXGhazbharanXx could help out to try if this really is the case.
KDR > ALL
ME > KDR
ME > ALL
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Jadd Hatchen
Psygod9 D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
124
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Posted - 2013.12.04 17:00:00 -
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Spectral Clone wrote:OP: Did you submit a bug report? Hopefully CCP can reproduce this.
Make sure you record a video (cell phone cam) and publish it on youtube.
Maybe xXGhazbharanXx could help out to try if this really is the case.
Yes.
No, I provided a good enough description of how to reproduce this so that CCP can do it for themselves.
It would take like a full squad of players in logi suits loaded with dual uplinks and nanohives to do this from a player perspective. The devs could just spawn stuff using dev hacks and reproduce it more easily.
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I-Shayz-I
I-----I
1526
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Posted - 2013.12.04 17:20:00 -
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I could test this for you, but my recording device is currently not functional...
I might just record it on my phone instead though.
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Ku Shala
Exiled Veteran Elite
691
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Posted - 2013.12.04 20:04:00 -
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well done would make sense. i've always thought links and hives had something to do with it... although I've had PC lag in matches with only max vehicles deployed so maybe this is only part of it.
First General of Exiled Veteran Elite
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Jadd Hatchen
Psygod9 D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
131
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Posted - 2013.12.04 20:09:00 -
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Ku Shala wrote:well done would make sense. i've always thought links and hives had something to do with it... although I've had PC lag in matches with only max vehicles deployed so maybe this is only part of it.
Actually that would be directly related as CCP still hasn't figure out how to fix the localization of a lot of the vehicle sound effects. As pointed out by them, even the dropship noises permeate the entire map from every single dropship in play no matter how far away they may be. So I see your input as another symptom of the same issue. Thanks for the extra insight. ;)
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Medic 1879
Forsaken Immortals Top Men.
1354
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Posted - 2013.12.05 01:44:00 -
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Would make sense I had a game last night where the enemy had dozens of uplinks and hives in the resupply room on the research lab map and a full squad was just sat in there spamming grenades at the door ways, if you went within about 30m or it you could hear the hive/uplink noise and the lag would start spiking. Once we eventually got some flux's in there the lag disappeared.
Unfortunately some bluedots decided if it was what a proto squad was doing they should do it as well and spammed blue equipment in there instead and the lag was back.
TEST signature please help me think of a better one.
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CCP Delamorui Eddy
C C P C C P Alliance
42
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Posted - 2013.12.05 07:15:00 -
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Hi, thank you for contacting us.
Could you perhaps provide a video demonstrating this issue/solution? It would definitely help while we are investigating this internally.
Thank you.
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SponkSponkSponk
The Southern Legion The Umbra Combine
550
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Posted - 2013.12.05 07:25:00 -
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How bout this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2h-VfDJy4
"Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)"
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CCP Delamorui Eddy
C C P C C P Alliance
42
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Posted - 2013.12.05 08:41:00 -
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Hi, thank you for the video.
We are already aware of this specific issue shown there. Do you perhaps have a video that demonstrates that there are no framerate issues where there is no sound, and issues where there is sound from various sources as the OP described? We are currently chasing down that specific issue.
Thank you.
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Aeon Amadi
A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S. Renegade Alliance
4017
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Posted - 2013.12.05 08:51:00 -
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CCP Delamorui Eddy wrote:Hi, thank you for the video. We are already aware of this specific issue shown there. Do you perhaps have a video that demonstrates that there are no framerate issues where there is no sound, and issues where there is sound from various sources as the OP described? We are currently chasing down that specific issue. Thank you.
It's plausible... Sound eats memory like no other, generally speaking. Although I've always figured it was because the equipment doesn't load unless you're within 50m and looking in the direction of it. I've tested it previously but never actually been able to record it as I don't have any way of doing so (and the assholes who do never want to take time out of their day).
Essentially what we did is mass spammed a bunch of nanohives and drop-uplinks, walked out to 50m and turned away from them. Turning -back- toward them, the animations and visual effects started to load up all at once and caused some framerate dip.
Hope that helps.
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xxwhitedevilxx M
Maphia Clan Unit Unicorn
1197
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Posted - 2013.12.05 09:11:00 -
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Plausible. We'll have a "test" PC game tomorrow. I hope we can film our tests.
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Robert JD Niewiadomski
NULLIMPEX INC
722
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Posted - 2013.12.05 10:30:00 -
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You CAN disable sound in DUST client. There is such an option in system setings for dust client. Separately for SFX and background music.
Then you can test if this will disable sound events handling routines in DUST clients and reduce lag.
Since i play mostly at night i have my TV sound turned down to 0. You can play DUST without soundz. But it's awkward... For communications during PC matches you can use thirdparty livecomm programs running on another computer.
Now i plug headphones into my TV and mic into PS3 OEM SingStar dongle Dirt cheap solution below $20.
F.E.A.R. stands for False Expectations Assumed Real
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Skybladev2
Vacuum Cleaner. LLC RUST415
70
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Posted - 2013.12.05 11:52:00 -
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I will vote for turning off equipment sounds in PC matches to see if it helps.
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Aeon Amadi
A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S. Renegade Alliance
4019
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Posted - 2013.12.05 12:19:00 -
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Robert JD Niewiadomski wrote:You CAN disable sound in DUST client. There is such an option in system setings for dust client. Separately for SFX and background music. Then you can test if this will disable sound events handling routines in DUST clients and reduce lag. Since i play mostly at night i have my TV sound turned down to 0. You can play DUST without soundz. But it's awkward... For communications during PC matches you can use thirdparty livecomm programs running on another computer. Now i plug headphones into my TV and mic into PS3 OEM SingStar dongle Dirt cheap solution below $20.
If it's really the sound that's causing the problem it's probably an overload of the sound channels, exceeding a certain maximum. Loading up the sounds of lots of gunfire isn't so bad but mix in with a dozen or so drop-uplink whirring and you've got a recipe for destruction. Makes sense, really.
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Noragee Silverfire
HavoK Core RISE of LEGION
40
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Posted - 2013.12.05 14:47:00 -
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I play with no music and very low SFX, so this might be the explanation of why I have never experienced this lag even when people in the same match as me have. |
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Jadd Hatchen
Psygod9 D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
149
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Posted - 2013.12.05 15:44:00 -
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CCP Delamorui Eddy wrote:Hi, thank you for the video. We are already aware of this specific issue shown there. Do you perhaps have a video that demonstrates that there are no framerate issues where there is no sound, and issues where there is sound from various sources as the OP described? We are currently chasing down that specific issue. Thank you.
CCP Delamorui Eddy,
No I cannot easily replicate this as arranging for the right map with the right people and somehow hoping that the enemy will cooperate too is not within my power to do. These are things that you should be able to do on your end by creating a "special match" for your own testing purposes and populating it with your fellow devs. To produce the dozens of uplinks and hives you would only have to just input instances of them using creation commands.
As for trying to "demonstrate" a difference between sound and no sound, that is also NOT within our power as there is no option within the PS3 to completely DISABLE the sound card. It is mismanagement with sound effects and the memory that it is gobbling up that is causing this issue (I believe) and possibly combining this with the clipping of the fancy graphical effects of the "shimmer" deployables all loading at once. So simply turning off the sound on the TV won't show this difference as the PS3 will still be trying to generate the sounds even if the TV never makes them.
Turning off some of the sound options within the game client like music and voice will possibly free up more memory for this issue, but won't definitively prove it. So unless you are willing to create "test matches" under the "other contracts" portion of the game, we have no way to help you definitely test this issue.
That's why I reported it to you and described it as I did. The ball is out of our hands now and you need to make the next step in this investigation. |
Corbina Ninja
Maphia Clan Corporation
454
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Posted - 2013.12.05 16:53:00 -
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CCP Delamorui Eddy wrote:Hi, thank you for contacting us.
Could you perhaps provide a video demonstrating this issue/solution? It would definitely help while we are investigating this internally.
Thank you.
I hope it will be useful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxOZIDAl8TI
> Test Signature Please Ignore
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Artificer Ghost
Bojo's School of the Trades
639
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Posted - 2013.12.05 20:31:00 -
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Sound is definitely a part of the issue.
I rarely lag, no idea why, but lag doesn't happen for me (It happened once, but it was SO bad that I had to leave the match. Not even a equipment spam problem, just terrible).
Now, putting that there, I have a tiny bit of a framerate drop when I try to Shotgun someone while in a firefight. Only happens with the shotgun, only happens when there's a lot of guns, equipment, and explosions on the field. No idea why it doesn't happen with any other gun, but if I'm heading right into the side of someone with a Shotgun, instantly it get's so bad I can't aim properly. Not bad enough to where it's unplayable, but bad enough to where I need to put as much work as possible into killing the target. 99% of the time, this results in death.
I'll be a part of MCUU's PC lag testing match soon, so I'll help them figure it out while I'm there.
~Art, CEO and Director of Educations at Bojo's School of The Trades, Co-Founder of the Learning Coalition
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Samantha Hunyz
Legions of Infinite Dominion
38
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Posted - 2013.12.05 22:36:00 -
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As a sniper I can confirm that it is not just the sound that plagues pc matches. I do believe it is equipment related. I'm too far awayfrom the sound to be affected, but hit detection drops dramatically even on none moving targets as equipment spam expands. As equipment is destroyed and brought back to realistic levels, hit detection improves.
When I look down my scope, all I see are dead people.
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abarkrishna
warravens
109
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Posted - 2013.12.06 14:19:00 -
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Has anyone tried going into the options menu and turning down the game music, and sound effects? By doing so it should reduce the amount of lag on your side.
I have mine turned all the way down and very rarely experience lag even when there is an abhorrent amount of equipment in one area.
No you kill this blueberry hacking the CRU we are camping. I already killed the last 2.
When will they learn!
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Suanar Daranaus
Seykal Expeditionary Group Minmatar Republic
75
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Posted - 2013.12.06 17:54:00 -
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CCP Delamorui Eddy wrote:Hi, thank you for the video. We are already aware of this specific issue shown there. Do you perhaps have a video that demonstrates that there are no framerate issues where there is no sound, and issues where there is sound from various sources as the OP described? We are currently chasing down that specific issue. Thank you.
Question:
What are the Dev's doing that we have to do All the foot work for them to fix this game? I mean really? I have been involved in closed Beta from like the very beginning. Thought That's what Beta was about? Not trying to cause problems but I've read replies from the Dev's that are put like this about MOST of the bugs and stuff. Are they copy and paste? I'm confused, I mean I'm sure their busy buffing AR's and Cal/Gal stuff and Nerfing all else but what the heck? It's stuff [bugs and such] that happen everyday in more then just a few player modes.
Do you guy's actually play?
I usually don't/wont post like this but... Oh heck, I don't know, mabey it's the meds. LOL
O.K. Done ranting for the moment. Sorry.
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THUNDERGROOVE
ZionTCD Public Disorder.
367
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Posted - 2013.12.07 21:32:00 -
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Samantha Hunyz wrote:As a sniper I can confirm that it is not just the sound that plagues pc matches. I do believe it is equipment related. I'm too far awayfrom the sound to be affected, but hit detection drops dramatically even on none moving targets as equipment spam expands. As equipment is destroyed and brought back to realistic levels, hit detection improves. Rendering + sound. I'm sure the distance in which the more detailed animations are rendered is much high when looking down the sight of your rifle, right?
It's all likely to be a contributing factor.
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Amarr Sentinel | Amarr Logi | Losematar Scout
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Benjamin Ciscko
The Generals General Tso's Alliance
289
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Posted - 2013.12.08 17:01:00 -
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CCP Delamorui Eddy wrote:Hi, thank you for contacting us.
Could you perhaps provide a video demonstrating this issue/solution? It would definitely help while we are investigating this internally.
Thank you.
Someone did an extensive test on PC lag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LXSUmRBm2A&feature=youtu.be
here is the thread
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=125755&find=unread
Vehicle rework scheduled for 1.5.... 1.6.... 1.7........
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Wait until AV feels the pain vehicle users have
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Smooth Assassin
Stardust incorporation
425
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Posted - 2013.12.08 17:16:00 -
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If turning my sound won't work, i'm gonna sue you're theory. (JK LOLZ)
Assassination is my thing.
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Jadd Hatchen
Psygod9 D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
191
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Posted - 2013.12.09 15:01:00 -
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Smooth Assassin wrote:If turning my sound won't work, i'm gonna sue you're theory. (JK LOLZ)
First you have to prove to me that you can disable the sound card on your PS3. =P
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XEROO COOL
Hellstorm Inc League of Infamy
175
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Posted - 2013.12.10 16:37:00 -
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Jadd Hatchen wrote:It actually applies to both PC and non-PC matches and this is just my theory from what I've experienced personally from the behavior I had in game.
It's the sound!
It's something to do with the sounds that every deployed object makes. I know in EVE for a very long time, in order to reduce lag in large fleet fights everyone would always disable the sound to prevent the client from crashing. Apparently you have somehow recreated the same problem in DUST. Only we don't get the option to disable the sound.
I'll use drop uplinks for my example. If you put down one drop uplink, it makes that nice soothing "woom woom" noise if you are withing a certain proximity to it. Well if you put down another one, it also wants to make that same woom woom noise only now it's competing with the original uplink and they are BOTH making the noise and sometime they don't mesh together well. No multiply this by like 2 dozen separate instances of "woom woom" all within proximity of you. If you step outside the area where they make the noise, no lag... Renter the area, suddenly all kinds of lag! Kinda like how in beta when you went from outside a building to inside the building and the game would glitch as it loaded the stuff it needed for the inside of the building.
So if it is indeed the sound processing choking the hell out of everything because it's trying to make 2 dozen instances of all the noises simultaneously while still running everything else, then I have a possible idea on a solution. So instead of trying to make 2 dozen noises, just make ONE. Whenever you check for proximity to any equipment to make the "noise" instead of continuing to check for others and wasting processing to do it, just set a flag to only check when not within proximity of the original object making the noise and make only the one noise not 2 dozen. Then when you leave prox of first one or if it is destroyed, then go back to original check for proximity to equipment and if true make the ONE noise again. If none, then stop.
Seriously, I don't need to hear a cacophony of 2 dozen uplinks to know that they are there. Just make one woom woom noise and good to go.
Anyways, just a thought and hopefully it gives you guys something more to go on as to the possible cause of all the lag.
I am giving you a like for the word "cacophony." That and you might have finally figured out how to make PC better!
Everyone has a plan until you punch em in the face!
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Jadd Hatchen
Psygod9 D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
303
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Posted - 2014.01.08 21:47:00 -
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Anything come of this yet, CCP? I tried to keep my help tickets reporting this open, but your system keeps automatically closing them after two weeks.
I noticed that you toned down the graphics needed for the equipment, but the sounds are still just as annoying and worse there are now sound errors creeping back into the game. (Like if a player does a high jump and activates the inertial damper, but for everyone else the noise continues on and on and never quits.)
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Seeth Mensch
Hawkborn Brotherhood IMMORTAL REGIME
112
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Posted - 2014.01.09 01:12:00 -
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I really hope that this implements a fix. I don't even play in PC, but I have had framerates go down to ~15/sec in my dropship because of litters of hives/links that were all over on just one area of the map. I shot them with missiles and got 20 WP a shot without even aiming, they were so thick.
I will try turning off the sound next time I encounter this! I hope it works, and thanks.
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KenKaniff69
Fatal Absolution Covert Intervention
1806
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Posted - 2014.01.09 03:54:00 -
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There was a test match hosted by CCP a while back between Subdreddit and Synergy. The results of the match revealed that the Mic system was indeed causing lag. They supposedly fixed it, however the lag still remained. Here is the link to the blog. http://dust514.com/news/blog/2013/07/cleaning-up-the-static-performance-improvements-in-uprising-1.3/
So about those vehicle locks...
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CCP Frame
C C P C C P Alliance
1962
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Posted - 2014.01.09 09:34:00 -
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Hello guys.
We are deploying memory optimization fix tonight during downtime for this specific issue. Please reply to this thread with your experience/videos/findings once you've tested it for a while.
Thank you for all the feedback so far!
CCP Frame
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SirManBoy
Molon Labe. Public Disorder.
390
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Posted - 2014.01.09 10:18:00 -
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CCP Frame wrote:Hello guys.
We are deploying memory optimization fix tonight during downtime for this specific issue. Please reply to this thread with your experience/videos/findings once you've tested it for a while.
Thank you for all the feedback so far!
So we get to keep equipment spam (sandbox gameplay) but your fix gets rid of the lag? I love you!
Seriously. Great job! This might just get the playstyle police to shut up once and for all.
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Soraya Xel
The Corporate Raiders Top Men.
1020
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Posted - 2014.01.09 14:59:00 -
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Thank you so much, CCP Frame. I look forward to seeing the performance improvements next PC match.
I'd like to be your CPM1 candidate
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Leadfoot10
Molon Labe. Public Disorder.
206
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Posted - 2014.01.09 17:33:00 -
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I saw the hotfix come down last night and was wondering what it was about....
We have a bunch of PCs this afternoon, and I'll let you all know how it goes. |
Dalmont Legrand
RUST415
230
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Posted - 2014.01.09 20:50:00 -
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Jadd Hatchen wrote:It actually applies to both PC and non-PC matches and this is just my theory from what I've experienced personally from the behavior I had in game.
It's the sound!
It's something to do with the sounds that every deployed object makes. I know in EVE for a very long time, in order to reduce lag in large fleet fights everyone would always disable the sound to prevent the client from crashing. Apparently you have somehow recreated the same problem in DUST. Only we don't get the option to disable the sound.
I'll use drop uplinks for my example. If you put down one drop uplink, it makes that nice soothing "woom woom" noise if you are withing a certain proximity to it. Well if you put down another one, it also wants to make that same woom woom noise only now it's competing with the original uplink and they are BOTH making the noise and sometime they don't mesh together well. No multiply this by like 2 dozen separate instances of "woom woom" all within proximity of you. If you step outside the area where they make the noise, no lag... Renter the area, suddenly all kinds of lag! Kinda like how in beta when you went from outside a building to inside the building and the game would glitch as it loaded the stuff it needed for the inside of the building.
So if it is indeed the sound processing choking the hell out of everything because it's trying to make 2 dozen instances of all the noises simultaneously while still running everything else, then I have a possible idea on a solution. So instead of trying to make 2 dozen noises, just make ONE. Whenever you check for proximity to any equipment to make the "noise" instead of continuing to check for others and wasting processing to do it, just set a flag to only check when not within proximity of the original object making the noise and make only the one noise not 2 dozen. Then when you leave prox of first one or if it is destroyed, then go back to original check for proximity to equipment and if true make the ONE noise again. If none, then stop.
Seriously, I don't need to hear a cacophony of 2 dozen uplinks to know that they are there. Just make one woom woom noise and good to go.
Anyways, just a thought and hopefully it gives you guys something more to go on as to the possible cause of all the lag.
Just to add another one, having players without optical internet connection could bring lags to the rest of the team? As one player stated that lags gone as he changed to optical.
Of something nothing is everything.
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Leadfoot10
Molon Labe. Public Disorder.
220
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Posted - 2014.01.10 05:32:00 -
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Leadfoot10 wrote:I saw the hotfix come down last night and was wondering what it was about....
We have a bunch of PCs this afternoon, and I'll let you all know how it goes.
No equipment lag reported, and there was lots of it on the battlefield for both sides.
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DeeJay One
Guardian Solutions DARKSTAR ARMY
187
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Posted - 2014.01.10 07:59:00 -
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CCP Frame wrote: We are deploying memory optimization fix tonight during downtime for this specific issue. Please reply to this thread with your experience/videos/findings once you've tested it for a while.
Hmm, was it a server side fix? Because I haven't noticed anything downloading client side... |
Brazenwall
The Vanguardians INTERGALACTIC WARPIGS
3
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Posted - 2014.01.10 12:38:00 -
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Recently I have not been able to log into dust 514 ever since the memory optimization, when I attempt to log in, it starts to synchronize however after 2% is reached the screen returns to the attempting log in. After a while, a screen appears stating 'Downloaded data files corrupted please try again later' and after I click away the process restarts all over again. I then proceeded to delete the game and redownload the game and it still failed as well has deleting my saved data but nothing seems to be able to let me log in. Yesterday I have been able to log in on an alternative character however today seems to not be the case. The problem is still here and if it could be dealt with as soon as possible that would be great. |
Eko Sol
3dge of D4rkness SoulWing Alliance
27
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Posted - 2014.01.10 21:50:00 -
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Jadd Hatchen wrote:It actually applies to both PC and non-PC matches and this is just my theory from what I've experienced personally from the behavior I had in game.
It's the sound!
It's something to do with the sounds that every deployed object makes. I know in EVE for a very long time, in order to reduce lag in large fleet fights everyone would always disable the sound to prevent the client from crashing. Apparently you have somehow recreated the same problem in DUST. Only we don't get the option to disable the sound.
I'll use drop uplinks for my example. If you put down one drop uplink, it makes that nice soothing "woom woom" noise if you are withing a certain proximity to it. Well if you put down another one, it also wants to make that same woom woom noise only now it's competing with the original uplink and they are BOTH making the noise and sometime they don't mesh together well. No multiply this by like 2 dozen separate instances of "woom woom" all within proximity of you. If you step outside the area where they make the noise, no lag... Renter the area, suddenly all kinds of lag! Kinda like how in beta when you went from outside a building to inside the building and the game would glitch as it loaded the stuff it needed for the inside of the building.
So if it is indeed the sound processing choking the hell out of everything because it's trying to make 2 dozen instances of all the noises simultaneously while still running everything else, then I have a possible idea on a solution. So instead of trying to make 2 dozen noises, just make ONE. Whenever you check for proximity to any equipment to make the "noise" instead of continuing to check for others and wasting processing to do it, just set a flag to only check when not within proximity of the original object making the noise and make only the one noise not 2 dozen. Then when you leave prox of first one or if it is destroyed, then go back to original check for proximity to equipment and if true make the ONE noise again. If none, then stop.
Seriously, I don't need to hear a cacophony of 2 dozen uplinks to know that they are there. Just make one woom woom noise and good to go.
Anyways, just a thought and hopefully it gives you guys something more to go on as to the possible cause of all the lag.
I want to write so much right now but I am not. It is difficult for it to be the sound itself.
Typically, LAG is attributted to taxing resources to a point of creating a bottleneck at the NIC, CPU, Memory, etc on either or both the server and client. We would need WAY more information to make determination that sound is the issue IMO and IME.
I would argue that you could be on the right path in that something that should be locally kept and processed is being shot over the internet and taking up valuable resources on the server which chokes up the game. Or that the "code"/"db" "stuff" is over taxing the PS3 and creating local lag. It could also be a combination.
In conclusion, if it is the sound then it would be the processing of sound and that would be what causes the lag. This would also mean the lag would be local to the PS3 since the bottleneck would be there to begin with.
It just doesn't make sense from a programming or network perspective for it to be sound because sound is sound. It would have to be a bottleneck at the server or the PS3. |
Jadd Hatchen
Psygod9 D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
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Posted - 2014.01.10 22:14:00 -
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CCP Frame wrote:Hello guys.
We are deploying memory optimization fix tonight during downtime for this specific issue. Please reply to this thread with your experience/videos/findings once you've tested it for a while.
Thank you for all the feedback so far!
I haven't had a chance to try out a PC match since the patch yesterday, but I did do multiple pub matches and they are still bogging WAY down due to equipment spam still. The major culprit is the new lab large socket map where you have lots of underground and multiple above ground levels. What happens is not only is equipment being placed everywhere at one X, Y coordinate area, but also in the same Z axis area thus the three dimensionality of that particular map combined with the many "indoors" areas really causes the lag to happen every time.
Additionally, when the volcanic environment is added on top of the lab socket it seems to make things worse.
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Jadd Hatchen
Psygod9 D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
311
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Posted - 2014.01.10 22:28:00 -
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Eko SolI wrote: want to write so much right now but I am not. It is difficult for it to be the sound itself.
Typically, LAG is attributted to taxing resources to a point of creating a bottleneck at the NIC, CPU, Memory, etc on either or both the server and client. We would need WAY more information to make determination that sound is the issue IMO and IME.
I would argue that you could be on the right path in that something that should be locally kept and processed is being shot over the internet and taking up valuable resources on the server which chokes up the game. Or that the "code"/"db" "stuff" is over taxing the PS3 and creating local lag. It could also be a combination.
In conclusion, if it is the sound then it would be the processing of sound and that would be what causes the lag. This would also mean the lag would be local to the PS3 since the bottleneck would be there to begin with.
It just doesn't make sense from a programming or network perspective for it to be sound because sound is sound. It would have to be a bottleneck at the server or the PS3.
EDIT: An easy fix from CCP would be to limit the amount of "total" sound sources. Typically this causes some issues (some sounds will be heard while others won't) but it is for testing purposes only. Just limit the number of simultaneous sounds allowed locally on the PS3. If the lag doesn't go away then it isn't sound. It should be a very easy test. Unreal Engine has some good stuff for sound as a whole.
EDIT: And lag in games like this can, sometimes, not affect frame rate but will affect other "calculations" elsewhere. An example is the sudden invincibility people have on occasion. Doesn't seem like lag from the traditional sense but it is.
That is EXACTLY what I was saying with the OP. It's all "local lag" created by 'bottlenecks' in processing due to how they programmed the sound without any limitations. It happened that way in EVE too back in the day. Only on a PS3 you cannot disable ALL of the sounds and so it cannot be worked around. Additionally, the devs cannot reliably repeat it because it's local to each PS3 and sometimes it happens and sometimes it won't. That's why you may be experiencing lag in the game and your team mate thinks you are just making it up. It's also why CCP devs believe a lot of the lag complaints to be due to local internet issues outside of their control and always ask anyone reporting this issue to first check their local networks for anything that may be causing problems.
In the end it's a combination of the sounds without limitations combined with the current voice comms in game that make the PS3 want to kill itself. And by the way, sooooo many people are raging in FW matches right now because they cannot reliably use the Team Chat Voice Channel without incurring the voice comms bug. This also nullifies any benefit we might have gotten from OS supporting EVE pilots as they can only talk to us through Team chat in FW matches.
Oh and one more thing. The bug from beta where someone drops from a height and uses the inertial dampener, but the LOUD AS HELL sound effect of the inertial dampener being active doesn't STOP. So I can hear nothing but the guy next to me with that sound going on! This tells me that if that is the case, then you probably have the same issues on smaller (quieter) levels throughout the game where you open resources for sounds and do not properly close them out when they are done. Thus causing the slow-over-time leak of memory and resources due to sound that I pointed out in the OP. Obviously not intentionally, but by the use of some simple library to create sounds, you have introduced a "sloppy" piece of code that is doing this.
In the end, I still say it's the sound! |
Eko Sol
3dge of D4rkness SoulWing Alliance
27
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Posted - 2014.01.10 23:01:00 -
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Jadd Hatchen wrote:Eko SolI wrote: want to write so much right now but I am not. It is difficult for it to be the sound itself.
Typically, LAG is attributted to taxing resources to a point of creating a bottleneck at the NIC, CPU, Memory, etc on either or both the server and client. We would need WAY more information to make determination that sound is the issue IMO and IME.
I would argue that you could be on the right path in that something that should be locally kept and processed is being shot over the internet and taking up valuable resources on the server which chokes up the game. Or that the "code"/"db" "stuff" is over taxing the PS3 and creating local lag. It could also be a combination.
In conclusion, if it is the sound then it would be the processing of sound and that would be what causes the lag. This would also mean the lag would be local to the PS3 since the bottleneck would be there to begin with.
It just doesn't make sense from a programming or network perspective for it to be sound because sound is sound. It would have to be a bottleneck at the server or the PS3.
EDIT: An easy fix from CCP would be to limit the amount of "total" sound sources. Typically this causes some issues (some sounds will be heard while others won't) but it is for testing purposes only. Just limit the number of simultaneous sounds allowed locally on the PS3. If the lag doesn't go away then it isn't sound. It should be a very easy test. Unreal Engine has some good stuff for sound as a whole.
EDIT: And lag in games like this can, sometimes, not affect frame rate but will affect other "calculations" elsewhere. An example is the sudden invincibility people have on occasion. Doesn't seem like lag from the traditional sense but it is. That is EXACTLY what I was saying with the OP. It's all "local lag" created by 'bottlenecks' in processing due to how they programmed the sound without any limitations. It happened that way in EVE too back in the day. Only on a PS3 you cannot disable ALL of the sounds and so it cannot be worked around. Additionally, the devs cannot reliably repeat it because it's local to each PS3 and sometimes it happens and sometimes it won't. That's why you may be experiencing lag in the game and your team mate thinks you are just making it up. It's also why CCP devs believe a lot of the lag complaints to be due to local internet issues outside of their control and always ask anyone reporting this issue to first check their local networks for anything that may be causing problems. In the end it's a combination of the sounds without limitations combined with the current voice comms in game that make the PS3 want to kill itself. And by the way, sooooo many people are raging in FW matches right now because they cannot reliably use the Team Chat Voice Channel without incurring the voice comms bug. This also nullifies any benefit we might have gotten from OS supporting EVE pilots as they can only talk to us through Team chat in FW matches. Oh and one more thing. The bug from beta where someone drops from a height and uses the inertial dampener, but the LOUD AS HELL sound effect of the inertial dampener being active doesn't STOP. So I can hear nothing but the guy next to me with that sound going on! This tells me that if that is the case, then you probably have the same issues on smaller (quieter) levels throughout the game where you open resources for sounds and do not properly close them out when they are done. Thus causing the slow-over-time leak of memory and resources due to sound that I pointed out in the OP. Obviously not intentionally, but by the use of some simple library to create sounds, you have introduced a "sloppy" piece of code that is doing this. In the end, I still say it's the sound!
Good addition. This SOUNDS valid. |
AAA Hellcab
Molon Labe. Public Disorder.
77
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Posted - 2014.01.11 18:19:00 -
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Interesting. I gotta test this. I thought nanohive bubbles were the reason for the lag, even though they 'are' the purtiest things in the game, but we're used to gritty efficiency so it's time to uglify I think. But yeah, if it's the 'sound' of equipment that's lagging, I know just the guy to test this with. Back in 5. |
Eko Sol
3dge of D4rkness SoulWing Alliance
34
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Posted - 2014.01.13 09:23:00 -
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So, I sorta ended up running an experiment and everyone else should try this. I wanted to listen to my own personal music while playing so I turned down the music volume in-game using the in-game option and I have not experienced any of the lag that has plagued me before. Not one in a the past couple of days.
I think others should try this. CCP should also really consider this as a temp fix or something. |
Spartan MK420
D.A.R.K L.E.G.I.O.N D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
77
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Posted - 2014.01.13 11:44:00 -
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Robert JD Niewiadomski wrote:You CAN disable sound in DUST client. There is such an option in system setings for dust client. Separately for SFX and background music. Then you can test if this will disable sound events handling routines in DUST clients and reduce lag. Since i play mostly at night i have my TV sound turned down to 0. You can play DUST without soundz. But it's awkward... For communications during PC matches you can use thirdparty livecomm programs running on another computer. Now i plug headphones into my TV and mic into PS3 OEM SingStar dongle Dirt cheap solution below $20.
disabling the sound in the options doesn't help, you just don't hear it, but the data is still being fed to your console
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Spartan MK420
D.A.R.K L.E.G.I.O.N D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
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Posted - 2014.01.13 11:46:00 -
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occasionally i'll get a glitch where the only sound that I'm eligible to hear is gunfire/grenades. Oh it's the most perfect bug ever. Smoothest gameplay imaginable.
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Eko Sol
3dge of D4rkness SoulWing Alliance
34
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Posted - 2014.01.13 13:17:00 -
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Spartan MK420 wrote:Robert JD Niewiadomski wrote:You CAN disable sound in DUST client. There is such an option in system setings for dust client. Separately for SFX and background music. Then you can test if this will disable sound events handling routines in DUST clients and reduce lag. Since i play mostly at night i have my TV sound turned down to 0. You can play DUST without soundz. But it's awkward... For communications during PC matches you can use thirdparty livecomm programs running on another computer. Now i plug headphones into my TV and mic into PS3 OEM SingStar dongle Dirt cheap solution below $20. disabling the sound in the options doesn't help, you just don't hear it, but the data is still being fed to your console
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Zaria Min Deir
Ancient Exiles. Renegade Alliance
509
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Posted - 2014.01.14 07:17:00 -
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CCP Frame wrote:Hello guys.
We are deploying memory optimization fix tonight during downtime for this specific issue. Please reply to this thread with your experience/videos/findings once you've tested it for a while.
Thank you for all the feedback so far! Ok, done a few PCs now after the fix, I'd say performance has probably improved (based on a very limited sample) BUT FRAMERATE LAG NOT FIXED. Gallente research facility still has framerate issues, but at least in the one match I did it didn't devolve down to slide show. So framerates dropped noticeably inside the outpost with equipment present (also persisting after destruction of equipment) but I would call the performance maybe "gooey" or shaky as opposed to the more familiar jerky slideshow feeling of that map. Some spikes also on the cargo hub map, but nothing major. The few matches have all been playable for me, but not anywhere near perfect, particularly the research facility is really only playable in comparison to what it would have been last week.
Have you considered installing the improved keyboard?
"Go Go Power Rangers!"
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Eko Sol
3dge of D4rkness SoulWing Alliance
34
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Posted - 2014.01.14 07:22:00 -
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Zaria Min Deir wrote:CCP Frame wrote:Hello guys.
We are deploying memory optimization fix tonight during downtime for this specific issue. Please reply to this thread with your experience/videos/findings once you've tested it for a while.
Thank you for all the feedback so far! Ok, done a few PCs now after the fix, I'd say performance has probably improved (based on a very limited sample) BUT FRAMERATE LAG NOT FIXED. Gallente research facility still has framerate issues, but at least in the one match I did it didn't devolve down to slide show. So framerates dropped noticeably inside the outpost with equipment present (also persisting after destruction of equipment) but I would call the performance maybe "gooey" or shaky as opposed to the more familiar jerky slideshow feeling of that map. Some spikes also on the cargo hub map, but nothing major. The few matches have all been playable for me, but not anywhere near perfect, particularly the research facility is really only playable in comparison to what it would have been last week.
Since you still have issues, turn the music to 0 and post your results. I have had zero issues since doing this. I turn it back up to just a few points and the issue returns for me. |
Bethhy
Ancient Exiles. Renegade Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.15 17:03:00 -
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Jadd Hatchen wrote:CCP Delamorui Eddy wrote:Hi, thank you for the video. We are already aware of this specific issue shown there. Do you perhaps have a video that demonstrates that there are no framerate issues where there is no sound, and issues where there is sound from various sources as the OP described? We are currently chasing down that specific issue. Thank you. CCP Delamorui Eddy, No I cannot easily replicate this as arranging for the right map with the right people and somehow hoping that the enemy will cooperate too is not within my power to do. These are things that you should be able to do on your end by creating a "special match" for your own testing purposes and populating it with your fellow devs. To produce the dozens of uplinks and hives you would only have to just input instances of them using creation commands. As for trying to "demonstrate" a difference between sound and no sound, that is also NOT within our power as there is no option within the PS3 to completely DISABLE the sound card. It is mismanagement with sound effects and the memory that it is gobbling up that is causing this issue (I believe) and possibly combining this with the clipping of the fancy graphical effects of the "shimmer" deployables all loading at once. So simply turning off the sound on the TV won't show this difference as the PS3 will still be trying to generate the sounds even if the TV never makes them. Turning off some of the sound options within the game client like music and voice will possibly free up more memory for this issue, but won't definitively prove it. So unless you are willing to create "test matches" under the "other contracts" portion of the game, we have no way to help you definitely test this issue. That's why I reported it to you and described it as I did. The ball is out of our hands now and you need to make the next step in this investigation.
Damn you and your "Logic" and sensical arguments. |
Jadd Hatchen
Psygod9 D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
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Posted - 2014.01.22 22:17:00 -
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CCP. Anything come of any of this yet? I would submit another petition about it, but you would just automatically close it like you did with the previous two. 8(
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