No. Optimize them.

EFY

(Elaborated for you)

At least add an off option

Ash, Caustic Fog amd Storm effects are 'pre-production' that means it's applied to your camera, not to the gaming environment.
It shouldn't be effecting your frame rate, it's likely to be something else.

OP has no idea what they are talking about if they think the map moods affect frame rate even 1/10th of a frame per second.
Removing them would have absolutely no noticeable affect on performance.

If you want better performance, ask them to reduce texture sizes or something.
And in case you don't know, there is a way to reduce them a little bit in the options menu. Dropping the graphics quality to low will probably get you a few more frames. Also turn off nonessential sound, such as the dialog sounds. And use 720p output instead of 1080p. If you do all that, there will be a noticeable increase in frames.

But really, there should be an extra low option for textures. Like Playstation 2 sized textures. Real **** looking, but you'll get a steady 40FPS if you use them kind of thing.

Removing moods from everyone's experience is not the way to go about increasing your frames.

There is a noticeable difference to performance with these effects running. Through the history of DUST. it has been said hundreds of times in squads.

I Have 3 different PS3's in the house.

One just recently bought.

2 have SSD's.

Both have been opened and cleaned.

I have run the texture options anyway possible... Have ran them on Low for the last 5 months. No difference what so ever.

I Have been through nearly 3 years of DUST.... I Have been in DUST without these effects.... With nothing but these effects everytime you play in closed beta... When it actually made sense why DUST 514 was named aptly.

Been through Uprising not having them.

Been here day one volcanic effects got added to the maps.


There is a noticeable difference to performance with these effects running. Through the history of DUST. it has been said hundreds of times in squads.

It is not new.

Every DUST player is put in a worse mood because of poor game performance... Not because of crap on a screen the average mercenary has no idea what it even is.... Or that a Volcano is even on the map or exists in DUST.

I Would like to be able to move around with some consistency without frame rates dropping and causing inputs to not register... I Would like to be in the middle of the Most texture intensive map with all 32 mercenaries going all out.... With frame rate sitting at 25-30 FPS.

Matches with these effects on run noticeably worse then a match right after on the same map without them.


We have alot of fluff like these effects that do nothing for accomplishing solid game performance.. FIRST.

How can you say "Every DUST player is put in a worse mood because of poor game performance" that is just simply not true.
The frame rate being 25-30 FPS = What ? for me its 60+

In my experience Dust has been great and with the Frame rate increase = I've seen a lot of improvement with little to no errors. Event the LAG is no existent for me. My tv has 120 Hz that it just runs smooth as butter.

Right now I wish I could play but with college and my running in the way = just not enough time but hopefully soon I get a brake.

I Have 3 different PS3's in the house.

One just recently bought.

2 have SSD's.

Both have been opened and cleaned.

I have run the texture options anyway possible... Have ran them on Low for the last 5 months. No difference what so ever.

I Have been through nearly 3 years of DUST.... I Have been in DUST without these effects.... With nothing but these effects everytime you play in closed beta... When it actually made sense why DUST 514 was named aptly.

Been through Uprising not having them.

Been here day one volcanic effects got added to the maps.


There is a noticeable difference to performance with these effects running. Through the history of DUST. it has been said hundreds of times in squads.

It is not new.

Every DUST player is put in a worse mood because of poor game performance... Not because of crap on a screen the average mercenary has no idea what it even is.... Or that a Volcano is even on the map or exists in DUST.

I Would like to be able to move around with some consistency without frame rates dropping and causing inputs to not register... I Would like to be in the middle of the Most texture intensive map with all 32 mercenaries going all out.... With frame rate sitting at 25-30 FPS.

Matches with these effects on run noticeably worse then a match right after on the same map without them.


We have alot of fluff like these effects that do nothing for accomplishing solid game performance.. FIRST.

2) Defragment your hard drive, their should be an option to do this on the system, if not use a computer.
Even SSD's benifit from a defrag every now and again

Then maybe it is your internet connection, I have two systems neither of which have SSD's or any enhancements, I run all maps at the highest texture level and at a stable 30FPS, I have encountered lag maybe 5 times in my entire time playing this game.

I have never encountered a drop in frame rate that wasn't associated to the lag.
So unless both my systems are somehow all powerful behemoths in comparison to yours, it's likely to be something on your end.

1) Ensure your only playing in your region
Do this by either setting your server options to automatic, or which if region best covers your posistion.
(I imagine you are north america)

2) Defragment your hard drive, their should be an option to do this on the system, if not use a computer.
Even SSD's benifit from a defrag every now and again

3) Check the health/lifespan of your SSD's it's possible that between, patches, DLC amd general game operation your SSD has degraded, especially if it is of poor quality.

As for your insults to my previous post, like I said before the Atmospheric effects are 'Pre-Production' that means theynare applied after the rendering is complete.

Unlike say night vision, dynamic fog, or ambient lighting. These effects are slapped on just behind your HUD, the amount of processing power that your graphics card puts into making this happen will be LESS than the proccessing power required to render your hud.

Furthermore the effect itself isn't even rendered or calculated in anyway, the effect is continous loop, the same sparks always flit across the screen in the same places, the operation of applying it to the screen is as simple as reading the raw data from your drive and adding their RGB values tomthe rendered image.

Once again, it's just a very fancy lens effect, it works fine on my systems with no lag or frame rate drop, chances are it's your internet connection. (Speed doesn't mean squat, but I leave that until you turn roujd like a baby saying you have an 80mb/s connection)

At least add an off option

Ash, Caustic Fog and Storm effects are 'pre-production' that means it's applied to your camera, not to the gaming environment.

Monkey... If it was just me? Sure. There are hundreds of DUST video's on youtube.... where comments are stating all over "Does this game have frame rate issues or is it just me?"


From people that are just seeing it for the first time from their favorite You-tuber.

I Have two ISP's in my house...

I Have an ISP at my office downtown.

Speed doesn't matter with the PS3 because it caps out at 10mb/s and all my connections are 25-120....

Of course i defrag my SSD every second week.

Frame rate problems in this game isn't new Monkey. They have plagued it from the very start to just recently where they had to reduce texture resolution to try and squeeze better performance out of.

I Have played FPS games for nearly two decades, i run the PS4 at 60 FPS.. My Computer at over 120 with a 144hz monitor.

It is instantly noticeable when frame rates start chugging in DUST.


To say DUST runs at a constant 30 FPS for you when it never has... ever... makes me wonder about alot of things said.


But then again you have always said that DUST runs like an angel for you and pretend that it never has had a performance issue ever in a majority of these posts.

The atmospheric effects take processing power from an already taxed machine from a game that has had chronic performance issues for an effect that adds very little to the gaming experience for the average mercenary.

There should be an option to remove them at least just like any other game. Where removing them improves game performance. Even on PC's today with 10x the hardware capability.