Anyone else getting horrid FPS?

[Chewy]

Specs-
i5-2500k 3.3GHz
16GB RAM
Radeon HD 6870
Win 7 64bit


Today Iv hit a very big snag with the games performance. I used to run near 100% ultra at 1080 with 60-70 FPS in off time (waiting in the WG or fly time) and never going under 35 FPS in heated fights. Now after GU4 I sit under 30 FPS at all times with constantly going well below 20 without any reasons I can see. Just sitting in the WG has frame dips into the teens at times. This remained the same after I cut settings down to high (haven't tested Med and refuse to use Low as I don't like gimped games).

An odd bit though is while I was in the VR room. Nothing was out of the norm there before I joined DVS ops today. All kinds of shit was going on in the VR room when I was in there and nothing hit my FPS that I can remember.

This has become unplayable to me. Locked at 30 FPS is bad yet doable if needed, but get anywhere below that and it fucks my eyes up with stutter, blur, and killing my already shit aim. Iv lost a LOT of my ability to track targets, judge aircraft distance, and support teammates. The game has turned into shit for me and Im not the only one that spoke up in game.

Any one else getting this problem? And if so got any ideas how to fix it?

[camycamera]

need to test, will report back for performance (in a couple of hours time :P)

my pc is
i5 3570
gtx 650ti
8gb RAM

and i get an average of 30 fps in "normal/large" fights on high graphics (not ultra)

NOTE: i have not got the GU004 update yet, just sayin, will test later for comparison


also, remember the Ultra graphics are experimental. they might have done something that stuffs up ultra user's performance with this patch.

[MaxDamage]

Yeah some performance issues.
Smedley wrote on reddit that they're working on it.

[Hamma]

Yep definitely saw some major performance issues tonight.

And yes, that's what she said.

[o Solei o]

I have been as well. Glad to know it's not just me.

I'm not sure if it's actually a performance issue, or if they've just managed to successfully funnel more people into fights with some of the new spawn/IA features... VR works pretty well for me, but actual fights drop into single-digit FPS with periodic 2-5 second screen freezes.

[wasdie]

I am big time. Lost a good 20-30 FPS on average.

i7 3770k @ 4.2 gHZ
16 GB DDR3 Ram
2x GTX 570 1.2 GB vRAM
Windows 7 64 bit
Planetside 2 custom ultra settings

[Chewy]

SO happy that Im not alone on this. I know that ultra is a risk with it being unsupported but I LOVE HOW IT LOOKS!

Even on high it doesn't do the game justice. On high the terminal and console screen are unidentifiable blurs, but on ultra MY GOD are they a sight to see. Still can't read them :( but it looks like a working place that serves a function. First day playing ultra I spent at least an hour looking at screens to see if anything was hidden in them.

This is the only free to play game I have ever put money into and don't want to have it be unplayable. I can wait a bit for a fix. Just hope that is isn't to long of a wait.

[maradine]

Confirming - practical FPS cut in half, and frame drops where there were none before. Playable, but annoying.

[Silent Thunder]

Hope the hotfix comes soon. I had just figured out that AMD Bulldozers are horribly ruined by CPU Parking, and when I forced that bullshit off, I was finally GPU limited in the major battles. Now it's back to 20FPS for me.

[Ghoest9]

My FPS meters is good - but something feels off - like everything is jerky.

[Blinklys]

Yep, major performance drop. Usually getting around 50-60 even in intense fights, but last night it was at 20-ish most of the time.

Also noted a strange, jerky thing when sprinting in a straight line, almost felt like my charcter had a limp or something.

[SGTHACK]

For me, it seems to be confined to Indar. The other maps are good...

[XeonraY]

I'm getting a hard FPS drop too.
From 80FPS in warpgate to 20-30ish FPS in warpgate.
Flying around outside warpgate 20-30ish FPS, same in battles, large battles I go into 10-20ish fps...

Always after every GU they seem to drop performance.

[hashish]

Yea really does piss me off tho that they add a bunch of features and dont adress the most important issue here which is the fps.. I mean im not getting extremely low fps in general but if was getting over 40 or something it would be AMAZING ! lol

If i was smed i would like dedicate half of the team to just sort out fps issues once and forall :p

[ChipMHazard]

Yep definitely saw some major performance issues tonight.

And yes, that's what she said.

Ba dum tssshhh - YouTube

Is it just me or is this becoming a recurring issue with the big GU patches? Well that and server "lag", not sure what it is but following a big patch the servers would always felt laggy for a while.
Not to be a cynical bastard here but... Sad to see that when ever they add in great new content, or changes to existing content, it's followed by serious issues that prevent players from fully experiencing said content.

[camycamera]

okay, finally tested, and i'm fine running at high.

it must be the ultra settings.

[XeonraY]

okay, finally tested, and i'm fine running at high.

it must be the ultra settings.

Well, I don't run with ultra settings, so my guess is that the main issue is not ultra settings.
I guess that we'll need to wait until the next hot fix? again...

[Assist]

okay, finally tested, and i'm fine running at high.

it must be the ultra settings.

I run high settings and pre-patch I was 40-46 at massive fights, now I'm 13-17. I thought it was awful beforehand with performance, but this is just ridiculous.


i7 OC'd 3.8
12gb ram
GTX680 2gb

[Gimpylung]

Yeah, most of my Outfit reporting a significant decline in graphical performance. Things were laggy as hell too on Miller last night, most noticeably in the Bio fights on Indar.

[HiroshiChugi]

I've noticed the drop in fps as well. I used to play on all high graphics back in GU 02 with 50+ fps... then GU 03 hit me. that's when the fps dropped to half it's normal rate... I finally had good fps going on my laptop then BAM! Sudden fps nerf/drop :\ this needs to be fixed as I'm not the only laptop user seeing this. Oh, and by the way, I DID edit uesroptions.ini file to get the 50+ fps before. but now it's all gone to shit. >_<


Edit: My specs, as far as I remember, are the following:

Toshiba Satellite C655 Laptop
Internal/built-in graphics card
8GB RAM
I run at 3-4 gHz (I think, may be higher, may be lower).

And yes, I hit 60 fps using this rig.

[jassinlive]

Yes my GPU usage has taken a dive leaving with lower FPS. Noticeably worse performance since GU4.

[Maarvy]

Yeah, most of my Outfit reporting a significant decline in graphical performance. Things were laggy as hell too on Miller last night, most noticeably in the Bio fights on Indar.

Millers bio domes were indeed going off last night ,mad fun if only it wasent so laggy .

Its realy a shame that these performance issues have surfaced after every patch thus far , since this is the time that people who quit generaly come back to take a look at things .

[Fishy]

There is a big thread on the ps2 forums - http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/fps-drop-after-gu4.103469/

Many people had a big drop in fps, latest update from cyclesmchurtz (at 3:52 am ...) was they found a CPU load problem which they are looking into.

[Gimpylung]

Makes sense, ALT-F was telling me my CPU was the bottleneck... a 2500K @ 4.6Ghz which didn't appear to be anywhere near full load.

[BlazingSun]

My minimum FPS in big battles droped down by 15-20 FPS which is quite severe, as I only had about 30-35 FPS to begin with. Unplayable!

[Hamma]

Game was nearly unplayable for me last night. :\

[snafus]

I found closing the client to work for me. Doing this gave me about an hour or so of good FPS before it would fall again.

[camycamera]

strange. maybe i see most of you have i7s, and they must have done something to make the game hate the i7s? lol.

either that, or it could be server-side for you guys.

yep, time to wait for the hotfix... again :lol:

[HiroshiChugi]

Actually I just found out that I'm having HORRID screen tearing when flying on high graphics, sometimes even medium graphics. Now I still play on low graphics just to function the game. I think I blew out my graphics card... xD

[Blinklys]

Flying is a lottery at best now, constant frame drops, stuttering and generally awful performance. These issues are the main factor why so many are abandoning this game. When you can't even run it properly on an i7-3770, a GTX 690 and 16 G of ram...

[camycamera]

wtf... after that hotfix patch, i get below 30 fps. WHAT?! but it was running fine on ultra+ gpu physx for an hour or so, and then it went below, and that was after i turned it back down to high and turned off physx!