When interacting with the floating chat window (opening, closing, resize,...) or also going to group window, the game will sometimes freeze for several seconds (Windows even tells you the app is not responding). It then clears up and reacts again.
This is especially funny when the group leader launches the group and another player freezes as he just did something in chat. There can be "funny effects", best case group search is cancelled, but sometimes player drops from group has to be re-invited or suddenly does not longer show up in friends list.
Lastly we all agreed that the loading times have again increased to pre-optimisation level that we had few months ago. Especially disturbing here again that sometimes the load screen will also freeze for up to 1-2 seconds when you exit a match and the mechlab is loading. (Why this whole thing is not buffered in memory for machines with enough RAM is beyond me...)
Our group consists of players with all kinds of game rigs:
From myself with newest system (i7, 16G-3200, Nvidia 1080 and Win10) to lower systems (old i3, 8G, Nvidia 960 and Win7).
Effects were the same across the board, while of course after freeze etc. the better machines would load faster.
Forgot to mention: We all have really good internet connection and very low pings to MWO servers usually. with some players even in the low 10s on pings.
Edited by Hoshi Toranaga, 19 April 2017 - 06:05 AM.