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[SuperBroHeroFella]

Hello.

I've been coming back to MWO after a few years to scratch that special itch. Having a blast with some of the new Mechs I haven't tried yet.

While not much has changed at the core, its also nice to see so much map variety nowadays. Still waiting for a smaller mission mode with lore that's 4vs4 but alas.

Why I came here is to say this:

Please update the engine and UI to allow quicker game joining. Starting up the game, logging in, waiting, then waiting in matchmaking takes so damn long. Also why is there no button in the end stats to just go on another matchmaking tour right away, or to have people vote for a second match to see if they were in luck.

Also, Alt Tabbing out of the game while waiting feels so slow and unresponsive, please update this.

Is there any way to hop right into a game without all that fuzz? Please let me know. I'm very thankful for any hints.

Thanks, best greetings to Russ Bullocks and team, I hope MWO "Legends" (which needs some more updates to be worthy of its new name) gets more development efforts. MWO Mercenaries doesn't fill this gap, I want that multiplayer fun.

Cheers.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

Best I can tell you, set the client in borderless full window instead of fullsreen if you tab out regularly. Helps with crashes and slugginess.

[Marcel Leander]

Eh, it's an old engine you can only do so much with. With an alt tabbing issue, might be worth using project lasso to keep the game off your main thread.

[LordNothing]

i think the thing that slows it down is downloading all your builds from the database servers. it gets worse the bigger your inventory. game startup takes well over a minute. and thats loading from gen 4 nvme ssd (a force mp600 to be precise). the testing grounds loads in two freaking seconds. the slowness is not on my end. perhaps cache it locally, hash it and check the hash against the server, which would be a lot faster while keeping players from tampering with the local cache copy (in which case it would fail hashing and re-download from the server).

i like to blame the news popup and wish there was a way to disable it, its kind of redundant when loading from the launcher. but i cant imagine it being that bad in terms of data usage.

[LordNothing]

Aidan Crenshaw, on 13 June 2023 - 01:25 AM, said:

Best I can tell you, set the client in borderless full window instead of fullsreen if you tab out regularly. Helps with crashes and slugginess.

the fullscreen glitch isnt the only thing that crashes the game though. seen network problems, new gpu also came with crashes for the first several driver versions. its a lot more stable now. i always run full window. i also get sound related glitches, they dont crash the game, but i often have to restart to get my speakers and comms to work. improvements for database operations would be a great improvement, especially as more players acquire ever larger inventories.

Edited by LordNothing, 13 June 2023 - 04:18 AM.

[Duke Falcon]

Another workaround (not tested but may works):
Sacrifice a goat and five virgins, mix thy blood in a bowl over the light 'o' a black candle!
Cover yer PC with blood and invoke the potent help of eldritch gods!
Start your PC then game...

Tell me if it worked or not...

[Meep Meep]

Afaik the initial long load on startup to get to the mech bay is network related not storage speed related. The client that runs on my high end gaming rig with gen 4 nvme loads to the mech bay in roughly the same time as my old gaming rig with sata ssd.

Alt tabbing from fullscreen mode screws up the gpu driver and causes glitchy behavior or crashes so run in full window if you frequently alt tab out.

[TheCaptainJZ]

Aidan Crenshaw, on 13 June 2023 - 01:25 AM, said:

Best I can tell you, set the client in borderless full window instead of fullsreen if you tab out regularly. Helps with crashes and slugginess.

Yes, absolutely, you must do this. Alt-tabbing is still unresponsive during the initial loading into a match and at the end when it's returning back to the mechlab. That's because they're two different "sessions" if you want to call them that. I tend to alt tab at the end while it's loading to the mechlab and both open programs fight for control of Window's focus.

[TheCaptainJZ]

SuperBroHeroFella, on 13 June 2023 - 01:00 AM, said:

Please update the engine and UI to allow quicker game joining. Starting up the game, logging in, waiting, then waiting in matchmaking takes so damn long. Also why is there no button in the end stats to just go on another matchmaking tour right away, or to have people vote for a second match to see if they were in luck.

We all feel ya, but I would imagine there's not much they can do, or at least they aren't going to be able to throw dev time at that problem. They have worked to speed it up a couple times in the past, so it was actually a bigger problem before. If we ever get a MWO2 (I'd be surprised if we ever do honestly), there are significant improvements they should be able to make in just some of these quality of life things. CryEngine just isn't good engine for this game or they made some bad early decisions on how to design this game.

[Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie]

Duke Falcon, on 13 June 2023 - 08:40 AM, said:

Another workaround (not tested but may works):
Sacrifice a goat and five virgins, mix thy blood in a bowl over the light 'o' a black candle!
Cover yer PC with blood and invoke the potent help of eldritch gods!
Start your PC then game...

Tell me if it worked or not...

works, can confirm!

now, in 5-6years after-and-if they let me out, my game will start so much faster. so thx

[Duke Falcon]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie, on 14 June 2023 - 07:56 AM, said:

works, can confirm!

now, in 5-6years after-and-if they let me out, my game will start so much faster. so thx

I have da goat, da black candle...
Where the heck I get those virginz?!

[Matt85]

I downsize the game while it loads, I do not have the patience to watch the wheel spin.