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[Kyle Polulak]

All Performance / FPS / Lag related posts will be merged into this thread for simplified reference and overview.

Please attempt to respond to the following questions in your responses:

• How had the patch generally affected your performance?
  
• Whether there are specific points in the game when your performance changes.
  
• What are your video settings, did you change them since last patch?
  
• Average FPS ingame and in the menus for previous patch and latest patch (Press F9 to see your FPS)
  
• System specs (You can include them in a [spoiler] [ /spoiler])
  
• Your advertised internet connection speed / Geographic location

[August55]

Performance has improved a bit, but turning off the hud (rightshift+f11) or going to the scoreboard instantly boosts the frames by 20fps. Can we please have a hud that doesn't use scaleform?

IE, in Caustic Valley, the new initial screen gives 60fps, then it drops to 35 when the normal HUD shows up.

Win 8 64Bit
Intel C2D E8400
4GB Ram
Geforce 560 Ti

Edited by August55, 05 February 2013 - 01:13 PM.

[Carmaga]

Performance wise: best patch ever! Boosted from 20fps to 50fps

Edit: Win7 x64
6GB DDR2
GTX 460 1GB
C2Q 9550

Edited by Carmaga, 05 February 2013 - 01:43 PM.

[NeuroMute]

Win 7 Prof 64
GTX 660 TI Jetstream
16 GB RAM
i5-3450

All Settings on Very High

FPS constant at 60.
My connection is very slow (countryside), but my ping is normally around 160.

Before the patch everything was smooth, never had problems. Just patched it and most common issues now are:

Blackscreen after initial overview.
Pilot gets "stuck" after pressing the red button (going to desktop and then back into the game helps sometimes) or I'll just get shot back to desktop.

Out of 4 games 1 went OK.

Edited by NeuroMute, 05 February 2013 - 01:30 PM.

[Media]

Experiencing a huge performance increase.

I used to average 35-40fps, sometimes dipping into the 20s. Now I'm getting a solid 50-60fps in combat, peaking up in the 80s during calm situations.

The game feels so much more fluid. Amazing job.

1680x1050, Very High, i7 930@3.7, GTX 680, Win7 64.

[Black Templar]

i cannot say what you did with this patch but my performance is worse than ever
it doesn't matter which map i play, the framerate drops to 18-23fps once things get rolling. before the patch at least "forest colony" (and snow variant) was playable at 30fps. i posted many times about performance issues in the last patches. ever since open beta my fps dropped from a nice and steady 60fps max. down to this. why is my performance so much more worse than before?

also i posted my system specs many times (i was also in closed beta).
other friends that run a ATI graphics cards have the same problem with the framerate. also the client seems to heat up/put heavy load on my GPU even in the main menu screen (where really nothing is happening.

sorry for my bad english

Win 7 64bit
Intel Q9550 @3,5GHz
8GB RAM
ATI HD5770 1GB @ 860MHz Clock ; 1200MHz Memory

[Chrithu]

For me performance improved greatly. My average FPS have gone up by as much as 20. Really great Job. I hope you can keep it up and squeeze out some more.

Connectivity and network performance is unchanged relative to the last patch. So it still is very good for. Little to no lagshield. Precise Hit detection. All good.

System:

Win 7 64 bit
4 GB Ram
Phenom II X6 1055T
2x Radeon HD 5750 1GB = 2 GB in total.

[PyckenZot]

Awesome job on this last patch PGI! The game runs much better for me now!

• How had the patch generally affected your performance?
  The game plays a whole lot smoother now. FPS counter didn't change a lot, but the lag-spikes seem gone. I can actually aim and know i'll hit what I aimed for
  
• Whether there are specific points in the game when your performance changes.
  As stated, controlling the mech is a lot smoother
  
• What are your video settings, did you change them since last patch?
  Playing on low video setting
  
• Average FPS ingame and in the menus for previous patch and latest patch (Press F9 to see your FPS)
  Avg FPS in menu is 30. In game 18-30
  
• System specs
  Spoiler

  intel core i7 Q720 1.5 GHz, 8GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650
  
  
• Your advertised internet connection speed / Geographic location
  Speedtest result 17 Mbps / Belgium

Edited by PyckenZot, 05 February 2013 - 03:04 PM.

[Thuzel]

About 40 - 50% performance boost here. was getting 20 - 30 fps, now getting 30 - 45 with rare drops to the 20's, so this is a huge increase.

win7 64bit
nvidia GT555m
8GB ram
i7-2630

[etd]

No change. Still 12-19 fps.

Settings on low. v-sync off

AMD Phenom II N870 Triple-core processor 2.30 ghz
4 gig of ram
Windows 7 64 bit
ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 6370 SERIES

[Julian Tifflor]

not much improvement for my low rig system fps wise...

BUT...

no more screen freezes at caustic valley so thats a big plus for me.

amd 5200+ 2.7ghz
6850 OC Gigabyte
3gb ram
win 7 32bit

[Rovertoo]

Well, game play wise, I have noticed some improvement but right now I can barely play! I can't even stay in a match for twenty seconds before I get disconnected and sent to the main screen! It is quite infuriating! I rarely ever had this problem before (I average ~90 ping) but after the patch today, I can't even play! I still haven't seen the end of round screen...

Any tips or help would be greatly appreciated!

[HRR Insanity]

• How had the patch generally affected your performance?

Smoother framerate/gameplay.

• Whether there are specific points in the game when your performance changes.

In furballs, much more stable framerate.


Still seeing MASSIVE framerate drops (game freezes momentarily) whenever someone disconnects from the game.

• What are your video settings, did you change them since last patch?

Max. No change.

• Average FPS ingame and in the menus for previous patch and latest patch (Press F9 to see your FPS)

Out of fight:
Previous 48-51.
Post-patch 52-55.

In fight:
Previous: 30-45
Post-patch: 33-50

• System specs

Spoiler

Intel i5 3450
KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX
Asus P8B75M-CSM
Asus ENGTX560 DCII OC
RC-912-KKN1-GP
SSDSC2CW120A310

CM-RS-700-PCAAE3
GH24NS90
VS248H-P

• Your advertised internet connection speed / Geographic location

25M:1M - I live in the hosting facility (kidding, but still 6-12ms ping).

Edited by HRR Insanity, 05 February 2013 - 03:51 PM.

[NovaWasp]

I went from running mostly medium no post processing and no Anti-aliasing at 30 with a few drops to 22 or so to running very high at 44 to drops of about 30

AMD FX-6300 oc'd to 4 GHZ
12 GB 1333 RAM
GTX 560 TI 2 GB

Edit: GPU utilization is at 99% most of the time too.

Edited by NovaWasp, 05 February 2013 - 04:09 PM.

[Mordynak]

Seems like I'm 1 of few who's performance has decreased

Edited by Mordynak, 05 February 2013 - 04:03 PM.

[MavRCK]

Huge increase in fps. Don't need to play with Set Affinity anymore.

2012 imac i7 3770 - 32 gigs ram - GTX 680MX - bootcamp windows 7 - ssd etc etc

1440p settings medium - high - 60 - 75 fps -- dips into high 40s.

Will play with environmental details and report back.

Edited by MavRCK, 05 February 2013 - 04:12 PM.

[MechMacaw]

Now i tried that right shift + f11 and you are right! This patch brought my fps up a lot but toggling the UI and turning it off made my game get amazing fps.

Edited by Steelbuns, 05 February 2013 - 05:49 PM.

[LaserAngel]

Core i5 750 (3.36 GHz Overclock)
16 GB DDR3-1600 RAM
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7950
60 GB Agility 3 SSD for games

Performance was so good in the 70 FPS range that I bumped up my settings from all Medium to High Object Detail, Shading, and Texturing. After that it's still a smooth 45-50 FPS at 1920 x 1200. Great work guys! It looks even better too.

[One Hellcat]

When testing on my laptop I noticed a significant increase in performance going from barely playable to playable. Before this patch I would get 45 fps in the mechlab and at the start of a match, but as soon as I started to move, my fps would drop to about 19, and worsen when fighting in a large group. Now, I get the same 45 in the mechlab and match start, but when I start moving, it drops to about 30, and occasionally dip to 24. It's a lot smoother with fewer dips. I even managed to bump shading up to medium without hurting performance.


My GPU usage now ranges from 70 to 99%, whereas before it would stay around 70%. My CPU usage, however, is still fluctuating between 50 and 60%

My laptop's specs:
Windows 8 (64)
A10 4600m
Radeon HD 7730m
8 GB DDR3-1600 ram
1366x768 resolution

My video settings:
Low with Effects at Medium and Textures at High.

Edited by One Hellcat, 05 February 2013 - 06:40 PM.

[Aegis Kleais]

Performance in the sake of framerate seems to be very smooth and solid nowadays. A far cry from the way things were. To that end, kudos to the PGI staff.

On the other hand, netcode is as miserable as it's ever been, if not worse. I fully stand by my belief that Many areas of the game will get better and better with each patch, but the netcode never will.