I can say my performance has increased a little by installing lastest bet a drivers from NVIDIA. (aprox 5-8 fps depending on the map and people around) But the overall fps are still very bad, and far from the mark of GU3
No it was not. it's been established already. Only takes a minute for double XP restart always has done, they took servers down for over an hour unannounced to fix the server problems during the weekend, which including some fixes in the patch.
For everyone that is not checking reddit on a regular basis: http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/1akpbn/hey_all_tomslick42_found_the_bug_after_working/ In short: They found the bug that caused fps drops and are currently QA'ing it, also some other things. i am regaining hope
They patched back on Friday to enable double xp (it was 44MB) and yesterday patched again to remove it (37MB)
But they did do server maintenance (for server downtime for over an hour) to fix the lag issues over the weekend. Anyway disagrees with you.
its in testing and will; be out when its ready have faith,soe guys always pull through. remember super bowl weekend?(im not American btw) they pulled everyone in too fix something so they aren't resting till its working.
Ok this hotfix actually helped. Thx a lot for the hard work Tom. That being said I hope the optimisation does not end here.
I can confirm that the issue with lot's of vehicles (2 Galaxies e.g.) causing terrible FPS is resolved. Will report after extended testing.
Framerates are what they used to be for me, maybe a bit higher now. But the game is not smooth, feels choppy. It could be the enormous population surge on woodman, i'm getting a lot of lag as well. Definitely on the right track.
Hotfix turned overall FPS up, but still getting too low in crowded areas. Feels like the max. FPS have increased, but the min. FPS remains pretty much the same.
Hardware only does what software tells it to do And I've had games in the past crash hardware hard, Bionic Commando comes to mind, as does Fallout 3. Hell I've had Skyrim do it twice when loading new area's/zones Considering I played 5 hours of Far Cry 3 last night with zero issues, somethings up
Gained another 5-15 fps everywhere, which for my low-end system is amazing. Hotfix worked wonders for me, thanks SOE!