Interview with Engineers - Optimization/Performance

I'd like to see more ability to control settings that are influenced by the 'graphics quality' setting. For example, I'd be content to play on low quality and get a good FPS boost if it didn't affect texture resolution/rendering and the infiltrator cloaking effect. Even if this were just accomplished by having more lines in the .ini rather than an in-game GUI, it would be nice.

Thanks.

Can we please have an option to turn off AA?

Pretty pls? :3

Ask them when we're going to get ragdolls. I don't expect an answer, I just want them to know it's something the community wants and something we wouldn't mind losing some FPS for. We already have togglable particle physics that don't really make a huge difference to how the game looks but destroy your framerate...why not toggleable ragdolls? They'd make the shooting feel WAY more fun and less flat and predictable.

Are you working with AMD, Intel and nVidia to fix your framerate issues?

Who better to fix their engine than the people who made it? i don't think any of the companies above have any experience with the Forge Light engine PS2 uses.

maybe AMD's new 'Mantle API' could do the necessary performance wonders required to run PS2 on the PS4 (prime candidate for Mantle API) very nicely

of couse the ball is in Sonys court if / how / when they can support it with their game engine

So where were you in episode 1?

On a totally unrelated topic:

I bought a car about 11 years ago. I liked it very much because it was unique. Many people asked for a new model from the Car Company, but it took them 11 years to release one. At last they did put it on sale, actually they did gave the car away for free to anyone who asked! It's just that the tires, seats, steering wheel, seatbelt and gearshift were missing and I had to buy them separetely. Whatever, I bought them, but there was a problem: My car didn't reach the 120 miles top speed which was more or less the Industry Standard for that car class. Furthermore, I couldn't drive at a stable speed of 60 miles. The car somehow decided to run somewhere between 15-30 Miles and the engine stopped for no reason quite often. I called their Car Service and told them my Situation. They told me that everybody has the same Problem with this model and the Manufacturer told them that they would "fix" the problem "soon". It's been 10 months since I got the car and I'm not sure that there'll be a fix that will magically make the car drive at a stable 60 miles and give it a top speed of 120 miles. There are other cars out there and it's season for the new models to be introduced, but I like this car and there's really not another one out there that comes close to this one. What should I do?

Abstract analogy is too abstract. And long.

Closing this thread and compiling questions.

We'll have an FAQ up for you after I get a chance to compile all the questions and our development team gets a chance to write up some answers.

Thanks for participating everyone!