Well first off, It seems to be that the game has become less optimized over time, sadly. Whether this is true or not I do not know, but here is what I have to say. Early this year I got Planetside 2 for the first time, wow, it was spectacular! Such massive battles, huge maps and a nice array of vehicles all running at about 25-100 fps depending on location and battle. Which I thought was pretty amazing really. My old system was far less powerful than the one I have now, When I bought the parts for my new system I was thinking of how brilliant PS2 would be to play at a high frame rates... But I was thinking totally wrong. I jumped on again, and now, I never get any higher than 60fps unless I am in the middle of an open space with no-one around on Esamir, Battles ALWAYS go as low as 25 and sometimes lower... I do not understand why, if the game has been optimized slightly in the last 5 months. Not only does the game seem to use the GPU far more, but the CPU also is struggling more, only slightly. So, here are my specs! : Old System (can't quite remember) : - An intel 3.2GHz quad core CPU. - A small £40 motherboard with only 2 RAM slots. - 8Gb 1333MHz DDR3 RAM. - EVGA GTX 560 SC GPU. - 550W PSU. - Standard CPU cooler. - Small tight case that got VERY warm. New System: - AMD FX8350 Black Edition 8-core 4.0MHz CPU. - Asrock 990FX Extreme3. - 8Gb 2133 DDR3 RAM. - EVGA GTX 560 SC GPU. (second GTX 560 which I rarely use, used for PhysX usually) - 750W PSU. - A large Heatsink fan cooler for CPU. - A more open spacious case with wires sorted properly. Anyone got anything similar? also If anyone could add anything or give me feedback on my rig that'd be great. Please note that I used to play on maximum settings. Now I play with fog shadows off, some settings on medium, render distance on 2000 (previously 8000) and help from the Nvidia Control Panel to get that little bit more fps. SLI does not work for me, OCing does not seem to help a lot either.
oddly enough the ps4 version will be running on amd, however, amd currently sucks for ps2. so hopefully soon they'll be doing some good amd optimization
It's because of the AMD processor. AMD's processors rely on large numbers of less powerful cores to process quickly, and, as of current, Planetside 2 runs only on a single core. A fix is on the way, mostly because of the PS4 version.