Fps drops again.

[Moghul2]

i usually run s4 at 40 fps. if player count skips 10, i sometimes go down to 20-ish or i simply freeze. but yeah, happened from awhile ago for me. i used to run s4 fine on 60 fps when i started.

[HellaHell]

Thanks for the feedback!
We can forward it but you have to give us some additional info (like what, when, where, how etc that happens ) otherwise the developers won't be able to find the problem. Personally, I don't see any change in the performance from the last patch.

It happens trough all the match Hella. Before these patches i could play fine, but after it gotten worse. Its like for few seconds its at 53 fps, then it suddenly goes till 39 and it starts to slutter, sometimes fooling up my jumps in the matches. S4 uses 45% of the cpu max and like 973 mb of ram out of 3 GB. So it doesn`t reach its max. Nothing is running in the background only windows media player which uses 9% of cpu, 26 mb of ram, and msn which is 0% cpu usage and like 20 mb of ram. Other then that, nothing much just the windows processes. Before it was running smoothly on 60 fps always as I have V-Sync on, without V-Sync its even worse.

For other persons, I knew you "get better pc" commenters will show up but belive me, if I could run S4 fine 2 patches ago, didn`t add ANYTHING to my pc in this time, then what could have slowed it down?... Plus if this PC can handle NFS The Run on high, or GTA 4 on high and such, then why the hell it couldn`t handle S4?...

Does the fp spikes to lower for a second or they just stay low for a longer period of time?
If they spikes then, try to keep attention if that happens when someone joins/leaves the room. If that is the case, I have already reported that one.

Also giving some pc specs could be useful. It might be a problem with a certain component.

[KittieGirly]

Does the fp spikes to lower for a second or they just stay low for a longer period of time?
If they spikes then, try to keep attention if that happens when someone joins/leaves the room. If that is the case, I have already reported that one.

Also giving some pc specs could be useful. It might be a problem with a certain component.

It goes down, and stays there for like 5~7 seconds then goes back to 50+ for 1~3 seconds then goes down again.
PC specs:

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Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 3 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120503-2030)
Language: Hungarian (Regional Setting: Hungarian)
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ (2 CPUs), ~2.6GHz
Memory: 3072MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 3072MB RAM
Page File: 2624MB used, 3516MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Display Devices:
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440
Display Memory: 2273 MB
Dedicated Memory: 993 MB
Shared Memory: 1279 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)
200 GB Sata HDD

[Liniya]

Fps-wise it's fine for me, but I tend to get quite a lot of spiking. There seem to be a few specific situations where it has a chance of occurring such as,

1. When the match is started; happens at startup_time+some (random) short period after
2. 'Entry lag', someone enters/leaves the room
3. 'Death lag', self-explanatory
4. When I'm fighting someone and have like 30-60 hp left. The most annoying variety

Also, some rooms give me short but constant spikes each 5-10 seconds, my guess is it probably has to do with the activity/connection quality of other players in the room or something like that, since it's rather rare to occur even with the same mode/map/number of players.

[HellaHell]

Does the fp spikes to lower for a second or they just stay low for a longer period of time?
If they spikes then, try to keep attention if that happens when someone joins/leaves the room. If that is the case, I have already reported that one.

Also giving some pc specs could be useful. It might be a problem with a certain component.

It goes down, and stays there for like 5~7 seconds then goes back to 50+ for 1~3 seconds then goes down again.
PC specs:

Spoiler: show

Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 3 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120503-2030)
Language: Hungarian (Regional Setting: Hungarian)
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ (2 CPUs), ~2.6GHz
Memory: 3072MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 3072MB RAM
Page File: 2624MB used, 3516MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Display Devices:
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440
Display Memory: 2273 MB
Dedicated Memory: 993 MB
Shared Memory: 1279 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)
200 GB Sata HDD

Ok, I m going to report it but I can't tell when they will be able to fix that.

[Yuzeon]

My FPs drop when the rooms starts and sometimes when a user enters the room somehow. Other then that i don't have any problems.

[Lolicia]

For other persons, I knew you "get better pc" commenters will show up but belive me, if I could run S4 fine 2 patches ago, didn`t add ANYTHING to my pc in this time, then what could have slowed it down?... Plus if this PC can handle NFS The Run on high, or GTA 4 on high and such, then why the hell it couldn`t handle S4?...

Bcos Pentavision.

...

...no, really.

Remember when they updated for Siege mode? I was still using a Pentium 4 processor ...must...contain...hatred..., and my framerates dramatically dropped after that patch. I went from a more or less steady range of 56-60fps in most maps to 45-55fps. In certain spots in Neden-1, yes Neden of all places, I could drag it down to 40-45 by looking at certain places. And for what? There was no visual changes, no gameplay changes outside of Siege, nothing. It was because Pentavision was, and apparently still is, an incompetent developer.

Building a modern machine (equipped with an AMD 960t) brought my framerates to a steady 59.9/60. Us (I can't believe I'm lumping myself with these guys...*shudder*) "get better PC commentators" show up because getting a new PC, or at least upgrading some, helps with s4; particularly a new CPU, since chewing through all the garbage that Pentavision can't be bothered to clean out of their engine, plus processing the little bit of data at the end that is useful game data, takes a lot of juice.

So that remains my advice: if you want a smooth s4 experience, get a better CPU. Make sure its individual cores are fast, as s4 is (and probably always will be because, you guessed it, Pentavision) a single-threaded game and can't benefit from having more, but individually slower, cores.

If you already have a powerful CPU, um...dunno~! ^_^'

[Moghul2]

Quick theory here: bad programming and patching.

it's like the gauss rifle but they've managed to slip it into everything