Clear evidence that Odyssey never pass Alpha Phase up

[Taimaru]

Something weird is going on because in alpha I had to turn my graphics settings from Ultra which I use in Horizon to High to get "reasonable" performance. With Odyssey release I am happily running back in Ultra with a performance increase, not huge but still an increase, from alpha. My first thought when playing was that Odyssey had been through some optimisation since alpha.

I use an nVidia 2060 graphics card and whilst the FPS drops whilst on foot inside a station I'm not sitting there staring at an FPS counter thinking "refund, refund". Instead I'm enjoying the game.

I'm not saying that no more work needs doing on optimisation with Odyssey, of course it needs more done, but there does seem to be some disparity between PC systems.

 

[RealPuPpEt]

yep, exactly.
with my GTX 970 i was unable to play the Alpha. I couldnt use my Flashlight, everything was low Poly, System Map crashed everything.
Now? Works like a charm. Some minor glitches, but its playable

I have too the GTX 970, but i had no problem during Alpha beside some fps low spikes, but absolutely playable.
Now it's slightly better, i'm around ~25-40 and some 50+ spikes.

 

[Tom Jacobs]

FPS is all over the place.
During the alpha there were moments i got my locked 75FPS in stations /settlements, some days only sub 20 regardsless of resolution or graphical settings or what i was doing or looking at.

Now (on good moments) the fps is directly related to what i look at. But its still half the fps i got on horizons planets and turning the resolution or graphical effects down does not increase fps. Sometimes just looking at a menu my PC is blowing hard just to manage a powerpoint presentation for my viewing pleasure.

So i just play with my 7 year old i5 rig with ddr3 ram and beaten 1080ti on 3440x1440 Ultra on 20fps because it just doesnt get any better.

 

[Murfelton]

I saw improvements versus phase 1-3 of the alpha (didn’t play much in phase 4). With roughly the same settings, concourse is now dipping to 40 at worst, versus 20-30 in alpha. I need to find a combat zone to get a better comparison of planetside performance versus alpha.

Not too dramatic an improvement, but better. I‘m running higher settings with the same performance as alpha.

The ugliest graphics are the texture changes as I approach a planet, but they‘ve never been that impressive for me in either Horizons or the alpha. They are just messed up in a different way. Probably due to my dialling settings back, but I have never looked into what I need to upgrade to clear that up.