Performance hit in 3.3?

[rOmiLaYu]

Full disclosure, I'm running a relatively low spec laptop...so there's that out of the way. i7, 8gbs of memory, but an Intel HD graphics card is holding me back. I've been playing for several months on it, and while it isn't amazing, the game has been running smoothly, albeit it on low settings.

But ever since 3.3 dropped, it's slideshow city. It ran well one night, but ever since then, it's frame rate drop-apalooza.

Here's my question, how much of this can be put down to server lag and how much of it is the update? I guess I don't know what is actually rendered on my machine and what is pulled from the server.

Side note, the game still runs and looks beautiful on my XBox...which I find kind of interesting regarding the whole "consoles are holding the game back" conversation.

I'm hoping it levels out. I bought this laptop to explore the Cone Sector on the Gnosis (yeah....I know) and was hoping instead to do DW2 in the PC universe, but at this rate (pun intended), I don't think I'll be able to bear it.

Thoughts, CMDRs? Am I doooooooooomed or will it work itslef out?

 

[Tiili]

Check display settings, I'm also playing on a potato and the patch changed my resolution to maximum and I couldn't figure out why my fps was dipping to 20 for a while.

 

[rOmiLaYu]

Check display settings, I'm also playing on a potato and the patch changed my resolution to maximum and I couldn't figure out why my fps was dipping to 20 for a while.

Thanks, but I checked. Same resolution as pre-patch. So I don't think that's it...out of curiosity, what resolution are you running?

 

[Lightspeed]

I'm running on a gaming laptop, and the game has been stuttering quite a bit this evening ..... once I had to ctrl alt del to get control back, other times it's paused and then continued as normal ....... most recently, a whole set of about 40 geological features spread over two nearby planets disappeared from my contacts screen when I logged back in, then suddenly appeared ..... so I suspect the server issues have not yet settled down.

 

[Dutchman141]

Performance has taken quite a hit on Xbox too.
Fdev said the new lighting and all wouldn't have an effect on performance,......yeah right!

 

[rOmiLaYu]

Performance has taken quite a hit on Xbox too.
Fdev said the new lighting and all wouldn't have an effect on performance,......yeah right!

Really? I didn't notice it at all...granted, I only played for about two hours doing a little combat in Signalis before crashing into a NSP and rebooting the box. It felt smooth to me.

For whatever it's worth, my trip out to T Tauri tonight to start the Mamba Mambo was significantly smoother than earlier...so maybe it is just server stuff.

Also, of note, on only a 300-ish ly trip, and only honking each system and probing just five planets, I netted a surprising 2.5 mil. Bodes well for payouts, I think!