As Microsoft ramps up efforts to conquer the artificial intelligence industry, its latest sustainability report shows that its water use and carbon emissions have shot up dramatically. The software giant increased its water use from 6.4 million cubic meters in 2022 to 7.8 million cubic meters in 2023.
May 17, 2024, Futurism [just one source of many]
UPDATE: I turned back on everything in performance mode - I turned back on 120Hz, Dolby Vision, VRR, FreeSync, ALLM, aaaaaaand it works so much better than before, almost perfectly!
The only issue that is still persisting is the strobo light of the screen BUT it only happens when I open the menù or I open the map or I open the chat or during loading screens: everything else, like Bank, Armory, Chests, Guild Traders... They are all fine. No more fps issues.
TLDR: strobing light still present in map, menù, chat, loading screens. Everything else seems fixed now, to me.
Edit: it would be nice to know if things are getting fixed/worked on with hotfixes... And if we can expect an announcement here soon that everything will be working smoothly again, @ZOS_Kevin
UPDATE: I turned back on everything in performance mode - I turned back on 120Hz, Dolby Vision, VRR, FreeSync, ALLM, aaaaaaand it works so much better than before, almost perfectly!
The only issue that is still persisting is the strobo light of the screen BUT it only happens when I open the menù or I open the map or I open the chat or during loading screens: everything else, like Bank, Armory, Chests, Guild Traders... They are all fine. No more fps issues.
TLDR: strobing light still present in map, menù, chat, loading screens. Everything else seems fixed now, to me.
Edit: it would be nice to know if things are getting fixed/worked on with hotfixes... And if we can expect an announcement here soon that everything will be working smoothly again, @ZOS_Kevin
Probably going to be fixed on the coming patch maintenace, day 10.
Also, they didn't changed anything yet. You probably got used to it like i did. Spent a long time with the 30fps menus that sometimes i just feel that it's smoother, but nothing changed.
Personofsecrets wrote: »I'm posting to give a positive feedback to the sustainability feature.
My experience may not be the average use case, but there have been some good effects for me personally.
The sustainability feature that I notice is the screen dimming.
Historically, I've had some issues with leaving my game idle. For the longest time, the login screen would cause my graphics card to emit a coil whine. Over the past year, I've noticed my fans having to constantly rev up while the game was idle.
Since sustainability feature, I haven't noticed my fans needing to rev up. I often leave the game on when walking away to do other things, so it could be that there is some marginally good return on the environmental impact from my computer use. If there is such return, then that's a-okay by me.
I also sometimes am reminded to complete dailies when the screen dims after I've started to do something else on the computer. This is sort of a nice side-effect to the sustainability feature.
I don't play at a high-graphics setting, so again, I may not be as impacted by the feature as other users. I could play at higher graphical settings, but am just not that interested in doing so. Hope this all helps.
katanagirl1 wrote: »It seems like the inventory frame rate may have been restored, but the frame rate drop while harvesting nodes is just as bad. I didn’t notice that until the patch this week though, so it seems new.
Please revert this change. As I mentioned in my own thread about this, it’s one thing to throttle the fps when someone is afk, but we deserve full performance when playing the game.
I took a break from the game for 2 months and when i came back it was already entertaining me like before. Maybe you should do it too.
But actually I think you could try to hold on a little longer. These 30fps menus are very annoying and kill any mood at the moment, but the menus themselves are working as usual. The game is not centered around menu gameplay, and the real gameplay takes place outside of them. So, any progress you have will not be affected, and using the menus would only be for managing your character.
Stafford197 wrote: »The reputation of a business is more important these days than ever before.
Bammlschwamml wrote: »Stafford197 wrote: »The reputation of a business is more important these days than ever before.
Really? Doesn't feel like it matters for most companies anymore.
My opinion: this isn't on ZOS. It's on Microsoft. I'm not really convinced ZOS can decide to "undo" this for consoles without big brother yes-stamping.