FPS Drop

Papa_Hunt

So, I've been meaning to ask. I randomly will drop to 10 FPS and stay there for like a minute or two. This happened before latest patch as well. I have a pretty good graphics card and have the settings turned down. Not sure if it's some kind of glitch I can easily take care of?

OGLezard

ZoS and their poor optimization, it happens to everyone

Molec

Other FPS/lag related problems to note:

Enemy AOE dealing damage outside of the notification zone during lag spike

Unbreakable or long delay time to some stuns even with full stamina, this can lead to the player being stunned for up to 3 seconds.

Lag spikes (more noticable when dealing with multiple enemies) that result in a torrent of damage hitting the player leaving no chance to defend often resulting in death.

Lag related delay when casting abilities; during these situations you will have to press a button multiple times to activate the ability and then animation cancel the build up of button presses.

Enemies showing as dead still attacking and dealing damage (big problem against enemies with high damage).

Total ability lockout: leaving you unable to use any abilities whilst enemies are dealing damage

Upon cancelling a heavy attack with a desto staff the character will proceed to aim the staff at the enemy even changing your characters rotation, essentially locking the player up momentarily.

Samadhi

Was running between Thrall Cove and Ko Estaran last night.
Each time Thrall Cove's fight finished, would suddenly get a 20 FPS drop.
Had to restart the client after each fight to remedy it.

Issue only showed up after Thrall Cove; Ko Estaran was fine and had zero impact on my FPS.
The drop did not take place during the fight at Thrall Cove, only once the fight was finished.
Strange.

Moonshadow66

I didn't play all too often during the last weeks or after the patch, but today I brought another of my characters to Wrothgar and quested into Orsinium. The game ran fine in the zone outside of the city, but as soon as I entered the city gates, the FPS dropped to ~15 average and stayed this way. It was never great in Orsinium, but this time I could barely move or look around in there. However the FPS (and general movement with it) was a LOT better today in Hew's Bane, compared to its release day. Not sure why this has "switched".

Papa_Hunt

So, I take it that me randomly dropping to 10 FPS is not unusual?

GarnetFire17

it's just not well optimized in certain spots, mainly because of the objects in the area etc... i can't really say that is it random. it happens in the same spots over and over again.

LostScot

Papa_Hunt wrote: »

So, I take it that me randomly dropping to 10 FPS is not unusual?

Been a feature for me ever since the Imperial City DLC was released. New client hasn't done anything to fix it with the latest DLC.

Molec

GarnetFire17 wrote: »

it's just not well optimized in certain spots, mainly because of the objects in the area etc... i can't really say that is it random. it happens in the same spots over and over again.

A lot of lag is actually due to the servers and the volume of calculations being performed, it would be nice if it was just unoptimized draw calls, meshes and textures but it isn't the case for 95% of the lag in this game.

Dubhliam

Same here, I've been having big FPS issues since around two weeks prior to the 2.3 update.

At one point (in a trial) it was unbearable - 2 FPS. Constantly. On lowest graphics (with a good GPU).

EllaRielle

2 FPS in Maw of Lorkhaj with everything turned all the way down. My graphics card isn't even really subpar (I'm on a Mac), but in other trials with graphics not turned way down it doesn't ever drop that low.

Xendyn

LostScot wrote: »

Papa_Hunt wrote: »

So, I take it that me randomly dropping to 10 FPS is not unusual?

Been a feature for me ever since the Imperial City DLC was released. New client hasn't done anything to fix it with the latest DLC.

Me too. Idk what they did with IC but my fps tanked at that point and I've had trouble ever since.