[Repro needed] Highvale Outskirts first load - Extreme pause while waiting for NPC guards to appear

9/25/2017 1:45 PM
Title: Highvale Outskirts first load - Extreme pause while waiting for NPC guards to appear
Reproduction Rate: Once
Blocker?No
Details:This was beyond a normal hitch, the NPC's guard patrol had tiny bits of their models drawn in, and the rest invisible, for several seconds. Everything was stopped, then as soon as their models popped all the way in, the scene started moving again.

It was probably ten seconds long.
Steps to Reproduce:Load Highvale Outskirts for the first time.
User Specs:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz (12) System RAM: 32603
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPU RAM: 8071
SotA.EarlyAccess.QA.Win.64.555.Date.09.24.17
Area: Novia_R6_Hills04_01
Area Display Name: Highvale Outskirts
Loc: (64.2, 32.1, -290.4)
Debug: Tm92aWFfUjZfSGlsbHMwNF8wMXx8KDY0LjIwMywgMzIuMTIyLCAtMjkwLjM1MSl8KDAsIDAuOTcyLCAwLCAwLjIzNCl8MTUyLjg4MjF8MTB8NS4yMzgzNDM=

 

Unable to reproduce externally.
9/26/2017 5:03 PM
Reproduction Rate: 0%
User Specs:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8) System RAM: 12244
GPU: Radeon(TM) RX 460 Graphics GPU RAM: 4043
Area: Highvale Outskirts (Novia_R6_Hills04_01)
Loc: (63.2, 31.7, -289.0)
DBG: Tm92aWFfUjZfSGlsbHMwNF8wMXx8KDYzLjE5NSwgMzEuNjYsIC0yODguOTU1KXwoMCwgMC45NDEsIDAsIC0wLjMzOCl8MjUxLjYwNHwzLjczNTcwNnwxMS4xMDc4NQ==
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SotA.EarlyAccess.QA.Win.64.555.Date.09.24.17

 

I am also unable to reproduce. This is not an ongoing issue with the scene load in, it appears.
Thank you for letting us know. I'll keep this in mind if we can perhaps establish a pattern here.
@AmazingAccount

 

I had it happen again, the guards were down at the bottom this time. Took about 10 seconds before the client would move after it had gone past the loading screen and was showing the level. It took a good amount of time for my avatar to completely draw, and the guards in the group. I think they are the cause of it because it didn't happen the time they were already up the hill.

 

I've been coming in and out of Highvale to test the elevator bug, and I am not experiencing this same performance hit after the first time, even if the guards are down by the bottom.