POT lag Unbearable

I don't know what was done during the last couple patches, but the lag in POTs is unbearable. I can only spend a short time in towns before I crash if it gets past the 94% loading in the first place. @Chris, I would rather deal with slower load times than deal with this.

 

I would have to agree with this statement not sure why it has gotten worse but now even loading into the game is slower. I have to sit at the 94% spot for quite some time waiting for the game to load. It was faster for me in the previous patch.

 

If you get past the 94% you get 4-5 fps with these specs below:

User Specs:
OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (6.1.7601) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz (12) System RAM: 24566
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU RAM: 6048
SotA.EarlyAccess.LIVE.Win.64.713.Date.12.15.17
Area: Novia_R1_City_Soltown
Area Display Name: Soltown
Loc: (-60.0, 27.2, 56.0)
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This needs to get fixed soon. This is not acceptable. I will take the 30 second load screens over the constant drop in performance like it is now.

 

It seems to me that the load time decrease (ie actual load screen) from a few releases ago has completely reverted back to where it was. Yet all of the awkward side effects of the "performance improvement" seem to remain - ie, you get through the initial load screen, but then stutter through town as deco/buildings load as you approach. There is a long delay, sometimes 10-20 seconds, for opening doors, walking onto lots, or downloading vendor inventories.

Personally, I'd rather sit at the load screen for a few more seconds and have it all pre-load, than have to wait to interact with every door, npc, etc. At least then I can tab out of the game and do something else while I wait. Now however it seems that we have both the long load screens back AND the waiting for vendors, doors, etc with the added bonus of sometimes not being able to load into a POT at all.

 

I am also experiencing these same liading/hitching/performance issues inside POT's

 

Don't forget closing Sota too, I had to upgrade from a 750 apc to a 1500 because Sota takes so long to close now due to the power grid being a decaying failure. I find one can only Kill a program so many times before it corrupts. (at least in the past)

 

While Alpha everything is accepptable

 

agreed, seems to me hes just switching between making load times faster and frame rate faster each release. My load items have plummeted in the past few.

 

Yeah this is super annoying I do not know any other program that takes so long to close.

 

While this is true to an extent, things are meant to get better in Alpha. Something in these last patches went backwards as far as performance goes.

 

I’m not seeing it. Seems to me there’s lesslag now than ever and I’m running on Fantastic setting. Computers a few years old now.

My Specs

 

I agree, several times when changing screens it seems to hang in the mid 90% complete and about once out of 3 or 4 I have to close out with task manager and re-start the game.

 

The reason it takes so long is they have a memory leak. So the longer you play the more of your systems ram it uses. When you do finally log out of the game your computer then needs to clear out that ram. That is why it takes so long to shut down.

 

Hi all! We are currently aware of the POT lag and some instances of players getting stuck at 94% at the loading screen. JIRAs on our side have been created and we are looking into the issues now. We hope to get at least one more patch out for several things that were found over the weekend.

 

I'm cancelling my subscription fee right now!

 

Same here. The game is running better than ever.

 

@Chris is there a way we can voluntarily opt into some kind of debug logging, so that if one of us runs into an issue we can send in the data?

 

That 4-5 fps wasn't at that location, sorry for the confusion. The location for the 4-5 was inside of my guilds PoT (Jade Valley)