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what are we supposed to do about the slow/laggy texture loading?

rotatorkufrotatorkuf Member Posts: 537 Arc User
edited February 2015 in Bug Reports (PC)
whenever i try to do tiamat, i have almost no idea what's going because i can't see what's going on, i especially can't even see health bars sometimes

i have to constantly be doing a ghetto refresh (spamming esc key)

what is the deal with this?

i can't be the only one experiencing this

using an nvidia gtx 770, i7, windows 8.1

is there something i can change on my settings to fix this?

it is incredibly frustrating, although it does add a bit of a challenge to the game haha
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  • charononuscharononus Member Posts: 5,715 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Someone said they got better performance turning off a multicore option in the settings somewhere, but I'd take it with a grain of salt. I have no personal experience with this but suggest it as it's the only thing I've even heard someone say might help. Good luck.
  • chewmagnachewmagna Member Posts: 16 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I have huge problems with this in Protector's Enclave. Half the time everything is white or muddy and icons don't show. My rig isn't a slouch either, FX 6300 @ 4.3, GTX 760, 16g ram yadda yadda. I've heard it has something to do with the way the engine renders and there really isn't anything that can be done on the client's end.
  • rotatorkufrotatorkuf Member Posts: 537 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    why is it only certain people though?
  • thecorpserthecorpser Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 45 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    It gets worse with every patch and maintenance done.
  • rotatorkufrotatorkuf Member Posts: 537 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    mod5 really made it worse for me, at least

    i want to figure out if i can help this at all, it sucks
  • silvertailsilvertail Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 97 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I started playing this on a 7 year old laptop running windows 7 and thought that it was the age of the laptop causing this. I have in the past 2 weeks had that laptop replaced with a brand new one running windows 8.1 and I'm still having the same problem. Though I think it's worse on the new one then it was on the old, go figure.
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  • namelesshero347namelesshero347 Member Posts: 2,109 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    It's been really annoying the last mod or two. When I go into protector's enclave and open my inventory, I have to wait about a minute for the items to load/render. Then when I close it and move a short distance, like from the bank to the mailbox, and open inventory again, nothing is rendered and have another minute for the reload/render. Seems like some very crappy or pessimistic logic determining when things need to be reloaded.
    In tiamat, the textures and icons in the power selection page needs reloading quite often. It is impossible for me to change powers in that fight.
    I have a GTX 680. It's last generation, but almost as powerful as the 770
  • sobacsobac Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 445 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Yes, tex loading since M5 is a nightmare, but I must admit, since one of the last patches, tex loading is much better, but don't know why, it's getting worse and worse. It was like reset of something (just after patch)... now, a few weeks later, I see tex loading slowly... again :mad: (still better than before)
  • rolotcwrolotcw Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I have a gtx 980 and have the same problem as you guys, the textures loading is horrible.
  • rotatorkufrotatorkuf Member Posts: 537 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    wtb solution, anyone?

    i tried setting the graphics to directx9 in game, it seems to have helped a BIT
  • charononuscharononus Member Posts: 5,715 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    rotatorkuf wrote: »
    wtb solution, anyone?

    i tried setting the graphics to directx9 in game, it seems to have helped a BIT

    Did you try the multi-core off option? I'm curious.
  • rotatorkufrotatorkuf Member Posts: 537 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    i tried turning off "threaded optimization" on nvidia control panel, but it won't stick :s

    have to investigate futher
  • charononuscharononus Member Posts: 5,715 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    rotatorkuf wrote: »
    i tried turning off "threaded optimization" on nvidia control panel, but it won't stick :s

    have to investigate futher

    Let me get a ss to help with what I'm talking about.

    edit*

    Ok here it is, not sure if it will work as I do not have this bug but I've heard someone say that turning this off helps.
    KbjtJu6.png
  • rotatorkufrotatorkuf Member Posts: 537 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    charononus wrote: »
    Let me get a ss to help with what I'm talking about.

    edit*

    Ok here it is, not sure if it will work as I do not have this bug but I've heard someone say that turning this off helps.
    KbjtJu6.png

    did not see that option

    turned it off, and changed world/character texture detail to 100%, playing for an hour seems to have made a noticeable improvement

    will repost later if it goes back to crappy texture loading
  • sobacsobac Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 445 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    OK, tried to turn it off, played a few hours... not a single texture loading bug. I still see some low res to high res tex changing from time to time, but couldn't see the other tex loading bug, so this seems to work.
    As for performance... for sure it isn't faster, but could be a good workaround for tex bugs (til they fix multi-core rendering)
  • rotatorkufrotatorkuf Member Posts: 537 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    sobac wrote: »
    OK, tried to turn it off, played a few hours... not a single texture loading bug. I still see some low res to high res tex changing from time to time, but couldn't see the other tex loading bug, so this seems to work.
    As for performance... for sure it isn't faster, but could be a good workaround for tex bugs (til they fix multi-core rendering)

    the game froze up a couple of times for me since i disabled the multi core rendering

    not sure if related, but it happened (didn't crash before)

    screw it, i'll take the occasional freeze if it means getting rid of the slow loading texture madness
  • rolotcwrolotcw Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    I turn it off (multi core rendering) it help with the text loading, but the game doesn't go 60fps and I have a 144hz monitor :(
  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Huh, I'll have to try this out and see how it works.
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  • rotatorkufrotatorkuf Member Posts: 537 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    game been working like a champ since i turned multi core rendering off (texture loading bug wise)
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