Cryptic Fix your F****ing game!

mrj58

Since I came back to this game, at least a quarter, or more, of the Delta Quadrant space maps have extremely low FPS. This has been mentioned several times in the support forums but for months now there hasn't been any improvement. The FPS seem to drop only in the space maps with terrible cloudy sky boxes that look like they were drawn in crayon. I just struggled through the Legira II patrol mission, where I was running at literally a single frame per second. I have a pretty powerful computer, I can run this game at max graphic setting with only slight FPS drops, when there is a lot of stuff happening on screen. But these DQ maps have very low FPS for no reason, making these stupid Delta Quadrant patrol missions almost completely unplayable.

I know "I quit threads" aren't allowed, but if Cryptic doesn't fix this I will quit, again. And I won't be coming back, again.

cidjack

"Hands OP a beer"

themetalstickman

lol hello again cidjack

rattler2

Um... OP... you DO know that ranting like that in general discussion and issuing ultimatums doesn't solve anything... right?

kodachikuno

mrj58 wrote: »

Since I came back to this game, at least a quarter, or more, of the Delta Quadrant space maps have extremely low FPS. This has been mentioned several times in the support forums but for months now there hasn't been any improvement. The FPS seem to drop only in the space maps with terrible cloudy sky boxes that look like they were drawn in crayon. I just struggled through the Legira II patrol mission, where I was running at literally a single frame per second. I have a pretty powerful computer, I can run this game at max graphic setting with only slight FPS drops, when there is a lot of stuff happening on screen. But these DQ maps have very low FPS for no reason, making these stupid Delta Quadrant patrol missions almost completely unplayable.

I know "I quit threads" aren't allowed, but if Cryptic doesn't fix this I will quit, again. And I won't be coming back, again.

since you're not paying attention to the recent news posts and such... THEY ARE trying to fix it, including a major hardware overhaul recently.

takfel

Didn't the Cardassians make a threat like this one in a TNG episode? Maybe it was DS9.

gameverseman

Devs be like....

tempus64

I rarely see issues on this old computer I run the game on unless it's some battles where there's a ton of effects etc going on. However, I've noticed what the OP is talking about with the Delta patrol missions. I first experienced it with the Ocampa freighter mission. There's something wonky about those maps that I don't believe has anything to do with any other rendering issues. It feels more like it might be some unoptimized textures and/or meshes. In one of them, the background image/texture was jumping/jittering around strangely.

alcyoneserene

Can definitely see what the OP means about some of those DR maps. My impression is they are simply bloated with particle effects and polygons, each with their own shadows and textures and whatever else, as if their designer couldn't care less except for impressing someone with the scenery on a pre-rendered video, with no testing whatsoever as to what the effects of such graphics-FAW spam would do to any computer running a game engine clearly not designed for anything of that magnitude.

I've seen game test engines that were smaller than a tiny low resolution picture rendering entire realistic scenery, or alternative game engine designs that had infinite graphics in the sense of being able to zoom in endlessly at any part of the scenery (although motion-rendering was not yet solved in that environment).

Coding wizardly no doubt has a lot of potential, but in today's world, I think it's safe to assume the interest is in selling more powerful computers by feeding them increasingly bloated software as opposed to exploring more efficient ways to use all this computing power.

saross

Can I haz yer stuff?

To be fair though they have been doing some work...

denniskr87

Yap they do... They broke what was alredy broken,like weekly reward for new episode...

kyrrok

I have to skip quite a few patrol missions in the delta quadrant because it was so slow, as soon as I think to hit eng team with hull at 30%, before it happens, debris field. They would do better to either fix them, or just remove them from the game entirely

rickdanko

rattler2 wrote: »

Um... OP... you DO know that ranting like that in general discussion and issuing ultimatums doesn't solve anything... right?

Not necessarily. Hopfully, the OP will feel better, and won't leave the game. I think it's a much better option to let people vent.

dgdolph

saross wrote: »

To be fair though they have been doing some work...

... killing PvP, increasing the grind, introducing insane upgrade cost, scamming the players with T6 bugs, introducing unbalanced and bugged spec trees, ships and traits. Yes, they've been busy destroying this game.

kittyflofy

kodachikuno wrote: »

since you're not paying attention to the recent news posts and such... THEY ARE trying to fix it, including a major hardware overhaul recently.

What? where did they say something like that?? it will be applied in the next patch? where is the info?? cuz i am paying attention almost every day and i missed that.

midniteshadow7

"I quit" post with ultimatum! /Closed