UI (skill tray) is very unresponsive

nitefiuu · January 2015

pre-patch / update:

when u activated a power it was right away visible as activated according to ur skill-tray

after:

shows what is going on (what was activated) with 2-3 second of latency, and additionally grays out the tray for the same time even if that power is already usable

( u can use that power even if your tray falsely says you are not able to due to this latency )

very annoying

seannewboy · January 2015

I would guess it goes with much of the still current lag/rubberbanding.

cptburns · January 2015

also confirmed and doing the same for me, very slow response to button presses with mouse or keyboard where listed on the tray.

lored2death · January 2015

I think a related not is the 3-second hold on doff/R&D projects is now instant again. If the reason that was put in was valid, maybe that not working is causing side-effects with activating things.

Another point is my entire skill tray, all bars, randomly greys out completely. Last thing: the icon to call in freighters for support is a white box.

storyborn · January 2015

The UI only seems to update every second, not smoothly as it used to.

Clearly visible on the abilitiy cooldowns, as the background doesn't scroll smoothly round, it jumps.

jaydenomega812 · January 2015

Well at least I know now I'm not the only one having an issue with this cause it's the same for me. I use 'hybrid' tray.....easier to show than explain...http://s2.postimg.org/9tihi5npl/hybrid_tray.jpg...and both places I click either on ability next to boff face or ability in tray at bottom and there is 2-3 seconds latency before the ability actually activates. Also, the cooldown timer rotation seems to be more rigid than it was before which brings me to the point that sometimes when the ability has cooled down it still shows part of the cooldown clock timer mechanism as if the ability was on its last second in cooldown process. Is there an ETA on this bug fix?

nandospc · January 2015

Yes, same problem, already reported here
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1357301
and here
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1361301

crypticfrost · January 2015

We are aware of this and are working on a fix. Thanks for the reports.

mightybobcnc · January 2015

Glad it wasn't just me seeing this.

janus1975 · January 2015

The easiest fix is to just put the old system back... the benefits are:

The icons were much clearer than the 'new' messy ones
The countdown animation was smoother and didn't give the impression of a very laggy game
Activation graphic was instant, not taking our attention away from the battle
Activation was reliable, unlike the current "maybe, maybe not" version

keepitnasty · January 2015

NEVER CHANGE A RUNNING SYSTEM!!!

What possesses you to keep doing the same thing and believing you will get different results!?

Who asked for new icons?!

My gawd!!!! PWE if you monitor this ....PLEASE CLEAN HOUSE!!!

nandospc · January 2015

crypticfrost wrote: »

We are aware of this and are working on a fix. Thanks for the reports.

Thank you

nitefiuu · January 2015

as for the new icons.. at least it could be a graphics option which type one does wanna use like the hud-color thing we got.

would be less stressful 2 adapt

jam3s1701 · January 2015

crypticfrost wrote: »

We are aware of this and are working on a fix. Thanks for the reports.

Is this the known issue that was on Tribble patch notes a few days ago??

gulberat · January 2015

I would not call the old system great...unless something has changed, my lag was actually worse the old way. When I play tonight I will see if the system has deteriorated...

atlantra · January 2015

UI lag always existed. It was bad, now it's ultra worse...

The easiest fix is to just put the old system back... the benefits are:

The icons were much clearer than the 'new' messy ones
The countdown animation was smoother and didn't give the impression of a very laggy game
Activation graphic was instant, not taking our attention away from the battle
Activation was reliable, unlike the current "maybe, maybe not" version

^^^^Anyone disagrees with this? I don't. :P

frtoaster · January 2015

Before the anniversary patch, my frame rate would drop from about 60 FPS to about 20 FPS whenever I opened the "Skills" tab or the "Status" subtab of the "Reputation" tab. This clearly indicates that there was some unoptimized code. There is nothing on those tabs except for text and a few static images. The character "Status" tab didn't suffer from this problem, even though it shows an animated version of my character. After the patch, the "Skills" tab and the "Status" subtab of the "Reputation" tab no longer cause my frame rate to drop.

Other players had complained that the UI reduced their frame rate. They claimed that they could see a significant increase in frame rate when they turned off the UI. See the thread below.

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1361301

My guess is that before the patch, several parts of the UI would refresh themselves automatically multiple times per second, even if there was no change. This comes at a performance cost, because the computer is doing unnecessary work. If the patch removed this automatic refresh, that would explain the performance increase people are seeing. However, parts of the UI may no longer refresh properly. Ideally, whenever an event updates a UI element, it should trigger that UI element to refresh. My guess is that many of these triggers were never implemented and the system was relying on the automatic refresh to run multiple times per second. That would explain some of the bugs I'm seeing:

Tribble ticket #48,266: Space and ground trays do not refresh properly
Tribble ticket #48,267: Tray overlay malfunctioning in shooter mode

It would also explain why the cooldown animations are no longer smooth. There are two cooldown animations:

(a) Self cooldowns are indicated by a rotating clock hand.
(b) Shared cooldowns are indicated by a horizontal line that moves from top to bottom.

There are now discrete jumps in both these animations. My guess is that the animations now refresh only when the number of seconds remaining is updated. The number is decremented once per second, so the animations refresh once per second.

penguin44ca1 · January 2015

I found that turning the res to .50 and aa to off reduces the delay to almost back to normal. clocks are smooth and tray power activation is still slow but not bad. however this isn't a solution.

captinwh0 · January 2015

just dittoing this i got it too.

if i ignore the ui graphic, the abilities do work when you click them, just the command tray updates slowly and sometimes freezes and lags for short periods of time

which feel like forever in a battle

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maobe · January 2015

Yeah, UI/Powertray keeps buggin around, greys out every few attackcycles. first thought had been hit by some new NPC-K.O.-Power but after reading this thread... well...

czurylo · January 2015

I had also reported this: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1361561

janus1975 wrote: »

The easiest fix is to just put the old system back... the benefits are:
The icons were much clearer than the 'new' messy ones

The countdown animation was smoother and didn't give the impression of a very laggy game

Activation graphic was instant, not taking our attention away from the battle

Activation was reliable, unlike the current "maybe, maybe not" version

Yes. Signed. :cool: The Event is okay and nice. But not the new Boff-Skill-System nor the new Icons. It would be nice if Cryptic would making next time some Polls to ask ALL Players of the whole community worldwide before bringing out some changes or new things, which perhaps the most players dont want to have to.
Before the last patch come out i had so many fun, i had so many pleasure to come every single day back online to play. And now? Now's everything worst. :mad:

eddie13black · January 2015

Unfortunately I have the same problem. It makes the space combat very annoying. I don't understand why they are messing up with icons when there are huge bugs in other aspects of the game.

fadmbambam · January 2015

I don't mind them changing the art of the icons, but I now have to click the icons a half dozen times for one to finally engage... makes combat very frustrating.

synfoola · January 2015

Same deal here. I was originally wondering if it was just on the Kobali ship but it seems it's universal.

xraiderv1 · January 2015

seeing this happen too.

derin125 · January 2015

nitefiuu wrote: »

pre-patch / update:

when u activated a power it was right away visible as activated according to ur skill-tray

after:

shows what is going on (what was activated) with 2-3 second of latency, and additionally grays out the tray for the same time even if that power is already usable

( u can use that power even if your tray falsely says you are not able to due to this latency )

very annoying

It realy is annoying , unresponsive , choppy , wierd , all animations are messed up I want the old skill tray back

((((

supergirl1611 · January 2015

What's annoying is there was no need to update the icons. the old system was working as was.

Cryptic's list of priorities is baffling. Numerous bug threads, reports of things not working, and they waste time, money and resources on a unnecessary icon face lift, that surprise has bugs.

Since the event started really finding it hard to find the motivation to play this game. A lot of the fun is being stamped out behind time gates or a mass grind fest.

This game needs some massive CPR and we can only hope before it dies a slow painful death a new developer will come in and rescue the game.

penguin44ca1 · February 2015

Had this again today. Our fleet was going to do a mission and as we started getting involved into the match, people were blowing up all over the place. According to them, they couldn't get the ui to respond properly and they spent most of the rest of the time playing multi click guess with the abilities and not focused on fighting. I'm not one to usually complain either so for me to post as much as I have recently must say something. I really have had to struggle to want to get online. If it wasn't for my buddies, I probably wouldn't. Oh, Btw chats are lagged as well by a few seconds.

janus1975 · February 2015

I've been playing around with it and my 2 cents are:

Click activation: can be immediate or take up to 1+ second to activate.
The cursor must be held still, with a strong click, and not moved while clicking, or for up to a second after
Moving the ship with the keyboard while also clicking a button seems to increase the probability of a failure to activate
"Where" the button is clicked on the image seems to have no part to play in it
The icon itself may be very slow to 'register' a click (e.g. the Tac Team symbol happens above the ship, but the skillstray symbol itself fails to register for over a second, longest was nearer 3 seconds)

The problem is that if you need to click more than one button in quick succession for any reason (e.g. Tac team, and shields to get the shields to auto-improve themselves during a battle) you have to click one button, wait a second or so, then click the next, wait a second, then get back to the battle.

dongemaharu · February 2015

Pre anniversary it was not so good, but only about a second delay. Been trying to play Bug Hunt Elite since then which is pretty easy for my science character, but I'm having to wait 2-3 seconds for anything to happen, or nothing happens because by the time the button would activate, either the enemy is dead or I am from being completely unable to attack.

All ground is completely unplayable now. Space is a little more forgiving but still debilitating.

Edit: I take back what I said about space. Space is unplayable too. Oh well.

UI (skill tray) is very unresponsive

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