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Massive FPS drop. Why is anti aliasing being 'forced' on?

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Blnukem 192
Death By Design
#1 - 2012-06-26 17:20:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Blnukem 192
I've noticed quite a few people complaining about massive frame rate drops; and sadly, I'm one of them.

After a bit of playing, I noticed anti aliasing is being forced on -- but oddly enough, it only applies after I undock shortly after logging in. It's absolutely destroying my frame rate, and making EVE completely unplayable.

I've checked my video card settings and in-game graphics settings to double check, and I'm very certain AA is, at least, supposed to be off. But it's not. It keeps turning itself on and cannot be turned off.

So is anyone else having this issue? An easy check is to undock and look at the edges of your ship; do the lines on the edges appear unusually smooth and crisp? If so, then AA is probably on.

This is an absolute game killer -- I cannot undock or perform any basic game-play tasks without receiving a massive drop in FPS; from 40-50 pre-patch, to 10-15 now.

Edit: I've found another thread on this issue, but I'm still curious to see how many others are having this problem.
DRACOincarnation
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#2 - 2012-06-26 17:45:39 UTC
Update: Since the last patch of today, undocking also creates massive FPS drops and it now affects my entire system.

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Marl Ginnishi
Hoplite Brigade
Ushra'Khan
#3 - 2012-06-26 19:53:33 UTC
Having the same problem, although I'm running eve under linux.

It definitely is the Anti-Aliasing. It turns on after switching ships or sessions even if it is off in eve-settings and forced off in the nvidia control panel.
Naar Ayan
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2012-06-26 20:04:40 UTC
Same problem, both on Mac and PC.
Jon Joringer
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-06-26 20:54:25 UTC
I've posted in the other thread about the FPS drop, but it being AA seems strange. I normally have AA set to high and suffer little FPS drop. Why now would it hit my FPS so heavily?
Kitfox Mikakka
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-06-28 19:21:40 UTC
Happening to me too, ATI Radeon 6570 here. AA's been forced on no matter what I do with the in game settings or the Catalyst drivers, and it's absolutely murdering my performance even with everything else on low.
Jacek Alabel
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2012-06-28 19:35:04 UTC
I am affected as well. Running Kubuntu 12.04 with GeForce GTX 260 on wine-1.5.7
CCP Donut Golem
C C P
C C P Alliance
#8 - 2012-06-28 20:06:39 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Donut Golem
Blnukem 192 wrote:
I've noticed quite a few people complaining about massive frame rate drops; and sadly, I'm one of them.

After a bit of playing, I noticed anti aliasing is being forced on -- but oddly enough, it only applies after I undock shortly after logging in. It's absolutely destroying my frame rate, and making EVE completely unplayable.

I've checked my video card settings and in-game graphics settings to double check, and I'm very certain AA is, at least, supposed to be off. But it's not. It keeps turning itself on and cannot be turned off.

So is anyone else having this issue? An easy check is to undock and look at the edges of your ship; do the lines on the edges appear unusually smooth and crisp? If so, then AA is probably on.

This is an absolute game killer -- I cannot undock or perform any basic game-play tasks without receiving a massive drop in FPS; from 40-50 pre-patch, to 10-15 now.

Edit: I've found another thread on this issue, but I'm still curious to see how many others are having this problem.


Hi, I just wanted to chime in to say that we're looking into these issues. I'd speculate that there are three things at work here.

First, Anti-Aliasing settings not persisting correctly. Second, a performance issue relating to disk access during session changes (a fix for which should be on SISI tomorrow). And last is another performance issue likely relating to what CCP Snorlax mentions here: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1550894#post1550894 .

Fixes exist or are in the works for the last two, as far as I'm aware, and the first we're looking into now. Thanks for your patience and informative posts.
Makari Aeron
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#9 - 2012-06-28 20:55:36 UTC
Gosh CCP, forcing us to look at a smoother universe by (possibly) having AA forced on? What jerks :P

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