EVE General Discussion

GPU particles off = 60fps (give or take)
GPU particles on = 15fps (ditto)

So, particles off. I do like the launchers spitting fire, but that noise they make sounds more like a sonar ping than rocket tipped space death.

So be it. Just glad to have some launchers finally.

Win 7
Alienware M17xR3
Intel Core i7 2.00GHz
8 GB RAM DDR3 @ 664MHz
AMD Radeon HD 6870M

Hope that helps!

Thanks! Glad I posted.

I can live with the sounds. :)

I've got the Same setup as you almost only with 4GB ram and the i7 at 2.40GHz.

Using an AMD Radeon HD 6990m i Haven't had any issues either on the Test Server or on Tranquility. So i'm guessing its either the Video card or the Drivers that are causing the issue

Performance hit was reported on SiSi long ago, and ignored as usual. I have 60fps rock solid, with new missile effects i hover around 40fps now.
Problem is the smoke and cloud effects that kills frame rate in certain missions to hell. Now you get that effect every time you launch a salvo. Solution would be to remove dust clouds and stupid smoke trails.

gpu-z ... export your info send it to devs in a bug report

Heh... would you believe that updating my drivers solved the problem. Operator error once again.

60fps with gpu particles on... and very cool, btw.

I noticed some people complaining about a drop from 150fps down to 60. I find it amazing people can even notice these things (unless they are watching an fps monitor), it wasn't long ago we were watching movies at 24fps. I'm pretty sure either the eye or the brain can't really comprehend it.

EDIT: come to think of it, aren't most monitors running on 60Hz anyway, so anything over is a waste?

That big performance hit wasn't in fleet battles, that was mostly in small scale testing.

On my rig:
Missile effects on - cpu 80% - gpu 90+%.
Missile effects off - cpu 40% - gpu 40%

That isn't a small performance hit. Its damn noticeable.

If you turn missile effects off, you dont even see who is shooting at you, or if you are being shot at in the first place.
If you turn GPU particles off, there are no missile trails, just hit effect, and unless you are zoomed in to the ship you are not likely to notice them.

So as always visibility suffers and we get a big performance hit. Even with full effects if you zoom out your ship, you cant see the missiles flying at anything at all.
So we trade bad visibility, big performance hits and crappy missile hit sound (more like a fart really) for a upgrade that most of us will turn off...sadly.

On this point, we'll be adding a cheap booster/flare effect to missiles to increase visibility when missile trails are disabled.

In terms of performance, the GPU particles themselves incur a fairly constant GPU overhead while any of them are alive, irrespective of number of missiles in flight etc. CPU-side, that does seem like a larger hit than we've seen internally, so we'll look into that.

Thanks for the feedback, all.