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Give us option to turn off those clouds!
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Jess Maine
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#21 - 2013-01-01 16:06:21 UTC
Running an I7 and a GTX 460 and I still get performance issues with these clouds, I think their density and amount of particles being used to render them is the issue, it's not a massive performance drop but it does reduce my FPS quite a bit. Theres no need to call out people who think they are entitled to good performance on old hardware, it's just poorly unoptimized pixels.
Corvus Borealis Quasar
Doomheim
#22 - 2013-01-01 16:15:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Corvus Borealis Quasar
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Corvus Borealis Quasar wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Upgrade your video card. How old is it ?

No, I will not. I use my ultrabook for casual gaming and I play with low settings. Clouds are terrible.



..............and this one again.

Why should the 98% of the playerbase that has no issue here deal with nerfed or vanished graphics just so some can play EVE while simultaneously having their coffee at Starbucks ?

Also, as shown at Fanfest last year with the 'infinite polygon' ships requiring DX 11....what are these folks going to do then ? Asj for ships to look like nerfed nonsense as well ?


Sorry, but I have to defend on CCP's side for once on this.

Oh shut the **** up.

100% of playerbase does gets the FPS drop when looking to the clouds. There is no PC that doesn't get any drop. Or maybe your magic 3 years old graphics card with the magic FPS doesn't.

Graphics are secondary, the game is primary thing. That cloud doesn't have any purpose game wise. It's just pointless psycedelic coloured cloud that serves no purpose what so ever.
Flag Bravo
#23 - 2013-01-01 16:37:29 UTC
+1
Option to disable eyebleed clouds please.
Normal running = 60fps
With clouds = 1fps
cBOLTSON
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#24 - 2013-01-01 17:49:25 UTC  |  Edited by: cBOLTSON
100% Agree, change them damn clouds. They look horrible, and they severly reduce FPS!

An no I don't have some old wooden computer.

Ok my system is getting on now but I run an overclocked i3 @ over 4Ghz
4gigs ram
460gtx oc'd

I always get great frame rates, even in larger battles but I can be by myself with one of those clouds and I can instantly noticed the fps drop.

NO - "buy better parts / PC"
NO - the clouds DO NOT look good they look terrible.

A while ago I remember CCP even admitting that they use a horrible CPU intensive method to create the clouds, they said they were looking to change it but this was a good year or more ago.

The good old days of Unreal Tournament, fragging and sniping on Facing Worlds, listening to Foregone Destruction.......
Flag Bravo
#25 - 2013-01-01 17:57:38 UTC
True, they do look shite. I don't know what purpose they serve except to shorten the life of your eyesight .
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#26 - 2013-01-02 15:44:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Inxentas Ultramar
It's worse then anything pooped out in the Unreal engine, and that's saying something. Also, these clouds do nothing and are just useless eyecandy, so I'd be fine with a graphic setting to simply render clouds or not. I generally zoom out and fly by overview when I encouter one. I've lost a few ships simply because I zoomed out to late on a cloud, and my bloody CONTEXT MENU took 5 seconds to render because the entire room decided to shoot their lasers through said cloud.

EDIT: Also, try reading any (white) on-screen text with a (white) cloud in the background... clouds suck, please delete them all CCP.
BORRIS DEMONTFORD
THE OFFENDERS
#27 - 2013-01-02 15:59:03 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:


Why should the 98% of the playerbase that has no issue here deal with nerfed or vanished graphics just so some can play EVE while simultaneously having their coffee at Starbucks ?.


80% of statistics are made up on the spot.

ps. Clouds are bad.
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