Test Server Feedback

Hi! If you participated in the mass-test on the 12th of February, please reply in this thread to give your feedback, based on following template:

Machine Info and Settings

• OS version:
• CPU:
• GPU:
• RAM:
• How many clients were you running at the same time?
• Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high):
- Anti-Aliasing:
- Shader Quality:
- Texture Quality:
- LOD Quality:

User Experience

• Average FPS during the fight at planet 1 in FD-MLJ, zoomed out (brackets / no brackets):
• Average FPS - Zoomed in (brackets / no brackets):
• Was client performance better or worse compared to your TQ experience with the same settings and fleet size? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome)
• Did you experience any disconnects or crashes?
• Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.:

OS: Windows 7
CPU: i7 840
GPU: GeForce GTX 560 Ti (two cards, three monitors)
RAM: 6GB
Clients: 2
Anti-Aliasing: Disabled
Shader Quality: High
LOD Quality: High

Couldn't find setting to enable FPS tracking (sorry, I'm a newb) but it was either a few frames per second or a few seconds per frame during the heat of the battle.

No experience with battles of this size.

No problems other than slowness.

It was fun enough that I'll do it again, hopefully knowing what is going on next time!

Machine Info and Settings

OS version: Windows 7 64 bit
CPU: AMD 6core
GPU: MSI GTX 560ti
RAM: 8GB
How many clients were you running at the same time? two
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): medium at first, then lowest to keep it playable
- Anti-Aliasing: disabled
- Shader Quality: lowest
- Texture Quality: lowest
- LOD Quality: lowest

User Experience

Average FPS during the fight at planet 1 in FD-MLJ, zoomed out (brackets / no brackets): between 5 and 20 fps
Average FPS - Zoomed in (brackets / no brackets): pretty much the same as zoomed out
Was client performance better or worse compared to your TQ experience with the same settings and fleet size? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome) no idea, since I still don't do mass fleet battles :(
Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? nope
Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.: well done and thx for the BCer rebalance, we really needed that and now all the BCers are much better balanced

next:
no idea, but some modules to buff fighter damage would be a nice idea, since up to now the only means to enchance the fighter/fighter bomber damage was to max out the respective skills

Machine Info and Settings

• Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
• intel i5-2320 @300hz
• built in chipset
• 8 Gigs DDR3 Ram
• One Client
• Glient Graphics set to Medium
- Anti-Aliasing: ON
- Shader Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Medium
- LOD Quality: Low

User Experience

• Average FPS during the fight at planet 1 in FD-MLJ, zoomed out (brackets / no brackets): 5-7
• Average FPS - Zoomed in (brackets / no brackets): 3-5


• Was client performance better or worse compared to your TQ experience with the same settings and fleet size? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome)

5 - 6
• Did you experience any disconnects or crashes?

NO
• Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.:

I spent most of the Mass test traveling to and from the fight cause i kept getting podded. It took about 2 - 4 seconds each time for the battle to load after jumping in

Machine Info and Settings:

OS version: Win7 Pro 64bit
CPU: Core i7 2600k
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 x2
RAM: 32Gb DDR3 1600Mhz
How many clients were you running at the same time? 1
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): high
- Anti-Aliasing: disabled
- Shader Quality: high
- Texture Quality: high
- LOD Quality: high

User Experience


Average FPS during the fight at planet 1 in FD-MLJ, zoomed out (brackets / no brackets): ~20
Average FPS - Zoomed in (brackets / no brackets): ~20 - 30
Was client performance better or worse compared to your TQ experience with the same settings and fleet size? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome) 4 - 5
Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? no
Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.: Overall it went well and pretty smooth, no freezing or crashes and pew pew was fun :))

Machine Info and Settings

OS version: Win7 Pro 64bit
CPU: AMD Dual Core Athalon X2 240
GPU: AMD Radeon 7700 series
RAM: 4GB DDR3
How many clients were you running at the same time? 2
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): High
- Anti-Aliasing: Low
- Shader Quality: Medium
- Texture Quality: High
- LOD Quality: High

User Experience

Average FPS during the fight at planet 1 in FD-MLJ, zoomed out (brackets / no brackets): 4
Average FPS - Zoomed in (brackets / no brackets): 4
Was client performance better or worse compared to your TQ experience with the same settings and fleet size? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome) Never been in one this size on TQ, but I will say 6
Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? Yes but I was able to get back online pretty fast.
Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.:

Machine Info and Settings

OS version: Windows 7 64
CPU: QuadCore AMD FX-4100, 3624 MHz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 560
RAM: 8Gb DDR3-1333
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): High
- Anti-Aliasing: Disabled
- Shader Quality: High
- Texture Quality: High
- LOD Quality: High

User Experience

Average FPS during the fight at planet 1 in FD-MLJ, zoomed out (brackets / no brackets): 6/14
Average FPS - Zoomed in (brackets / no brackets):8-10/19
Was client performance better or worse compared to your TQ experience with the same settings and fleet size? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome) 4
Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? No
Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.: It was fun ;)

Machine Info and Settings

OS version: Winodws 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2200 @ 2.20GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz (Direct from DxDiag)
GPU: GeForce GTX 650
RAM: 3GB DDR2
How many clients were you running at the same time?: 1
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high):
- Anti-Aliasing: Disabled
- Shader Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Low
- LOD Quality: Low

User Experience

Average FPS during the fight at planet 1 in FD-MLJ, zoomed out (brackets / no brackets): No Brackets - ~20-30 FPS
Average FPS - Zoomed in (brackets / no brackets): No Brackets - 5-15 FPS
Was client performance better or worse compared to your TQ experience with the same settings and fleet size? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome): ~4-6, depending
Did you experience any disconnects or crashes?: My client semi-crashed, but didn't fully disconnect
Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.: Was way more fun than I thought it would be :D

Machine Info and Settings


OS version: Windows 7 64 bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) I7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series
RAM: 8GB
How many clients were you running at the same time? 2, 1 SISI 1 TRANQUILITY
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): HIGH ON SISI
- Anti-Aliasing: HIGH
- Shader Quality: HIGH
- Texture Quality: HIGH
- LOD Quality: HIGH


User Experience


Average FPS during the fight at planet 1 in FD-MLJ, zoomed out (brackets / no brackets): No brackets 10-25 FPS
Average FPS - Zoomed in (brackets / no brackets): 15-30 FPS NO BRACKETS
Was client performance better or worse compared to your TQ experience with the same settings and fleet size? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome) 7
Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? NO
Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.: Sluggish when trying to warp out of large engagement and trying to swap out ammo crystals, but overall very useable and not enjoyable.

#1 Posted: 2013.02.12 18:59
Hi! If you participated in the mass-test on the 12th of February, please reply in this thread to give your feedback, based on following template:

Machine Info and Settings


OS version: 10.7.5
CPU: 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB
RAM: 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
How many clients were you running at the same time? One
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): Low
- Anti-Aliasing: Disabled
- Shader Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Low
- LOD Quality: Low


User Experience


Average FPS during the fight at planet 1 in FD-MLJ, zoomed out (brackets / no brackets): 12 / 5
Average FPS - Zoomed in (brackets / no brackets): 5 / 2
Was client performance better or worse compared to your TQ experience with the same settings and fleet size? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome): No fleet experience, bu relative to other mass tests: 6, but at times 1 (see comments)
Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? Yes, see comments.
Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.:

Early in the fight the screen got a grey sheen to it, like when you are in a cloud (but no texture). I could still see ships and the background. It went away in just a few seconds and did not reoccur.

Part way into the fight the frame rate dropped to zero. I was still getting voice, so at some level the client was doing something. I force quit and re-logged.

Later in the fight the frame rate dropped over 30 seconds from 6 to 0.1 then 0.01 (or so, hard to really tell) fps. It happened about the same time as fleet x was first asked to stop fighting and warp off. ( I was in W) This time I waited it out. Eventually the fps came back. I tried to bug report it (and get a screen shot of the fps window) but the fps dropped again to one frame every minute or two. Again it came back (by now the test had been called complete and NPCs were made available). Again I tried to get a bug report in, but again the fps dropped. I was waiting to see if it would give me even one frame, or come back to the point I could complete the bug report when I was called to a meeting. I unplugged the Ethernet cable from my laptop to carry it to the meeting and suddenly realized I had just ruined any chance to finish the bug report with the screen shot. Oddly the client noticed that the connection was gone. During this period of one frame every other minute the client was not frozen, but active at some level, communicating with the server.

The best correlation I can see is these severe drops occurred whenever a large number of ships left the area.

This is a bad bug guys. Please do not let it out.