Test Server Feedback

Hi everybody,

The new atmospheric environments for asteroid fields are live on Singularity.

The effect is comprised of 3 components: God rays, fog and particle rocks.
The particle rocks are non-minable and available for Medium shader quality and above. There is a difference between DX9 and DX11 so please state if you have chosen to run the DX9 client in your feedback.
The Fog gives a sense of distance and is available for High shader quality.
The God rays are similar to the effect visible during incursions and is available for High shader quality.

They can be disabled in the Display & Graphics menu under Effects > Asteroid Environments.

Please post feedback on the new asteroid environments here.

I didn't have much fog or particle rocks in the two belts I checked out but the God rays looked great. I couldn't stay on long and I'll have to check out more later.

You're doing some really good work. The Exequror is beautiful and very Scifi, no need to stop now!

That does sound a bit low. What is your performance like in incursions?

I forgot to mention that the God rays are off by default and can be enabled in the Display and Graphics menu under Effects > Light Rays.

Looks good, I kind of wish they had a bit more dust and less huge rock chunks though. Light rays look very cool, I like that effect

No noticeable performance slowdown for me, still get 100-130 FPS at 1440p with 2x 970s

Looks good and works fine with a 1gig card (100 bucks).

Suggestion:

Use for planetary disks.

Similar effect for debrit fields or ruins, allthough you would use wires, shrapnel, remains, and other wreckage.

I went to a belt, and found it to look about like it did on TQ. I checked the settings, and turned on the asteroid environment. That changed nothing, until I warped to another belt. Remember that for anyone testing this: You may need to warp to another belt to see the effect of a setting change.

In the first belt without the effects my FPS was 30, about normal for my MacBook Pro. (Note: for some reason 30 on a Mac is very smooth with no slide show effect). With the asteroid effects turned on the FPS was 1.7. Yes, less than 2, and thus unusable. I had the settings all set to low or off, except for texture and shader, which were set to medium. I set everything high just to see how bad it would be, but the FPS got no worse.

So for me these new effects are utterly wasted effort. I will need to turn them off.

Other information: The FPS in station, in warp, and near the outside of stations all appear to be 50% to 100% improved. Good job there.

Late 2010 17" MacBook Pro, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, 512 MB, DX9. I run with multithreaded open GL off, interval 4.

looks great. FPS dropped from 60 (vsynced) to 45. GF GTX 670

edit: should have mentioned that TQ client was running while i tested it.

I like the new fields a lot, though I kinda expected to see a different fog colour for ice belts compared to ore belts, and possibly have some rotation on the particle rocks, but I would suspect that would grind the framerate to a halt if combined with the volumetric lighting.

Anyway, I'd love to see more variation, such as

• Fog density depending on security status
• Fog colour depending on belt type (ice / ore specific, rarity)
• ..and on top of that some variation range within a single system

edit: checked more belt/systems now and turns out there *is* a color difference. Cool; maybe some of the nebula backdrops/sun colors were blurring it all out to a similar hue.

Confirming that Windows version definitely looks better than the mac version. My notes above don't apply to the Windows version, everything looks amazing.

The light rays look awesome, but the asteroid sprite blob looks terribad, esp from a distance, just a blob of dots.

Also found out that when I turned off the asteroid sprite blob, the light rays went with them even though it was still turned on.

So for anyone testing this, in order to see the light rays you need to also have asteroid sprite blob turned on... but if you just want to see the asteroid sprite blob, you only need to select asteroid sprite blob and can leave light rays unselected.