As complains continue to arise regarding the FPS drop in map1 during peak time and especially when PvP occurs,
We decided that it is time to share with you a snippet of what we have been working on for the past 2 weeks of 2021.
In order to eliminate or at least reduce the lag to the minimum, We have spent days analysing the client performance during peak time on live server and during fights.
It was no shock to us that effects turned out to be the most consuming process among all others, especially that we have LOTS of skins that have built in effects and the fact that you can now equip 2x Body Effects and 2x Weapon Effects made it worse.
What we concluded after days of testing and data analysing was that the recent effects and weapons that were added to the game during Xmas Event has caused a dramatic change in player's FPS when gathering together.
Therefore to eliminate this issue, we have come up with many solutions to fight this issue.
First, we have defined a type for effect on the game. Which allows you to control what you wish to keep on and what you wish to disable. (First 5 Options seen below)
Second, we have implemented a function that allows you to limit the view range of an effect. (Option 6)
Third, we have forced all effects to only use a maximum of processes to update the effects. (Option 7)
This last option will only impact few Body effects if reduced to the minimum, but it is totally fine to keep it as default (30)
Many other code improvements regarding model updating were also done to help reducing the FPS drops.
We hope that this will bring you comfort during your raids.
We decided that it is time to share with you a snippet of what we have been working on for the past 2 weeks of 2021.
In order to eliminate or at least reduce the lag to the minimum, We have spent days analysing the client performance during peak time on live server and during fights.
It was no shock to us that effects turned out to be the most consuming process among all others, especially that we have LOTS of skins that have built in effects and the fact that you can now equip 2x Body Effects and 2x Weapon Effects made it worse.
What we concluded after days of testing and data analysing was that the recent effects and weapons that were added to the game during Xmas Event has caused a dramatic change in player's FPS when gathering together.
Therefore to eliminate this issue, we have come up with many solutions to fight this issue.
First, we have defined a type for effect on the game. Which allows you to control what you wish to keep on and what you wish to disable. (First 5 Options seen below)
Second, we have implemented a function that allows you to limit the view range of an effect. (Option 6)
Third, we have forced all effects to only use a maximum of processes to update the effects. (Option 7)
This last option will only impact few Body effects if reduced to the minimum, but it is totally fine to keep it as default (30)
Many other code improvements regarding model updating were also done to help reducing the FPS drops.
We hope that this will bring you comfort during your raids.