[PERFORMANCE][1.4] Tutorial Post 1.4...still "clicking"

[Lt. Zaphon]

In fact, I think it runs worse now than it did before 1.4. What I noticed is, combat really no longer impacts slow down. Game ran fine before until you were looking at a few units doing battle. NOW, instead, there is an overarching lag to everything. Watching the animations, you can clearly see a hitch every couple of seconds. This made panning around the screen laggy as well.

Granted, it's not the dramatic full screen pauses that you got with the 1.3 tutorial, but it's like the pause time is short, but the frequency increased.

Summary: At least the 1.3 tutorial ran smoothly early on, before you had lots of units. The 1.4 tutorial displays slow down in the first few minutes, and is prevalent no matter if you're looking at one unit running or 30 units firing.


AMD 2600+ Barton
512 MB DDR PC3200 RAM
Geforce FX5900XT
Sound Blaster Audigy 2

[SpoinkX12]

I had the same problem.

[Hawley]

weird, i was just playing 2 games, and everyone was commenting on how much smoother the game was. my self included

[Lt. Zaphon]

Did you(and they) mean the tutorial or MP? I'm talking solely about the tutorial.

[Warlokk]

Agreed, the tutorial runs worse now than it did before. Now it seems sluggish overall, instead of the pauses every few seconds. Tried reducing shadows from High to Medium, no difference.

AMD AthlonXP 2200+
1gb DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9600Pro 128mb

[Psychor]

I think you are talking about the same issue I still have, which is a horrible lag/delay between scrolling screens in DoW and when clicking on the mini-map. Even with all my graphics settings set to the lowest setting I notice the problem. For me it happens during any game, not just the tutorial.

Hope Relic fixes this one. Thanks.

[shiiin]

It's similar for me:
In 1.3 the tutorial had lags if both the computer and I had a lot of units and it showed just like you said, e.g. if yoo are watching a moving units you see three steps, short wait, three steps and so on.
Now in 1.4 it's the same but the slow-down starts much earlier with way fewer units deployed.

[And all this happens with only 16bit and all details turned to low! The graphics engine just isn't very good (or Relic is keeping their fast one for the final release, so that we still have something to buy .-).]


AMD Athlon XP 1800+
512 MB RAM DDR266
ATI Radeon 9700 128MB

[Entropius]

I have the same problem in the tutorial, but not in multiplayer games with computer players. The game will run at full framerate (30-40fps) for a third of a second, pause for a third of a second, run at full speed for a bit, pause, etc.

My multiplayer performance is pretty decent--about what you'd expect from my specs.

Specs:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+
512 MB of PC2100 RAM
Geforce Ti 4600 (128 MB)
WinXP

[roundeye44]

Same thing exactly for me.

p4 3.2 oced to 3.52
2gb corsair xms at 400
asus pc4800 deluxe mobo
radeon x800 xt plat.
pair of 36gb WD raptors in raid 0

[stabmastaarson]

Same exact thing. 1.3 had a stutter effect (only in tutorial) which has gotten worse in 1.4. It does not impact gameplay in a *dramatic* fashion, but it's sure annoying. I really hope they fix this one by ship day.

AMD XP 3000+
ATI 9800 Pro 128
1GB DDR RAM
RAID 0 60GB Seagates

I have not messed with settings much, I'll give it a shot.
Glad to see I'm not the only one...

[terrific]

Same here, multiplayer runs fine but the tutorial is all sticky and 'clicks' when you move. I have a 2.4 ghz p4 and 1GB DDR RAM

[BitchX]

No *clicking* whatsoever.
P4 Northwood 2.4Ghz
Radeon 9600 Pro
1Gb of Apacer 400mhz DDR-Ram

Running on XP.

[NeoHunter]

Over here Relic

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=33284

[Lt. Zaphon]

People, try defragging your harddrives(Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmentation).

I just did it, and it was almost like the 1.3 tutorial in preformance(didn't stress test it with full unit count). Anyways, it's better than it when 1.4 first released.

Post your results.

[Psychor]

People, try defragging your harddrives(Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmentation).

I just did it, and it was almost like the 1.3 tutorial in preformance(didn't stress test it with full unit count). Anyways, it's better than it when 1.4 first released.

Post your results.

Didn't change anything for me. I really notice it now in the tutorial. It isn't nearly as bad in multiplayer games.

[stabmastaarson]

No change with defrag

[loop]

Still choppy as ever for me. Wonder wtf's going on. Got a friend with less ram than I do and and it isn't choppy at all for him. It would be nice if more people had this problem. Doubt they'll do anything about it if only 15 people have this problem still. Wouldn't even be surprised if they left it this way in the final version.

[Lt. Zaphon]

I did a stress test on the tutorial tonight. Basically, it runs about as well as MP with one side having a full compliment of troops. Stutter, yes, but it's not very dramatic, at least not on my system.

[NeoHunter]

I think there is still a problem with the programming of the game perharps?

[Djon]

I also get the small click, stutter or breaks which is clearly visible on for instance the rotating wrench over one of the Space Marines' builder unit where you see it pausing for a split second once every 2 seconds and of course also visible anywhere else your units are doing something. This is very frustrating to look at!
To me it happens in the tutorial only and there is no changes whatsoever between 1.3 and 1.4.

[Wrench]

For me, the Tutorial's been running smoother than ever before.