* Official Planetside 2 Thread *

:(Rhodri:) · 22 Nov 2012 at 11:52

Sleepless said:
The lag was appalling last night, made the game unplayable on Miller. Rerolled on one of the other EU servers and it was fine so going to have to grit my teeth waiting for Miller to calm down as thats where ive spent all my cash. Got a couple of friend invites, shout when on, the in-game vox sucks monkey nuts by the way.

Yeah I gave up on Miller and moved to the new one beginning with M and it was so much nicer to play on, with no crashes and virtually no lag.

Addicted · 22 Nov 2012 at 11:53

Gazanimal said:
CPU bound more than GPU.

You're ageing CPU will bottleneck any card you buy unfortunately.

I've got 2 7970's and an i7 950 @ 4.2ghz - the CPU is very limiting atm

. (Even with a 5850 or crossfire 5850's the CPU was bottlenecking it)

Has anyone found any TR outfits on Woodman? I'm struggling to find one for about 10 of us that play

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Phonesis · 22 Nov 2012 at 12:17

So is there an OcUK outfit set up yet? And if so, what server?

NZXT30 · 22 Nov 2012 at 12:21

from what I read the performance is terrible for AMD users. We are talking about 50% less fps for equally powerful gpus.

dogmanstaruk · 22 Nov 2012 at 12:28

NZXT30 said:
from what I read the performance is terrible for AMD users. We are talking about 50% less fps for equally powerful gpus.

Hmm....I've not read too much into performance on AMD gpus yet. I must say that I've not really been tracking FPS, but I've not noticed any slowdowns on my rig. I'm running a 7970 Lightning. Then again I shouldn't really be noticing any issues on a 7970 clocked at 1150/1500.

NZXT30 · 22 Nov 2012 at 12:31

dogmanstaruk said:
Hmm....I've not read too much into performance on AMD gpus yet. I must say that I've not really been tracking FPS, but I've not noticed any slowdowns on my rig. I'm running a 7970 Lightning. Then again I shouldn't really be noticing any issues on a 7970 clocked at 1150/1500.

people with 2x7970s report terrible performance so you must be getting low fps as well.

nitram100 · 22 Nov 2012 at 12:36

NZXT30 said:
from what I read the performance is terrible for AMD users. We are talking about 50% less fps for equally powerful gpus.

No difference with GPU's, it's the AMD processors that got shafted.

I get the same fps as my brothers GTX670 in Planetside 2.

hardkore · 22 Nov 2012 at 12:43

I'm using a mix of high and ultra settings at 1080p and it very rarely drops below 45fps

Cuchulain · 22 Nov 2012 at 12:44

NZXT30 said:
from what I read the performance is terrible for AMD users. We are talking about 50% less fps for equally powerful gpus.

It's awful on my 7850, curiously medium settings are no better than high for me either.

nitram100 · 22 Nov 2012 at 12:46

Cuchulain said:
It's awful on my 7850, curiously medium settings are no better than high for me either.

Could be CPU limited. Try enabling Ultra textures in the .ini file useroptions.ini. Change texture quality to 0.

Addicted · 22 Nov 2012 at 12:47

7970's in crossfire = terrible performance

single 7970 (aka other one disabled) = perfectly smooth.

So whenever I play PlanetSide 2 I just disable crossfire

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Cuchulain · 22 Nov 2012 at 12:50

nitram100 said:
Could be CPU limited. Try enabling Ultra textures in the .ini file useroptions.ini. Change texture quality to 0.

That's entirely possible, it's a work machine with Sandybridge Pentium

dogmanstaruk · 22 Nov 2012 at 13:07

NZXT30 said:
people with 2x7970s report terrible performance so you must be getting low fps as well.

I'm running it on high (don't see an Ultra setting). Could be a crossfire problem.

Out of interest how do you turn on Ultra settings.

Nemeses · 22 Nov 2012 at 13:34

IronWarrior said:
Good question.

Would like to join one since it's getting boring doing my own thing!

The Immortals are on woodman server and we OCuk heavy ...maybe a bit to heavy

RDM · 22 Nov 2012 at 13:48

Tried it out last night.

First impressions are not brilliant. Lag is horrible, differentiation between sides is poor making it difficult to even work out who to shoot and the "new player" experience is pretty much non-existent.

Will give it a few more goes obviously but so far, not so good.

nitram100 · 22 Nov 2012 at 14:05

Holy ****, the lag on Miller is crazy. People warping all over the place on all continents. The game is great, looks great etc but I think 2000 per continent was a little ambitious evident by the warping and poor fps on high spec machines.

Addicted · 22 Nov 2012 at 14:07

nitram100 said:
Holy ****, the lag on Miller is crazy. People warping all over the place on all continents. The game is great, looks great etc but I think 2000 per continent was a little ambitious evident by the warping and poor fps on high spec machines.

It doesn't seem to be the 2k people that's the problem, it was absolutely fine in beta.

I think they've done something else to break it!

Addicted · 22 Nov 2012 at 14:08

Nemeses said:
The Immortals are on woodman server and we OCuk heavy ...maybe a bit to heavy

Are you TR? Looking for a TR outfit on Woodman for about 10 people

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IronWarrior · 22 Nov 2012 at 14:10

Eames said:
Is this game more gpu or cpu limited?

I have a pretty aging 775 system and was wondering if a graphics upgrade would give me a boost in fps.

It's CPU limited.

I'm playing with a Q6600 3.1GHz, 8GB RAM and 6970 2GB and am getting 15-25 at 1920x1080 on low settings in big fights. Anywhere else when it's semi-heavy fighting, it's 25-35, by myself with a few other players, then it's about 50-60.

Compare that to BF3/BFBC2 on Ultra settings at 5670x1080 I get double the FPS above.

Devlish · 22 Nov 2012 at 14:10

RDM said:
Tried it out last night.

First impressions are not brilliant. Lag is horrible, differentiation between sides is poor making it difficult to even work out who to shoot and the "new player" experience is pretty much non-existent.

Will give it a few more goes obviously but so far, not so good.

You chose a REALLY bad night to try it out. The servers were getting hammered, especially if you played on Miller. The warping was outrageous and a lot of the nametags werent bothering to draw. I flew over a friendly base and had every friendly AA gun open up on me.

your best bet to get a proper taste of the game:

1. Create a character NOT on Miller, one of the HIGH servers.
2. Choose a class you like - I would suggest Light Assault, because they have jetpacks.
3. Jack your brightness up.
4. When you spawn in make sure you are in Indar or Amerish. open up your map. Hover on one of the deploy signs and see what the ratio is in the region. Ideally you want a 50/50 ratio of your guys and an attacker at a big base, like a bio dome. Hit deploy.
5. Use your backpacks and get on top of stuff. Your aim is to get to a flag point - A,B or C. If its green its yours, if its any other colour its turning or is an enemys.
6. Shoot anyone that does not have a nametag.
7. when you respawn choose a sunderer/spawn close to where you died. If the sunderer is next to a building away from the base look in there, there might be a transport gate inside.
8. Expect to die, a lot. Aim for the head. Start trying out the different classes.

Have fun.

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