Weirdly i fired up The Division this morning, the first time in months, basically the last time i played seriously was when they introduced the new set items. I noticed that the gameplay just did not feel smooth on my 4770k and 1070, frames were decently high on the settings i use and it sits around 100fps average with almost no visual impact. But every so often it would spike down to around 45fps for a sec and then back up to over 100fps. I am running the latest Nvidia drivers, and i have the game set to DX12, i tried it in DX11 and actually got lower fps, so went back to DX12. I need to really give it a try to see if its something i can remedy, has anyone else experienced similar? is it an Nvidia driver issue? or is it something thats been introduced with a Division Patch? it used to be seemless for me, admittedly since i bought my 1070 i have hardly played the Division, and it was buttery smooth on my 290 as i have a Freesync screen, am i just noticing the spikes now due to no freesync?
On another note, whats the best way to get back into the game? i fired it up this morning, whacked it on WT5 and got the supply drop, and killed a world boss, should i go hoover up the rest of the world bosses? im using 4 piece Alphabridge but this is the old 229 stuff, i dont really do the PVP stuff / Dark Zone etc, im mainly a PVE player, but i will venture into the DZ if i have a group to run with.
Is there a go to PVE setup now? anything in particular i should be on the look out for? I liked Alphabridge with 2 x AR as they had decent range and stopping power, plus you could carry a bucketload of ammo for them.