Poorly Optimised game - Why?

Jump back to quoted post7 Nov 2019, 15:24 PMHon3ynuts

My game rarely crashed on my old Computer but after buying all new stuff it crashes if i don't restart every other game

Jump back to quoted post7 Nov 2019, 19:27 PMBlueKnight

In the actual game it feels fine for me. I usually run ~60 FPS with 1080p and my quality is set to pretty as fuck. I only struggle in the lobby with ~15 FPS and when there is a lot of smoke and fire on the screen. As far as I know you can wiggle the settings and get significantly better frames, sadly at the cost of how your game looks.

I think CoH2 is very pretty and luckily you don't need very high FPS in an RTS game.

Jump back to quoted post7 Nov 2019, 19:37 PMDoomlord52

The menu/lobby FPS is low because of the background background videos; it's not actually rendering smoke/fire. Supposedly there is a fix for this, but I'm not sure on the exact details.

Jump back to quoted post7 Nov 2019, 19:27 PMBlueKnight

As far as I know you can wiggle the settings and get significantly better frames, sadly at the cost of how your game looks.

Jump back to quoted post7 Nov 2019, 21:02 PMKiwiBirb

Works fine on my 12 year old computer. Breaks my brother’s brand new computer.

WTF

Jump back to quoted post7 Nov 2019, 21:25 PMRosbone

Play the original Quake on a PC just 5 or so years after it was made and the whole game is accelerated. When calculating time between frames, it was happening too fast and the code went ape shit.

As Katitof eluded: In the war for who has the fastest videocards, drivers were optimized for the coolest current games and the code that runs them. Newer cards are not optimized for old games because no one is buying a card based on its FPS for a 7 year old game. And the coding methods change for each generation of cards that comes out. So newer drivers may actually break the game. You could start with the OLDEST driver your NEW card has available and see how it goes.

Jump back to quoted post7 Nov 2019, 19:12 PMDoomlord52

There's more to performance than just your CPU. What GPU, RAM, etc. are you using?

I'm using a fairly old system (i7 2600k @ 4.5ghz, GTX 970), and get quite good performance (50-80fps) at 1440p on nearly max settings, so there's really no reason anyone should be getting sub-30 on a better system.

Jump back to quoted post7 Nov 2019, 21:17 PMKatitof

Just a hint:

Sometimes hardware is too strong to run the game properly.

Source: A friend who needs to limit power of his GPU to play couple of games without constant crashing.

Jump back to quoted post8 Nov 2019, 02:22 AMVIGNASH

Yea I get that, but Relic is no bankrupt yet. They should atleast put in the least amount of resources to optimise the things they could do and let let the community know about it.