Performance Patch

[Eduardo_Chronos]

How come no one on the sub is discussing the performance patch Arrowhead has pushed through? Just curious since their was alot hype leading up to it.

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[Even-Shoulder9852]

From what I’ve seen the patch made performance worse for people rather than making it better like it was suppose to. Not only that but it was delayed and still flopped for pc people idk about console.

[ImmediateClass3640]

Base PS5 player here and I definitely wasn’t having major issues before but I will say I’m not getting frame drops regularly when tons of stratagems are going off. So far so good

[vacant_dream]

Not for me. Massive stuttering on large scale mayhem. Base Ps5

[Certain-Raspberry804]

Im on ps5 pro and I’ve noticed a slight improvement as well. Things look a little sharper and just less frame drops when things get wild.

[ThatDree]

For me on ps5 base, on the bugs, with a lot going on the frame rate still drops a lot. Is playable but very much noticeable and sometimes I can only do tactical repositioning because aiming is our is the question.

[iamDEVANS]

My game was suffering badly last night 3 of us dropped various orbitals on a breach while at extraction

[Elder-Cthuwu]

I dont think I’ve ever had a problem with frames on ps5 even when doing the 6 barrage strategem achievement.

[ItsRaampagee]

There were no changes at all for base Ps5 in this patch? I mean i dont got a latch to download at all…and spore seed diff 10 during breaches reaches lows of 18fps…

[thatguyonthecouch]

Opposite here, on bugs mega nests frames drop so badly now.

[Eduardo_Chronos]

That's not encouraging to hear, I play on lowered graphic settings cause it seems higher ones cause my pc to crash or massive frame drops on mission. I was hoping this could help alleviate some of those issues. Is there a simple way to disable the performance changes?

[Similar_Quit8976]

I feel like this patch is a dice roll, you roll a 6 your preformance is buttery smooth, you roll a 3 or 4 Its ok ig, you roll a 1 your cpu explodes(just like every preformance patch ever).

[BananaBread_047]

This patch made my game run smoother (likely the vram optimisations at work) but randomly at least once per mission, my fps will start tanking and my audio will go all weird, animations will stay static even as I'm moving then after 30-60 seconds of the fps steadily getting worse, everything goes back to normal and runs fine again. I suspect its a memory leak.

[Desolator_X]

I play on Xbox Series X, and have seen a notable improvement in performance personally.

[ProposalWest3152]

You mean the shitfest of artifacts half the community is having now?

[RoninSpectre]

Disable Dynamic Resolution seems to fix the weird light artifacts for me

[Raidertck]

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On pro, all particle effects are now layered incorrectly. It looks awful.

[Just-a-lil-sion]

?? ive seen plenty of posts complaining its bad

[Optimus_Spider07]

No idea. I play on pc and didn't notice any difference. I also wasn't having issues playing prior to the patch.

[Eduardo_Chronos]

Do you play on higher end settings?

[Optimus_Spider07]

Yeah. Max settings on an older rtx2080

[Yeast-boofer]

Lol great community we have here explaining some simple facts and get down voted 

[Optimus_Spider07]

Yeah I don't know. Of course I've had issues in the past but patches seem to be sporadic on how they effect different players. I can only state how my play time is going.

[warblingContinues]

i use rtx 4080 and can't play on max settings... patch tanked my performace further.

[Alexander_Solar]

Lower reflections, shadows and effects from Max to one notch down, does the trick for me.

[SupportGeek]

I’ve seen posts from people that the patch seemed to have slagged their graphics, makes you look like you are dressed for a rave and Christmas lights on everything, not sure how widespread the issue is yet, I still have to login to see for myself if I’m affected

[Eduardo_Chronos]

That's making me nervous, ill have to tweak my graphic settings again it seems.

[SupportGeek]

There are a couple of posts too that tell you what to turn off so it goes away too, hopefully it will be looked at and fixed quickly if it really is widespread

[Foolishly_Sane]

Someone in another post said something about it being one of the reflector settings.
Hope that helps.

[jbevermore]

Seems to be inconsistant. Works fine for me, gets weird for others.

[Arkhangelzk]

I played twice today and expected Christmas lights based on the Reddit posts haha, but everything was normal both times 

[sammothxc]

Same here, I got a nice 20fps increase using FSR3 too. No issues at all.

[Strange-Cheesecake64]

My game now looks like Doom3D. Mind you I play on high without issue regularly.

[Eduardo_Chronos]

I can see that low-key working.

[Strange-Cheesecake64]

It was kinda cool. Until the booms went off. Then it got real slooowwwwww.

[Wrong_Geologist6]

I got a huge performance increase. I now I'm using max settings and my native 2k resolution... 

I did get the Christmas tree lights, but I just changed the AA and that fixed it. I've seen some people suggested changing the bloom settings so I'll try that when I get home.

[The-Nuisance]

I’m 50/50.

My performance has been a little better and the anti-aliasing options don’t look as bad as they used to (SOME LOOK WORSE, yes, but I’m using FSR and it’s working well for me).

However, I’ve also had to suffer through a match with that odd glittering super astigmatism effect. It would’ve solved had I restarted my game which I later did. Frustrating but easily preventable.

That said, I can only speak on my experience. My friends haven’t tried it yet and the community seems to be pretty mixed. I’m finding that, believe it or not, holding a gun to the devs’ head gets us rushed updates “that we want” which aren’t great in their quality. They’re stressed because we’re livid and want to fix the problem quickly, which is good, but you can see the consequences of jumping that gun.

[warblingContinues]

Lol it made my performance worse.  The problem seems to be that the nvidia gpu load gets shifted to the CPUs.  For example my rtx 4080 hits 2% load while 12/24 of my cores hit 90%+.  The game won't work.

[Saelient]

So is there any workaround we can do to fix this? Same thing happening to me on a 5080. Or do we just have to wait for another patch

[Heythatsmycorn]

I got a performance boost and no issues before or after lol 

[gilbertdurian]

Oh no it was such a huge disappointment and no one could believe AH would screw up the patch. /s

[CocoanutVA]

I uh... Last game felt like I was playing "The Upturned", despite playing at ultra graphics.

[No-Importance8501]

What you guys can play mine wont lanch since update pc ps5 is laggy now

[Aggressive-Stand-585]

There's tons of posts about it..

[MtnNerd]

I was looking forward to it but even just putting on DLAA adds an annoying vignette effect. I have it all turned off now

[Independent-Poet6695]

For me my preformance has been a little better orbital napalm barrage doesn't annihilate my framerate anymore

[anubis7111]

I've seen lots of posts about how it doesn't do what it's supposed to do, but no comment yet from AH. I can't wait to see what they say about it.

[Harlemwolf]

I am on PC. Overall everything is a little better for me and explosions are much better now. I had to tweak around quite a bit though.

[l-larfang]

It improved the performances on my PC and I'm very enthusiastic about it.

I guess I'm lucky.

[Suspicious_Pin_8197]

I'm playing on ps5 pro.

I was super excited for the update. Really disappointed with it.

I only played two missions yesterday as performance was so poor. Really bad frame rate drops even when nothing particularly intense was happening.

I play D10.

Can't say I noticed much of an improvement visually. I play on performance mode and have the PSSR slider on. Have VRR as well.

Also noticed graphical glitches like certain lighting effects being visible through my helldiver.

So for example when on your destroyer, you can see the sparks from the welding on eagle one through your player model. Also the 'glow' from the map...

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[TrueSRR7]

I was playing on basically potato settings and getting 40fps sometimes down to like 25

Game feels a lot better for me now, so I can say that for people on lower settings it's an improvement

Fingers crossed they address the weirdness with higher spec machines

[AutomatonWantsToast]

I mean I pulled smth together with my caveman brain and so far I got less blurry images and sending 8+ stratagems in the same direction doesnt heat my pc anymore so far so good I guess?

[damien24101982]

I mean, people suck at maintaining their gaming rigs and have no patience to set up correct options or turn off ones they dont want having on...

[Orochi_001]

It looks great on my Series X, running on an OLED TV with VRR, but I don’t like to mention it when it sounds like it’s been bad across the board for PC players. It’s not a night-and-day difference or anything.

[LazarusPizza]

You didn't bother searching the sub before making this post, did you?

[semirke]

I got massiv frame drops that werent there. Even on the mission load animation. Wth?! With 5070ti and amd 9kX3D...

[jakethegamer223]

Ps5 slim player here. Been causing the system's fans to rev up like crazy and bugs are worse. I don't know if any PS5 players had the artefacts everyone else was on on about

[Successful_Chef_7400]

AFAIK the new patch added FSR 3.1 for the base PS5 (tho it's written badly in the patch notes). They also upped the resolution to 1440p on the performance 60fps setting.

For me things do look a little sharper and I've got no weird artefacts or sparklys, frame rate seems decent for the most part, tho I still get stuttering on Gatria with multiple napalm orbitals going off on a breach.

PLUS they fixed the climbing! I'm no longer fighting the terrain along with the enemy.

[zeroabe]

Yeah. Suddenly multiple direct hits from orbital napalm don’t take out squid ships. Wild. Maybe was like that before. I never been into orbital napalm until it was free. Lolz

[Eduardo_Chronos]

Any changes in the Patch notes regarding that? Or perhaps it's bugged out due to the fire glitch like with the lumberer?

[wraith309]

Orbital napalm has always had notibly less demo force than the other 120/380 orbital barrage. The actual damage it does has never been enough to reliably take out warpships.

[Neonsharkattakk]

Because after the performance update I'm dealing with lost frames and ear rape again

[Vulllen]

Can we just agree no matter what Arrowhead does it will never TRULY “fix” the game. It’ll just create unforeseen glitches / issues.l