Comments on: What Patch 9.0 did to FPS

By: Erik Neupauer

Erik Neupauer — Fri, 02 May 2014 22:34:26 +0000

Well, AFAIK Storm said that in 9.1 there will be no new HD tanks, so this one might not be a fuckup as usual. 9.3 or 9.4, that will be the shit.

By: Nopain Nogain

Nopain Nogain — Fri, 02 May 2014 04:36:12 +0000

I used the ancient GT 440 1Gb GDDR5 by Gainward. latest driver version for gpu… changed 1 or 2 settings on preferences.xml and engine_config.xml.

Graphics Setting (In-Game):

AA: 16XQAA
3D: 100%
All others set at the highest as it can be set. (except for Gamma and FoV ofc)

Game running stable 40-60 FPS (map dependent)
Lowest FPS sudden drop noticed was at 21-23 FPS
No CTD encountered since
No 100% CPU usage

I find the game graphics on this setup/PC far better and more smooth compared to my main PC which has the 650Ti.
Not too dark, Not too bright
Sharpness and Crisp-ness of textures doesnt hurt my eyes.

Just installed Historical Engine and Gun Sound Mod. (a little buggy but is working most of the time)

Other Mods installed:

Scope Shadow Mod
Farplane
Custom Damage Panel
HD Minimap
2-line Carousel
Contour Tank Icon
2 or 3 Garage Mod (for testing purposes)

***No Fresh install / Re-install of game was made.

By: ZGMF1017

ZGMF1017 — Thu, 01 May 2014 20:10:41 +0000

Not necessarily. I’ve a GTX 780ti and my frame rate has dropped quite significantly since the update. I am however playing across 3 x 1920×1080 monitors which might be why…

By: nononononono

nononononono — Thu, 01 May 2014 13:56:07 +0000

WG dig the hole deeper with every update…do you guys like the nervous looking pixels that the state of the art per-pixel shading produces? It gives me a warm feeling to remember the graphical style of Commanche vs Hokum…or was it Apache? I can’t remember clearly that far back, but it was very advanced in the day.

So, how to spot a fanboi? Bitches be crazy and deny the graphics are worse after the update. I can’t play it any more because all the vibrating jagged lines that make up the game world messes with my head too much. Has anybody else flown towards the sun during a dawn/dusk battle in WT just to let your eyes swim in the digital glory that such a scene produces? Just glorious…

By: Toiski

Toiski — Thu, 01 May 2014 13:02:25 +0000

So all reports against your preconception are obviously false? Hey, sometimes people have different results. No mods except for Locastan’s, and I got a 50-100% increase in FPS. Stock configuration Acer Aspire 5552G.

By: Toiski

Toiski — Thu, 01 May 2014 12:59:09 +0000

I’ll take that bet. How do we adjudicate? Average FPS increase/decrease between our systems? Just so you know, I had a 10-15 FPS increase with 9.0.

By: Sky

Sky — Thu, 01 May 2014 10:40:54 +0000

“No-one wanted HD tank textures” – speak for yourself.

“and the rest of the shit,” – they will improve it too, just not everything at once.

“it was just WG’s kneejerk reaction to War Thunder and now its backfired massively.” – They had to do something when competition was so massively superior. Only problem is that they opted to keep an old, and horribly under-performing engine. War Thunder still looks better than WoT (especially if you’ll remember size of maps, details they have, and how non-linear WT maps are comparing to WoT 3-lanes design) while at the same time having higher and more stable FPS.

By: BrokenWing

BrokenWing — Thu, 01 May 2014 10:38:14 +0000

Pretty much matches what happened to my GTX 660 (albeit with an i5 3470K CPU).

Min frame rates in the 30s, never saw that before. Overall lost about 20 FPS.

Hope they get their optimising finger out of their unoptimised arse.

By: Sky

Sky — Thu, 01 May 2014 10:37:04 +0000

Still doesn’t change the fact that graphics were one of the most common complains about WoT.

By: mr_clark

mr_clark — Thu, 01 May 2014 09:56:19 +0000

All in all WoT seems to be heavily connection dependent anyways. With “all these” people with good PCs complaining about joining games after they started, and so on…