I Think I Figured Out Why Pvp Stutters Now

[StallordD]

Now I don't know about the huge hang when opening the pause menu, but I THINK I know why there are intermittent lag spikes in actual gameplay. Of course, I could be way wrong or you guys may already know this, but I figured I'd share anyway.

 

The huge spikes seem to occur when a frame respawns for the first time for a player.

 

As in, the first time any player using the "Frost" Warframe respawns, there is a huge hang for any player who has not already experienced this hang from Frost. If ANOTHER player using Frost respawns after this first, there is no hang. If a player joins AFTER this hang has already happened to other players, they will experience it alone when it happens again.

 

I'm not sure if this happens for EVERY frame, or if it happens when people join initially or only of first respawn, but at the very least it SEEMS to be tied with spawning, and possible to the game having to load each frame again, causing the huge freeze.

[noveltyhero]

Dota has a similar problem at the start of the game. It could very well be if assets get streamed in and out on respawn and death

[KaMicahZay]

Interesting, I was wondering what might cause it. Your theory seems to be consistent with what I have seen, I'll keep an eye out and try to confirm myself.