Impossible Frame Rate Spikes With Hydroid's Tentacle Swarm

[Mirriky]

I was doing infested survivals on earth using hydroid, and every now and then when I had my ult active my framerate would go from 60fps to 4 frames over 10 seconds (resulting in a allies death since I could not reach them)

 

This happened constantly throughout the mission, it would be fine for a while then it would just stop. This is the first time I have experienced significant lag on my computer and probably has something to do with ancients being stretched from one end of the map to another.

 

I don't expect an instant fix but with everything ragdolling at once (which is incredible fun) the framerate will take a bullet to the leg every now and then. If this could get optimised further or possibly implement a 'kill switch' when x amount of body parts have a distance of 6 meters between themselves, the model gets deleted.

This is coming from someone with very little experience so I apologise if it sounds stupid.

 

Just to reiterate, I have seen enemies go flying in every direction before but it's only with hydro it affects frame rate.

Thanks

Edited May 12, 2014 by cam-o-flage20

[Kracken]

i'm starting to wonder - how high are your settings? 

[taiiat]

I don't expect an instant fix but with everything ragdolling at once (which is incredible fun) the framerate will take a bullet to the leg every now and then. If this could get optimised further or possibly implement a 'kill switch' when x amount of body parts have a distance of 6 meters between themselves, the model gets deleted.

This is coming from someone with very little experience so I apologise if it sounds stupid.

dampeners on the physics of the ragdolls would also help, so that they are always losing velocity.

 

 

i'm starting to wonder - how high are your settings? 

it's Warframe, they don't make much a difference. Texture and Shadow Memory are the two settings that actually make much of a difference, with Resolution being one other, ofcourse. Tesselation is a difference for low end GPU's, but not for most others.

 

almost none of the 'things' that cause performance losses in Warframe are things which can be modified by settings.

[Mirriky]

i'm starting to wonder - how high are your settings? 

 

Max.

I don't get frame rate issues in any other game

So when I get 0.4 of a frame per second I start to worry.

Edited May 12, 2014 by cam-o-flage20