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Porcupine_I on 11 November 2015
walsufnir said:
ganoncrotch said:
walsufnir said:


A different storage shouldn't impact the fps that much. Faster loading times is common, better fps is not.


Did you read it? where in the article directly is it talking about the fps other than removing of the stuttering on the X1 which is a loading issue on taking out a weapon which is basically it being loaded into memory. You didn't ctrl C/V something without even reading it? or did I miss something?

Perhaps you missed the original article. There was evidence that the Xbone fall to 0 fps which led to a discussion how that is even possible and that PS4 was performing better. Of course it was quite obvious that the 0fps was because of a streaming problem and had nothing to do with processing units like the CPU or GPU but that didn't stop people confusing it with actual computing performance. Now that 0fps drop is gone by using different storage media.

I'm blaming DF for calling a short freeze 0fps.  It's obvious what is happening, the game freezes and waits for the content to load. If it is loaded faster before the game has to wait for it to process, the freeze doesn't happen. It is not related to performance but saying the game drops to 0fps gets a lot more attention. 



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eva01beserk on 11 November 2015

Great information, very much needed. I just need to spend a lot of money on a ssd, thanks for that.



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walsufnir on 11 November 2015
Porcupine_I said:
walsufnir said:

Perhaps you missed the original article. There was evidence that the Xbone fall to 0 fps which led to a discussion how that is even possible and that PS4 was performing better. Of course it was quite obvious that the 0fps was because of a streaming problem and had nothing to do with processing units like the CPU or GPU but that didn't stop people confusing it with actual computing performance. Now that 0fps drop is gone by using different storage media.

I'm blaming DF for calling a short freeze 0fps.  It's obvious what is happening, the game freezes and waits for the content to load. If it is loaded faster before the game has to wait for it to process, the freeze doesn't happen. It is not related to performance but saying the game drops to 0fps gets a lot more attention. 


Looking at gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=210034, this seems to be effective.



ithis on 11 November 2015
Porcupine_I said:
walsufnir said:
ganoncrotch said:
walsufnir said:


A different storage shouldn't impact the fps that much. Faster loading times is common, better fps is not.


Did you read it? where in the article directly is it talking about the fps other than removing of the stuttering on the X1 which is a loading issue on taking out a weapon which is basically it being loaded into memory. You didn't ctrl C/V something without even reading it? or did I miss something?

Perhaps you missed the original article. There was evidence that the Xbone fall to 0 fps which led to a discussion how that is even possible and that PS4 was performing better. Of course it was quite obvious that the 0fps was because of a streaming problem and had nothing to do with processing units like the CPU or GPU but that didn't stop people confusing it with actual computing performance. Now that 0fps drop is gone by using different storage media.

I'm blaming DF for calling a short freeze 0fps.  It's obvious what is happening, the game freezes and waits for the content to load. If it is loaded faster before the game has to wait for it to process, the freeze doesn't happen. It is not related to performance but saying the game drops to 0fps gets a lot more attention. 

Well, if the game does not update the screen for a while (say 1 second), than effectively for that second we have 0FPS. No matter the cause, if the effect is that the graphics update suffers, it impacts the frames the game displays per second - and the performance of the game. 

I get it that drawing the next scene probably took far less than  seond, but that's not what the user sees, the user sees how many individual distinct frames the game draws on the screen in one second. If that is impacted (and short freezes impact that quite heavily) then what is percieved as the performance of the game suffers.

It's quite logical and straightforward.



RJ_Sizzle on 11 November 2015

What's the issue here? Something is causing the game to hitch and whatever it may be, it's still taking a hit out of the performance of the game. Just because it's an HDD related issue doesn't mean the performance issues get a pass. Until the game gets patched, the only way to alleviate the problem is to invest extra in an SSD, which is still unacceptable as troubleshooting at the moment.



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Ganoncrotch on 11 November 2015
RJ_Sizzle said:
What's the issue here? Something is causing the game to hitch and whatever it may be, it's still taking a hit out of the performance of the game. Just because it's an HDD related issue doesn't mean the performance issues get a pass. Until the game gets patched, the only way to alleviate the problem is to invest extra in an SSD, which is still unacceptable as troubleshooting at the moment.


Indeed, want the game to run smoothly on the X1, buy an SSD instead of the stock HDD installed in the console, would be a first for a console to require hardware updates to run a game smoothly (which otherwise runs, not including obvious stuff like eyetoy/ kinect required for games, since things need to be put in clear black and white to not garner a counter thread here).



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method114 on 11 November 2015

So basically if you own a console it's time to upgrade it? Lol might as well just buy a PC.



Mr Puggsly on 11 November 2015
method114 said:
So basically if you own a console it's time to upgrade it? Lol might as well just buy a PC.

A good gaming PC generally cost more than $350. Also, some PC ports are pretty much broken early on. Batman is still broken.



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Normchacho on 11 November 2015

I...yeah, duh. The game has serious loading issues on Xbox One.



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Random_Matt on 11 November 2015

Elite X1 it is then.