Any plans on optimization?

[Louisville15]

I know this game has a ton of stuff that needs to be fixed first, but I'm still curious if there are any plans to optimize this game. I have a monster PC and this game still runs extremely choppy at times. I'm not getting my hopes up because better optimization is probably far down the list of things needed to be addressed, but I thought I would ask anyways.

[miqokini]

I definitely second this. I spent a crap load of money on my beast of a machine, and while the game looks great, I also notice that it gets pretty choppy sometimes.

[Eekiki]

The only time it gets choppy for me is if it has to send a bunch of data to their servers at once, like when I enter the city, and it has to bring up a bunch of character data so they get displayed on my screen.

So what needs to be optimized is how the clients communicate with the servers. That'll probably take care of a bunch of choppiness.

[Delsus]

The only time it gets choppy for me is if it has to send a bunch of data to their servers at once, like when I enter the city, and it has to bring up a bunch of character data so they get displayed on my screen.

So what needs to be optimized is how the clients communicate with the servers. That'll probably take care of a bunch of choppiness.

From what I have seen that sort of choppyness seems to be because so much data needs to be pulled from the HDD, I have seen people say that a SSD stops it, because a SSD is alot faster than a HDD, but it could partly be network related as well.

[Rynithon]

Probably won't happen until closer to PS3 release. But I do hope they fix shadows and lighting, especially on the characters.

[Eekiki]

From what I have seen that sort of choppyness seems to be because so much data needs to be pulled from the HDD, I have seen people say that a SSD stops it, because a SSD is alot faster than a HDD, but it could partly be network related as well.

I can see where that's true. I got a HUGE improvement in the amount of time it takes to load a lot of character models on the screen simultaneously when I upgraded my graphics card from a GTX275 to a GTX580.

[miqokini]

Probably won't happen until closer to PS3 release. But I do hope they fix shadows and lighting, especially on the characters.

Speaking of shadows, does anyone else get a ton of lines in their shadows rather than just a solid shadow, or is it just me?

[Xatsh]

Devs have stated they will be continuously optimizing it as time goes in several post so far. They just said it will take some time to do it.

[Rynithon]

From what I have seen that sort of choppyness seems to be because so much data needs to be pulled from the HDD, I have seen people say that a SSD stops it, because a SSD is alot faster than a HDD, but it could partly be network related as well.

I upgraded to an intel 510 SSD, and it has made a huge improvement in loading and choppiness. But like others said, I think its a lot of network related problems, and the game holds to wait on server responses.

Speaking of shadows, does anyone else get a ton of lines in their shadows rather than just a solid shadow, or is it just me?

We all get it, no matter what setting. It used to not be in early Beta version, then in the last Beta (ultimately the final build of the game) build it was there.

[Delsus]

I can see where that's true. I got a HUGE improvement in the amount of time it takes to load a lot of character models on the screen simultaneously when I upgraded my graphics card from a GTX275 to a GTX580.

That would help because the extra power of the 580 allows it to render the graphics from the dats alot faster, It could be a mix of everything though, maybe an official responce so we know where we would need to upgrade for the best performance, or if its somthing SE SE can fix and where they are on it.