Ever wonder why this game heats up GPU's so much?

[Xenor]

It's ridiculous how often you fall through the terrain in this game. I never had it happen in XI but I've lost count how many times it's happening in XIV. Must be in the dozens. Usually happens because you run through a cliff or staircase before the model has loaded.

But weather is terrible for me in this game. It lags my computer so bad I can't browse the web sometimes when out on the field with weather. But that's mostly FireFox being a PoS.

[Mushy]

You have no clue how the engine is designed, only what is being displayed
You set the drawing distance(which will still apply if you fall through)
In this case it would only be rendering it since your client if out of bounds.
imagine most games a god-mode where you can fly out of tge map

Theres also a mapping technique that lets you do 3d sky boxes small off map render, and appear much bigger around(essentially what those areas are, blocked off sections)

[Konachibi]

You have no clue how the engine is designed, only what is being displayed
You set the drawing distance(which will still apply if you fall through)
In this case it would only be rendering it since your client if out of bounds.
imagine most games a god-mode where you can fly out of tge map

Theres also a mapping technique that lets you do 3d sky boxes small off map render, and appear much bigger around(essentially what those areas are, blocked off sections)

You mean like in some games when you use a no-clipping cheat then when you pass through wall/floor/ceiling and look back at where you were you can't see the wall you past through, only things inside the room?

[Reaujien]

You have no clue how the engine is designed

Quite true - none of us do.

...only what is being displayed

Quite true as well. However, this can lead to deductive reasoning.

If the game is drawing more than it needs to, then the GPU is doing more than it needs to; and the more the GPU is "doing" the hotter it will be.

[Mushy]

yes, and with terrain the way it is you could have a simple png file to define depth in white<->black, and have the engine map texture based on that and other parameters. theres just no telling unless you know someone whos worked with CT, its a guessing game. but I doubt this is an issue.

[Mushy]

Quite true - none of us do.



Quite true as well. However, this can lead to deductive reasoning.

If the game is drawing more than it needs to, then the GPU is doing more than it needs to; and the more the GPU is "doing" the hotter it will be.

yes with deductive reasoning you can very easily see there is no grand height to those original airships(not those new ones floating around)
you can also see they give order of importance what is displayed first with the order things pop in. the terrain typically being top priority minus the occasions you can sometimes see through it for whatever error(rare?)

[Neptune]

I noticed it was doing that too; I wonder how much of a performance hit that sea is.

I've never had that problem,a t all. Maybe it's you?

Lol. You do in fact have this problem. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean your system isn't working behind the scenes to render it.

[Akira]

i have never fallen through the terrain lol

[Dreadnought]

wow this sucks, i heard the FPS issues in uldah also have something to do with rendering the terrain outside at the same time or something while most games dont?
not a programmer but it sounds about right to me. it kinda sucks

[Dubont]

this should probably be looked at.....soon