COD BO3 Back in Black Discussion Thread

i guess we're all suckers!

EDIT: hmmm...it's downloading a 500mb update. not sure if it is an update or it's downloading broken files.

 

new blops3 patch: 511.4mb

http://steamcommunity.com/games/311210/announcements/detail/65661472588166935

it still drops at full 1080p but setting the renderer to 80% keeps it stable...will have to do some further testing.

 

Drops how?

 

Drops into the high 40s in the same places if I set the renderer to 100%. 90% is a little better but 80% is more stable and is only slightly blurry.

I even dropped the max number of corpses from 32 to 16 to see if that does anything.

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O_O? HOW? I've always been able to render at 100%, and I can even basically max the game at 60fps. The game uses more GPU after today's patch though, but I'm still on 355.60 so I can't really complain if my GPUs aren't up to snuff without trying the gameready driver or later.

Which I won't be doing for a while. Maybe when a dev driver comes out.

 

the fps tanked during a mission where you escape a biodome, a ferris wheel collapses and tanked the fps into the 30s.

EDIT: DAMN IT! The FPS tanked again when my character is visible. as soon as they appear the fps tanks regardless of what resolution i use.

 

Some are saying that extra quality texture are bugging out. Will have to see if dropping it to high will do anything.

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High shadows + ambient occlusion seems to break the game for me with a bunch of flickering shadows sometimes.

Also volumetric lighting setting itself to "none" is annoying.

And the textures seem to end up super low quality sometimes. The game is pretty broke. I'm dealing with it mostly, but it should not be so bad.

 

I agree it shouldn't be so bad but I have faith that Treyarch will not leave it as a broken mess.

 

I have no faith. I only care about results. I had faith in Sledgehammer. I had faith in DICE with the CTE. None of them produced results. Nobody produces results. I'm annoyed that Treyarch released the game in such a bad state, it's a disgrace to BO2's quality and even BO1 was better... BO1 was just unoptimized, it didn't have all these extra problems. I had both BO1 and BO2 pre-ordered and I remember them VERY well through their life cycles.

If they want to fix things, great. They've not replied about my megathread of bugs. No confirmation that they've seen it. I'm going to keep pointing it out to them until they confirm it. Because if they're asking $60 + DLC for it, then they have a responsibility to make sure things work well. Unoptimization sucks, but can be fixed later. People can generally turn down settings, except for the CPU usage (which they fixed in the patch yesterday, for 60fps or below), so that can get fixed after the direct bugs and design flaws.

 

i don't get why the player's character has to chugg the fps? it makes no sense.

EDIT: what are people seeing for their VRAM usage in menus? i am seeing at least 2.5gb of my 8gb being used.

 

Treyarch has always produced results in my opinion... Black Ops 2 was the smoothest/best feeling Call of Duty game in my opinion, especially after they patched it up. Black Ops 3 doesn't feel quite as smooth to me but I believe in Treyarch that it will get there. Black Ops 1, it was a fun game but yeah it was optimized pretty horrendously.

 

the more i play through the campaign i see more fps drops. there's one where hendricks interogating someone and the fps drops when the camera is on his face. your character is in the scene but not on camera. there are times where your character is on screen but the fps doesn't drop. i find that it's the up close head shots that do the drop while wide shots as in ones that show the full character do not drop the fps. there are even times like in the interogation where it will just drop for no discernable reason at all.

they probably should have dropped the fps for cutscenes only but then you have that problem where the framerate change becomes a bit jarring.

 

the performance of this game is borked. even running the game with the internal renderer at 80% the fps still drops. quite annoying.

 

So, I finished the entire campaign last night in co-op. Saw drops with my character on-screen and drops without. Saw all sorts of terrible performance in general. It was still a fun playthrough, but god was it annoying. My friend was even joking "Oh hello 5 fps" during half the cutscenes (he's on a P150HM with a 560M).

But yes, I can understand why you'd have problems with it. Why everyone would. Treyarch and PCDev and vonderharr have not replied to my tweets pointing them to my reddit thread at all.

 

the performance is so inconsistent...makes me sad

 

I mean... a 560m isn't exactly a strong card...

 

He gets 60fps normally on minimum at 1080p, in MP and Zombies and shooty-shooty part of the campaign.

 

anyone tried disabling superfetch?

 

Fair enough but that's still honestly a pretty low end card these days, especially for a brand new AAA game...

 

Yes, but he isn't in a position to upgrade. The point was though he had 5fps in many cutscenes as opposed to 60 constant.

My friend with two 780Ti cards kept 60fps the whole time, though, which clearly shows that while it's unoptimized, enough power can churn through it.

 

i haven't seen it drop below 30fps but the fact that it drops below 60fps is not acceptable.

my install downloaded a 150kb update...not sure what it is or if it is even an update!

 

I finished the campaign yesterday also. Figured I would play crysis 3 until they fix the sli in fallout 4. I've had crysis 3 in my computer for over a year but never played it so thought I would give it a go. It's unbelievable the graphics of crysis 3 compared to the latest games out. It loads incredibly fast and it's hard to believe how good it performs compared to other games. I'm only about 2 hours into it but I'm enjoying it. How come they can make a game 3 years ago look better and perform better than a lot of the latest Aaa titles.
Wish I would of played this game a long time ago.

If they put the same love into crysis 4 as they did into crysis 3 the graphics and game itself is going to blow everything else out. There away

 

gonna play with this and see what can be done.

//Number of mips to drop on effects and dynamic decals, lower numbers are higher quality
TextureQualityFX = "8" // 0 to 15

this is usually set to either 0 or 1 but gonna try half way and see what happens.

 

tried rendering the game at 720p and got a near stable 60fps....what BS!

 

Today I discovered that if shadowplay is turned on, if I OC in BO2, my main GPU gets util limited but my slave doesn't.

It isn't limited in GTA V, so it isn't a problem with the driver itself.

Just an interesting thing.

 

almost done with this game....the SP is being a PITA performance wise!

 

WOW! seeing 9.5gb of ram being used and nearly 5gb of VRAM being used....WTF?!?!

 

Yeah this game eats up ~5GB of RAM on the average by itself. The vRAM often maxes at 4GB for me; I can see 5GB being used easily.

 

there's definitely an optimization issues because i would say that for 80-90% of the time it runs at 60fps no problem, it's the 10-20% that really annoys me. it's really messed up that i have to run at 720p just to get a near stable 60fps in some cutscenes.

 

latest patch is garbage!

 

Seems to sum up this game pretty welll. Waiting a while for a nice price drop on cdkeys and a few more patches...

 

May as well grab battlefront

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I'm thinking of grabbing both once the price goes down further... Battlefront is still 34 quid from Cdkeys so I'm going to wait a bit....

 

i traded in some PS4 games to get this on PC.... i even got left over credit.

 

Here are some interesting screenshots!

 

The last two pics are the models loading, it happens on console too. I've seen it happen a couple times on PC, but it usually doesn't.

The headless character though... yeah you're on your own.

 

man, playing the game for the free week end, ridiculous stuttering + in a map with a pool and beach, it's like 60fps steady and bim 30 steady in a zone and then 60fps again..
The most annoying is the stuttering, it's just horrible happy i didnt buy this piece of crap code ..

 

ive only played for an hour since release date.
they give you all a map (nuketown) that they call 24/7 and then remove it 2 weeks later just like they did in blops2
no more for me.

 

205 Breeci jitterfire/rapidfire, seems to work with the shieva too
Very useful after the 205 Breeci rpm got stealth nerfed (on pc only)

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