The game runs like absolute garbage in A20.

[Scyris]

Geforce 1070, 16 gb ram, Ryzen 7-3700x, performance in A20 is the best its ever been for me, I even was able to increase some of my settings and not have the frame rate drop. Steady 60 fps now. Maybe you have to much junk running on your pc? and its slowing it down? Its a possability.

[MZM]

Intel i7 8750H 2.2 GHz (turbo 3.9), RTX 2060 6 GB laptop, 32GB ram, 1920x1080

 

At first I thought A20 runs like garbage, but I've tested som settings and I am sure A20 runs little bit better, but there is a lot of stuff in cities.. so if you want to play experimental without headache you have to tweak specific settings.

 

• Edit: Dynamic Mesh Enabled >> This is rendering player structures and destroyed/modified POIs by players at long distances, and that is nice, but it does not work visually very well in cities and I did not notice any performance change with on/off. I recommend turning ON setting "Land Claim Only", works only for player structures.

 

Low impact settings in city  (depends on GPU.. works for me):

• Anti Aliasing >> No performance impact. Set it to "Low" if you want to have smoother edges. "Medium, Hard, Temporal" looks exactly same. Set "Medium" if you want to have little bit more detailed objects, but it will actually have more jagged edges than on "Low" setting.
• Texture Quality >> Again no performance impact on "Full".
• LOD Distance >> It seems like this setting does not work at all anymore :D. Do you guys have observed anything about this ? (For me no change with 0% or 100% even with game restart)

 

High impact settings in city:

• Shadows Distance >> By far the most impact on performance in city. If you want relatively huge FPS boost, then change it to "Off".
• Reflected Shadows >> Off
• Occlusion >> On (not a straight FPS boost but it helps when inside buildings POIs)
• Reflection Quality >> "Low" looks nice. Anything higher than "Low" is wasting power. If you want FPS boost you have to turn it "Off", but weapons will look much worse..
• Object Quality >> Currently in experimental A20 new object textures are rendering at very short distances, if you lower this setting a lot of smaller things (hydrants, windows, traffic lights, fences etc. etc..) will be rendering in front of you. You will gain little FPS boost (probably not worth it) I can not stand anything lower or higher than "Medium".

 

Settings that I did not mention does not have any impact or they are not very relevant in my opinion. (some of them don't even work anymore)

 

Edit: In case you did not know: If you set "Anisotropic Filtering" to "16x" or "Application controlled" in Nvidia Control panel > Manage 3D settings, textures at angle will look much better with no performance impact. See this image:  https://imgsli.com/ODU2MjY

Edited December 12, 2021 by MZM (see edit history)

[AnarchyNinetyNine]

it has been running like crap for me too, unfortunate because I really enjoyed the game. I have 127 hours in the game but the last 4 of those is trying to get Alpha 20 to work. I have deleted everything and  it still takes forever and a day to load, and runs like quicksand. seems like I've been updated out of a game.

[Jason Tamosiunis]

well at least you guys can play i cant even get on navezgane now game completely freezes out and im lucky if i average 6 FPS with all settings on bare bones minimum

well at least you guys can play i cant even get on navezgane now game completely freezes out and im lucky if i average 6 FPS with all settings on bare bones minimum

[Naz]

I did some Benchmarks on a couple systems here

Tests were on navs to keep thing comparable to a19, however based on my game play time in the new rwg cities, performance is a mess atm. The avg is fine, better even than a19 its the lows that completely kill the experience. In the cities it ranges from bare minimum playability to hitching and stuttering so bad it's an unplayable mess. 

 

As a bandaid solidtion I've locked my client to a max of 80fps to restrict the huge varrience going from 150 to 22. It doesn't stop the stutters from happing but it at least makes it a bit less jarring.