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Melestor
Rising Newcomer
5 days ago

PS4 - Olympus Low Performance 2.97 S27

The latest changes to legends, weapons, and the addition of the superglide are great, as is the audio update and Olympus changes, but that map is incredibly demanding now... on PS4, I rarely dropped below 30 fps, but yesterday I hit 20 fps for the first time. I hope the other maps are less affected and that the slowdown isn't also related to the new audio updates.

I understand that optimizing on an older system may seem uneconomical—I'm a developer and I know what that means—but I also know that very few changes would be needed to improve the situation. I've noticed that most of the drops often occur in areas with a lot of visual effects like anti-gravity jumps, in the Phase Driver area, or where there are other similar particle effects. Simplifying these effects or adding additional shaders would probably be sufficient. Alternatively, it would be nice to be able to enable dynamic resolution, but this would likely only increase input lag (as well as degrade the overall graphics quality) and further discourage you from doing any optimization.

I play practically exclusively in ranked, and up until Season 24, the game was perfectly playable, running smoothly at 35-50 fps. Starting with Seasons 25 and 26, I noticed some drops to around 28-30 fps in some areas, but they were usually just a few moments.
Yesterday, however, I had several entire periods at 20-24 fps.

I have an SSD on my PS4, I always keep it clean, and the temperatures and fan are stable, and Apex is the only game installed.

I know it's "old" hardware, but it can still do a lot, and I hope you optimize it. I'm not asking for the 60 fps it had when it was released, but at least a solid 30-35 fps would be a great thing.
Thank you and good work.

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