EXTREME Texture pop-in / Draw distance issues
I am getting TERRIBLE pop-in. Been playing well since release and have no real complaints. This new patch comes out and my draw distance and anything not immediately infront of me has a high chance ...
Forum Discussion
Well, at least you aren't the only one with the issue...not much of a consolation though. Ugh....at least I got a decent vid of it.
For some reason that area of the wastes was particularly slow in regards to the terrain. I also wonder if this is why I was having such a hard time finding enemies in the area to battle? Maybe they are not populating either?
I was hunting for poison spiders and where before there were always half a dozen or more as I rode along I don't think there was a single one before, during, or after I shot that video. I even went over that hill to the spider area and into the canyon, no spiders.
After that I went to Storm Coast caves and found a lot of giant spiders. Really need the poison ones though to get the ingredients for the Master Dragon Runes.
Im going to make a video later and upload it with clear explanation and voice overlay. Maybe then it will be easier for EA/Bioware to comment about it. Alot of these videos are long and they don't have voice over.
Here is my video added to the thread to illustrate the point with voice over.
So you are running on a PC? The layout of your spells on the screen and some of your menus made me think you were on a console, but you must be using a controller with your rig? I am looking through the vids I made the day before the patch and there is definitely a change in the distance of when landscape detail is dropped. For large items like mountains, trees, castles...I see them popping into frame but its wayyyyy out in the distance. Probably why I never noticed it before because it wasn't nearby. The ground details for grass flow into view, like in your video, but further out, 2-3 times further out it appears to me.
I'm going to have to load up my game and see if the ground detail is building like yours at Skyhold or if the distance has a larger range. The pop in landscape is unnacceptable and I wonder why they would make a change like this that takes away from the beauty and functionality of the game. I have no idea whose attention to bring this to as this forum seems to be ignored by the Devs and contacing EA support never gets me anywhere.
BTW, If you go to the Hissing Wastes do you see delayed pop in of the bandits outside the Canyon where I recorded my vid? That is one of the worst I have seen and makes me wonder how many times I am running by something that I should be able to fight or interact with and it simply hasn't appeared yet.
Yes I am using an XBOX ONE controller plugged into the PC. It makes the game like 10 times better, especially as a melee. If keyboard allowed more hotkeyed spells and abilities, that would be pretty compelling though.
Why don't they just allow us to set draw distance to how it was before D:
@TaxDebt wrote:Yes I am using an XBOX ONE controller plugged into the PC. It makes the game like 10 times better, especially as a melee. If keyboard allowed more hotkeyed spells and abilities, that would be pretty compelling though.
Why don't they just allow us to set draw distance to how it was before D:
Ahh ok see I use a G13 gamepad, love that thing. I can program hotkeys and all kinds of macro's. It's the best!
I was reviewing more of my vids last night and there is a definite draw distance change that needs to be reverted. I wish I knew a command line for the game that would fix it like the shader issue we had for details/scars etc.
Blarg EA! Just....blarg....
I know ive been trying to find a command for that everywhere but i cant find one.
Have you tried maybe PMing one of the EA pple on this board? See if that gets a response?
I just noticed last night the Focus Meter is buggy. Even though I have the Master Focus perk, if I die, my meter capacity drops to one bar and I cannot fill past it. I read in another post that to fix this you have to use up your power bar to restart the process if you want to fill all three bars. If you die again however the problem just starts over and you lose two entire bars of focus power. What a waste of my perk points.
I swear a day doesn't go by that I do not find another bug in this game. They need an official bug report page as this forum is largly ignored.
I have not PM'd them asking, I just thought, ya know, maybe they read this forum and will comment.... somday.... but that's a fools expectation i suppose.
