Performance issue, very bad FPS and FPS drops

The reason people do not see any improvement is most likely because their system is not on the high end, like chaz0r I noticed pretty much the same like he did. I got better overall FPS all around with the patch but even so it's no where near to be playable at 60fps unless you spend your whole time in the desert.

The texture issues happens at random and when they do occur there seems to be no remedy to it but restarting the game. I can’t however link it to FRAPS as it happens just as much without it. I’m assuming it looks something like this when it happens https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1072390_10202258229450904_618808296_o.jpg. This does not just affect mountains in the distance but also textures around you on the road and on the side.

Also, the freezing issue where the texture just stops to load seems to be occurring to some people more than others. If you notice that the texture didn’t load, try and brake hard. If you manage to stop before you enter the area it usually loads quite quickly and you can resume driving. However, if you’re too far into the glitched out texture I have to force quit the game. It’s like you’re out of the “map” so that the game doesn’t recognize you to be in that area, thus not attempting to load and render it.

While the overall performance has increased, it’s not much for about 90% of the players and most seems to have the best impact on people already on good PC’s. It’s an interesting not about the FPS drop being higher depending on what other people are in your lobby. I only tried it out briefly so never really checked that since I just discovered  it still was unplayable.

My theory is that whenever these freezes occur, there might be too much load on the hard drive at the time and thus not keeping up with the loading and rendering. It could also be related to the CPU, but looking at the load on my CPU it’s rarely even at 40% so I kinda rule that issue out. Next week I will be installing a new SSD and also migrate to Windows 8.1, hoping that it’ll also improve the overall performance.

I’m also wondering if the slow performance people are experiencing is the lack of usage on the GPU. If I launch the game with the normal settings my video card sits at 2D clocks and it’s barely even trying to use it. I do however (like chaz0r I guess) use the render resolution 2.0 setting which makes the game not only look great, but also actually uses my GPU and even spikes at 99% sometimes with the full overclock in place.

It might of course be that running the game normally requires so little resources that a higher clock than the one’s I have when I’m just browsing is not needed, but I can’t shake off the feeling that people who are having problem with the fps in normal mode might also have their cards at 2d clocks which would of course greatly impact their performance.