FRAME FREEZE ON ORIGINAL PS4
Product: Star Wars Battlefront II Platform:Sony Playstation 4 What is your issue related to? General Summarize your bug On STANDARD (non-PRO) ps4 there are often frame-freezes which greatly impair ...
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I highly doubt this is a server/lag issue — it seems (to me) that thay just overloaded the hardware with all the fluff in the graphics and now you have a game that is just unplayable on a ps4 and has an annoying experience on the ps4 pro. I know/recognize lag and server issues, I have seen lag and server issues not only on this game but also on other games. Lag/Server issues keep your music and graphics running — not the same thing as the frame freezes that this game has, plus lag/server issues would affect all consoles (xbox, pc, ps4, ps4 pro) EQUALLY which is NOT the case — even between ps4 and ps4 pro there is a HUGE difference between how often and how noticeable the issue is.I also feel like if we could reduce some MORE graphic details OR disable the PS4 game/video recording entirely this could reduce the problem but there are no such options to try. Even on the ps4 pro when I get lag for instance I can’t move correctly/at all — either you get stuck (but can rotate and look around not able to move) or you move and the game jolts you back to a slightly different position (that you were in before) — that is lag, usually I disconnect and reconnect and this type of thing stops (if the game doesn’t drop me off the game first). If you read the other posts on the thread you will see that even playing CAMPAIGN OFFLINE you still get the frame freeze issues so it is definitely not a server side problem (not saying there aren’t any, but the frame freeze is a totally different issue).
I agree with your analysis on hardware performance vs server lag but it does seem that the problem happening on all platforms PS4, PS4 Pro, XBOX and PC, see the link below, and that DICE and EA have acknowledged but are at a loss to fix. Or the issue is so fundmental that significant code change is required,
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-2-experiencing-lag-issues-on/1100-6455211/
I noticed the the frame freeze issue appears to be much worse at the weekend when the server are likely to be under more load from players than in the week .
Last night (Friday 8th Dec) Battlefront II was pretty much unplayable on the standard PS4, too much jitter for a Specialist and close combat meant instance death as constant freezes left you open to attack. The frame freeze on respawn was horrendous with pauses for 2-3 seconds on almost every respawn. I love Battlefront and the PS4 but yesterday I was ready to ask Sony for my money back.
I presume the ”Fall Back” feature is required in order reduce the size of the maps that need to be processed by the hardware which would suggest the developer are pushing the hardware limits. This does make the maps feel at lot smaller and Battlefront I and prevents player from holding back or pushing forward to pick of targets.
In conclusion this frame freeze looks like a combination of hardware performance and server lag hence it being worse on PS4 than on PS4 Pro at peak times and affecting all platforms.
I appreciate this would make for a difficult job for the developers to debug hence the recent patches having little or no effect. It would be courteous though to have some formal feedback from EA and DICE updating us on what is being done before there is a mass exodoeus from the game as players give up..
There is a rather large 10GB update downloading for Battlefront II, finger crossed this is what we have been waiting for.
First impressions of update:
Menu systems at lot smoother no jitter went opening crates with 4 or 5 star cards
Starcards show a immediately in Collection menu rather than a second or so delay
Gameplay.... NOT SEEN ANY JITTER YET
- I had a reasonable outing wth a Specialist and even in battle scenes with lots of action was able to take down enemies, Seems a lot smoother than before looks like DICE and EA may have levelled the playing field for originals PS4 users.
Only time will tell whether this defect is fixed but looking very promising
Their official patch notes say:
- Made improvements in reducing game server lag on large game modes
- Made improvements in reducing micro-stuttering/freezes during gameplay
I will definitely post back after some playing tonight -- hopefully it is stable/fast.
