Topic: Graphics Req. - Unneccesary draws.
Hello, magical DEV's - I have been running into problems with the draw distance in-game.
it would seem that when you turn the draw distance right down to nothing.... it doesn't activate on "certain" landmarks - i.e. if you get the strange wine bug i have encountered recently, you can see all of the highway-accelerators, terminals, and teleports on the map. - this is not normal behaviour obviously, but it tells me the game was normally drawing them behind the terrain.... BADDDDDDDD.
i look around... i can see EVERY teleport EVERY terminal, and EVERY highway accelerator.(some highway arms DO get clipped, but not all of them)
my poor little laptop cringes.
i look in the direction of *no teleports, terminals, or arms - my laptop pulls a smooth 30fps, just enough to enjoy the game. regardless of what else is on the screen.
and yet, draw distance, and terran detail are both set to nothing... and you can see the very obvious limit of the setting... and many things drawn outside of this range.
could this have something to do with my massive graphics lag?? i think so!!! - i play on a GTX560 most of the time so not an issue,, but the laptop i would normally play on the road, and at mates houses (corpies ) doesn't like perpetuum due to this one simple little fact - i only have a mid-range card in my laptop, and the game is wasting it on stuff that i don't need to be drawing
i noticed the fact that the game draws these things thanks to a bug i encountered testing wine - i lost the terrain, but could see dampalor teleport from shinjalaar terminal.... hmmmmmm....... if any devs care about optimizing the game engine - i would think these were supposed to be clipped by the draw distance setting(maybe they got left out) - if they get clipped, then it will majorly impact on the system requirements for the game( unneccesary draws == unneccesary lag == unneccesary requirements)
I'm hoping somebody takes interest in this, because it is ticking me off, and i am sure there are millions of people out there wondering - just like me - why their machine that will play seemingly more graphically intensive games has a major problem with perp.
screenshots available if needed - just ask/