Koalifier

I'll add one on here - be careful with how many words and the volume of your voice too! Sometimes teammates are giving valid info while I'm trying to clutch but their voice masks relevant game audio like footsteps.

Nah, I think it's a great way to make sure that my team doesn't get tilted. Just had a rough loss? EVERYONE is getting a Spectrum fully upgraded classic for our save round

Holy sh*t this is GOLD

So funny man, great video

This was pretty much the conversation when the change happened. Yes, these ranks sounded cooler, but when you started trying to have a conversation with someone out of game about your rank, or tell a friend what your rank was, you needed to have this image handy to explain it otherwise you'd get confused.

Internally we'd be like "what rank are you?" "oh I'm, uh, the red one? Or was it purple?" "Oh cool, I'm the triangle"

As a Raze main, f*ck

Ah man good point, I've done that before and it does really suck

Good news! And no worries, I do that all the time

Yeah I guess that makes sense, I only play in parties where we're all either in discord or voice, so miscommunication like that is rare.

I wonder what the data looks like between LoL/VAL around dodge rates and things like that. Is VAL meaningfully worse because we don't have a ready check? Hmmmmm

Hmmm, I don't think that the fix would've caused that. Maybe try a restart?

Heyo, just to follow up here, we started investigating this issue at around 9:20pm Pacific time last night and a fix was made around 11:05pm Pacific. As far as we can tell from testing and live data, the issue has been resolved, but let us know if it's still happening anywhere!

Just throwing my personal opinion out there on this, I don't work on these things at all - I love that there is no "match accept" button. Isn't queueing up itself the "ready" button? I hate when you're queueing in LoL and you have to click accept like, 5 times because people keep missing the ready check. I feel like I get way less queue dodges in VAL char select when compared with LoL ready-check misses.

Thank you!

Thanks! If you type "WinVer" into the windows search bar (windows key + WinVer) it will run a command and show you your exact version

Hey, just poking in here to say we're actively investigating stuttering in the game. Specifically, what we've observed is players reporting that they get severe stuttering, which looks like loss of inputs, jumping around a bit, rubberbanding, etc. as folks have described in this thread. We're looking at this happening on a variety of hardware (high to low end), and happening during GOOD networking conditions, so we do not think that it's related to packet loss / latency. Anything along those lines would be a separate issue.

Information that would be useful to have, if folks want to help out:

• Video/images showing resource utilization while the stuttering happens.

• If anyone is able to consistently reproduce, information about reproduction steps and dxdiag of the PC used to reproduce. BONUS if you're able to reproduce on different machines.

• WinVer of anyone experiencing the issue.

I appreciate all the detail and effort you've put in to make this report! Would you be able to hop on a discord call with me to talk about the issue? I'm not 100% sure I understand what's wrong from looking at the video and reading your post; some of the info seems at odds, which is a bit confusing

We're working on some performance work that takes a long time right now, so we don't have any updates to provide until that's done. We used to have a lot of updates in the patch notes because we were cleaning out "low hanging fruit" types of improvements that weren't too hard to make. Now we're at the point that a lot of the perf work we need to do will require refactoring existing systems, which carries with it a lot of engineering time and testing time.

However, we did recently spend a ton of time digging into the hitch on death that turned out to be related to the act rank triangles on death recap, and we also put in a good chunk of time to build out Nvidia Reflex support so that players can take advantage of the low latency mode that it provides.

Every team on VAL is responsible for performance. We do have a team that's more dedicated to it than others, but we also spend a decent amount of our time on live performance maintenance. It takes a lot of work to ...

We try to get in fixes for performance in the shooting range, but generally we keep it at a lower priority than the main game mode.

This issue is probably related to a sort of consequence of the game's architecture. We need to do something called "garbage collection" periodically, which is where we tell the game to kick out stuff that's loaded into memory that doesn't need to be there anymore. In normal modes, we force this to be done on the round resets so that it doesn't impact gameplay at all (which is also why you might see your graphs dipping when the round swaps over to a new one). This is why you might get this issue in the range but not in actual games.

In the Shooting range, there's never a round reset, you're just chillin' there. Eventually you'll get to a place where memory is capped out, so when something needs memory, the game needs to dynamically kick something out and replace it with the new thing, which can cause dips like these. They aren't usually ...

Mhz

We tested with around 2k, 2.6k, and 3k. We could see differences in results between all 3, trending up in FPS with higher RAM totals. I'm not sure if you've hit the point of diminishing returns with 3200 or if it's worth upgrading. Depending on the price you might be able to sell your old RAM and buy new RAM for a relatively cheap total upgrade cost though

Hmmm, I can't say, I haven't tested that particular combination of hardware. All I know is that the AMD CPUs for some reason really thrive with very high RAM speed. I've had the architectural reasons for this explained to me before, but I honestly can't recount it well enough to repeat it back to you.