ON-DEMAND TEXTURE STREAMING CAUSING LAG and PACKET LOSS

[North_Dumpling]

I've just been playing like a ground war and my game was incredibly unstable. My ping was 45 and I was wondering why this keeps happening. Until I looked what is eating all the traffic, turned out after comparing on-demand texture streaming on and off, the disabled option consumed a lot less of it.
Are developers planning to address the issues or to at least introduce an HD texture free DLC for people who want it?
Seems to be incredibly stupid to make textures a live download during gameplay, that was only asking for trouble.

[NicSage]

Is this serious? It downloads the textures all the time or downloads them once then they are on your drive forever at that point?

[North_Dumpling]

Originally posted by Nicsage:

Is this serious? It downloads the textures all the time or downloads them once then they are on your drive forever at that point?

Well yeah I mean I was playing for a while, once I hit some new ground war map I didnt play on it started giving packet loss

[EAX]

Hmm, guess i try to turn it off and see if it does sth. Yesterday i checked and during 1 day it has had downloaded roughly 20 Gigabytes of Textures... need to see again if its still downloading and may be the cause as of why the game is lagging like a truck for the whole day by now.