the Dr Strange lag bomb issue

[r00en]

I don't wanna give this too much attention BUT I think it needs to be fixed ASAP because with comp now out this seems to be something people are both aware of and exploiting.

For a not a small number of people Dr Strange using his portal will nuke the game frame rate and crash some people completely. I'll be fine for hours at 100 fps on high graphics and suddenly a Dr pops out a portal on my team OR the enemies and boom my game grinds to a halt, my PC sounds like it's about to take off and I'm stutter so badly I'll assume a hard crash is coming. It will putter back to life and even itself out often once the portal is GONE but my graphics are refused to ultra ultra ultra low. The maps are just ugly shapes of color, characters clothes are pixels and even sprays get distorted and pixeled.

It's 'playable' in that state just ugly as sin. While playing with a group of 6 tonight and a portal dropped at least 4 people said right away their lagged out. I assumed it was just a me and my older hardware people but apparently not.

With comp out now I think this needs to be fixed or at least addressed. I can see people knowing this happens and just popping portals at random to try and lag out fights. If there is a fix for this please feel free to share!

[Sammyel]

yeah im already getting penalties for 1 hour because of crashes which caused by dr.strange

[Peaches]

They need to fix it asap

[Scrubdaddy]

It's one reason why the specs are so high, the tech behind the portal is pretty mental and the work your PC has to do to render such things I don't think are worth the end result, they should just remove the thing, you only get one use a round if your lucky anyway

[Snowsuke]

I knew it, so dr.strange was the reason.

[Schizoi6]

My game turns potato every time there's a Dr Strange on the team but otherwise runs well, they gotta rework this thing or optimize the game more otherwise it's a big turn off..

[lightning mcqueen]

Originally posted by Scrubdaddy:

It's one reason why the specs are so high, the tech behind the portal is pretty mental and the work your PC has to do to render such things I don't think are worth the end result, they should just remove the thing, you only get one use a round if your lucky anyway

I am much higher than recommended specs, playing on lowest settings. Dr. Strange portal drops my fps from 165 to 16 :D

[Roland's 2nd]

Fix for the Strange issue here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2767030/discussions/0/596260472619131921/

[deva form]

Originally posted by Roland's 2nd:

Fix for the Strange issue here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2767030/discussions/0/596260472619131921/

did this, improved my fps but no help regarding the dr strange portal crashes.

[Roland's 2nd]

Originally posted by deva form:

Originally posted by Roland's 2nd:

Fix for the Strange issue here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2767030/discussions/0/596260472619131921/

did this, improved my fps but no help regarding the dr strange portal crashes.

Really!?
You would be the first. It fixed it for pretty much everyone else.
What are your settings looking like?

[- (X_x) -]

Originally posted by Scrubdaddy:

It's one reason why the specs are so high, the tech behind the portal is pretty mental and the work your PC has to do to render such things I don't think are worth the end result, they should just remove the thing, you only get one use a round if your lucky anyway

Portal is a game from 2007 and SplitGate is a multiplayer game from 2019 which is built on Unreal 4.
Portals that show a different part of a map in real time and high quality is not new and mental tech it's just implemented really badly in this game.

Unreal Engine 5 + no optimization whatsoever = high specs requirements

[Kyutaru]

Originally posted by - (X_x) -:

Originally posted by Scrubdaddy:

It's one reason why the specs are so high, the tech behind the portal is pretty mental and the work your PC has to do to render such things I don't think are worth the end result, they should just remove the thing, you only get one use a round if your lucky anyway

Portal is a game from 2007 and SplitGate is a multiplayer game from 2019 which is built on Unreal 4.
Portals that show a different part of a map in real time and high quality is not new and mental tech it's just implemented really badly in this game.

Unreal Engine 5 + no optimization whatsoever = high specs requirements

Yes except no because now lighting and shaders and upscaling are all handled completely differently from how they were in the old eras. AI is responsible for a lot of the graphical work today and it means you need the right software and hardware, not because you need faster specs but because you need proprietary technology built into modern cards. Even operating system matters with this game since Windows 11 uses DirectX 12.1 while Win10 does not. Cutting edge games rely on automation more than manual labor.

[LittleAngie]

I know my pc is bad, but this portal just freezes my game....

[OMEGA]

dont play at high settings problem solved play a medium

[git push --force]

Originally posted by OMEGA:

dont play at high settings problem solved play a medium

I am playing with every single setting at minimum and a portal still tanks my FPS down to 20 or so.