Wilhelm loot falls off the map

[guestMknO4UUh]

Any suggestions? His loot explodes like crazy, sometimes even pausing won't allow me to see where it goes

[Mailer]

Limit your FPS first and foremost. A huge portion of mechanics in Borderlands 2 are tied to FPS because it is a console game at the core, locked 30 FPS.
I would suggest a steady 60 FPS, if possible.

Disable PhysX (set to Low) if it is enabled, as it tends to mess with the way loot interacts with the world.

I believe the loot that Wilhelm drops usually flies perpendicular to Wilhelm's right hip(?) so make sure his right is towards an inward wall when you land the final hit.

Other than that, this is typically what happens with Wilhelm's loot for some reason. It's not easy to mitigate otherwise.

[Nakos]

Mm... Bloodwing is worse. She spends so much time outside the arena, the odds are higher than not that her loot just ... drops out there somewhere. Especially if your character is doing any sort of DoT damage.

[guestMknO4UUh]

Originally posted by Mailer:

Limit your FPS first and foremost. A huge portion of mechanics in Borderlands 2 are tied to FPS because it is a console game at the core, locked 30 FPS.
I would suggest a steady 60 FPS, if possible.

Disable PhysX (set to Low) if it is enabled, as it tends to mess with the way loot interacts with the world.

I believe the loot that Wilhelm drops usually flies perpendicular to Wilhelm's right hip(?) so make sure his right is towards an inward wall when you land the final hit.

Other than that, this is typically what happens with Wilhelm's loot for some reason. It's not easy to mitigate otherwise.

Oh yes that's why the guard always takes so long to let me into sanctuary right? I'll try to but the fps to 30 right before I take him down, wouldn't want to play with 30 all the time

[guestMknO4UUh]

Originally posted by Nakos:

Mm... Bloodwing is worse. She spends so much time outside the arena, the odds are higher than not that her loot just ... drops out there somewhere. Especially if your character is doing any sort of DoT damage.

I... didn't even know she dropped something

[guestMknO4UUh]

Originally posted by Mailer:

Limit your FPS first and foremost. A huge portion of mechanics in Borderlands 2 are tied to FPS because it is a console game at the core, locked 30 FPS.

Just took him down to 10%, then switched to capped 30 FPS and finished him off. Everything dropped close to him, thanks! Having it uncapped resulted in the items reaching speed of sound

[Mailer]

Originally posted by guestMknO4UUh:

Originally posted by Mailer:

Limit your FPS first and foremost. A huge portion of mechanics in Borderlands 2 are tied to FPS because it is a console game at the core, locked 30 FPS.
I would suggest a steady 60 FPS, if possible.

Disable PhysX (set to Low) if it is enabled, as it tends to mess with the way loot interacts with the world.

I believe the loot that Wilhelm drops usually flies perpendicular to Wilhelm's right hip(?) so make sure his right is towards an inward wall when you land the final hit.

Other than that, this is typically what happens with Wilhelm's loot for some reason. It's not easy to mitigate otherwise.

Oh yes that's why the guard always takes so long to let me into sanctuary right? I'll try to but the fps to 30 right before I take him down, wouldn't want to play with 30 all the time

Exactly! I can't say for sure but I think Pvt. Jessup is also pseudo-affected by FPS. Same as Claptrap when you hoist him at the ship. Even when your character gets stuck in seemingly invisible things in terrain as you run it's often due to FPS. It's very bizarre, but glad you found a good compromise solution.

Originally posted by guestMknO4UUh:

Originally posted by Nakos:

Mm... Bloodwing is worse. She spends so much time outside the arena, the odds are higher than not that her loot just ... drops out there somewhere. Especially if your character is doing any sort of DoT damage.

I... didn't even know she dropped something

They might be referring to Son of Mothrakk(?), which is a mini-boss that spawns in place of Bloodwing if you return to the preserve again. Their drop does indeed depend on where Mothrakk flies as you kill it, so that's another situation where you need to plan when to finish them off to get the loot.

[Casurin]

Stable FPS is the most important thing for this game.
Running anything from 30-90 FPS is fine as long as you do not get wild swings.

Originally posted by Mailer:

Disable PhysX (set to Low) if it is enabled, as it tends to mess with the way loot interacts with the world.

Kinda, kinda no. You can easily run PhysX on max as long as you have an nvidia card and make sure it runs on the GPU.
The reason why it causes so many problems is that the game uses a very old version that has a single-threaded CPU-fallback targetting x87 (yes, 87, not 86) that is really inefficient and will cause extreme FPS-fluctuations.
And BL2 has many bugs with the settings, which often leads to the config getting corrupted and PhysX then running on the CPU (in a game that was already single-threaded and CPU-bound ). manually fixing the ini-files or geforce expeirence can fix that, using the pyhsx-overlay also helps identifying the problem.
(and there are areas like the tower in TTAoDK - totally buggy)

[Nakos]

Originally posted by guestMknO4UUh:

Originally posted by Nakos:

Mm... Bloodwing is worse. She spends so much time outside the arena, the odds are higher than not that her loot just ... drops out there somewhere. Especially if your character is doing any sort of DoT damage.

I... didn't even know she dropped something

Well, it's possible I'm just confusing her with the replacement boss from subsequent runs Son of Mothrakk. That one definitely does have drops, and ... you can watch as they fall .... outside ...

Annoying too, because it's the Skullmasher, a Legendary I'm not sure I've ever gotten, but would like to try.