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  1. 14 hours ago, OrangeP47 said:

    I don't have time to look at it right now, but from a research perspective I have a few comments. Did you submit this to your institution's IRB? Typically they can help you get a campus mailing list to increase your sample size, as well as help you control for a few other things. This like this might technically not fall under their purview, but my university had a rather strict policy. 

     

    Yeah, it has been ethically approved if that's what you're asking.

  2. Hi, I need participants to play through a small 10-20 min demo and answer a quick questionnaire afterwards for my dissertation project for my degree, if interested read on.

    The demo can be found at https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9T27Sp4YSQiaVdwZUFRSlNaTW8

    The questionnaire can be found at https://goo.gl/forms/czRU97CLO0oQ9GvJ2

    The demo is made in UE4 and opening the exe is all you need to start. Please read the rest of the post carefully before starting.

    The controls are:

    WASD - Movement

    Mouse - look around

    LClick - shoot

    E - interact

    Q - quest log 

    alt+f4 - quit

    My project is looking at three different navigation techniques and comparing them to try and determine which is the most effective.

    When you start the game a timer in the top left of the screen will begin, quickly pick one of the three NPCs to talk to (E) and play through the series of missions (they will not take any longer than 20 mins in total). If you do genuinely get stuck and cannot proceed just take a note of the time and alt+f4. furthermore, please only play through the demo once.

    have notepad or something open for taking notes, or an actual pen and paper. (you will need to remember some numbers, no more than 6) (and the time at the end).

    The quest log (Q) will only be available for one of the mission series.

    When interacting with NPCs the mouse cursor will appear, use this to click through the dialogue.

    When interacting with door panels the mouse cursor will appear, click the text box and enter the number and click the enter button on the panel to proceed.

    SOUND WARNING. The demo is filled with effects made by my own mouth and has an obnoxious theme playing non-stop. (debugging purposes)

    The look of the demo is complete garbage as it is not what the study is looking into just game mechanics.

    If anyone actually does this, thank you very much for your time, and please do not discuss the gameplay just in case someone else actually plays through it. 

  3. I had a 8150 until recently so I know that line of chips can pull APB with no problems. The 8350 is the same except around 200mhz faster i believe? Anyway, have you looked at your temps while playing? Or maybe tested against another game to see if it happens there as well? I know it shouldn't be hardware but i'm just trying to rule that out. If it happens around the same time each run then it could very well be some obscure hardware-related thing.

     

    Q: Does it happen around the same amount of playtime or match time? As in, if you join the game half way into the match, does it immediately do the lag thing? Or do you have to actually play for 15 mins? If you suffer through to the end, does it to fine at the beginning of the next match or remain slow?

    temps don't go over idle around 20 - 30. in contrast I can play overwatch, Ark, GTA 5, XCOM2 and Planetside2 at constant 60 rarely even dipping to 59. Moreover planetside 2 only lowers down to around 50 fps when there are massive battles.

     

    A: it seems to happen consistently on AoW maps around the 15 min mark match time, first I thought it be foliage(sorry pushwall) but I doubt that now.

    I can play any number of games in a row and it will always start out nice and 60.

    Furthermore as I stated before the frame rate only lowers to 30 when I'm looking in a direction of a base after that point.

  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=korN59Y1TGI

    Ignore the gameplay and just look at the FPS in top right corner.

    Around 12 mins is when the frame rate starts to drop.

    And around 15 mins is when the fps starts to half.

    It tends to happen when looking at one base from another.

    The framerate can become constantly around 30 - 40 in bigger games around the same times.

     

    inb4 hurrdurr I play at 3 fps stop crying.

    Having the game run at 60 and then have the framerate half makes battles rather unplayable(more of an annoyance).

    I just want to know what could be doing it and if there's anything I can do to stop it because it happens every game at almost the same time each time.

     

    P.S.

    I'm not playing on a toaster I have a gtx970 and fx 8350 so it's not my hardware.

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