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Quality deterioration issue that has persisted and occured for multiple updates for me. (since update .49)
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Description

This is an issue that I don't have control in recreating, and other than mostly experiencing it in areas with a lot of buildings I cannot explain truly how this issue works. Below is the jist of exactly what happens-

After playing for a short period of time (5-10 mins) I will experience a sudden huge drop in FPS and quality, enabling me to see through any building i'm in, still rendering other players and items through walls (with awful quality deterioration), my character will not move normally for others at all (quite slowly), most inputs not being recorded by the game. No matter what quality settings I play on this issue always happens, at random times, but more frequently in areas with many buildings. I notice this issue rarely happens when I am in the middle of a forest or area that does not render many structures. (Trees are not causing the issue but buildings are??)

The only fix that I have for this issue myself is a temporary one, it involves going into the quality options while the issue is occurring and changing ANY option in the graphics settings the re-renders my game graphics (in my case I enable and then disable the V-sync options to quickly reset my UI and graphics). This fix is quite temporary, and the issue is certain to return as long as i'm playing and constantly changing my location in the game.

Details

Legacy ID
3426764561
Severity
None
Resolution
Duplicate
Reproducibility
Always
Category
Performance
Steps To Reproduce

-Begin playing game, traveling pretty much anywhere that isn't out in the middle of the woods where there are no cities or group of buildings. (Although i can't say it hasn't happened in the middle of nowhere at least once)
-Walk around any city for more than a few minutes ( I mean a FEW minutes. it takes almost no time at all.)
-Randomly experience a short freeze in game play, followed by a small increase in the audio and massive quality deterioration with awful rendering and horrible graphics and framerate.
-To fix issue until it reoccurs, re-render game graphics by resetting any quality option.

Additional Information

Other than knowing that I am the only person I know with this issue I don't know what else to provide. It's hard for me to understand anything else about this bug other than it truly is game-breaking and has caused me a lot of strife, i've pretty much been avoiding cities any time I want to play, otherwise I get easily murdered by zombies and god forbid I have any player interaction while trying to fix my issue. I don't know what to compare the view to other than really splotchy un-rendered textures and buildings that look like really low quality placeholders.

Exact Computer specifications-
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz
4GB RAM 32-bit OS (only 3GB being used)
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
2302 MB available graphics memory
196GB Free on hard disk
DirectX 10

Event Timeline

drugsarebad edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
drugsarebad set Category to Performance.
drugsarebad set Reproducibility to Always.
drugsarebad set Severity to None.
drugsarebad set Resolution to Duplicate.
drugsarebad set Legacy ID to 3426764561.May 8 2016, 9:01 PM
andy added a comment.Jan 13 2015, 12:26 PM

Hi drugsarebad and sorry about your trouble.
This seems to be the same problem as #17013, which we are continuously working on in order to improve performance. Please be patient.
Regards,
Andy