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Bloodborne Load Times are Getting Patched. Along with other performance optimisations
- Thread starter Sn4ke_911
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I've definitely experienced FPS/network issues with co-op. As summoning and being summoned.
The first time I summoned I actually died because the FPS just tanked somewhere I was.
I did a lot of helping last night and a 3 player fight against Father G just tanks the FPS. Felt like playing AC Unity in co-op.
It doesn't bother me too much, since you end up cheesing bosses this way and it's definitely playable, but the performance or network hit, whatever it is, is huge.
The first time I summoned I actually died because the FPS just tanked somewhere I was.
I did a lot of helping last night and a 3 player fight against Father G just tanks the FPS. Felt like playing AC Unity in co-op.
It doesn't bother me too much, since you end up cheesing bosses this way and it's definitely playable, but the performance or network hit, whatever it is, is huge.
McHuj
Member
No. Hard drive is user upgradable, Sony even has a guide. But you won't see a huge jump in performance.
They released the game.
well, they released it in this state and obviously beta tested it.. so, I guess they thought it wasn't an issue.
DrROBschiz
Member
I heard it was at least a jump of 5-10 seconds on average for ingame bloodborne
Seems significant and should be even more so once its patched
I hope they can fix the loading times. They don't really bother me as much as everyone else, but I don't know why they decided to just have a black screen with Bloodborne on it instead of having some lore or artwork or character portraits like in Demon's Souls. If you're going to make me wait at least give me something interesting to look at!
Haunted
Member
That's not how development works and that's not how developers think.
In fact, From programmers are probably the ones who are the most upset about these issues and that they couldn't fix/improve them in time.
McHuj
Member
Right, from benchmarks its about 20-30% so for Bloodborne it makes a difference. A hybrid HD/SDD drive would be a similar gain and is more cost effective.
I'm exploring that option myself as I have my doubts that From will deliver.
If the PS4 had a proper SATA 6.0 GB/sec interface for the HDD, the load times with an SSD should be much, much faster than just the 20-30%.
Or they were getting close to the release date, needed to go gold soon, and delegated what would be on the disc and what would be fixed in the day one/early patches. That's the norm for any game these days, patching is the expected and release has become somewhat of an arbitrary milestone for better or for worse.
I would think so, can you imagine the uproar if Bloodborne had been put back a few weeks..
(performance-wise)Doesn't change the fact that they let the game go gold. They were OK with the game in that state.
Looking at their past, I wonder about that.
McHuj
Member
I just hope that they have been working on it and not just "exploring another patch", which kind of implies that they haven't been looking at it.
Fixing load times (unless there's an obvious bug) could be a significant undertaking.
travisbickle
Member
Call these load times? These are weak sauce, I timed 4min 27 secs on LBP3 the other night. There's supposed to be a patch coming for that too!
I'd assume they just have to use conservative language in these sorts of announcements in any case where they haven't completely finalized what's happening and when. Probably best not to say "YEAH, WE GOT IT, PATCH ON THE WAY!" if there's still work being done and possible delays/complications.
Yeah, performance never seems to be top priority for FROM. Not that I blame them too much. However, shipping Dark Souls on consoles with the state of Blighttown was a game development crime. That was outright disrespectful to people playing the game.
BRocknRolla
Member
The funny thing about that game is that apparently a fair amount of patches have improved things. It was downright broken when I was playing it those first few weeks after launch. I could handle the load times; it was the clipping through the world and falling out of levels that got me. And that's to say nothing of the fundamentally broken co-op mechanics... Anyway, Bloodborne's problems seem like small potatoes by comparison. This is a moderate inconvenience rather than being broken like LBP.
I do sincerely hope we see this Bloodborne patch soon though. Load times are my only hang up about it so far, and even that hasn't stopped me from enjoying myself.
Nah, that framerate was a feature!
Ah, like increasing the difficulty?
Has From ever commented on what they were thinking?
Fallout-NL
Member
To be fair, it seems to be in a hell of a lot better shape than some of the trainwrecks that somehow made it to store shelves in the last 6 months.
Constant 30 would be one thing. I saw a big frame drop right outside the first couple of rooms, before I encountered anything other than
the first werewolf
Beyond that, which is bad enough, the jittery frame rate is extraordinarily janky. It's just bad.
Do you have evidence for this? I had a hybrid drive and its performance gains were not detectable on a PC. From what I researched, hybrid drives increase OS load time performance and not much else, as they OS use the SSD portion as a cache, whereas most other programs utilize the HDD portion as normal (and thus see the same performance).
If that's not true, I'd love to see more information on the subject.
It's not co-op, but very few of the phantoms seem to work for me.
Y-Yeah! It's like the framerate is an extension of your dread thus increasing the difficulty!
No idea. I haven't read any statements about it.
I have a hybrid.
Load time isn't bad.
Some areas load in 10 sec, majority within 20 sec but never over 30 sec.
D
Deleted member 325805
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Because that's how it works with most things? You're generally not allowed to open up and replace parts without voiding the warranty, but if that's not the case with the PS4 then great.
hmm happened to me too the area with burning stakes, smokes and sniper. when i run in here there is a weird sound glitch (not sure if its form game or console itself) and frame rate shutters.
SymbiantXenos
Member
Edit. Oops wrong thread.
TheJollyCorner
Member
So I was doing a full clear of Central Yarnham for fun and had about 11k Blood Echoes on me. Which, you know, is a lot for someone still putzing around in that area. I got to the hounds' cages and one of the hounds, after losing all of its HP, was invincible. The BE were easy to retrieve (was really afraid it'd still be invincible, though) but man an invinci-hound is terrifying.
Hope they fix that.
Hope they fix that.
Yes, frame pacing was completely fixed for Destiny. It can be a symptom of a game that runs above the target framerate by a healthy margin and is sometimes sending finished frames too early, so it's not like the patch needs to massively improve the performance of the game.
Sure, nearly everything is patchable. Of course that doesn't mean they'll actually do it.
McHuj
Member
I wasn't too bothered by the load times my first several hours playing the game, as I was just obsessively exploring every nook and cranny and wasn't dying too much.
Now I'm at a brick wall of the second boss, having explored everywhere else and the load times are starting to get agitating. The load times every time I lose to this boss is literally the equivalent of the time it takes me to walk back and do another attempt.
Now I'm at a brick wall of the second boss, having explored everywhere else and the load times are starting to get agitating. The load times every time I lose to this boss is literally the equivalent of the time it takes me to walk back and do another attempt.
thread title sounds pretty confident, so i'll go with that
I'm not really dying much anymore so the long loading times aren't as bad as before, still I'm going back to hub often to upgrade during farming runs. Hopefully they get the patch out quickly, that and the slight frame stutters are the only major issues from a technical perspective.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
Shh, don't disturb these people now that the revisionist history has set in.
GuitarAtomik
Member
I saw a test of it back when the PS4 had just launched that confirmed this. The SSD was faster, but only minimally so over the hybrid and not enough to justify the cost difference for storage. Again though, that was a while ago.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Is this me or is the framerate going down in
I killed two bosses, shouldn't be too spoilery.
old yharnam, on the little bridge there it's always has like 1ms lag, I had this in DA:I too in one certain part.
I killed two bosses, shouldn't be too spoilery.