The map Echelon and Outskirts destroys my framerates

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#1

Maybe it’s all the shiny stuff? Those maps shred my performance. Frames drop into the 30’s. It becomes almost unplayable, I can’t aim, see what’s happening, etc. I am using a Radeon R9 390. All the other maps work fine, framerates in the 100-200’s on average.

Other games on my PC run flawlessly. Even Battleborn runs fine. Just not those maps.

It’s at the point where I have to leave the matches when it happens. :frowning:

is there any setting on my machine that could help?

Right now it’s set to

shadows: medium
particles: normal
vsync: off
framerate: unlimited
anistropic: 4x
bullets: mnedium
foail distance: far
texture: very high
view distance: high

resolution: 640x480 - 1920x1080 (this doesn’t seem to change anything) No matter what I set the resolution, it always gives me the same frames, and looks exactly the same.

everything set to ON, motion blur: off

I have all the updated drivers for my card.

#2

Some people said that disabling particles (it’s the same as NVIDIA Physx with other name) and the dinamic shadows help the framerates.

#3

What this guy said; particles were the deciding factor for me on some of the maps.

#4

It’s strange that the Jennerit maps seem to perform so badly compared to other maps. I guess the way they achieve some of the effects in those maps is really inefficient.

#5

I think that is something bad with the Jennerit maps too because all my framerates problems happen in the 2 Jennerit PvE missions and Echelon and the new meltdown map.

#6

Sorry to be the one to say this but I only have one word to describe your problem.

AMD

No more needs to be said.

#7

Don’t think that’s entirely true, just one piece of the puzzle. Iirc, some people with 980Ti and such have reported issues as well.

However, I can say that moving from an R9 280 to a 1070 recently has made a massive difference.

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#8

When you say disable particles, do you mean setting “Particle Detail Mode” to low?

#9

Yes because you can’t disable it completely.

#10

Disable dynamic lighting from the config files, instant performance!

#11

How do I do that?

#12

You have to modify

C:\Users%USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Battleborn\PoplarGame\Config\PoplarEngine.ini

find the line

DynamicLights=True

and switch it to False; the caveat is everything will become darker. But its there if you’re willing to live with it. Some who find the game way too saturated with color like it though.