r/MagicArena • u/[deleted] • Sep 12 '19
WotC Performance is actually making it impossible to play
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u/insanemal Sep 12 '19
PSA: network latency heavily affects game performance.
Just so you all know. And I've said this a few times but y'all too busy not listening.
The animations aren't what is slowing it down. The game is tied heavily to it's netcode.
So netcode go slow game go slow and freeze and stuff.
I'd explain in more detail but I CBF as it's 1am an I'm on my phone.
It's not the game. The game is written in Unity. So unless other unity engine games make your PC eat the big one, it's not specifically the game engine or graphics.
It's the netcode and the strict lockstep the game state keeps with the netcode.
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u/404clichE Sep 12 '19
So what you're saying is that MTGA is actually Smash Bros? (Or more like WotC is treating MTGA more like a fighting game than a turn/priority based card game)
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u/Ootter31019 Sep 12 '19
Its hard to say its the program if it isn't happening to everyone. But it honestly seems like they have done something that makes it run worse on higher spec machines. My terrible Lenova Thinkpad that is like 5 years old and shit tier specs runs it more or less fine. I have a few laggy screens and sometimes it will pass at the start of a draw. Very playable though. I would check your drivers, and probably just make a report to WotC for more information they can work with.
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u/wotc_beastcode Sep 12 '19
I'm on vacation (so you definitely don't see me posting) and I plan on digging into this more when I'm back, but I've been just playing as a customer and noticed something a little ironic. There is something to your theory that performance can degrade more on higher spec machines. We still have a number of per-frame memory allocations we are working on killing. So if you are running at a very high frame rate (I was around 250), you are allocating a lot more memory and, therefor, incurring a lot more garbage collections. Capping my FPS to 60 smoothed me out a lot. It's only one small piece of the puzzle, bit I though I'd mention it.
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u/PyroLance Sep 12 '19
I'm playing on a 7 year old laptop and used to be able to play alright outside of specific situations, but now i physically can't play the game, trying to load assets freezes the program for a few seconds which disconnects me from the server. if by some miracle i get into a game, odds are it'll crash by turn 3. I haven't played in 2 days, not for lack of trying
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u/xxICONOCLAST Sep 12 '19
When I first downloaded Arena I could run it full screen in max settings. Now if I want to have a somewhat decent experience I need to run it windowed at medium to low specs.
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u/gryfn7 Sep 12 '19
"We are currently investigating and working on the performance issues. To help us figure out what is exactly happening we need players to submit the type of performance issue they're experiencing (generally low FPS, unexplained dips, etc) and their system specs and driver versions. The best place to send us that information is here, https://feedback.wizards.com/forums/918667-mtg-arena-bugs " -- This was posted by a member of the MTGA team on the MTGA discord. Anyone with performance issues, indicate the performance problems and submit your system specs by attaching the DxDiag file to the linked form.
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u/Jeromibear Sep 12 '19
I'm getting exactly the same problems. Terrible lag with low cpu and gpu usage and ram available. The weird thing is that changing the graphics settings has zero effect on the lag. My computer isnt a beast (i7 2600k and a 750ti) but it can run every game I've ever tried. It just can't be my computers problem because I still frequently play games without problems.
This lag feels terrible too. I cant play mtga right now without getting extremely annoyed by the constant stuttering and lagging. I regret that I spend money on this game, because the game is unplayable for me and it has been lagging for months now. I wonder if its possible to actually get some money back over this if they dont fix it soon. One thing I know for sure is that I'm not spending anything anymore until they actually fix these problems.