[2.0] Crashes & Performance Issues (With Computer Specific Details)

[dlprentice]

I love the X series but last night I couldn't deal with the amount of problems i had I'll list them below.

I am using STEAM and yes I did verify the integrity of my game cache and it said it was fine. I do wonder when the opera music will kick in though from the DLC listened to it seemed awesome, but I have not heard it in game once.

-Logic (The new update allows for people to be hired without entering a station. However when I started a new game since I have not played since launch I got to the part where I was tasked with hiring a captain, engineer, and defense officer. Well I decided to do this out of station, and it never registered that I hired them.) I continued to try and hire another engineer in a station to see if I could fix this but I could never advance and broke my game and had to start over.)

-Performance
--OS Windows 7 64BIT
--Radeon Graphics Card(With latest AMD BETA drivers): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150598
--AMD CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819113284
--RAM 8GB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820231527
--Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813138372
--Attached Devices: I usually have 2 Western Digital HD's plugged up, my Gamecom 780 Headset, and my Logitech wireless mouse, and keyboard combo with a separate receiver for the mouse and combo (I use 1 device from 2 different combos -- its just a preference thing keyboard is great just substituted the mouse from a different combo though.)

Game is installed on this hard drive (if it matters): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822148840

I don't think I should be having performance issues with this game considering it is more CPU than GPU involved. My processor is very powerful so this has me mind blown. ALSO turning ON SSAO seems to HELP performance for some reason on my system, and turning off VSYNC makes my game go from unplayable to almost perfect (expect in asteroid fields.)

Also from time to time (more so lately) I get crazy visual artifacts until the only thing to I can get to appear on my screen is the pause menu. Once I change a graphics option like turn VSYNC back on everything is back to normal. So than I turn it back off and everything is normal until it happens again. This does not freeze my game because I can hear myself still doing things in the game it just freaks out on the visual side and eventually displays a still image. In stations this has happened a few times objects flashing and what not with black lines (almost like ambient occlusion lines) flashing around the seams of objects. This again always goes away at least momentary if I adjust a graphics option. This has not happened until I'm at least 1-3 hours into gameplay usually.

I find that if I don't do this mission objectives precisely I break my game. Which goes back to hiring pilots at the start of the game from outside the station remotely.

I can't say just yet if switching shaders gives me any improved performance results as of yet, but they certainly do make things look better.

Maybe it is me maybe its not, but I find the Sunseeker missiles sometimes explode upon launch.

When pressing escape to exit the cutscenes sometimes it seems to circumvent things and it breaks the game.

Audio DOES NOT PLAY on all items in the encyclopedia, or when view merchant wares.

I have the latest version of DirectX & all necessary drivers.

-Personal Suggestions to improve the game.
--I like the buy and sell offers menu that allows you to see what is where so you can make on the spot trading instantly, but adding a level of autonomous trading would be a nice touch.
--Better support for the AMD & Radeon crowd. Their products are cheap powerful, but this game doesn't seem to be optimized to utilize them at all.
--Allow out of ship 3rd person perspective view (even though I think on the advanced options I seen might do that it said use with caution.)
--Continue the X series even though this one has had a lot of negative feedback I think with the right amount of optimization, content updates, and feature additions it will be great just take a look at your previous successor X3 Reunion.[/b][/list]