Option to turn off weather effects.

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Wenceslakovitz wrote:

Imperial gardens is just an agony and a pain in the ass, that rain is so dumb. No offense.

Please, let us players enjoy a disable weather effects option. For real.

i agree and in doms final boss area

and new vaal areas

if GGG realy wants to make a game were ppl play for along time like d2 they need to make it so people with low PCs can run the game

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BisuProbe wrote:

I am pretty sure its more of a policy issue here.
If ggg wanted to have players able to disable weather effects they would have done so LONG ago...a simple option in the menu wouldn't be that difficult to implement by any stretch of the imagination

A functional "simple" option isn't as simple as you make it out to be depending on how the game is made. The way things are done may require them to update the system to support disabling/adjusting specific aspects of it and then they have to go and update the appropriate aspects to become compatible with this new configurable system etc.

It could indeed involve a lot of work depending on how things are coded/hardcoded.

It is easy to add an option true, but it is hard to add a functional option.

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lolbam wrote:

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Wenceslakovitz wrote:

Imperial gardens is just an agony and a pain in the ass, that rain is so dumb. No offense.

Please, let us players enjoy a disable weather effects option. For real.

i agree and in doms final boss area

and new vaal areas

if GGG realy wants to make a game were ppl play for along time like d2 they need to make it so people with low PCs can run the game

Alternatively people with low-end PC's should upgrade instead of expecting the world to always be served to them upon a silver platter.

So I hadn't played this game since open beta and decided that with the new content releases it would be fun to get back into it and try and progress farther than I had before (I was an arpg noob who liked the idea of hardcore so I never made it to endgame). During open beta my laptop could play the game fine on low settings, desync was an issue but I accepted it because I could reasonably avoid the main causes of it in terms of skills. Now I come back several months later to find that not only has the optimization and graphics options not improved at all (I would have been fine with that honestly), I can't even progress past Normal mode because Dominus second form is so monstrously lag inducing that it's literally unplayable.

You know what makes for terrible atmosphere? 1 FPS. There is 0 atmosphere to this content that was added since I last played because the only thing I can think about is how that with something like a years time of development since I last played the game, it has somehow regressed in optimization to the point of unplayability.

This is a 2 year old thread. These issues have been made severely worse since the statement that you'd rather fix the effects than even give us a choice to play without them. I was considering spending more money on this game on item effects since I generally like to support my favorite f2p games and like the f2p model in general. How about you offer a purchase effect called "Optimized Weather Effects" so that I can actually play the content of the game I've helped financially support in the past and wanted to help financially support in the future?

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

Alternatively people with low-end PC's should upgrade instead of expecting the world to always be served to them upon a silver platter.

Yes, people clearly are willing to spend hundreds of dollars in order to play a F2P game.

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It could indeed involve a lot of work depending on how things are coded/hardcoded.

It is easy to add an option true, but it is hard to add a functional option.

Yes, maybe it's a lot of work. And maybe it isn't. Do you know if it is? Because I certainly don't. And unless someone from GGG comes and tells us that it is too hard to implement, I'll keep my hopes up.

On another note, I don't even think this is a problem of the computers themselves. I have a decent PC, and still get <15 fps against Dominus. This looks more like a matter of optimization (and, if I'm honest, pretty much all the game feels very unoptimized).
Atmosphere is good and all, but it's pretty useless if I literally can't play the game.

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JackTheRiot wrote:

Yes, people clearly are willing to spend hundreds of dollars in order to play a F2P game.

I've spent hundreds of dollars on the game alone. And alot of other people. So. Meh?

And never understood that logic. The games evolve. It's like saying It's weird I cant play PS4 games on a Nintendo 64.

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Xpire wrote:

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JackTheRiot wrote:

Yes, people clearly are willing to spend hundreds of dollars in order to play a F2P game.

I've spent hundreds of dollars on the game alone. And alot of other people. So. Meh?

And never understood that logic. The games evolve. It's like saying It's weird I cant play PS4 games on a Nintendo 64.

You haven't spent that money in order to play the game, though. You did because you liked it, and donated.
In the same way, I'd donate too. If I could actually play it, that is.

And again, this is not a matter of hardware (probably, and for the most part). Many people with this problem (or just framerate drops in general) have reported having good or at least average computers. I personally updated my PC last year. I'm on a tight budget, so I'm not willing to pay another hundred bucks for a new CPU or GPU, just to be able to have rain in a couple of areas. Sorry for being poor, I guess.

Thats true though.

Still, my point still stands. If you want to play todays games you have to update your rig. :P

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JackTheRiot wrote:

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

Alternatively people with low-end PC's should upgrade instead of expecting the world to always be served to them upon a silver platter.

Yes, people clearly are willing to spend hundreds of dollars in order to play a F2P game.

Well that's your prerogative. I still don't think games should go out of their way to specifically support mainstream desktop hardware that is over 5 years old though (Over 5 years old for laptops featuring mobile variants of mainstream desktop video cards, less then 5 years time for integraded/budget video chips).

Heck, even Nvidia is ditching driver support for their Geforce 8000, 9000, 200, 300 series video cards soon (And the 405 model), some of which are less then 5 years old. Unless a dev wants to constantly work around driver bugs that will never ever get fixed, in order to pull off various graphical features, it isn't worth the hassle.

If you have an Intel i# #### CPU (Running at at least 2.5GHZ) or AMD equivalent & a mainstream Nvidia 400 series video card or AMD equivalent video card, or better, then you should be expecting smooth performance.

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

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And if you read my other post, you'll realize that my PC is NOT 5 years old (in fact, it's 3, and updated last year). Other people have posted with decent specs and the same problems.

And for a game made specifically and exclusively for PCs? Yes, I do think developers (specially indie ones) should try to let as many people as possible to play their game. Hell, I'm not asking for it to run on Windows XP (even though it can, and that is much more work than simply disabling weather effects), but being able to lower the graphical quality in any way can allow more people to play it (speaking of that, I still find weird that you can't lower the textures under medium, unless you go out of your way to modify the config file).

As an added note, I quote the FAQ itself.

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Path of Exile is designed to run on a huge variety of systems, from an everyday laptop to a top of the line gaming rig.

Yeah, I'm not sure that with an "everyday laptop" you can even go past the Imperial Gardens.