BlatMan

What was broken?

I've never been stabbed. Must be a genetic issue. The bans wouldn't seem false if EAC was also banning the speed hackers that play with that 3 letter name Brazilian.

Hardware specs will really help determine if it's a hardware issue or an APB Reloaded issue. Back in the year 2012, I had lots of stuttering caused by particles (explosions, blood, etc) with two 9600GTin SLI. I needed custom configs to stop the stuttering. Any graphics card older, or lower in performance, than a GTX 960 will have stuttering issues without lowering graphics by editing the config files. Only with Tiggs' and her horses. Other actors didn't seem to cause issues.

I think it's a hardware driver or a piece of software that EAC doesn't like. The bans are too random. They're not within the same friends group. Sadly we'll never get the answer, because LO isn't going to take the time to work with Epic Games. I also doubt Epic is willing to work with LO. With how poorly LO manage this game, it wouldn't surprise me if it's APB's own code that triggers something in EAC.

When I try a new game I expect to be patootie at it. I was bronze when I first started, then worked my patootie off to get better, because that's the whole point to playing a competitive game. If I didn't want competition, I wouldn't play a game geared towards it. If anything, the problem now is you can't unlock primitives if you win matches. You have to lose or tie in order to unlock random rewards. A new player wanting to get better will end up screwing themselves over customization wise. They'll leave early on because they'll think they need 1000s of hours just to get that one symbol, or waste money on an Armas pack, but it still doesn't include some oddball items like the wristwatch, which is a random reward. I brought this issue up last year. Still no fix. All we got was an unfinished vehicle.

You're not the only one. A clan member from back in 2012 recently tried playing. A bunch of stuff is missing from their characters. Support said they couldn't do anything. I saw another friend playing, but it wasn't them. Whoever had the account was speaking Portuguese. Original owner spoke English, and only signed in from US locations. It took months to get their account back, and all support did was give them about 3000 G1C. Nothing was returned to their account. I don't think Little Orbit are logging anything, or support staff don't investigate account breaches. Logs are easy to save, especially basic stuff like IP and MAC. They're probably using a 3rd party for support, who uses number of tickets closed a metric, instead of hours worked.

Can you blame her?

The only thing EAC got mad at was the VivoxVoiceService.exe, but it only stopped APB from launching, it doesn't ban.

Same range as FBW, but better accuracy and lower ttk. It's also cheap to get with joker tickets.

No worries. Your site still has better uptime than LO can even wish for.

I filled out the form, but I don't think anything can be done to improve APB without solving the network problems. The gameplay is drastically different when Little Orbit's service provider isn't throttling your connection. You feel like you have god mode enabled, because no one has time to react due to the low ttk. Currently you need to VPN hop until you find one that isn't throttled. Cloudflare WARP and WARP+ don't work with APB, or their service is blocked. Login works, but can't join districts. APB doesn't support IPv6, which prevents the use of many mobile connections, and limits routes the game data can take. I doubt Little Orbit will do anything meaningful with APB from now on. It took them a year to release an unfinished vehicle. The new matchmaking tests have 99% of the matchmaking features disabled. I tried finishing this post, but the post editor decided to submit the post prematurely.

Solution: Disable Steam shader pre-caching, and delete the old shadercache files. In Steam's settings, disable Shader Pre-caching. - Menu up top > Steam > Settings > Downloads > Enable Shader Pre-caching (uncheck) Then, delete the old shaders. Delete all files in this directory. - /home/username/.steam/steam/steamapps/shadercache/113400/ Drive around the district to compile the vulkan shaders. The game should run better. Original Post: Since the Christmas event ended, I've been having stuttering caused by particles. For example, if I'm driving and a teammate is using blow torch on my vehicle, the game will stutter. It stutters worse the more particles are on my screen. It does not stutter when I use blow torch on a vehicle, which makes no sense. Same with shooting. other players shooting within my screen space causes stuttering, by my own shots do not. I tried resetting the config files and removing the dxvk.conf. I deleted APB's proton files and even tried upgrading to Proton GE 27. Nothing seems to make a difference. I'm wondering if something got screwed up with my Debian installation. I tried installing the Kate text editor one time. With it installed, not even running, it caused display lag. It was somehow preventing APB's window from updating on the screen. Fps was stable, but 2/3 of the frames weren't making it to the monitor. I uninstalled it while APB was running, and it immediately fixed the problem. I removed the orphaned packages that were required for Kate. I still can't get the Nvidia settings to load at login. I have to launch the Nvidia X Server settings app to load the settings.

That doesn't cover paying support staff to answer APB tickets over the last year.

I doubt more than 2000 were sold globally. At $13 that's only $26000.

With this population, not even enough money to pay for rent.

Somehow you brought back the car glitch, the one that sticks players to their car when they exit the seat. Guess that's expected when you hire people based on checkboxes and not intelligence.

Because LO is too incompetent to keep the server time the same.

That's always going to be a problem. If PUBG couldn't do fair matchmaking with 200K players online, APB isn't going to be able to with less than 1k. If we had voip working I think the average skill will go up significantly. Randoms will be able to quickly communicate.

They take a year to release a vehicle. Textures are broken, and no police lights, the most basic thing all other vehicles have. In the same patch, they manage to break VIP and witnessing. The two tests of the new matchmaking system, were useless at best. Little Orbit disabled most of the features. You really think it's going to work?

That why I was wondering if EAC behaves with DXVK on Windows. Place 1 file in APB's binaries folder, and launch APB. Way easier than configuring a new OS. I don't recommend Linux as a main operating system, just figured someone running Windows 7 is more up to tinkering.

Little Orbit want to merge everyone into a single world server, but I don't see that happening for at least 3 years. It took them a year to release an unfinished vehicle, something relatively simple to build, compared to the rest of APB's features.

If that was the case, they wouldn't have Linux support. The reality is there's less profit supporting 7/8. They don't need to keep those old devs around who know the operating systems, and don't need to retrain new devs. I bet they wouldn't support Linux either if it wasn't for Steam deck existing. On Windows 7, I had the garbage collection stuttering, and if I turned that off, the fps would drop over time. Borderless and Fullscreen didn't have much of a difference with input lag. On Windows 10, the fps drops over time regardless of what configs I use. There's noticeable input lag. Average fps is lower if I don't turn off fullscreen optimization. Borderless feels like 60fps with vsync. On Linux, it's about the same as Windows 7, but with higher average fps. This probably due to DXVK spreading the CPU load more evenly across CPU cores. Not an apples to apples comparison, since I can't test the latest APB patch on Windows 7, and I didn't test the older versions on Linux or Windows 10. Regardless, there's noticeable overhead with the way Windows 10 handles DX9 games. I wonder if EAC allows DXVK on Windows?

Currently no. EAC won't run on Windows 7. From my experience, Windows 10 runs APB like crap. There's noticeable input lag and constant stuttering. I ended up trying Linux and surprisingly, APB runns better than it did on Windows 7. I went with Debian 12. I only installed the 525 Nvidia drivers, Steam, Proton EAC runtime (in Steam), and GE-Proton8-25 (added to Steam). I had to disable the CPU idle to stop my CPU from down clocking, and turn off all the settings for OpenGL in the Nvidia Settings app. Configs still work. Only annoying issue is the Nvidia display settings won't load at login. I have to open the app each time I login. I don't recommend replacing Windows with Linux, most Linux software is lacking in features, but if you have an extra SSD, install Linux on that and see how APB runs. I'm currently on Debian 12, but if I were to start over I'd go with the latest Fedora or one of Fedora's spins.

They have a vehicle called the Maxo, with multiple body kits and multiple sets of wheels, in the game files. The UV unwraps appear to be complete. They just needed to slap that body on an existing vehicle and tweak it's handling. EZ money right there. Instead, they work on this thing for over a year, and they couldn't even get the base model right. This car looks like a pita to customize. Too many body lines. Simple, flatter surfaces is better. If I need a line to break up the car, I draw it on. Than again, people seem to like the Coywolf body, even though it looks like someone's cat walked across the keyboard while they were editing the model.