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It's not an issue for everyone but it is a known problem. Not seeing max clocks means lower average framerates and in some cases stuttering and freezing. The driver automatically adjusts the clocks based on the GPU load. Games never run at the same GPU load. One moment you're looking at an open area, 1ns later a grenade explodes and your GPU is under heavy load. The driver cannot react fast enough. Your game stutters and you die as a result. On tech and game forums, I see lots of people recommending increasing the graphics settings in games to increase the framerate. It works for some people, because it keeps the GPU at a high enough load to not lower the clock speed. APB does not have high enough graphics settings. APB might not be optimized for multi-core CPUs, but it does use more than 1 thread. In a full district, an old X5690 6 Core CPU sees over 40% CPU utilization with Hyper Threading disabled. 2 cores are near maxed, with the others having some load. Most likely it's 2 rendering threads plus other threads for light loads like network and audio. With Hyper Threading enabled (12 threads) it's over 20% load. It can help but for me it doesn't do anything. The GPU still downclocks under low loads.

The carbines/rifles (Joker Carbine, OSCAR, VBR, CR762, OBIR, etc) did have their min damage range reduced by 5M when IR was adjusted, and it remains the same since. APB:DB failed to include these changes in their change log. The carbines had their range nerfed heavily due to the very low minimum damage percentage, while the rifles were barely affected. The only thing that stupid curve system does is make the weapons go from dealing 90% damage to 30% in just a few meters. The curves need to be removed. Linear change is easier for humans to keep track of. It also does not make sense to all of a sudden not deal damage because a player moved 5M.

Remove the recoil curve. Problem solved.

Lets see how this goes.

Were you still in the womb when you played beta? In all seriousness though, I am surprised that there aren't more SPCT members who cry hacks. They are on the lower skill side of the game, and make really poor weapon balance decisions.

Occasionally I see it, but most of the time the players underestimating their opp. Last cheater I saw was a fresh character trialing Armas weapons. Only saw them for one day. Most SPCT members have thousands of hours in action districts. Some are from RTW times. They know how the game works and what's possible to do in game legitimately.

I liked the mission changes, but the weapon balance changes are all over the place. I don't think changing a ton of weapons in one go is a good way to balance either. Change 1 or 2 at a time and see how it goes.

Weapons: OCA: Good. OCA 'Whisper': Unnecessary nerf. PMG: Unnecessary nerf. Buffing the OCA meant the PMG has competition. It did not need a change. CAP40: Good. FAR: Unnecessary nerf. ATAC: Unnecessary nerf. N-TEC: Remove the bloom curve instead. SNR: Unnecessary nerf. OBIR: Unnecessary nerf. PIG: Good. N-HVR 243: Unnecessary changes. N-HVR 762: Good. Manic: Any one of those changes would have been good enough, not all of them. Joker Carbine: Good. ACT 44: Unnecessary nerf. Colby RSA: Unnecessary nerf. It only needed the buff. N-ISSR-B: Good. Jump Shooting: All pointless changes. Ammo Capacity: The increased capacity on all weapons is good. The nerfs for the other weapons were unnecessary. So basically, a few good buffs, and a ton of nerfs that were not needed. Did you ask the green district for help making these changes?

For the most part ya it is, but thought it might help prevent ghost shots. It might be routing issue. I have issues to US-West, and every so often US-East craps out. I need to disconnect/reconnect to the district to fix it on east.

Get a foot pedal and assign it to sprint. Place a brick on it while in game. Could also use a second keyboard and lay a brick on shift.

Waxed, Wax Ed

I see teachers who are disappointed because I didn't do my homework again.

You need to force the card to run at max clocks. You will need to restart your PC or restart the graphics driver when you want to lower the clocks. If it's an EVGA card download EVGA PrecisionXOC, enable K-Boost. This will lock the card to max boost clocks. If it's a non EVGA card, download and install MSI Afterburner. Download the EVGA skin, or install PrecisionXOC and copy the defaultX.uxf skin into MSI Afterburner's skin directory. Restart Afterburner, select the PrecisionX skin, then enable K-Boost. EVGA PrecisionXOC: https://www.techspot.com/downloads/6973-evga-precision-xoc.html EVGA PrecisionX skin: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ya7wzux6lyf8p80/defaultX.uxf?dl=0 MSI Afterburner: http://download.msi.com/uti_exe/vga/MSIAfterburnerSetup.zip Skin directory for MSI Afterburner: C:\Program Fildes (x86)\MSI Afterburner\Skins

People put more effort into the mission when they want to win.

Hardware macros are detectable if the anticheat is configured to monitor player input. No human will fire consistently for long periods. BE and EAC block some hardware based macro mice anyway.

Alright you actually mean shots not shooting server sided. Best way to combat that with semi-auto weapons is to use CJ3 or shoot slightly slower. The servers don't run at a high enough tickrate.

Remove threat segregation. Half the bronze district is gold colored anyway.

No one is stopping you from role playing.

What do you mean by ghost shots? Reloaded partially fixed the issue with weapons shooting client sided but not shooting server sided. If you mean shots not hitting, that's a network problem. It's been bad since they switched from Softlayer to Amazon AWS .

Sign in > Empty silver and gold districts > sign out.

How about make songs count as themes. Let players select a 5 second section as their theme. Give others a choice to hear the section, whole thing, or muted. I don't see the use for long themes atm. No one else can hear it, and there's a longer option call songs. You can play them from your vehicle anytime and others will hear it.

In the music studio, there's patterns 1 to 9 Pattern 1 Pattern 2 etc. When you hover your mouse over one, it displays a tooltip that says "Right click patterns here to rename them." If you right click, you get a rename button. No matter how many times I click that button, I cannot rename the patter. The default themes have patterns renamed, but I cannot edit the names on them either.

I really want the Jericho Nightrider floodlights on my enforcer. I also want the Pursuit special rear lights and spoiler on criminal. APB's theme is to "be everything you can't be." It does not make sense to limit body kits to factions.

You want to prevent players from joining missions? Really???

It barely has more range when you account for the range curve on the CR762 and OBIR and IR3. If they didn't have that stupid curve mechanic then the N-ISSR-B would have a slightly wider niche range. It would be even wider if the silencer didn't reduce it's max range. What's the point of the silencer reducing max range anyway? It doesn't really mask the weapon sound, and you can't put IR on it since it's a red mod. Worse is on the pistols where it reduces the mag size by 1. What idiot came up with that?