Shimmer

Well this is the most underwhelming thing I've ever read....

Ive submitted a ticket, but I have NO idea how long that will take to get a response from so I thought Id try here too. Ive played this game for over a decade and have never had any issues. No lag, no crashing, nothing. I recently upgraded my Graphics card, and My 2nd monitor. Since then every time I log in to play I crash at LEAST once and its always in the middle of a mission This is what the error box says when I crash: m_VertexBuffer->Lock(m_nNextVertexData, Size, &pData, VertexLockFlags) failed at Src\D3D9DrawPrimitiveUPWrapper.cpp:293 with error D3DERR_DEVICELOST History: 01:48:39 - Log: Log file closed, 27/06/22 21:48:39 All drivers are up to date, I tried limiting the framerate on the game in the nvidia control panel - Still crash tried turning off the second monitor - Still crash ive messed with every graphics setting in game - still crash Tonight Ive crashed 4 times in a row in less than an hour and im losing my mind here. Anyone have any insight into what that error is? here are my specs: Intel i7-6700K 8 CPUs at 4.0 GHz 32 gig ddr 2400 ram NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 1TB ssd help?

You do realize they announced that they’re no longer working on the engine upgrade right? also it’s been 10 years since the upgrade was originally promised in “Q4 2012”.

the population has been declining and is the worst its been. As others have said, we simply do not have a server population that would support this. We didnt have a population high enough to support threat segregated districts. premades arent even an issue. I barely see groups of players queuing together. 90% of the time what you're seeing is people who are solo and pressing K and the game throws those same people into a group together because, theres barely any people to put you in a mission group with when it starts. last few days ive played i kept getting grouped with the same people over and over by the game for missions after pressing K. solo queuing will not prevent this. You're still going to get up against the same people over and over because again, server pop. If theres only 5-10 people on the other side, you will inevitably be against the same people frequently.

honestly id rather they just make the heart tagger purchasable. Id buy the shit out of that.

theres maybe 40 people TOTAL on jericho on a good day. 20 crims 20 cops. A majority of the time its like 10/10. If they reenabled threat locked districts, it would be a bronze district with like 3 cops 4 crims, the crims probably ram raiding and not readying up or 1v1 missions, and the others would just dethreat to get into the district. Our server pop doesnt support threat locked districts anymore. You would have nobody to play against.

this game has had threat segregation removed before. It was an absolute mistake. Thats why they changed it back. This isnt going to help Jericho at all, but be the final nail in the coffin.

I wouldnt count on the engine upgrade. Not sure why people are still holding on hope for it... Merged. there is literally nobody "making a living" streaming this game...

his january update said that the current team could not get the upgrade in a working state and that they would have to outsource the work and hire some engineers to work on it. Literally dont hold your breath or count on the engine upgrade ever coming into fruition. From January Update: "For APB 2.1, it's become obvious that we don't currently have all the resources we need in-house to properly evaluate and solve the remaining issues. We have done 5 Open Beta tests, and while there has been a lot of hard work and some progress, it's not enough to meet our goals. To that end, we are in the process of signing deals with some Unreal 3.5 consultants that specialize in performance captures, identifying bottlenecks, and recommending specific optimizations that will work for the APB engine."

There are never 2 populated servers on jericho. At max its barely 1 half full district.

You're bored? Mr. JoinedFebuary2021. Imagine waiting for the engine update since it was promised in 2012. Next.

no. lack of population is killing this game. You already have barely enough in a district to even GET a mission. Take out premades and youll just be playing missions with no op.

ive been maxed out on multiple characters for years. The game has the FUN factor right, and you dont need progression to want to play. I do agree lack of NEW maps or content is making it a tad stagnant but having literally noone to play against makes it just not worth it. Also ive been logging in throughout the day and never had issues getting op on EU but NA is just dead. I havent had any latency issues thus far. Been working fine for me. Are you referring to the mythical engine upgrade? I wouldnt hold my breath, theyve been promising it to us "next quarter" since 2012. The new engine isnt going to magically save the game either im not sure why people are under the impression its going to do some sort of voodoo and bring this game back to life. With the pandemic, and all the issues the current team is having with the engine upgrade (they cant even do it and they have to outsource it to find someone that CAN make it work) im not too optimistic that it will ever see the light of day. They could have built an entire new APB game in the amount of time theyve worked at trying to make that engine work with APB. So Matt said he was only going to market the game AFTER the engine upgrade, and hes already stated his team cant handle it...so....in the meantime something needs to be done or this game will quite literally die. There arent enough players currently and im not sure how theyre even staying afloat. Im sure theyre bleeding money on this.

Lets face it. We all know its coming. Jericho on a good night has MAYBE 20 people on total in mission districts. That's it. Its a literal graveyard, with most nights no active districts at all. The pop on Jericho has been dwindling for months and its finally just crashed. Ive been playing some on Citadel which has a much more active player base, but all my stuff isn't over there When can we expect a merge? because it really needs to happen.

I remember the days when GM's would hang out in districts and ban hammer people on the spot, put people in time out for making barricades, or mute people for being overly vulgar. I miss those days