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

Razer user here. Ive used all razer mice and keyboards and synapse since it was released with this game. Ive played for years and never been kicked for having razer peripherals or for having synapse running ever.

I distinctly remember a blog post by G1 prior to the LO acquisition that detailed the issues they (G1) were running into with the Engine upgrade. There were pictures of faces melting off of npcs, elongated limbs, etc because of some issue they had copying existing models over to the new engine. I cannot find it, because all blog posts prior to the acquisition have been deleted. They were working on it and showed progress sometimes but that was the first time they literally showed images of the issues they were facing.

Right now prime time on a weekend, there are 34 people on a bronze, 18 on a silver. we cant even fill ONE district to max if you combine the players from both. segregation is making people dethreat to get into the bigger bronze district just so they have a chance at playing someone different than the same team over and over. Our population is literally dead. You cant segregate an already limited playerbase and expect it to suddenly thrive. It IS currently segregated and obviously its doing little and making things worse.

remember when saturdays used to be the best days to play because everyone was home and playing?? I just logged in and theres only one mission district with a population for people to actually get a mission....7 cops and 4 crims. Bronze district. So sad. only 64 total people online and most are in social district. Merged. First, nobody plays this game "professionally". The word you're looking for is Veteran. Second, in order for matchmaking to work properly, there needs to be a healthy playerbase. If all there is in the district is 15 veteran players and 5 newbs, yea youre going to get against vets. Thats just how it is. The vets are the only ones still playing this game, new players get discouraged as they cant learn the game without getting "steamrolled". It will happen, theres no way around it. Like i said above, theres only 65 people total online and the ONLY mission district with people in it is a bronze district, with 11 people in it. that means theres absolutely nowhere for golds to play if they log on, unless they dethreat. This games system is broken, thats no secret. In order for people to actually be able to play this game, they have to exploit the system and dethreat to get any missions at all which is silly.

im aware of how it was. I totally agree threat needs to be removed.

You do realize that if youre on even ground with the enemy you can shoot their feet under the car right? its pretty easy to kill someone using a car for cover. Its essentially the same thing as shooting them through a window.

We did have a period like that. It wasnt unplayable at all. It was literally exactly the same because those same golds weren't dethreating to get into the district anymore, they could just freely enter. I think we can all agree that threat is pretty much meaningless. It literally accomplishes nothing because it is too easily manipulated. Bronze districts still are plagued by dethreaters. They were back in the day as well. At least removing the threat segregation kept you from getting teammates trolling missions to lose threat, or being opposed against another team throwing the game to dethreat making it seriously not fun. New players have never been protected from veterans. The only way to do that would be to make the districts rank based, which is the worst idea ever. There isnt a healthy enough game population at this time to do any segregation. As it is on the US server, we can barely get one full district on a good day. Most of the time its a half full silver district. Most "new players" nowadays are just rerolls, or reroll accounts that have been banned.

You would have less performance issues if you installed and ran the game on the SSD.

I mean, its looks OKAY. Its not game changing or game breaking. I dont feel this is going to save the game at all. Same game with some makeup on. meh. I was max settings 100fps no hitching or lag. Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz (8 CPUs) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 32 gig dd3r3 2400 ram OS is on SSD, game installed and launched on SSD

Why only the one date and time? Thats super silly. Is there another date coming up? I work 12 hour shifts on the weekends....