Posted June 14, 2017
First of all I love this game and have played it since the first game (non dark arisen version) was released on the PS3. And the game itself generally runs flawlessly, but on the GoG version specifically the "accessing server" is like 10x slower than the steam version. The game has always had a slight bit of stuttering when it was loading data as you moved around in the open world it is generally noticeable but not as clear as with the online GoG version. The problem seems to be with the gog galaxy server access. I had no issues with the steam version when online and it accessing the server often as you walked around the open world, but with the GoG version the network issues are pretty atrocious.
1) When walking around the world with GoG Galaxy running in online mode, the loading stuttering is significantly worse when compared to when GoG Galaxy is NOT running and in offline mode. Just walking from the encampment to the mountain waycastle has a very noticeable frame rate drop when the game streams the data load off the HDD and the "Accessing Server..." message is in the upper right hand corner of the screen. That slowdown is still there when GoG Galaxy is not running but it isn't nearly as noticeable because it seems to return to normal rather quickly. This is with a 1080Ti, BTW so it's not a hardware issue and the network is on a 75Mbps connection so it's doubtful it is a connection issue.
2) When compared to the steam version, the GoG version when online, is really horrible when resting so it can update your pawn info. What's going on here does anyone know? Steam version wasn't this slow, but the GoG version I literally have time to put down the controller and stretch my legs and in some of the worst cases I could go to the bathroom and back and it would be just finishing up. It's a long wait every time considering that even if it was sending the whole save file every time it was only sending 512kb of data.
3) In the rift, almost every time, the first time I search for pawns to hire I get a could not retrieve data or something then notice that the "accessing server" message is still in the upper right hand corner. If I just wait for that to eventually disappear, then the list is filled normally.
Is this just happening on my end or is this a widespread problem with the GoG version for everyone else?
1) When walking around the world with GoG Galaxy running in online mode, the loading stuttering is significantly worse when compared to when GoG Galaxy is NOT running and in offline mode. Just walking from the encampment to the mountain waycastle has a very noticeable frame rate drop when the game streams the data load off the HDD and the "Accessing Server..." message is in the upper right hand corner of the screen. That slowdown is still there when GoG Galaxy is not running but it isn't nearly as noticeable because it seems to return to normal rather quickly. This is with a 1080Ti, BTW so it's not a hardware issue and the network is on a 75Mbps connection so it's doubtful it is a connection issue.
2) When compared to the steam version, the GoG version when online, is really horrible when resting so it can update your pawn info. What's going on here does anyone know? Steam version wasn't this slow, but the GoG version I literally have time to put down the controller and stretch my legs and in some of the worst cases I could go to the bathroom and back and it would be just finishing up. It's a long wait every time considering that even if it was sending the whole save file every time it was only sending 512kb of data.
3) In the rift, almost every time, the first time I search for pawns to hire I get a could not retrieve data or something then notice that the "accessing server" message is still in the upper right hand corner. If I just wait for that to eventually disappear, then the list is filled normally.
Is this just happening on my end or is this a widespread problem with the GoG version for everyone else?
Post edited June 14, 2017 by LurkerLito
