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Skill Checks on the PC Question

Kilmeran Kilmeran
in General Discussions

When I play Survivor and I press spacebar for the skill check, I notice there is a very small delay or lag from when I press the key to when it stops the meter. I'm new to DBD. Is this a normal thing? It's quite frustrating.

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  • Vietfox Vietfox
    Yes, and it's even worse in ps4
  • Khalednazari Khalednazari
    Skill checks are generated on the client side. Framerate issues may cause delayed skill checks, afaik.
  • Kilmeran Kilmeran

    @Vietfox Thanks. I was curious because I have damn near top hardware from the computer, itself, to the mouse, keyboard, et cetera and I was like: Huh?

    @Khalednazari What can cause framerate drop? Because I'm running a 1080Ti card here and lots of ram.

  • Blood_Coil_Viper Blood_Coil_Viper
    I play on Xbox and I believe the Framerate is about the same as on PS4.. that is to say quite bad. So skill checks are even worse there then on PC I'd imagine 
  • Snapshot Snapshot

    Part of it is the dev's fault too. Not only framerate
    You absolutely need to disable VSYNC for the delay to be 1/2 of that with VSYNC enabled. A no-brainer for far easier skillchecks

  • Khalednazari Khalednazari
    @Kilmeran I'm not exactly sure. Since I play on PS4, I am used to minor delays in skillchecks. But I'm sure that they are generated by the client, so I don't think it's because of peer-to-peer. It's mostly the frames. If any other player can second or correct me this, would be great! 
  • Kilmeran Kilmeran

    @Snapshot I didn't check my VSYNC since in most my games nowadays, I found it disabled by default. I should check it next time I go into DBD, though. They might have it enabled.

    @Khalednazari I'm really curious if the game optimization is worse than I thought, then. I double-checked the PS4 specs and they aren't bad. Certainly shouldn't give you guys even worse lag in skill checks than some PC people get, which seems to be exactly what other replies indicated happened on PS4.

    I did do a bit of research on frame rate drops, and a game having poor optimization is a regular culprit. And that would explain the skill check delay across the three platforms, especially since, from what I see at the forums, the console version seems to be optimized even worse than the PC version.

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