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PlanetSide 2 December 17th Update detailed, improves NSO faction, fixes bugs, full patch notes

Daybreak Games will release today a new patch for PlanetSide 2. This update brings some much-needed attention to the NSO faction, fixes some long-standing bugs, enables respeccing your A.S.P. skills, and turns on the holiday event. Continue reading PlanetSide 2 December 17th Update detailed, improves NSO faction, fixes bugs, full patch notes

New PlanetSide 2 patch adds DX11 support, significantly boosts FPS performance on modern hardware

Daybreak Games has released a brand new update for PlanetSide 2 that adds a DX11 renderer. This basically means that players on all types of compatible hardware should be receiving notable performance increases due in no small part to this update, but others as well. Continue reading New PlanetSide 2 patch adds DX11 support, significantly boosts FPS performance on modern hardware

PlanetSide 2 Sets Guinness World Record for Most Players Online in a Single FPS Battle

Sony Online Entertainment has set a new Guinness World Record title for Most players online in a single FPS battle in PlanetSide 2. In addition, SOE has also released some new screenshots in order to celebrate this announcement that can be viewed below. Continue reading PlanetSide 2 Sets Guinness World Record for Most Players Online in a Single FPS Battle

Planetside 2 – New Update Further Optimizes Esamir Objects, Physics & Memory Handlers

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Well, you gotta admit that SOE is trying to fix PlanetSide 2. The game was a resource hog but after the latest updates, we can definitely some performance improvements across various PC systems. This latest update brings improved physics calculations, optimized objects in Esamir and a number of client memory optimizations. This update is live as we speak, and you can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading Planetside 2 – New Update Further Optimizes Esamir Objects, Physics & Memory Handlers

PlanetSide 2 – Massive Update Addressing Performance Issues Released

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Sony Online Entertainment released today PlanetSide 2’s first major optimization patch to the live servers. The huge Phase 1 patch of OMFG is now live on the European PlanetSide 2 servers. As the press release reads, this first phase of OMFG includes optimized UI, physics, sound, player processing, rendering code and more. Continue reading PlanetSide 2 – Massive Update Addressing Performance Issues Released

PlanetSide 2 – New video focuses on PhysX and its incoming physics optimizations

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Sony Online Entertainment has released a new video for PlanetSide 2. In this fourth episode of Operation: Make Faster game, the development team introduces us to Rob Elam and Julio Jerez, programmers for PlanetSide 2. Rob and Julio are charged with optimizing aka “wrangling” the system interactions with the game physics engine to make PlanetSide 2 run better. Enjoy! Continue reading PlanetSide 2 – New video focuses on PhysX and its incoming physics optimizations

PlanetSide 2 – Operation: Make Faster Game – Episode 3

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Sony Online Entertainment has released a new video for PlanetSide 2 that focuses on the team’s attempts to further optimize its title. In episode 3 of Operation: Make Faster game we introduce you to Alex Hoffman, an Associate Programmer for PlanetSide 2. Alex’s role in improving optimization is to work on the Bot client tool which generates a bunch of bots to stress test to benchmark performance. Enjoy! Continue reading PlanetSide 2 – Operation: Make Faster Game – Episode 3

PlanetSide 2 – Operation: Make Faster Game – Episode 2

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Sony Online Entertainment has released a new video that takes us into the heart of the development efforts to optimize PlanetSide2. In this first in a series of Documentary style videos, we get to know the people behind the efforts as well as get a glimpse at the types of technological challenges and creative solutions that the team discussed and implements in Operation: Making Faster Game. Enjoy! Continue reading PlanetSide 2 – Operation: Make Faster Game – Episode 2

New PlanetSide 2 “Behind The Scenes” Video Sheds Light On Upcoming Optimizations

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Sony Online Entertainment has released a new, behind the scenes, video for PlanetSide 2 in which the development team talks about the upcoming optimizations that will be implemented in this MMOFPS, aiming to make it run faster. This is a pretty interesting video as it gives us a glimpse of what players can expect from upcoming udates, so make sure to give it a go. PlanetSide 2 is a free-to-play title, and those interested can head over at its official website, create a profile, download the game’s client and play it. Enjoy! Continue reading New PlanetSide 2 “Behind The Scenes” Video Sheds Light On Upcoming Optimizations