Naked Viking

Even high end systems aren't getting acceptable (50 - 60) fps so I wouldn't get my hopes up.

Yes I realize I didn't spell performance correctly in the title, no clue if I can/how to edit it. From http://em5.world-of-emergency.com/news/2014-12-15/28-emergency_5_now_faster_more_stable_and_with_better_performance Update 1.2.2 availableEMERGENCY 5 becomes better and faster with the update 1.2.2. The main focus is performance. Also many other defects and problems have been eliminated, which were reported by players. Many thanks for this precious support to all, who have reported their problems to us, who send us their critical feedback, who helped us with hints in our defect location or those who complimented us, because they simply enjoy playing EMERGENCY 5! The most important improvements are listed in the patch log. Note: The game will detect and install the update by itself. It will notify you where required. Changelog Patch 1.2.2 PerformanceFix for mouse lag on several machinesFixed a cause of irregular short freezes / performance dropsSome general performance and memory optimizationsFixed a problem in recovery helicopter flight with passenger GameplayFixed several gameplay blockers (e.g. not triggering freeplay events)Fixed SEK drone functionality OtherSeveral pathfinding bug fixesFixed bugs in highscores and achievementsFixed crashes

I'd suggest you wait. Performance is screwed across the board, no matter your hardware. I don't think it's worth the current price. Perhaps it'll go down by a few % on the steam holiday sale.

FPS improved a bit. I went from 10 - 20 on High to 35 - 40. The game still has insane RAM issues though.

http://em5.world-of-emergency.com/news/2014-12-02/25-playing_emergency I really hope they can get the performance sorted out..

Compressed files perhaps?

I'm pretty sure they knew about the issues. It's impossible they didn't test it. It feels like they rushed the game, even though it's been delayed several times.

Imagine if people said the same thing about cars. "It's stuck in first gear but you can totally drive."

It's not properly optimized. It doesn't matter how good your computer is, it only runs fine on certain cards. I really hope they fix this soon... Everywhere people discuss this game there are tons of people with recommended specs reporting horrible framerates. One of those would be me, I meet or surpass all recommended specs and still get shitty fps.

Currently I have Fraps running. It is using 5400kb(Not even six thousand out of eight million available) of memory and less than 1% of my CPU. Having Fraps running while not recording does not impact your system performance in any notable way. My CPU does not come close to 100% load while playing any game. I have not claimed running programs doesn't use resources. I said it will not degrade your computer. Very different. You don't seem to be too keen on the idea of looking at your FPS, and I get that, but please don't claim the performance issues is because of people running other things at the same time. I would have to run several thousand of instances of Fraps for it to make any difference. I also judge a game by how it looks and responds. When I started Emergency 5 I noticed stuttering and texture pop in. I clicked the Fraps FPS hotkey to see my FPS and noticed it was around 15. I then thought I must be doing something wrong. I restarted my computer, updated drivers and tinkered with settings. Nothing helped. I then noticed people on different forums also had low FPS on even better systems than mine. Emergency 5 is not playable(at 1920x1080 with a stable 60fps) for a majority of the players and that is a bad thing that the publisher is responsible for. I bought a game, not a slideshow. You know what? For the sake of argument I will close every single running process that I don't need to play Emergency 5 and see if I notice any stuttering. I will also unplug all but one monitor as that could have an effect. I'll update this in a minute or two with the result. Edit: Yep, still horrible stuttering with every non essential process gone.

Installing Fraps for example will not 'degrade' your system, or any system. But you seem decided, so I'll stop asking

Would it do any harm? It's obviously your decision but I'd be quite interested in the number and it's not like it's a huge task.

To be honest I don't think it looks that good. At least not to justify the performance issues. They should have fixed this before launch. There's no way they didn't know about this if they properly tested the game. I'm very disappointed in how the launch turned out. Hope they fix this soon. Personally I won't play it until it's in a playable state, and 10 - 20 FPS is absolutely not playable.

Could you check your FPS? I'd be interested to see it. I've seen people will all level of hardware report horrible FPS. I get 10 - 20 and I've got a 290.

You can't even play it at 1920x1080 at 60 fps with the best graphics card on the market. I really hope they patch the performance issues soon. They should have delayed the game until this was fixed imo.