Since Marvel Rivals launched its Season 4, players across different platforms began reporting several technical in-game abnormalities en masse. These issues pri
en masse. These issues primarily included stuttering, performance, and general stability issues that appeared mid-match and hindered the overall experience, rendering the game even borderline unplayable in certain effect-heavy situations.
diary. Featuring FanFan, the game's Technical Director, the goal here was to discuss several tech-related behind-the-scenes updates with the community and address the aforementioned setbacks.— with each segment explaining changes to fix its corresponding issue. For the most part, those changes are limited to a PC perspective, but general improvements will be applied to consoles as well. To summarize Technically Speaking Vol. 1, here is a list of everything Marvel Rivals is doing to tackle the ongoing tech issues:Crashing fixes for Intel 13th and 14th Generation CPUsGeneral Improvements: Rendering effects, network latency, login issues, etc.Fluid experience after uncovering stuttering culprits / Image via NetEase Games With regards to stuttering, FanFan brought up how Marvel Rivals is changing its shader-compiling strategy to improve the overall experience. Rather than compiling shaders upfront, the game will now preload the most frequently used shaders, reducingand optimized them through better logic and processing. In a nutshell, this effectively targets specific instances where Rivals was pushing your hardware to its limit. They're also implementing new detection techniques to track down even more hotspots later on.Revamped Marvel Rivals performance-testing tool / Image via NetEase Games, which essentially benchmarks your game with intense in-game scenarios. Now, on top of seeing detailed metrics, the tool will auto-optimize your device and find the best setting specifically for you.Another major change this time around is the improvement to Parallelism. For the non-techies, this section involves how the game utilizes your PC's extra cores and resources by sharing the workload — also called "multithreading". According to FanFan, they've revamped their approach for better parallelism, and the highlight here is a whoppingPlayStation 4 Owners To Expect A Smoother Experience From Mid-Season 4 Onwards. Unfortunately, the performance figures and fluidity matched everyone's expectations, making the game laughably nonfunctional on the Base and Slim models.In Technically Speaking Vol. 1, the team acknowledged this fact and dedicated an entire subsection to explain how they're rolling out patches to improve last-gen experience. Although they didn't give out any specifics, they mentioned that these enhancements will begin somewhere in Season 4 and will also benefit PC and current-generation owners.GPU crashes are dying down / Image via NetEase Gamesspecifically were reporting lots of those. While some believe this was expected, given these lineups' widespread stability complaints, but Rivals'Marvel Rivals Season 4 Battle Pass Guide - All Skins and Cosmetics Although the team didn't delve too deeply into their revised strategy, they assured us that they're performing tests to weed out the causes and make crashes significantly less frequent. Additionally, FanFan also announced that they'rePC performance is an absolutely critical part of any esport. If the game doesn't run well, online tournaments are effectively impossible to operate. The more types of hardware that can run a game, the larger the potential player base will be. Marvel Rivals surged out of the gate at the start of this year, but has steadily slowed its momentum . Improving performance and stability will be crucial in order to keep the enfranchised players in the ecosystem for as long as possible until the next big hero release encourages those who left the game due to not being able to run it properly return.Daniyal Malik is currently a part of the Writer team at Esports on SI. Prior to joining us, he worked as a writer for TheGamer and as an Executive Editor at eXputer, building his portfolio around SEO knowledge and team management. Alongside his years of experience as a professional writer and editor, he's also a tournament organizer across multiple gaming genres. In 2023, he hosted a major esports event for Marvel Snap led by the Snap.Fan team, which had over a hundred participants from all over the world. Daniyal's currently pursuing his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences. Beyond work and studies, he's a passionate FPS and CCG fan who's invested in all things related to Call of Duty, Marvel Snap, and Marvel Rivals.
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