Summary
So on Xbox There are few users that have this issue with widow sights and bastion turret form making the games frames drop from 120 to what feels like 40 making widow duels in top 500 impossible.
Identify When and how
Widow sights frame drops only happens when you are the one using it, So it’s client sided. The bastion turret form is also very weird, it only loses frames when
- enemies are within line of sight
- you are shooting an entity (shield or deployable)
Similarities
So during testing, the practice range results in lower effects of the frame drops, where I get maybe 60-80 instead of 30-50. This is given due to the old frame bug on Xbox where playing consecutively would progressively worsen the frames. Additionally both of the heros I have this issue with also have an Overlay.
For example:
Widowmaker has her sights duration bar, and all these other overlays that show numbers on the left and right side.
Bastion has tank config timer in the bottom left as well as other overlay art with lines and curves.
Soldier also has a similar overlay with his visor but there is no fps drop. His overlay does has less going on but it doesn’t present any facts that overlays in general are the issue.
My hypothesis is the fact that either:
A) the overlays have a lot of separate layers making them intensive to render on the system or…
B) the specific heros have unoptimized code for specifically console that is within their overlays.
Testing
After some testing I toggled UI in the interface settings in controls and Binded it to Up dPad, after turning off UI, the frames didn’t drop at all. If you have any other solutions or ideas let me know. Hope this gets fixed!