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nice, I like your -25T skin...thats the only A/C I fly (frog, vanilla and T that is). Good effort, how long did it take you to do?

Hi Thomas, Man, thanks for chipping in here..I couldnt remember the name of the mod and as I am at work I got distracted and didnt have time to check its name. Agreed, it is all a compromise and I dig your mods...I just have more and more of them turned off/down these days as spotting that strela at 10km becomes more and more important. I gotta say...it wasnt until I joined the vvs504 and played online with labels off (I know, I know, stop laughing at me) that I really had to start compromising between FPS and fidelity. I'm just hoping my new rig (parts on order atm) allow me both FPS and fidelity.

Oops, I missed ur last question about spawning/rebooting fixes things...well...apparently LO has a memory leak where ppl who have less that 2Gb of RAM can only play for about 45 mins before their PC craps out (frames reduce to slide show). You have stacks of RAM so I'm a little confused but...I have experienced playing online for about 2 hours and my frames gradually dropping from 25 to 10! I noticed this because I died alot in that game (thanks pilotasso :), yeah, the 504 server :D) and had to respawn alot...I respawned in the same place most times and could see my FPS nudge lower and lower with each respawn..dunno if this is the same memory leak but ppl with less RAM seem to be affected much quicker that ppl with 2Gb. I bought my extra Gb of RAM for Battlefield 2...now that IS a RAM whore! (as is star wars battlefront 2). PS: Remember I exclusively fly the Su-25 or 'T' so get lower FPS than if I was in any other A/C.

Hi Capttrob, I'm guessing wiser heads than me will reply to you soon but....you're getting reasonable FPS for your rig. I have a P4 3.2Ghz prescott (socket 478) with a GF6800 Ultra and 2Gb of ram and I get about the same frames as you....difficult to compare directly cos I fly the Su-25 or the 'T', which is much more of an FPS killer - even in the frog I get 25FPS online...or I did until my mobo died so I'm upgrading at the moment. I did find there is a real balance between applying tweaks for FPS versus how the game is affected...let me try to clarify what I mean. I did some 'visibility' testing in the Su-25T to see how close/far I could detect ground targets. At the initial test I had a few mods installed, including the FPS tweak "2.0". I could detect targets up to 15km away. I then did a reinstall of LO and only installed mods such as teka's HUD mint mod, realistic sun/moon and stuff like that....no FPS related mods though. I retesed visibility and now I can see ground targets up to 25km away...if I know where to look in the first place. In other words, be careful what FPS tweaks you install, because its always a compromise between speed and quality. As a mud mover its really important to me to see ground targets and scenery as far away as possible....whereas as a fighter jock you won't need to care as much about that. Anyways, to answer your question....you get reasonable frames already...there is no easy solution to 'stuttering' when flying through smoke...no CPU/GPU seems powerful enough and...if you do install an FPS tweak do some before and after testing to make sure you are getting some benefit at a reasonable 'cost' (i.e. not dramatically reduced visibility of 'xyz'). Again, some wiser minds may chip in here and offer some more productive advice.

Hi Guys, Well, I'm about to upgrade my PC from a 3.2 prescott woth 2Gb RAM and geforce 6800 ultra to... AMD X2 4400 with 2Gb ram and Geforece 7900 GT.... I'll let you know the results...which might not be drastically different since LO uses only one core. From my experience, more RAM is never a bad thing...and 2Gb is good enough ;) Enjoy whatever purchase u make.