Fps killing smoke plumes...

Noticed these fps killers while flying around Mineralye Vody. Have they been added recently? I wasn't aware of those until a few days ago, but they do seem to have quite an impact on my fps. See screenshot of plumes attached.

Any way to disables those "monsters"? :)

It started happening after the last big patch.

It looks ugly. I don't know how it looks when flying around but in pictures they look very linear

I wonder if it's mod/weather/GFX-driver related thing? On my machine the new smoke is more voluminous, but it's nowhere near as bad as on rrohde's screenshots.

Nvidia card here with latest drivers, the only mods are Toby's ground textures and Mustang's shaders.

They changed those effects one or two patches ago IIRC, and in my game (effects unmodded, NVidia 770 with... certainly not the most recent drivers) they look pretty good IMO.

Not sure what happened on rrhode's rig but it certainly looks ugly.

They changed those effects one or two patches ago IIRC, and in my game (effects unmodded, NVidia 770 with... certainly not the most recent drivers) they look pretty good IMO.

Not sure what happened on rrhode's rig but it certainly looks ugly.

Strange, made a screenshot with 1.2.12.35194 some minutes ago. Thats my result, Looks different from all the other examples. My driver version is 344.48.

Not all chimneys have the new effect, look around Mineralnye. Mine looks just like in those Art-J's screens. I like it but it needs to slow down a bit!

EDIT: Actually, I take it back. It looks fine at first but if I move camera far away and then come back, effect will turn into this fps eating madness.

Forgot to mention that, you are right. Not all of those were replaced.

I am currently on a Clevo gaming laptop with an NVIDIA card, and that's what I got without any mods or off-the-cuff system settings. Latest drivers and all.

@GeorgeLKMT yep, that's my observation as well, even though I never get the nice and fluffy looking ones I see posted here, only that fps killer you see as well.

Could that be a bug?

It is either a bug or something is just incompatible (which we could also call a bug I guess). Either way it is an issue other people have as well, so I guess the ED guys will take a look at it I presume. :)

Lol my guess is they released some edge smoke to show you how horrible it runs in current engine. Then once edge dcs 2.0 comes out you'll see how awesome it runs in new engine lol

Strange, made a screenshot with 1.2.12.35194 some minutes ago. Thats my result, Looks different from all the other examples. My driver version is 344.48.

Could it be a "Settings" thing? where setting all to high set things unseen and unclickable to a greater view configuration?

Are all of U set to high? Remember how we would have to set all to high and then adjust down if needed?

I refered only to the graphics effect. I have no fps problem with the effects in my picture. Btw as said by some others these plumes seem to be only around MV. Will take a flight there next evening and report back.

Could it be a "Settings" thing? where setting all to high set things unseen and unclickable to a greater view configuration?

 

 

Are all of U set to high? Remember how we would have to set all to high and then adjust down if needed?

Ok, as promised I made another flight over MV. There are very few smoke plumes with these effects on my side. As you can see in the picture only two over this part of the town. My settings are high for both, scenes and vis range. Maybe some kind of a former effects test. Since some People get serious fps issues with that it would be worth looking into it....

I also flew around Mindovy again last night and I saw those ugly huge plumes of smoke again. The kicker is that since I posted the original screenshots, I have build a new PC (see specs in my signature).

So after moving away from my previous gaming laptop, to a whole new machine, with new CPU, new GPU, and new motherboard, these plumes are still there. :)

However, after setting my "Scenes" to "High", these plumes initially looked great and fluffy, like I've seen displayed here as well (and shown in my first screenshot attached below), but -- the longer I looked at them, the more they turned back into these fps eating monstrosities. Strange, isn't it?

Hello Everyone,

I concur with others that have come to the conclusion that the defect, repeatable, is related to distance. :thumbup:

I made a demo to illustrate what is happening. As you zoom out to a certain distance ( roughly 8000 feet) the LOD that replaces the close shader takes over and corrupts the close LOD. Once this happens, it goes from a nice puffy plume into some unregulated factory plume. What are they burning in there? :music_whistling:

Notice, the second smoke plume that never reaches that distance has not been affected.:huh:

The defect has nothing to do with time, settings, graphics drivers, nor mods, as you can fly around the smoke plume for hours. The defect is related to distance. :smartass:

I have not found a way to get back to the first shader once the transformation has occurred.:doh:

Hopefully this will help the ED team to solve the defect. :helpsmilie:

Thank you,

Monnie

You think this new smoke effect reduces your framerate when you simply look at it... try flying through it. My frames/sec go from 60 to single digits!

I believe it's also the cause of the Sabre's problem of an obscured gunsight when the guns are fired. Funny ED doesn't respond to this issue. Do they even know about it?

You think this new smoke effect reduces your framerate when you simply look at it... try flying through it. My frames/sec go from 60 to single digits!

 

I believe it's also the cause of the Sabre's problem of an obscured gunsight when the guns are fired. Funny ED doesn't respond to this issue. Do they even know about it?

Me too. Flying throught fps turns in single digits