Very low FPS

Hi

I installed DCS Black Shark and i have only 20 to maximum 40 fps.

When I change to task-manager it shows that only one of my 4 cores is used and this one only to 25-40%.

Is there anything to improve this ?

My System:

Q6600 @ 4 x 3.6Ghz

Gtx280 @ OC

4096 DDR2 1000Mhz

Windows XP 32

greetz Cionara

Rather not... You can try do Affinity on cores but it helps about 20-50%. There should be around on forum tool for this.

Also maybe try change to Vista, I heard it helps - but Vista 64.

And... 20-40FPS it is not suprise for DCS - it uses old engine. Until there won't be divide tasks on cores I think we'll see FPS in these ranges. Also sims aren't shooters where often you have to get minimum 100 FPS :)

There is similar thread, many advices to FPS, I couldn't find now, maybe somebody else can.

Oh found it:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=37292&highlight=affinity

it is one from many various similar threads about FPS issues.

Did you check the 'Full screen option' in the BS setup ? It doubled my FPS. BS is not setup as 'Full screen' as default during the install

I would think something is wrong there, it appears that he has a better system then me (Certainly faster cpu and gfx, 3ghz duel core, 260 gtx oc) and I get much better fps running @ 4320x900. I am running vista tho with both cores running (affinity script)

Thanks for your answers.

Ok it seems that the fullscreen-option solved the problem of very low core usage. It's now up to 100% on one core and my fps raised from 20-40 to 45-60. Would be great to use the other 3 cores...maybe in the future, right ? :)

Another question: Does the sim support 5.1 sorround sound ?

greetings Cionara

I don't actually think it does 5.1 but I am running 2.1 so can not verify for you.