External rear view FPS drop

[Jay1980]

When I'm looking at my Su-33 from the rear or getting close to the rear (external view) I have a serious drop in FPS (3 at the worst, normally 4fps), even if the rest of the game is running perfectly smooth.

 

Now I run the game with pretty much every graphics option maxed out at a 1600x900 resolution, but even if I put EVERYTHING down to the absolute minimum, I still end up with 4fps when I get to close to the rear of the plane. Heat blur on or off doesn't seem to make any change (worse or better) whatsoever.

 

I've been checking the issue a bit with the other aircraft:

MiG-29 FPS drops to 6

Su-27 FPS drops to 4

Su-33 FPS drops to 3

F-15C FPS drops to 4

Su-25T no noticeable FPS drop at all

 

Has anyone else run into this issue, or figured out a way to solve it?

Edited July 14, 2014 by Jay1980

[Serp Supreme]

That's due to the new smoke effect from the engines bro. It seriously kills FPS to have the camera in the smoke trail.

[Jay1980]

Thx! Is there any way to reduce the smoke trail and restore some fps?

[txmtb]

Also it was reported in the last beta so it's on a bug list, somewhere.

[Jay1980]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one having this problem and that there'll be a solution some time sooner or later.

 

I'm still searching for ways to solve this problem untill then, so if anyone has any suggestions please let me know!

[uboats]

When I'm looking at my Su-33 from the rear or getting close to the rear (external view) I have a serious drop in FPS (3 at the worst, normally 4fps), even if the rest of the game is running perfectly smooth.

 

Now I run the game with pretty much every graphics option maxed out at a 1600x900 resolution, but even if I put EVERYTHING down to the absolute minimum, I still end up with 4fps when I get to close to the rear of the plane. Heat blur on or off doesn't seem to make any change (worse or better) whatsoever.

 

I've been checking the issue a bit with the other aircraft:

MiG-29 FPS drops to 6

Su-27 FPS drops to 4

Su-33 FPS drops to 3

F-15C FPS drops to 4

Su-25T no noticeable FPS drop at all

 

Has anyone else run into this issue, or figured out a way to solve it?

 

Does this happen in all conditions or just after engine startup with idel throttle?

To me, the latter one.

[Tvol]

If there's a way to turn-down particle effects, you could reduce those and probably recover some (or a lot) of frames.

[Jay1980]

@Uboats: when the engine is turned on it happens under all conditions.

 

@Tvol: unfortunately I haven't found that option yet : ) I've been checking the Bazar\Effects folders to see if I can find a setting that I can perhaps tweak, but no luck yet!

[Jay1980]

Took me a bit but I finally found some references on the forum after my brain finally cooked up the search query "exhaust trail".

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=122410

 

As said in the thread: use notepad++ (it doesn't work otherwise) to open 'exhaustTrailAir.lua' (DCS World\Config\Effects\ParticleSystem2) and then change the particle level and distance to your preferences.

 

Finally my fps is back in business : D

 

Thanks all!

[Ragnarok]

Really big problem:

[Nate--IRL--]

Also it was reported in the last beta so it's on a bug list, somewhere.

 

It is.

 

Nate

[Jay1980]

Really big problem:

 

 

For me it did a lot of good when I reduced the particle effect in the 'exhaustTrailAir.lua' (see earlier post)... This didn't help for you?

[Ragnarok]

Yes, it is. Here is my mod for this. But exhaustTrailAir.lua is a list of integrity chack on more dedicated servers, and I am multiplayer pilot :smilewink:

Dim motora - redukovanje.zip

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

doesn't turning off heat blur in options make that effect stop?

[Jay1980]

Heat blur didn't make any noticeable difference for me - just the smoke trail messing things up. I hope they got it fixed by the time I can handle multiplayer (NOOB!) : )