ericinexile Posted June 11, 2006 Posted June 11, 2006 This may well be a problem with my hardware but maybe others can benefit from this simple problem as well. I noticed that flying low over moving ground units would sometimes slow my frame-rate down to less than 1 FPS (!) until I passed the units. I thought perhaps the video card was loaded down by the moving textures, but twelve tanks?--Big Deal! I further noticed that by flying a little higher and zooming in very close (ie, seeing just as much detail of the vehicles), the frame-rate would be fine. Back down low and fast to overfly and as soon as I could HEAR the engines of the vehicles the fram-rate practicaly froze until I passed completely. Thinking this was maybe a sound issue I disabled "Sounds" under Options and got liquid smooth frame-rates under the same scenario. The reason I think this is MY problem is because I am plugged into the sound hardware on my motherboard (Realtek AC97). I'll by a sound card and see if that solves it. PS-Upgrading the AC97 drivers didn't help. Any suggestions on a relatively cheap sound card that won't bog down gameplay? I don't care so much about sound quality, 5.1, etc. Smokin' Hole My DCS wish list: Su25, Su30, Mi24, AH1, F/A-18C, Afghanistan ...and frankly, the flight sim world should stop at 1995.
Kula66 Posted June 11, 2006 Posted June 11, 2006 Try editing the config files and removing the sounds ... do you really care if you can hear the turret turning while screaming past at 600kts? Me ... no!
ericinexile Posted June 12, 2006 Author Posted June 12, 2006 Worked perfectly. Thanks! (Anyway, the only external noise you will ever hear from the inside of a moving jet or helicopter is the sound of lightning, bombs, and other jets at VERY close range.) Smokin' Hole My DCS wish list: Su25, Su30, Mi24, AH1, F/A-18C, Afghanistan ...and frankly, the flight sim world should stop at 1995.
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