Low performance on good PC?

[magicdragon_88]

hello and first off- great sim.

 

only problem is that it runs horribly on my pc...my pc specs are:

amd64x2 4600+ 2.4ghz

2gig ram

OC 8800GT

WinXP pro 32bit

 

i cannot get anything higher than 22fps in the game-14 fps on the ground..around 18-20 fps while in the air...all options set to low and cockpit res 256..no anti aliasing or AF..and changing resolution down from 1280x1024 to 1024x768 does not give me a fps boost...so i pretty much play with horrible detail and still get a lousy 22fps at most....i got new video card drivers...anyone know what might be wrong?:huh:

Edited November 17, 2008 by magicdragon_88

[Shrubbo]

I don't know much about the rest (I run intel stuff) but I do know that your vid card was a good bang for buck card .... a year ago. I know this because I was looking for the best bang for buck exactly one year ago and I ended up with one of them.

 

To look at it another way a year ago the 8800 gt was not the fastest but was great value for money. A year be a long time in the vid card world.

 

Coincidentally only the day before yesterday I just ripped out the gt and threw in a gtx 260 oc for a cheaper price then I payed for the gt a year ago. That's progress. It was great a year ago.... not so good now.

[slug88]

I have the following system:

 

Intel E6750 @ 3.2GHz

2gb ram

8800GTS 320mb

winxp pro 32

 

At 1680x1050, all settings high except water (medium), I'm getting around 30 fps most of the time. So, that 8800 can't be the problem. At resolutions that low and all settings at low, you should get outstanding fps with that card. So, I'm guessing that there must be a serious problem somewhere else. Perhaps a virus is sucking up all your resources, or a virus scanner, or other programs running in the background? Also, have you enabled "Run in Full Screen" in the options? That gave me a few extra FPS.

[magicdragon_88]

nope- no viruses on my pc...yea... the full screen option does not increase my fps.....it seems like my fps is capped at 20 when im flying around...20 on the ground, 20 in the air, VERY rarely i get 25fps-but just for a few seconds in view of little terrain.(vis range set to low)...even if i set all setting to LOW and switch RESOLUTION to low- i do not get increase in fps :(! i thought i could atleast play on worst graphics but get 30fps- i was wrong

[Doggy]

make sure your water setting is low or =1 in lua file.

[magicdragon_88]

can you tell me which file that is? and how to open that lua file?

 

maybe any other suggestions?

[Kuky]

you're 100% CPU limited (sign of lowering resolution makes no framerate increase). I suggest you double check you're not using medium/high scenery and you use low and use medium water quality.

[magicdragon_88]

yea i double checked- and running low scenery...water is on mdeium- but i just want to know if i can lower water detail even more...anyone know how to open lua.dll? i found the file but when i open with notepad- its a bunch of gibberish..im guessing i need some program to view it properly

[Kuky]

you're not suposed to change DLL files (and you can't) LUA is file extension... not file name, same as DLL extension. I think they mean Graphics.lua (maybe Graphics.cfg, but I can't check as I don't have BS yet, in LO/FC it's graphics.cfg file)

[ZaltysZ]

Make sure you are running in full screen mode. If you forget to turn that switch on and your desktop resolution is the same as in game, it will look like full screen, however there will be no more than 30 fps.

[magicdragon_88]

i have checked the FULL SCREEN option in game- and game resolution is the same as my desktop res..i now get 23-28fps.. not a bad boost- but still i cannot reach that 30fps mark that everyone's talking about...::(

 

is there anyway to change the water detail to LOW instead of medium somehow? like in cfg file or something?

[r-unit]

Format computer using xppro, 32 bit... re-install everything.:)

 

 

that sucks but it works.:thumbup:

[Allo]

amd64x2 4600+ 2.4ghz

2gig ram

OC 8800GT

WinXP pro 32bit

 

I have a similar set up as you but will be running 8800GT in SLI and my CPU is an AMD64x2 3ghz.

I would have thought your problem was the CPU. Since they say that the sim is CPU intensive.

Didn't the Test machine DCS use, have a 8800GT?

If the problem is hardware, my guess is the CPU. But I'm no expert.

Good Luck!

[Doggy]

...\BlackShark\data\scripts\options.lua

set ["water"] = 1 or 0

values of 2 and 3 are the in-game options

[magicdragon_88]

i checked the box PLAY IN FULL SCREEN in BS- got a boost of around 7 fps ( now running at 23-28fps which is much better- but anyway to reach that 30 mark by tweaking some stuff?

[magicdragon_88]

thnx doggy- wiil try tweaking lua file

[magicdragon_88]

holy crap!!!! got it to work nice!!!!! i did what doggy said and changed from ["water"] = 2 to ["water"] = 1 and now i can play with scenery HIGH, VIS range MEDIUM- textures high, 2xAA 1024 cockpit textures and it runs 28-32fps!!!!!!! thnx so much guys- now i can spend some time playing the game instead of tweaking it non stop!!!!

 

:)

[magicdragon_88]

thnx doggy- wiil try tweaking lua file

[repent]

also change haze in that file to 0, lights to 1 and play with shadows 1, i get a whopping 50-60 fps with vsync on!!! it looks awesome and plays like it should

 

1280x1024

E6850 @ 3.8ghz

2gb geil ddr2 800mhz

786mb 8800GTX

[Feuerfalke]

Do you experience the low FPS in general or when using the SHKVAL-Sensors?

 

If you do in general, you may check your HDD-light on your PC-case. If it's constantly flickering or steady on, that's means you use a lot of swap-disk, which slows down performance dramatically.

Reinstalling windows is one thing, but you can simply check a few things before doing that:

a) be sure to have enough space on your system-partition (usually = c:) - especially Vista increases swapfiles rather quickly. If you can, check the diskspace directly after quitting BS.

b) in order to decrease this, set your Swap-file to a given limit. IIRC Vista recommends to have a swapfile set at least as large as your RAM. (You can do that in ControlPanel - System - Advanced - Performance -> Settings - Advanced. Be sure both options are set to "Programs" - click change to change the Swapfile. You have to restart for the changes to take effect.

c) download and run "hijackthis2" - but handle with care! This tool is very usefull for identifying programs and processes running in the background as well as it is usefull to permamently damage windows, if you don't know what you're doing!

d) Check the CD that came with your motherboard for a testing-tool that can read out CPU- and System-temperatures. Run them while running the game to be sure your PC does not slow itself down due to overheating. Remove dust if it does or install additional fans, run the case open, etc.

There are also freeware tools to test this, like CPU-burnin for CPU-stresstesting and CoreTemp, which works on almost any PC.

 

If you problem mostly starts with active sensors: Lower cockpit texture resolution. Aparently it also lowers the resolution of the SHKVAL, which increases FPS dramatically, if that is a problem.

[magicdragon_88]

thnx repent..arnt u the guy from youtube? :P im unkowndrunkenfrankli..but is it only me or when u change water detail to 1- the scenery detail also goes down? the colours look more ...flat...anyone agree?

[magicdragon_88]

thnx Feuerfalke..i experianced low fps in general-not only when using shkval..but i think i got it to run as smooth as i want it to (steady 30fps) with high scenery and med vis range+water = 1..

[repent]

unknowndrunkenfrankli???

 

and no my colours dont go flat, it looks great

[Feuerfalke]

If you deactivate haze (set it to 0) there are some other effects lost, too. At least that's the way it was in LockOn.

[repent]

yes you are probably right feuerfalke, but the only thing i have noticed so far is that i have no propwash, which i can live without in order to get some good fps