Nvidia cards

[Peter22]

Hi guys, I am sure that here is a lot of people using nvidias cards, I do have XFX GeForce 8800 GTS running with Intel Core2 Duo E6850 3Ghz 4MB but to be honest my fps are around 25 , when nothing is going on they go up to 35 and when I have a lot going on down there , specially explosions and ground forces movingfps go down to 15-17 , I do have everything in high and water in normal, smoke in turbines on, I know if I low down those settings I will have a better performance, However my point is make my pc handle the best way I can having the game running in full.

Any suggestions, is anyone using enhancer? Please let me know how you settings are so I can try

Thank you

Peter22

[badaboom]

Turning Water to 1 or 0 has seemed to help some people

 

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

set ["water"] = 1 or 0

values of 2 and 3 are the in-game options

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[Peter22]

Any body using antialiasyn in you nvidia settings?

[JG27_Arklight]

I run at 1600x1200 4xFSAA and 16xAF and don't seem to really have any performance issues. I have all settings maxed but water at normal and visible distance at "Medium".

 

The way I figure it, I'm in an attack helicopter in the weeds....why do I need a really long visible range. In Lock-On:FC, setting the visible range to Medium gave me quite a boost in performance, and I didn't really notice a degradation in the look in the game. The visible range is probably more important for the folks who fly fighter aircraft at altitude, rather than those who fly down low in and out of varying terrain in a helicopter.

[Mad Dog 7.62]

You should be running quite well with that setup. You do have the checkbox for full screen checked? I am running with everything set at medium (except water) and 1900x1200 with a Q6600 and 8800GTX and the frame rates I have seen so far are all very good.

[mc_smile]

I have everything on max except water (set to medium), resolution 1280*1240 and FPS doesn't go under 30 regularely. However there's a small drop in the cities (i'm wondering what it'll be in Novorossiysk 'cause the city is huge compared to others). Changing the view distance will solve this issue i think

[Mad Dog 7.62]

I upped my textures to high and am still getting 30-40 fps, with an occasional dip into the 20's. Still pretty fluid though, no noticeable stuttering and very flyable. Good luck!

MD

[Peter22]

are you running Nvidia? what are you settings?

[Mad Dog 7.62]

Yes, 8800 GTS 640 Mb, on a Q6600 with 4 Gb ram. Textures on High, everything else on Medium, 1900x1200. You might turn things down to Medium and see what happens...also I don't have heat blur on, not sure how much of a hit that is to your fps?

[Peter22]

no I am talking about Ntune manage 3d settings, anti aliasing etc?

[Mad Dog 7.62]

No, I have those all set at the defaults...which is to let the application decide where to set them iirc.

MD

[Amraam]

Hi guys, I am sure that here is a lot of people using nvidias cards, I do have XFX GeForce 8800 GTS running with Intel Core2 Duo E6850 3Ghz 4MB but to be honest my fps are around 25 , when nothing is going on they go up to 35 and when I have a lot going on down there , specially explosions and ground forces movingfps go down to 15-17 , I do have everything in high and water in normal, smoke in turbines on, I know if I low down those settings I will have a better performance, However my point is make my pc handle the best way I can having the game running in full.

Any suggestions, is anyone using enhancer? Please let me know how you settings are so I can try

Thank you

Peter22

 

Peter, make sure you alt tab out and set the affinity to both your cores on DCS.exe - it doubled my frame rate. I'm running on pretty much maximum, at 1920x1200 with 2x FSAA and getting 50-80 consistantly :)

[magicdragon_88]

Amraam can you please explain more about setting affinity to both cores and how to do so? i got 2 cores- and still trying to push the pc's limitations to run BS in full :P

 

AMDx2 4600+ 2.4GHZ

OC 8800GT 512MB

2GIG RAM

WINxp

Logictech 3D Pro

[CiniKo]

Amraam can you please explain more about setting affinity to both cores and how to do so? i got 2 cores- and still trying to push the pc's limitations to run BS in full

 

read this post: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=33715

 

-LuKa-

[GregP]

I did some tests last night to determine the effect of Visibility Distance and Water detail on framerate. All these tests used 2xAA, 8xAF and Vsync forced on via the Nvidia Control Panel.

 

Vis High, Water High: 30 FPS

Vis Med, Water Normal: 47 FPS

Vis High, Water Normal: 40 FPS

Vis High, Water 0 (via options.lua file): 47 FPS

 

The only difference I noticed when changing Visibility Distance from High to Normal was that trees didn't render as far away, but the difference is minimal. Lowering water quality from High to 0 makes the water look significantly less detailed when flying over it (although oddly makes it look better, to my eyes, at long distances due to the boundary between land and water looking 'hazier' for some reason), but isn't very noticeable when over land.

 

So for me, dropping Vis range to Medium and Water to Normal is worth grabbing an extra 50% in framerate.