Macca Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 Hello I've just bought new PC - Q6600 with 4 GB of RAM, SB Extreme Audio, Asus P5Pro mobo and Nvidia GTX280 GPU.I run in with 24 inches widescreen LCD. While playing LockOn I am getting wicked clouds and also rather poor frames. Could some happy 280 users here help me by sharing the information what Nvidia Control Panel settings and ingame settings they are using? Is it possible to get LockOn to run in widescreen res without the image being stretched in unnautural way? Best regards Macca [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossie Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 With LOCFG you can set the correct aspect and resolution of your monitor. You should turn shadows to All Planar. This may help with the clouds. Also try Haze Advanced. Source for LOCFG: http://www.3rd-wing.net/LOCFG/LOCFGSetup_2_2_3.exe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macca Posted November 20, 2008 Author Share Posted November 20, 2008 Thank you, Crossie;) Indeed, it helped with clouds and the game seems to run much better with the settings you mentioned. Howeber I have a funny problem with the LOCFG application itself - I can see only part of it, can't scroll it to the right to see other options, can't see the accept of apply button, only cancel and default. I accept changes with enter key. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTWD Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 Macca, What OS are you running? There is a version 3 beta that may help you out. I have no idea what it does, or what it's for, but I found it anyway: http://www.3rd-wing.net/LOCFG/LOCFGSetup_beta3.exe Regards Paul 1 Regards [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macca Posted November 20, 2008 Author Share Posted November 20, 2008 I'm running XP Home 32 SP3. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_smile Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 A good start to get better performance is setting water to medium as it renders everywhere like it was in FC It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice © Scooter Intel Core i7 8700K, Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5, 32Gb DDR4 CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 3200MHz, Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080Ti Extreme, VKB Gunfighter MkII + TM HOTAS Warthog + TM MFD Panels, TrackIR5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTWD Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 I'm running XP Home 32 SP3. Hmmm it should be fine. Can you capture a screen shot please? Regards Paul Regards [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macca Posted November 21, 2008 Author Share Posted November 21, 2008 I'm at work right now. Yesterday evening I checked with water to medium and mirrors off, I noticed huge improvement in framerate. Maybe I overestimated the 280;) What nvidia control panel settings for Lock On FC would you suggest? Ah, and if i get the wicked clouds issue I will take a screenie. The problem with the LOCFG coftware was due to my fonts settings being set to high, 120 dpi. When I went back to 96 it all looked ok. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTWD Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 The 280 doesn't seem to see a massive FPS improvement as say the 4870 does. The settings I use on my 8800GT are 4xAA 4xAF and set it to override game settings. Oh and the new driver set was out the other day, might be worth a punt. Regards [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_smile Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Don't expect much FPS increase when changing your video. The bottle neck here is the CPU as BS still uses only one core It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice © Scooter Intel Core i7 8700K, Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5, 32Gb DDR4 CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 3200MHz, Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080Ti Extreme, VKB Gunfighter MkII + TM HOTAS Warthog + TM MFD Panels, TrackIR5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTWD Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 Oh I forgot to ask, have you overclocked your Q6600? Regards Paul Regards [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonnieRock Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Macca, Take a look at my thread Here . I have a EVGA GTX 280 SSC. Look at my charts carefully and you will see the problem. If you have any question please ask. Also, if you or any others would please take the time to run the benchmarks I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you, Monnie Rack Rig: Rosewill RSV-L4000 | Koolance ERM-3K3UC | Xeon E5-1680 v2 @ 4.9ghz w/EK Monoblock | Asus Rampage IV Black Edition | 64GB 2133mhz | SLI TitanXP w/ EK Waterblocks | 2x Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB | Seasonic 1000w Titanium | Windows 10 Pro 64bit | TM Warthog HOTAS w/40cm Extension | MFG Crosswind Rudders | Obutto R3volution | HP Reverb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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