Sound effects loads and fire/smoke are my biggest FPS hits.

[Reticuli]

Any suggestions?

 

Can all the sound be loaded in ram or soundcard buffer before they are needed? I get little freezes like Longbow 2 did years ago.

 

Possible to turn down explosions, smoke, or their persistence?

 

By the way, I turned down water, and it doesn't seem to be a problem up at a higher setting. Leaving the animated waves -- at least at "1" -- is fine.

[EtherealN]

There is a mod somewhere on lockonfiles.com that will remove some of the smoke - specifically the the flares.

[slug88]

Setting the swap file size to 0 in Windows might help with the caching issues. I've been doing this on my 4gb W7 system from day one.