sinelnic Posted August 29, 2009 Posted August 29, 2009 Holy crap! That was a HUGE difference Just confirming, I got about 8-11 frames/sec with the full settings. With those settings, my FPS jumped to 12-18, usually being around 15!!!!!! But why should I mess with water settings? I'm not anywhere near water. :) good to hear! It so happens that in Russia everything is different. In DCS current engine, the water is "drawn" even when flying over solid ground. In fact, if you fly over a high altitude lake in the mountains, you'll see that the waves appear to be much lower than the lake surface, because all water is considered to be at sea level. Water shaders are resource hogs and by lowering their quality (they still look very good, you just don't get terrain and cloud reflections), you ease your fps a lot. Your fps are still very low though, for comfortable flying. I have an E8400 and get 60-30 fps, with an 8800 GTX. You can also try lowering View Distance = medium. But there seems to be some problem with your system, my CPU runs @ 3GHz, yours should not be much slower... Westinghouse W-600 refrigerator - Corona six-pack - Marlboro reds - Patience by Girlfriend "Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance." (Dr. A. R. Dykes - British Institution of Structural Engineers, 1976)
PoleCat Posted August 29, 2009 Posted August 29, 2009 You may also try setting graphics in game settings Visib Range to medium or low. Should gain some fps there. For XP Full screen for Vista Windowed mode. Use DCS max if multi core CPU. Best of luck. Out http://www.104thphoenix.com/
Speed_2 Posted August 29, 2009 Author Posted August 29, 2009 You may also try setting graphics in game settings Visib Range to medium or low. Should gain some fps there. For XP Full screen for Vista Windowed mode. Use DCS max if multi core CPU. Best of luck. Out What? I thought DCSmax was obsolete now. arrogant, realism-obsessed Falcon 4 junkie
Speed_2 Posted August 29, 2009 Author Posted August 29, 2009 (edited) :) good to hear! It so happens that in Russia everything is different. In DCS current engine, the water is "drawn" even when flying over solid ground. In fact, if you fly over a high altitude lake in the mountains, you'll see that the waves appear to be much lower than the lake surface, because all water is considered to be at sea level. Water shaders are resource hogs and by lowering their quality (they still look very good, you just don't get terrain and cloud reflections), you ease your fps a lot. Your fps are still very low though, for comfortable flying. I have an E8400 and get 60-30 fps, with an 8800 GTX. You can also try lowering View Distance = medium. But there seems to be some problem with your system, my CPU runs @ 3GHz, yours should not be much slower... Here, try this mission, tell me what frame rates you are getting. This is the mission I have been talking about, the one that brought my computer to its knees. BTW, this is NOT a finished mission. During normal gameplay, I WAS getting 20-50 FPS. Now much higher.Scramble!_single.miz Edited August 29, 2009 by Speed_2 arrogant, realism-obsessed Falcon 4 junkie
sinelnic Posted August 29, 2009 Posted August 29, 2009 Hahahahah Call of Duty heli version!!! Well I got 17 fps as the lowest, avg at 25, and 60 when going to kill enemy arty. I´d suggest to use fewer units... Westinghouse W-600 refrigerator - Corona six-pack - Marlboro reds - Patience by Girlfriend "Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance." (Dr. A. R. Dykes - British Institution of Structural Engineers, 1976)
PoleCat Posted August 29, 2009 Posted August 29, 2009 What? I thought DCSmax was obsolete now. Sorry mate. You are correct DCS Max not needed after patch. Only 1.0 under Vista/7. Do check the visib range setting though. Out http://www.104thphoenix.com/
Speed_2 Posted August 29, 2009 Author Posted August 29, 2009 Do check the visib range setting though. Out I will try going to medium if I ever see low frame rates again. However, with shadows and water down, and everythign else maxed, the lowest FPS I have seen is about 18, and that was in a very busy mission. Now, my FPS is usually around 50-70!!!!! I'm telling everyone in my virtual Falcon 4 squad that is flying BS to use these settings now :) arrogant, realism-obsessed Falcon 4 junkie
71st_Mastiff Posted August 30, 2009 Posted August 30, 2009 I will try going to medium if I ever see low frame rates again. However, with shadows and water down, and everythign else maxed, the lowest FPS I have seen is about 18, and that was in a very busy mission. Now, my FPS is usually around 50-70!!!!! I'm telling everyone in my virtual Falcon 4 squad that is flying BS to use these settings now :) Also every time you update your NVIDIA drvrs, It states in the Nhancer readme to reinstall the Nhancer... Also check your setting in the NVIDIA gloable setting turn also turn off Gama you dont need that.. You might want to check those global settings.. and set up a seprate exe start; from nvida program setting tab, you really don't need the nhancer.. I'm running 160.92 and getting 50fps "any failure you meet, is never a defeat; merely a set up for a greater come back", W Forbes. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts", "He who never changes his mind, never changes anything," Winston Churchill. MSI z690 MPG DDR4 || i9-14900k|| ddr4-64gb PC3200 |zotac RTX 5080|Game max 1300w|Win11| |turtle beach elite pro 5.1|| ViRpiL,T50cm2||MFG Crosswinds|| VT50CM-plus rotor Throttle || Z10 RGB EVGA Keyboard/ G502LogiMouse || PiMax Crystal VR || 32 Asus||
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