Increasing frame rates.

[GBS]

I find if i have anything set higher than medium the game really begins to slow down. Not good with a simulation of this quality. I have the following:

 

AMD 2.7 dual core

4 GB RAM

gForce 9800 GTX+ card

 

Are there any tricks or settings that might work best with my equipment?

Thanks.

 

Greg

[macedk]

better gfx card to be honest

[Bodo]

There comes a point where all you can really do is accept that the program you're running demands more power than your setup can provide.

 

Tricks.

 

1: Overclock your CPU and possibly your GPU.

2: Configure the installation to a separate HDD, allowing windows reads and writes to happen to a different drive than the one you're running the game from, might help with stutters etc.

3. Make sure there are no third party applications that might be using RAM and/or CPU power in the background.

4. Use a 64 bit OS.

5. Make sure all drivers are up to date.

6. Lower the settings in game and be happy.

 

Can't think of many more than that.

 

Upgrading the GPU might be good but I went from an 8800GT to a 460, and although I noticed big improvment, the main benefit came from upgrading from a Core2Duo to a Quad Core, also running at a higher speed.

Edited March 10, 2011 by Bodo

[MTFDarkEagle]

Sorry to say, but I think your system isn't going to run any higher than medium..

 

What OS are you running? 32/64 bit?

[asparagin]

At the moment, what works, is turning things off: start with civ traffic, textures on med, water on low.. for better performance with things high you will need some more GHz and eventually a better GPU.

[Bodo]

Have a read of this thread, maybe it'll help?

[Agg]

Apart from turning things off or down, there isnt really much you can do without updating your current system.

[Conure]

Hi mate, before I upgraded...

 

shadows to low

Water low

Scenes low

Traffic off

 

You'll still get a nice crisp cockpit and terrain, and it'll smooth out your FPS. Turn the ground tree distance and foliage stuff to lowest...To be honest, the game looks great with everything on low except textures - Consider the rest as unimportant eyecandy.

 

Also, defragging makes a big difference to performance...Not sure why as you'd presume the game runs off of ram, but defragging my old rig gave me 6 or 7 more FPS! A substantial increase when I was getting 15...

 

If we're honest with ourselves, this sim is first and foremost a systems and avionics trainer - that is perfectly fine with all low, bar textures.

Edited March 10, 2011 by Conure

[Bahger]

Cockpit res at 256 will buy you a significant FPS increase if you've set it higher.

[GBS]

Thanks for the advice. I have a 32 bit Vista system. What card is considered the best out there at this time?

[Sinky]

Thanks for the advice. I have a 32 bit Vista system. What card is considered the best out there at this time?

 

You will get different views depending if people prefer Nvidia or ATI. Check out the new HD6990, that will run you up 550 quid though. You do not need a beast of a graphics card to run the game on high settings.

 

Can you tell me how much RAM your current GPU has?

[Conure]

The newest graphics card will be severely bottlenecked by your CPU and Ram! You'd be better off spending the cost of a top end graphics card on a mid range cpu/mobo/ram and GPU!

[Sinky]

The newest graphics card will be severely bottlenecked by your CPU and Ram! You'd be better off spending the cost of a top end graphics card on a mid range cpu/mobo/ram and GPU!

 

Completely forgot he was running a 2.7 dual core. :doh:

[Conure]

Completely forgot he was running a 2.7 dual core. :doh:

 

Hehe, those cards would probably blow his PSU...Would be...Entertaining :D

 

Just kidding OP!