Need more fps in Black Shark! What to upgrade?

[S.h.r.i.k.e.]

I have done a lot of tweaks and stuff to improve my fps in Black Shark. They have helped a lot; however, I still find my game stuttering or in the low to mid 30 fps frequently. I would just like to smooth things out a bit. I have ~$140-150 to spend. Is there anything I can upgrade in that price range that will allow me to see a noticeable improvement?

 

AMD Phenom II X2 255 Callisto BE 3.2GHz AM3 Overclocked to 3.5GHz

 

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

 

Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 1 GB DDR3

 

Crucial 4x1GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333 (PC3 10600)

 

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAKS 320GB

 

Thanks!

[Kuky]

Since you say you are having stuttering and you have ATI/AMD card try what I did... disable AMD External Events Utility service... that cured stuttering for me in DCS A-10C which I was having and it just might help you smooth things out

[71st_Mastiff]

I have done a lot of tweaks and stuff to improve my fps in Black Shark. They have helped a lot; however, I still find my game stuttering or in the low to mid 30 fps frequently. I would just like to smooth things out a bit. I have ~$140-150 to spend. Is there anything I can upgrade in that price range that will allow me to see a noticeable improvement?

 

AMD Phenom II X2 255 Callisto BE 3.2GHz AM3 Overclocked to 3.5GHz

 

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

 

Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 1 GB DDR3

 

Crucial 4x1GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333 (PC3 10600)

 

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAKS 320GB

 

Thanks!

 

you need to get a higher end CPU the Sim is CPU intensive.

 

So look in the CPU higher end ranges.

I saw a video on the new intel i7 2600k and it rocked the Sim the guy was in cluter of buildings and and low and had 30 to 45 FPS see if I can find it.

 

[Kuky]

Now that you mentioned that Mastiff I see he's got HD4670 which is towards lower end also... he must be using low(er) settings

[71st_Mastiff]

his hard drive is also low end.

 

On a side note, Kukey I'm also experiencing stutters still 3 seconds every so often it looks like texture loading. I have a 1gb MSI GTX465n frozerii, It should be not doing this? the rest is in the sig I have an SSD 64 gb with only OS on it everything else is on the 1.5 tb 7200 Seagate. I did the firmware update with crucial also and trim. Still looks like the video side is the problem.

[Kuky]

get GPU-z and see how much of RAM on the video card is being used, it might be it, but if you say stutters are on steady intervals like I had (for me it was every 2 seconds) I am inclined to think it's some software/service doing it as it's polling or doing something in that interval... for me it turned out this ATI service was causing it... I don't know what equivalent nVidia cards/driver would have... you can try disabling V-sync as something it can cause stutters also if the FPS is about the same as sync frequency

[71st_Mastiff]

I'm sorry the video lag last 3 seconds is what I meant to say. But only at odd intervals like loading. if the memory is not all the way used up in the video card I have page file off do to the fact I have 8gb and the utility shows only 32% load when the game is running.

 

side note the game was running perfect for 3 months this just started, not sure whats causing it.

[Kuky]

Since you have 8GB of system RAM I would say try disable page file completely... I have 12GB and have it disabled also.

 

To know if you're running out of video RAM use GPU-z and log while flying... it'll tell you how much GPU and RAM is used

[71st_Mastiff]

Since you have 8GB of system RAM I would say try disable page file completely... I have 12GB and have it disabled also.

 

To know if you're running out of video RAM use GPU-z and log while flying... it'll tell you how much GPU and RAM is used

 

maxed is 1007, but no stutter this time there was a huge cloudy day at 800m base and now I'm thinking its the partly cloudy days or clouds causing it.