Guns cause FPS drop

[rextar]

Can't enjoy till its changed,dcs p51 is on shelf.

[socal500]

Address this FPS drop already !

[WildBillKelsoe]

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=95947

 

Echo doesn't need me to speak for him but we've been here before...! Echo said in above thread...

 

 

 

No dis-respect intended at all Al Capwn, but these 50cal effects are over exaggerated at the moment by too great a factor.

 

 

Solid hits right there mate!!

[Injerin]

P-51 FPS gun fire

 

Not sure if its been mentioned, When firing the P-51 guns it killes the FPS. Is this something that is being fixed?

[BIGNEWY]

I also get massive slow down when the P-51 fires.

 

what GPU do you have out of interest ?

[SyntaxError]

Does anyone know which file I need to delete to get rid of the P-51 gun smoke? It's probably the cause of the fps issue and most people experience it, same with say the CBU-87/105. Hopefully the smoke file isn't shared with the other aircraft or it's a variable.

 

Edit: It may also be the tracers, or both.

Edited December 10, 2013 by SyntaxError

[Kuky]

You guys could try editing tracer_bullet_red.lods file found in .../Bazar/World/Shapes folder

 

values are like this

lods = {

{"tracer_bullet_red.edm",600.000000};

{"tracer_bullet_red-LOD.edm",2000.000000};

{"tracer_bullet_red-LOD2.edm",1000000.000000};

};

 

I think the last one is way excessive... who would see tracers 1000km away? Also, I don't understand why 6 decimals in these lods files?

 

Try changing it to

lods = {

{"tracer_bullet_red.edm",600};

{"tracer_bullet_red-LOD.edm",2000};

{"tracer_bullet_red-LOD2.edm",10000};

};

 

I wonder if it will improve FPS when firing guns

[NakedSquirrel]

You guys could try editing tracer_bullet_red.lods file found in .../Bazar/World/Shapes folder

 

values are like this

 

 

I think the last one is way excessive... who would see tracers 1000km away? Also, I don't understand why 6 decimals in these lods files?

 

Try changing it to

 

 

I wonder if it will improve FPS when firing guns

 

Hi, this worked surprisingly well for me and most of my mates (including Injerin). Great fix! Thanks! :thumbup:

 

I did a few stress tests with 40, 80, and 160 planes dogfighting. 160 seemed to be a few too many for my little video card to handle, but 80 ran smoothly with gunfire.

 

We did have one (slightly) unrelated problem though. (I might post this in another thread if it is too off topic)

 

Gunfire no longer causes any FPS drop. I can watch 40 planes shooting tracers with no dip. However, Fire/smoke effects cause a massive FPS hit. (Basically I can look at 5 aircraft firing tracers with 60 FPS, but if I look down at five burning wrecks, my FPS drops to 1)

 

Is there any way to edit an FPS friendly smoke effect?

 

I may try editing the number of particles that spawn for smoke and see if that helps, because distant smoke effect seems to have little impact compared to closer burning wrecks, but I'm rather new at editing files like this, so I'm hoping someone smarter and more experienced might be able to chime in with some ideas :smartass:

Edited December 19, 2013 by NakedSquirrel

[ralfidude]

Still no word on the FPS issue?

 

We have monster PCs and we are seeing ridiculous FPS hits every time the guns are fired. No updates on this?

 

We also saw something incredible that will be in my next sh*ts and giggles. When one of our P-51D pilots was flying and guns were being fired, his entire screen froze due to the FPS drop and he crashed. When I looked to see his impact point, it looked like a nuke went off. The explosion was about 10000X bigger than it should have.

 

Really weird... but really cool, please don't change that.

Edited December 31, 2013 by ralfidude

[ralfidude]

This FPS drop needs to be addressed in the next patch. A lot of us are suffering from it with monster PCs.

 

My mates have the GTX 580 1.5 gig version and I have the GTX 690.

 

Till then, this is shelved.

[WildBillKelsoe]

I have requested this since 1.2.3 but no one joined my voice.. It's a shame I can't properly fly and FIGHT in this aircraft just because ED cannot finish their product. Either remove the smoke effect ED, or make it like 1.2.1 (laser tracers).... This is bellshit

[ralfidude]

All three of my friends experience this, and i have a sound card. It's not the sound...

 

We got the P-51D on sale and we all can't play it because of how horrible it is when you press the trigger. One dude froze up so bad he crashed, while the other who was hosting froze so bad it crashed the game for everyone.

 

I tried running it off my server too and same crap.

 

Something horrible is going on.

[ZaltysZ]

One dude froze up so bad he crashed, while the other who was hosting froze so bad it crashed the game for everyone.

 

Does the same happen offline? If not, some of you may have too slow network link. Lots of bullets -> lots of network packets -> network congestion.

[ralfidude]

that's not it either.

[tflash]

I must say it took me a while before I realized the FPS drop was the reason I couldn't hit much with the P-51D.

[kk0425]

Strange. I'm not getting that bad of an FPS hit. I average about 53 without guns firing and 48 with. I attached my dxdiag so maybe that will help. It says I have a GTX 780 now, but back when I was using a GTX 570 they still weren't as bad as some reports. Also attached is a screenshot of my settings.

DxDiag.txt

[diveplane]

notice in tests firing low over water , bullet tracer reflection over water while flying low hogs the system fps, this needs looked into ww2 gun fire.

 

only happens when water is set to high in options.

[ralfidude]

We were indeed fighting over water, but our water was set to low and medium.

[kk0425]

Ah yeah. Water does make it much worse. 60 fps down to 14 at times.

[Nemesis302]

It's been horrible for months. I made a post about it way back in July, and it was a problem long before I posted about it. There have been several patches and nothing has been done about it. All of my friends with P-51 have the same problem too. If I fire in very short bursts, it's tolerable. If I hold down the trigger for a few seconds I can have my fps drop into the teens easily.

 

Core i5 760 at 3.66 ghz. WD Black, 12 gigs ram, Radeon 7950 on a single 1920x1200 screen is what I'm running.

[cichlidfan]

Guns don't cause FPS drop. People cause FPS drop.

 

I'm really, really sorry. My eyes fell on the thread title and...

 

;)

[Slap_Chop]

ED is underfunded and overworked. You bastards need to buy whatever they come out with next. No questions asked.

[tflash]

The fix in post #32 http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1943823&postcount=32 completely solved my problem.

 

I guess it is only an issue if your computer specs are just borderline.

[ralfidude]

No tflash.

 

If you read the entire thread you would see that a lot of these people are running good rigs.

 

I know that myself and Linebacker are both running very fine PCs and still experience this issue.

 

CPU is a new gen i7 6core (i know cores dont do sh*t in this sim) OC'd to 4.8GHz (this matters) and liquid cooling.

 

ASUS motherboard with 16GB of RAM at 2400

 

GTX 690

 

game running on an SSD...

 

Low specs are not the issue here mate.

[danvac]

What about your internet connection?