[Black Shark 1] ABRIS map reduces fps, and SHKVAL halves FPS!!

[Raven_Morpheus]

Hello

 

I've just been doing some frame rate comparisons and I've noticed that when I uncage the SHKVAL I lose roughly 50% of my framerate.

 

In the "how to take off and blow stuff up" tutorial mission, just sitting on the pad, I get 60 fps with the ABRIS on it's menu (the one you get when it starts up and 50 FPS when I switch it to the map mode, and then when I uncage SHKVAL, even with the ABRIS on it's start menu, my framerate drops to around 30fps!!

 

This is less than ideal because I can imagine that in the campaigns I'll have less than 30fps in some situations and I know that low fps causes input lag for me.

 

It doesn't seem to be related to using multiple monitors either as I've tried it with a single monitor and the same issue occurs.

 

Is there anyway I can fix this, or alleviate the problem?

 

 

FYI here's my rig specs -

 

Mobo - Gigabyte GA-880GM-USB3

RAM - 8GB 1333mhz

GPU - Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB

CPU - AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition @ 3.2GHZ

OS - Win 7 Home Premium 64bit.

Edited December 11, 2013 by Raven_Morpheus

[Psyrixx]

In the Display Options try decreasing the resolution of your cockpit displays and not drawn every frame.

[Raven_Morpheus]

Thanks, I've done that already. My cockpit displays are at 256 resolution.

 

If I pan around with the SHKVAL, on that mission at least, I get even worse fps, it drops to 15 or so.

[Psyrixx]

What version are you running, in what resolution?

[Raven_Morpheus]

v1.01. In 1920x1080 (native res on my primary monitor) on a single screen, or 2820x1080 when I use 2 screens, the 2nd to display ABRIS/SHKVAL so that I can see them better.

 

I tried upgrading to v1.02, but recently found out that with 2 monitors the NVG is broken (it zooms the view in to a size that is presumably the combined resolution (2820x1080 in my case) and thus you can't see all the screen, when you press H to turn on NVG and affects the view in an odd way when panning) so I've gone back to v1.01.

 

I'm also having to use SoftTH v2.08 to get my dual monitor setup working properly, but I've tried without SoftTH and the issue with the SHKVAL still occurs so it's not related to using SoftTH.

 

EDIT - I've also just done a test using 1 monitor only at 1280x720 and the same issue happens. My general framerate also doesn't differ between 720p and 1080p. I'd also rather not go any lower than that (especially as I want to run dual screens as I'd have to change my desktop resolution on both monitors every time I play BS1 because ATI CCC doesn't seem to scale the image to full screen when using 2 monitors!)

Edited December 12, 2013 by Raven_Morpheus