Frame-rate Issues

[Lolsmurf]

Same thing here, as soon as you are nearing the bridgeheads from the south you start to experience a FPS drop...

I think it has to do something with the models, too many building models loading unproperly or the bridges are too heavy together and make a FPS drop...

I had the same thing when I played ETS on my own map and when I placed too many buildings on 1 place without giving them a loading boundary...

[kennyb87]

The Bay bridge area I notice the most fps drops so I just stay away from them most of the time. I think it's to do with all the road bridges. Lolsmurf do you prefer this to ETS yet?

[movo.]

Same here..

Intel E8400 @ 3Ghz
2GB DDR3
HD4870

[kennyb87]

Funny how that is the recommended specs for the game. They should be working on more optimization for the next patch

[M76]

I don't know if this was said before.

If the fps drops below playable levels, save the game, and quit completely, not just to the main manu, to the desktop. Run the game again, and load the save, then the fps should be back to normal.

This worked for me. Its not a solution just a workaround.

[shof]

I too noticed alot of shuttering and lag when i play the game and drive on the bay bridge. My specs:

Motherboard:
CPU Type QuadCore AMD Phenom II X4 925, 2800 MHz (14 x 200)
Motherboard Name Asus M3A78 (3 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset AMD 770, AMD K10
System Memory 6144 MB (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM)
DIMM1: Corsair XMS2 CM2X2048-6400C5 2 GB DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-18 @ 400 MHz) (4-4-4-13 @ 270 MHz)
DIMM2: Corsair XMS2 CM2X2048-6400C5 2 GB DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-18 @ 400 MHz) (4-4-4-13 @ 270 MHz)
DIMM3: Corsair XMS2 CM2X2048-6400C5 2 GB DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-18 @ 400 MHz) (4-4-4-13 @ 270 MHz)
BIOS Type AMI (09/22/09)

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 (1024 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
Monitor Dell 1707FP (Digital) [17" LCD] (CC35272122VC)
Monitor Generic PnP Monitor [NoDB] (000000000)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card

Storage:
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
Disk Drive ST3320620AS ATA Device (320 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Disk Drive WDC WD3200AAKS-00B3A0 ATA Device (298 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NS30 ATA Device (DVD+R9:16x, DVD-R9:12x, DVD+RW:22x/8x, DVD-RW:22x/6x, DVD-RAM:12x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/32x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Game plays very smooth on my system with no lags or anything like that, until i enter the bay bridge area. does anyone know why?

[mark39]

it has just happened to me also,i have the english CD version and i have had no problems upto now everything has been running smoothly,but going to colfax passing through the SF area framerate dropped to about maybe 1-2 fps and then when i came back through on my way to san jose it did it again to the point where it was impossible to play and i had to quit out back to desktop.

pc specs

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz, 2133 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB

NVIDIA GeForce 310M

[hert]

Yes heading from San Jose to San Fransisco. Everything is fine until I enter S.F. then, it becomes a slide show until a little after you choose either the bay bridge or G.G. bridge then it becomes fine.

[Lolsmurf]

Originally Posted by kennyb87

The Bay bridge area I notice the most fps drops so I just stay away from them most of the time. I think it's to do with all the road bridges. Lolsmurf do you prefer this to ETS yet?

how do you mean ?

If your question is whether I like this game more than ETS the answer is yes.
This game doesnt get boring after playing it several hours and making choises affect the story so everybody plays the game on his/her own way

[brasil]

First, sorry, i have no nice english.

Here too, cant join on san francisco "missions", the screen starts freeze, impossible play.

I can save game with freezes? Yes, but, close and open new game the freez continue.

Have no distorted screen, just freezes in the game.

Game info: ENG All updates ok

System Info: Win 7 64 "all up dates ok" - Have no vírus. - Drivers, sound, video all up dated.

Hardware info: Phenom II x3 5Gb DDR2 - MB ECS A780GM-A Ultra Black Series - ATI HD 5770 1Gb DDR5 XFX - (Juniper XT Protocol)

I think all undestand-me, sorry a bad english.

Have nice day.