Stutters & Tweaks

Originally Posted by TUSA/TX-Gunslinger

I just came back after a long absence and spent time with the sim yesterday.

I've noticed an old trick that helped alleviate stuttering (for me anyway) - which was to disable windows aero. Tested again last night on TBD track and it made quite a difference in smooth rendering - playback.

- Turn windows aero off, by right clicking the "Launcher.exe" in the CoD root directory to select Properties. Select the "Compatibility" tab then check "Disable Desktop Composition" and hit "OK"

If you've done this correctly, when CoD starts you'll get a message from windows saying "The Color Scheme has been changed to Windows Basic"......

To see if this affects you, I'd suggest running "The Black Death" track under your current configuration once - maybe take a fraps benchmark if it's easy. Then Disable Desktop Composition, restart - and run TBD track again. What I see is a signficant change in longer duration stutters or "pulsing" as the track is played back.

Maybe that can help - maybe not - but since this hasn't been posted since April - thought I'd throw it out there. Amazing that there are not more stickies for this sort of thing around (or I'm just blind).

S!

Gunny

I did that, but thanks for the info. Ive got stutters only when somebody repawns and not always. But the slowdowns occur when the dust is near (lets say when ditching) or (sometimes) when more planes are near, low, in dogfight....

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Hey Grathos, let me know if it helps with current software build.. good to see you, man.

Tvrdi, it helps - but as I looked at it last night - it isn't a miracle cure. When TBD is running without it, there's this kind of slow pulsing of the track. It did stop that. Benchmark with Aero enabled - went down to minimum of 0 fps. With Aero disabled - popped back up to 6 - average fps up by 5 fps.

Off to practice bombing....

S!

Gunny

[310thDiablo]

Gunny....good to see you back.

[Kwiatek]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

I did that, but thanks for the info. Ive got stutters only when somebody repawns and not always. But the slowdowns occur when the dust is near (lets say when ditching) or (sometimes) when more planes are near, low, in dogfight....

Exacly there are huge slow downs when more planes are in dogfight over land expecially when you make minimum FOV ( gunsight view) on them. Game could slow down even to 2 fps even if normaly i got 40-50 fps.

[335th_GRAthos]

Gents, I would recommend to try your tests flying at the ATAG Server.


It is the first server I saw where I can fly on a single GTX570 card 3024x resolution at 50-60fps constant over land, bombers, planes etc etc without experiencing stutters (I fly without SLI since I realised it doubles fps but reduces the smoothness of the game).

ATAG changed completely my view about the game...

The only problem I have now is that when I spend too much time near the bomber formations and max zoom (gunsight mode) the memory leak is much faster.


~S~


PS: Gunslinger! It has been a long time, I think last time was the online team event (TUSA - 335th).Nice too see you around!

[Flanker35M]

S!

Can concur, ATAG is a nice server to fly. A Launcher.exe crash now and then, but nothing serious. I rarely use max zoom, rather the middle and far out.

[Psit]

Hello, guys.

I am just posting to let you know that i upgraded from a single 4870 512mb to a 6950 2gb.

Before: Unplayable, lots of stutter no matter the settings. Also low fps..

After: Everything on high, also roads ssao grass ON, i can get 35fps average on black death track. Also, i get no stutter at all. Only very rarely in online games, but that's more like a hiccup than constant stutter.

I am running on a i7 950 stock with 6gb ram and the aforementioned 6950 2gb ati card.

Edit : win7 64bit

[diveplane]

one major find for me is the , uncheck of the ingame radio comms, think this is a resource hog atm causing a lot of lag ingame stutters ,

to my suprize when i unchecked this feature in audio options, its greatly reduced this glitch.


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[Mad G]

Where you did it? Ingame or in the conf file? Thanks,