New set of DLLs, from February 27th, 2008

[Spinnetti]

Originally Posted by crazyivan1970

Anyone with ATI getting 1-3 seconds freezes with new DLL? And very unstable FPS?

ATI 3870 X2, Catalist 8.2

Yes - not sure about "very unstable", but definitely lower. I wasn't going to say anything because I didn't measure before and after, but my FPS is visibly degraded, with random stutters.... Last dlls were better overall for my 256 meg ATI x1600

[crazyivan1970]

Originally Posted by Spinnetti

Yes - not sure about "very unstable", but definitely lower. I wasn't going to say anything because I didn't measure before and after, but my FPS is visibly degraded, with random stutters.... Last dlls were better overall for my 256 meg ATI x1600

I should be more specific... in places where FPS use to be rock solid... they go up and down for no reason... down to 30 up to 60...down again... Just weird.

[FoolTrottel]

Similar to A.Fokker: Water edges in Haze. See pic.
(8800GTS/320, Water=4.)

[ManicGibber]

Crimea map:
1. The ocean texture instantly changes to black then bright blue then back to normal.
2. The cockpit disappears then reappears.
3. Screen lockups for at least ten seconds at a time happening frequently.
Graphics card is a 7800gt using 169.21 drivers.
I can't get a screeny as it happens too quickly

[Roy]

Originally Posted by ManicGibber

Crimea map:
1. The ocean texture instantly changes to black then bright blue then back to normal.
2. The cockpit disappears then reappears.
3. Screen lockups for at least ten seconds at a time happening frequently.
Graphics card is a 7800gt using 169.21 drivers.
I can't get a screeny as it happens too quickly

Sounds a lot like a redrawing issue. This is not a workaround but out of curiosity can you revert to some earlier drivers and see if the problem persists?

[Feathered_IV]

"1)Increased smoothness of the river coasts and, also smoother whitecaps (foam) on the waves. Smooth foam works only for nVidia cards in the mode water=2. "

Perhaps this is a miss-print. Water=2 for Nvidia cards has whitecaps disabled by default. Water=4 is the one that has the whitecaps.

And with a quad core + 8800GT 640mb + 2gb ram I get 20% less frames plus dirty brown coastlines in the mid to long distance where I would normally see white sands. 15th feb. dll's were better methinks.

[jurinko]

This is not directly related to dlls (I tried also older versions) but when viewing steep mountains from shallow angle, they are shown not correctly: first flat and then the sharp shapes pop-up like on the attached screens.

[ManicGibber]

Originally Posted by Roy

Sounds a lot like a redrawing issue. This is not a workaround but out of curiosity can you revert to some earlier drivers and see if the problem persists?

Thanks Roy, I decided to try different nvidia driver settings before uninstalling and rolling back to an earlier version and when I switched off triple buffering the screen lockups and the black/blue flickering has gone.

[ManicGibber]

Is it possible to slow down the speed of the waves as they break on the shoreline, at present it takes approximately 4 seconds for the breaking waves to appear then head to shore and then disappear. This doesn't look natural at this speed, is it possible to change this to around 20 seconds in the dll, or is this a driver related issue? If it can be slowed down somewhat it may even give a fps boost. This is only a small small matter I know but I thought it is worth mentioning.

[_79_kk]

Originally Posted by crazyivan1970

I should be more specific... in places where FPS use to be rock solid... they go up and down for no reason... down to 30 up to 60...down again... Just weird.

This is the same isiue i have if i putt on to mutch AA or AF (cant remember) on my 8800gts.....been there on all dll, and i think its a driver isiue