im running the game at 400*300 with an nvidia 8500gt smoothly over the sea

[raaaid]

i play it at 400*300 FULL SCREEN

[AndyJWest]

Did you try 560 * 420, Raaaid? Might be easier on the eyes...

Presumably you're not running the new Beta patch - that might help a little too.

A clue as to why Raaaid is struggling:

NVidia 8500 GT 43 GFLOPs
NVidia 8800 GT 504 GFLOPs
NVidia 570 GTX 1405.4 GFLOPs

Figures from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...ocessing_Units. There are other factors affecting performance too, of course...

[raaaid]

i tried 560*420 but for some reason my gpu cant render that while it can 400*300

also im running beta patch

if i manage to reduce distance at which buildings pop up i could fully run this game online with this rig

[justme262]

maybe you could squint while you fly over land?
or blink constantly so you can't tell if it's the frame rate or the blinking?
or maybe they could put an option to turn off buildings, trees and your sense of the ridiculous ?
hey if you shoot me down online while playing like that your a better virtual pilot than I am !

[AndyJWest]

...hey if you shoot me down online while playing like that your a better virtual pilot than I am !

Now, that would be ironic. The rest of us are selling (or renting) body parts to upgrade our PCs, and to have Raaaid on our six in his badly-rendered G50 (or whatever), shooting square bullets and stuttering along at 5 fps would be most embarrassing.

This thread is the most entertaining one on the forum, by far.

[sg1221]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

Now, that would be ironic. The rest of us are selling (or renting) body parts to upgrade our PCs, and to have Raaaid on our six in his badly-rendered G50 (or whatever), shooting square bullets and stuttering along at 5 fps would be most embarrassing.

This thread is the most entertaining one on the forum, by far.

LMAO !!! TOO FUNNY Andy


sg

[raaaid]

well just found out i can run the game as well at 250*150 and still read the gauges on ww view

feels like a quarter machine which still is fun after decades

i even flew over london with quite few stutter this way

now im ready to jump online, if only i knew how

[MadBlaster]

try LandGeom=0? Or ;LandGeom=whatever. maybe that works, maybe not.

[raaaid]

landgeom doesnt seem to work

im running vista

the game still playable for me at 800*600 on sea, 25 fps, if only i found the way to eliminate stuuter over land

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGmA4wBfeaA

[MadBlaster]

Originally Posted by raaaid

landgeom doesnt seem to work

im running vista

the game still playable for me at 800*600 on sea, 25 fps, if only i found the way to eliminate stuuter over land

Oh, too bad. Sorry I don't have the game yet, so i can only guess. I read over at SimQ somewhere that dynamical lights=0 helps a lot with fps. But that's not buildings. Maybe some of the other "land" settings you could try. Minimize sound settings should help, but it looks like you did that already.

You could also overclock your vid card a bit. Get rivatuner (freeware). Very easy to do. Just some sliders you move. Try something mild, like 5 percent increase and see if it makes a difference. Keep all the numbers (core/shader/memory in proportion to your stock settings and you should be okay. You should probably monitor your gpu temp just in case, but i doubt it will do much heat difference with just 5 percent. I'm sure there's guys out there that overclock that card. You could try their settings.