How to get smooth perfomance in this sim

[warbirds]

Load a mission with lots of planes and when your plane is running look at the prop animation. It is most likely intermittent and jerky. The prop animation in this sim is your clue to how smooth your fps are. You want to aim for smooth prop animation with no stutters or intermittent stops, just continous smooth rotation at all rpm's.

How do you get this, simple you use a frame rate limiter. I use Bandicam. I found this program to work where others did not. Bandicam is a video capture program like fraps but it has a fps limiter you can use. Download the program (free to use if unregistered) and set the fps to 30. You might also set the hot key for the limiter so you can experiment with it on or off in the game.

Now go into the game and fly a mission that has had stutters and uneven performance. Use the onscreen fps graphic to see if you have the limiter on and watch your prop animation. Make sure it is on (fps will drop to 30 if on) and watch your prop animation smooth out. Flying is smoother now with less hickups.

The trick is to balance your COD settings with the limiter so you can maintain a steady 30 fps. If it dips below it at any time during a complexe mission change your settings to avoid the dips.

This works great in all games I play except FSX. For some reason FSX jutters at 30 fps limited for me. Try it but remember your prop animation is your guide, make it smooth and all else follows.

Many gamers cannot get their head around a frame rate cap, they just don't understand it and it goes against all they have worked for. I had to prove it to myself and now I know what it does and that it works. Even Nvidia knows this works because their October driver release will feature a frame rate limiter.