il2 1946 4.08m vs radeon hd3850

[JG27CaptStubing]

Originally Posted by sanyigz

Hi!

I have that videocard as in title, with 512mb ram, a64 x2 4400+, 2gb ddr2 800.
But i have poor fps in game. In the most of scenarios, i get maximum 50fps(what is not too high for this card), even if i turn down graphics to minimum, from maximum, and sometimes it drops below 20 fps, what is very annoying. But in some scenarios, like those single pacific island(there is a little island, japan base, and the usn attacking from aircraft carriers) carreer missions, my fps is between 30 and 10 fps, what is very low, if i set graphics to minimum, i can only get +10 fps, what is still not enough.

In opengl mode, this performance is more poor, so im playing in dx mode.

Sometimes it looks like it's slower than on my old athlon xp 3100+, 1gb ddr400, radeon9600pro config, what is really weird.

With my machine i can play oblivion, stalker, armed assault, with maximum setting, with 16AF, and with some aa, so i don't understand why il2 running so slow.

There is a setting in your config file called Processaffinity... Make sure you delete the ; in front of it and set it to =0. If you go in there and have that ; the game is trying to run across both cores and it literally cuts your performance in half.

Not that you have the most powerful CPU in the world but it should be plenty for running this game.

What Resolution are you running in? Also you should be running this game in openGL as you will get better performance and given your card you should have no problems running in Perfect mode.

Given your description its not a Video card or driver issue. Your older 3100+ has no issue because its not dual core like your X2.

This should fix it

[IceFire]

Which driver version?

[=FI=Mikester]

Hi M8

I have the same card I think! HD3850 AGP 512?

I also get poor frames in il2 but even worse my frames jump from 50-60fps to 4fps every time it gets a bit busy! When I say a bit busy i meas 6-7 planes flying about. I originally thought it was my PSU so I bought a new corsair TX750. Still the same issue! Tried all different drivers and cleaned the drivers and reg as best possible. Tried all drivers available including driver that was just released on 26/08 this was even worse! Had issues installing driver and when forced it to install I got psychedelic colors. All chipset drivers are up-to-date MSI Neo2 plat ed. Only thing I've not tried is changing my bios. Even this was only updated 3-4 months ago. Currently using my old card until a driver is released that actually works or I'll send this card back claiming it's faulty. It's not though I've played BF2 with max settings 1280x1024 getting between 98-100fps.

also if I use the ATI traytool and try to underclock the card I get a BSOD claiming there's a prob with one of the ATI files. (happens with all drivers)

If I have any brake through i'll let you know.

This all looks to me like crap drivers or drivers not designed to play older games.

Mike

[sanyigz]

I set processaffinity, to 0 maybe there is a little more performance, but still the minimum fps is at 18fps in some pacific island carreer missions, what is very annoying when drops to it.
If i turn on shader 3 water, then the minimum fps drops more, to about 10 fps.
And if there are a lots of bullets flying near me (fe AA ship, or aircraft carrier ship anti aircraft defence), sometimes i can see various colored squares near the

I'm use catalyst 8.8.

I have pcie 3850

[IceFire]

If the mission involves a carrier and a defensive fleet around it firing at maximum firing capability (its possible in the mission builder to set how often ships will fire) then thats enough physics calculations to bring any CPU to their knees. At this point your graphics card is waiting around for the CPU to complete calculations...so the FPS drops.

Run the track called 'blackdeath.ntrk' and record the FPS start the finish. Write down the lows, average, and high. Let us know.

You have a slightly older CPU paired with a very fast graphics card. You're likely CPU constrained.

[JG27CaptStubing]

Originally Posted by IceFire

If the mission involves a carrier and a defensive fleet around it firing at maximum firing capability (its possible in the mission builder to set how often ships will fire) then thats enough physics calculations to bring any CPU to their knees. At this point your graphics card is waiting around for the CPU to complete calculations...so the FPS drops.

Run the track called 'blackdeath.ntrk' and record the FPS start the finish. Write down the lows, average, and high. Let us know.

You have a slightly older CPU paired with a very fast graphics card. You're likely CPU constrained.

He is CPU bound but there are ways to get it to run better than what he's getting. I still don't know what res hes running in.

If he's running in 1920X1200 then that could be a problem. Also running with water on 3 for his card is too much even for a top of the line machine.

[sanyigz]

blackdeath.ntrk, minimum fps 12 average 48 maximum (i dont know, bcuz i turned off the benchmark after it quit to menu so it benchmarked 630fps).

Im running it at 1280*1024, and now with exellent ground detail instead of perfect. No AA, but don't know about af. In setup i set on texture anisotropic arb extension, and i set texture filtering to anisotropic, but i don't know how much af.

For ati= water 2 was for those ati cards with sm2.0 when pacific fighter came out. Now for ati cards with sm4.1 it's not problem
It's sounds a little funny to me that water 3 is too much for my machine, when i playing with games without problem, what are far more shader intensive than il2(that's why il2 runs much better with nvidia cards, what are slower in shaders but better in texturing, and of course in opengl). In stalker(+ float32 shader mod), oblivion a lots of shaders everywhere, and i playing with them not just on maximum graphics, but with 16x af, and 4x aa.

[JG27CaptStubing]

Originally Posted by sanyigz

I set processaffinity, to 0 maybe there is a little more performance, but still the minimum fps is at 18fps in some pacific island carreer missions, what is very annoying when drops to it.
If i turn on shader 3 water, then the minimum fps drops more, to about 10 fps.
And if there are a lots of bullets flying near me (fe AA ship, or aircraft carrier ship anti aircraft defence), sometimes i can see various colored squares near the

I'm use catalyst 8.8.

I have pcie 3850

Okay another little trick is to turn off the 3dgunners... They eat up a ton of CPU and considering you're running an ATI card you should be on water=2 in open GL.

What resolution are you running and what settings on the video card for AA and AF?

BTW it's normal for your machine to slow down with that much AAA.