Help with tweaking

[TonyD]

Captnclownage: I have some suggestions regarding your settings:

• Model Detail: set this to ‘Medium’ – you will not see any reduction in quality as you will only get high model detail with texture quality set to ‘Original’. You will see an increase in fps.
• Buildings detail: try this on ‘Medium’ as well – this reduces the amount of detail drawn on the buildings (ridges, smoke stack detail, etc.) but won’t really be noticeable, but you will get an increase in fps.
• Forest: you can set this higher than ‘Low’ without any fps loss (you have enough VRAM).
• Visual Effects: I run this on ‘High’ due to the horrible appearance of glass canopies on ‘Medium’. This will also not cost much fps.
• Anti-aliasing: turn this off and use an ‘aftermarket’ post-processing routine like ‘SweetFX’. I use Buchon’s SMAA which works better than in-game AA with no fps loss (search for one of his posts, he has a link in his sig). The game does not support anything more than 2xAA anyway.
• VSYNC: on – this prevents frame tearing when looking around the cockpit and does not affect performance.
• Buildings Amount: this setting affects the number of buildings that are textured, not rendered – the lower this setting is, the more ‘brown boxes’ you will see. Setting this to ‘Unlimited’ over London will result in no brown boxes and a frame rate in the 20’s, so it’s a bit of a compromise. Over the rest of the map you will not see any brown boxes with this on ‘High’, except occasionally over Le Havre.

With the above settings I get frame rates between 45 and 60, with a Black Death track average of 38fps - you should get similar. I also leave all my graphic driver settings at default.

S!