Stutters & Tweaks

[Mad G]

S!

As we know this sim is still stuttering for most people even with powerful rigs as mine. I was so puzzled that I´d start to test every possible way to get rid of it, because stutters im a flight sim is a main killer. So this post it´s to share tweaks that reduced or eliminated this plague.

Here are mines:

- In game video confg everything is HIGH but Medium Forest, grass, shadows and roads on, vsync off (is forced on on NVCP with 4xAA and 4xAF).

- this one is from some dude in the net:

"One thing to try, stolen from Saint's Row 2: disable page file, clear the Windows prefetch directory. Reboot, start the game, load a game, quit and restart the game. That solved a lot of stuttering on that game. You'll basically teach Windows to load the game without virtual memory."
C:\Windows\Prefetch

- CPU overclocked to 4.0GHz, memory bus to 925MHz, FSB to 200MHz and GPU to 830/1660/2004.

Overall I have 48FPS average but clouds and low level flight are the main hit on performance/ stutters.

Also I have a feeling that it stutters more on a SSD then a HD, don´t know why. I´ll make some tests with a HD.

Well, I´m looking for to yours tweaks.

SP!

[shotglass]

Hello,
the most stutters on my system coming from land shading, so i switched it to low. Well maybe its unacceptable for most people but try and see!
Shadows also off, but (for me) they are ugly and buggy anyway. With these settings I get nearly 50-60 frames mostly.

Other settings: textures high, forest low/very low, buildings medium, effects medium, AA off, model high, land detail medium, v sync on, grass off.
Oh and resolution at 1920x1080, anyway this week I change my GPU to Club3D HD 6870 2Gb.. hopefully i can turn up some details!
Cheers!

[Mad G]

S!

Yes, the main culprit are shadows, it reminds me the Perfect Mode in IL2 FB, it took me 2 years to fly in that best mode. Also we have dynamic clouds and since Beta patch 2 it´s a major hit in performance, saddly.

I tested SSD x HD for stutters and is pretty much the same, sure SSD loading is very, very fast.

I believe that with this 2GB card it will let you increase settings.

By the way HT is off.

SP!

[shotglass]

S!

Yes, HT is also off, same as page file but doesn't help. Yeah, same here regarding IL2/FB/1946.

Be sure in one year we have all 2-4Gb VGA memory , but maybe with further development the demand will also rise up, it's just the beginning!

So at the moment no tweaks help that much, seems the dev's turn to tweak further !

Cheers!

[Timberwolf]

Before the patch i had no problems After i get frozen screens ..no ingame settings were changed all were on high

However I do speed tests and run a great net connection I get double the Mbps then i pay for so shhhhh! I close processes i don't need, Clean my ram, Defrag on closing my computer down. Slight OC on my Vid card I'm running 1024 x 768 on a 47 inch screen

Next month im getting the Asus Crosshair formula V motherboard and a 8 Core CPU Xmas wishlist will be 12 gigs of ram and a 6xxx series video card

Even that said i know i still wil have problems with running Cliffs
Seems everyone from low end user to high end gamming rigs are getting issues Get sorta peved that the updates are """fixed bombing gyro""" when you can't even fly the dam plane

[335th_GRAthos]

Originally Posted by Timberwolf

I'm running 1024 x 768 on a 47 inch screen

I guess you belong to the ones who have no problems distinguishing the dots from distance...

By the way, nice new rig, the planned one!

~S~

[Timberwolf]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

A lot of people could fly the planes, and for the fighters could do everything basic that you need to have a decent flight/fight. Bombers couldn't level bomb at all, making the whole class of plane useless, therefore they fixed the bombing gyro.

You shouldn't have been able to run your setup at full high, so whatever the new patch brought, fixed your "problem".

Well it's great to know while i'm in a frozzen window my "bomber" has a working gyro

LOL your right no one on CLOD should be able to run at full high settings untill theres a patch for there cpu of win7 app or video card I seen people with duel sli/crossfire I-7 12 gigs 25mbps All upgraded to play the game to find out there issue isn't a patch issue cause we now have working "gyros"

[Fall_Pink?]

Well, even if you have a high end system, put nearly everything on "medium" helps a lot. On my, so to say, high end system, things run a lot smoother with below settings:

[core]
RandSeed=0
TexQual=1
TexFlags.PolygonStipple=0
Shadows=1
SpecularLight=2
DiffuseLight=2
DynamicalLights=1
MeshDetail=2
LandShading=1
LandDetails=1
Sky=3
Forest=1
VisibilityDistance=3
LandGeom=2
DrawCollisions=1
Water=-1
Effects=0
EffFlags.Light=1
EffFlags.SpriteRender=0
Grass=-1
CordEffect=1
UseFog=0
UseLandCube=1
UseLandConnectedObject=1
LinearObjectManager=1
Roads=1
Sun=1
Clouds=1
EffFlags.LightSpritesProj=1
ShadowMapSize=5
TexFlags.AsyncLoad=1
TexFlags.ShowTexture=0
SimpleMesh.SWTransform=0
SimpleMesh.QuadTreeClip=1
SimpleMesh.InstancingHW=1
EffFlags.LightContextSprites=1
CloudsFlags.Detailed=1
TexFlags.CreateHDR=1
Decals=2
EffFlags.SWLight=0
TexFlags.CockpitOnePass=0
MegaTexture=0
TexFlags.Reflection=0
RenderTargetQual=3
MSAA=0
MeshStatics=1
MeshStaticsDetail=2
SimpleMesh.QTNoCompose=0
MeshFirstLod=0
MeshShowLod=0
SpawnHumans=0
TexFlags.FastTransparency=1
TexFlags.SSAO=0
TexFlags.VSync=0

For now, I'll stay with these mediocrate settings. I know they don't do justice to my pc, but CoD runs a lot better with them.

Rgs,
FP