Heavy Stutters near enemy planes on ATAG

[ATAG_Bliss]

There's definitely tons of issues that need sorted, but I never notice an unplayable drop in FPS regardless of the amount of humans in an area.

I get the typical FPS loss from the objects (smoke, debris) etc., that cause them. But I don't ever monitor my FPS unless I'm trying a new driver, etc. I could be losing a whole bunch, but as long as it's fluid on the screen it doesn't really bother me.

[phoenix1963]

@JR - Are you SURE you've turned off "custom skins download" ?
As Insuber says, this seems to cure this problem for many.

It's really easy to forget all these configuration quirks.

56RAF_phoenix

[Thee_oddball]

you guys might try running process explorer in the back ground while you are playing.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb896653.aspx

[Steuben]

Hm interesting Program but how could that help`?

[MB_Avro_UK]

I'm an offline player for the time being. (Waiting for an upgrade and new TrackIR).

Offline, if I fire my guns, the FPS immediatly improves. Why?

[hc_wolf]

I would put it all down to the most obvious thing. Latest beta patch.. Good for us all to report it, but nothing you do will fix as it is deep in the gfx coding and will be fixed with official or hopefully next beta patch.

[phoenix1963]

I'm bumping this for several reasons:
1. The problem is still there in Beta v.1.08.18956.
2. It was MUCH less severe in an earlier version and surely that much should be achievable again.
3. It seems to be strongly associated with human controlled enemy 'planes.
4. Though I mostly fly red - I find it worst against multiple human 110s, does anyone have the same for Red bombers?
5. It is extremely severe, I'm dropping from ~50fps to <1fps, but it doesn't happen with friendly 'planes, why?
6. It gets worse when you zoom the view.
7. It's not just ATAG, the recent SoW Campaign had the same.

Now for some discussion:
Vranac and others reckon it's worse for lower power CPUs - and I do have a Q9550 @ stock 2.83 Ghz. But I also have an AMD 6970 2GB (actually it's a flashed 6950), so texture manipulation alone should not seem to be the problem.
A number of questions occur to me: is this some weird aliasing-in-time effect because the non-ai 'plane information makes the packets large and broken-up, leading to a sort of beat-frequency effect on the screen refresh?
Are the 110 textures more complex than the others?
Is the non-ai damage data in the packets much larger?
Is Vranac's diagnosis true because the CPU spends more time decoding the packets?
Or is it because the texture manager can't cope, but if so, why only online?

Should I post this on the bugs thread?

56RAF_phoenix

CPU Q9550 @ stock 2.83GHz
6 GB RAM
AMD 6970 2GB (6950 flashed)
2 SSDs


EDIT!!!!!! ARGHHHHHH, I've just discovered Custom Skins download is ON post installing the last Beta Patch, please ignore the above until I've tried it again!

[LcSummers]

Have the same problems, only with human airplanes,

Flew last Thursday with some friendly 110 and had heavy stutters. Flying with my teammates (109) nothing happend.


Playing offline everything maxed out and very stable, no stutters.

[phoenix1963]

Originally Posted by phoenix1963

EDIT!!!!!! ARGHHHHHH, I've just discovered Custom Skins download is ON post installing the last Beta Patch, please ignore the above until I've tried it again!

Well, tonight 6 or 7 Spits tool off simultaneously from Manston - and my fps dropped dramatically - with Custom skins not downloading.

So the problem is still there and it does affect Red 'planes.

I'll try Vranac's overclock.

I am using textures at High though, anything else looks dire.

56RAF_phoenix

[Jatta Raso]

Originally Posted by phoenix1963

@JR - Are you SURE you've turned off "custom skins download" ?
As Insuber says, this seems to cure this problem for many.

It's really easy to forget all these configuration quirks.

56RAF_phoenix

actually no, i'm not sure; i'm checking on that, then i'll report back here...