Massive FPS increase with Resolution decrese (?)

[brp51d]

How do you set res for window?

[FZG_Immel]

Originally Posted by brp51d

How do you set res for window?

just alt tab, and resize the window with your mouse !

I tried running COD at 1024x768. Looks and playes amazing. Too bad I need a microfying glass to see whats happening.

[mcmatt]

Memory (on graphic card) is in direct relationship with resolution. Higher resolution, more memory. And since in game is graphic memory problem for cards with 1GB and lower ...

[Michael Nielsen]

I´ve always downloaded drivers from nVidia.com, no exception this time - made sure I had the latest drivers for my Geforce 330 before installing CoD.
The game was still unplayable on my i5 3,2 GHz with 6 GB RAM, 1 Gb 330.

A couple of days ago I was just fooling around, and for some reason I though why not chech for updates via Device Manager in Control Panel. Not sure where Windows finds these updates, but it did find something, and obviously not from nvidia.com. Downloaded a rather big update, and now I can actually - to a certain degree - play the game at medium settings.

I´ve also noticed increased FPS in windowed mode, but the game crashes to desktop every single time I try (I´ll do some more testing when I get home tomorrow, perhaps setting the windowed resolution to the same as my screen will do the trick)

Anyway, just an idea for those of you with geforce cards, perhaps the nvidia-drivers aren´t optimal for this game for some reason.

Cheers
-Michael

[kubanskiloewe]

Originally Posted by machoo

I tried running COD at 1024x768. Looks and playes amazing. Too bad I need a microfying glass to see whats happening.

take a old 21" or more CRT for little money and enjoy

I run it in Window on 1280x800 with an outdated P4 ; enough for a quick play or testing.

but i noticed a huge fps drop from outside view (30-50fps!) to inside the cockpit (only 15-22fps)....and fps didn´t increase on reargunnerposition or looking straight to the sky without any cockpitstructure insight.

any idea or solution for that behaviour ?? could be the immense Pilot or Gunner textures (4mb ?) the reason...loaded still in background ???

If you have a mid to high range PC then playing at 1920x1080 should not be a problem. I can run it pretty well except when flying over London, there the FPS is still playable but I wouldnt want to dogfight like that.

I have to disagree with the statement some make about not needing AA in a game if you set the resolution high enough. Even at 1920x1080 there are still alot of jagged edges especially on aircraft at medium/long distance. Personally if I see jaggies in my games I feel that I've just wasted alot of money on a PC and might as well just play on an XBOX...4x AA is a must for me.
Anistropic filtering is nice, but the effects of this arent as noticable as AA is and I can live with that on 4x or even off if it has some performance gains.
AA doesnt seem to work with CoD right now so there is no choice but to deal with it. Alot of the people complaining about FPS on these forums seem to have really dated hardware and I have no sympathy for that, get a job, make some money and keep your system up to date if you want to play the latest games with the eye candy on.

However, there are also alot of reports of low FPS on high end systems as well so hardware cannot be entirely to blame here. Considering how many things are actually broken in this sim I am not surprised at all to find it poorly optimized. This is the way of the industry it now seems. For me the game is very playable on all medium settings, with high model and damage decal settings. My specs, while not killer, are mid range.

Gigabyte 790XTA-UD4 Motherboard
AMD Phenom2 965 BE Quad@3.6ghz
8GB ADATA gaming series RAM@1333 CL9
ATI 5770 Vid card by Asus
1000W bronze PSU
Asetek 120mm Liquid CPU cooler Push/pull
AZZA Solano Full tower w/9 fans including Kingston RAM cooler
Some Green, Red and Blue LED lights to make everything pretty

[335th_GRAthos]

Originally Posted by kubanskiloewe

take a old 21" or more CRT for little money and enjoy

I run it in Window on 1280x800 with an outdated P4 ; enough for a quick play or testing.

but i noticed a huge fps drop from outside view (30-50fps!) to inside the cockpit (only 15-22fps)....and fps didn´t increase on reargunnerposition or looking straight to the sky without any cockpitstructure insight.

any idea or solution for that behaviour ?? could be the immense Pilot or Gunner textures (4mb ?) the reason...loaded still in background ???

Usually I would say that you still have the Spitfire's mirror on and forgot to press M to removed it (gains about 8 fps) but I know you fly Bf109s

I have exactly the opposite: lower fps external view (above ground) than inside.
The only thing could imagine in your case is that your card has too little VRAM and it gets overloaded by the graphics in the cockpit. Maybe if you press F10 to disable the interactive cocpit your fps will pick up (just a thought).

~S~