ATI blue stripes

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Originally Posted by RocketDog

Comprehensive tests!

You don't have the blue lines because you have an Nvidia card. They seem to be a special feature only available to ATi users.

Cheers,

Nick

PS - what utility did you use to produce the plot of CPU/GPU load?

ATI Tray Tools - google it, d/l is free.

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Gunny

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Originally Posted by W0ef

Hey Gunny,

Thanks for the extensive testing you have done, very interesting. (also whoever said you don´t suffer from the blue lines because you have an nvidia card should have his/her eyes checked). It would be interesting to know what settings you run your tests at graphic wise (everything high, mid, low, buildings unlimited etc)

Same settings as in my post. That screenie I took was with the same ATI CCC and in Game settings that I posted.

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Gunny

[RocketDog]

Originally Posted by W0ef

whoever said you don´t suffer from the blue lines because you have an nvidia card should have his/her eyes checked

ooops! Yes I should .

I wonder if it's only the 6 series cards that are effected? I tried Gunny's settings and still get the stripes. However, using edge-detect for AA does seem to have an effect on making AA better.

[GOZR]

No Gunny has a Sapphire Vapor-X HD 5870 not Nvidia. Good stuff there Gunny !!

[GOZR]

W0ef my system is an i7 2600K Cruising @ 4.8 GHZ. 8 GB Ram 2000 and 6950 2GB ( unlocked )

I just installed it and go i didn't yet tweaked it.. coming from NVidia SLI system i have a quick learning to do.. My second 6950 is coming this week.

The sim run actually very very smooth for me right now .. 1920x1200..

[GOZR]

OK here is mine tested..
The AA in this sim need some serious TLC having a x8 AA or x8 AA on high res should appear so much better as well as the "insim" x8 it remind me the same case with "Rise Of Flight"
Their x8 is equivalent to an x4 at max..
Ok here is some setting that may improve your FPS


-Morphological filtering is cool but eat away your frame rate
-Anti-Aliasing Mode to "Multi-sample" AA , Adaptive or super are killer with not much difference.
-Now i could remove my 3 horizontal lines just by making my "Land Shading" to HIGH .. but we shouldn't need to .. Difference visual ? humm not much at all..
-Also By forcing the AA and Ani on my End gived me better performance and better visual as well. ( my settings are different from Gunny's but on my ATI it does works well )

CLOD need to improve on those matters..

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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I noted that I get less stutter if I set Building amount to Unlimited. Then they are all already on map thus no loading or popping up. Only thing is the LOD on them..with low setting they are like brown boxes and turn to houses within a radius of your plane(like in old IL-2) and that can cause stutter. Again if you set Very High detail to buildings sure no brownie huts but has an impact on FPS.

I think you've just allowed me to figure out two things with that information.

1. Now I can see what the extra 1GB of Vram buys me I tried last weekend, several times - changing my Building Amount to Unlimited - because I saw a lot of AMD posts where folks had experienced improvment by changing from Low to Unlimited.

For me, it didn't work - much lower frames. Looks as if this is the difference between my 1GB of Vram and your 2GB. What we are validating is that there is a huge difference in HD5000 and HD6000 series behavior with CoD.

It's starting to look as if "my best settings" are applicable to HD5000's (less 5970 - Dual GPU - like GTX 295) series only (who knows about HD4xxxx series).

Your best settings (look at how different for example Gozr's are) will be relevant to HD6000's of course.

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

Also shadows cause some of the stutter as they seem to have at least 2 LOD's. One farther away and when you are close(within the "sphere of LOD") they turn more solid and less flickery. Shadows also have this strange anomaly that they "stretch" at certain angles and look like lines. So clearly something could be done to shadows, be it total rework or more options.

See now, there's another difference. Shadows add a ton to the realism for me - and they cost me a couple of FPS on my card.

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

I wish Luthier would get in contact with AMD, at least their Driver Boss is on Twitter and for sure would be interested to get CoD to run on AMD hardware well. IMO flight sim genre is so small that favoring one brand is like shooting oneself in the leg by leaving out some players due certain features etc. I really do not care if a shooter game is optimized for one or another brand, I do not play them

Well the good news is that I think they are. For the first time in propeller combat sims - two developers - both 1C and 777 Studios have announced they are working on Crossfire solutions and that they'll be done soon.

The SLI solution has always come first, when developers have talked in the past. Now we are seeing Crossfire first in both camps. Deeper story there I imagine.

Thanks for the feedback, It'll be interesting what we find in 11-4 and next beta.

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Gunny

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Hey Gozr, if you look at my settings - on my older 5870 in CoD (post in the previous page) - I've set land shading to High.

Go on - you can take it Particularly if it gets rid of the blue lines, right? You have a much later card and more vram.

I'm getting good fps for a high-load performance track. When I go online my fps is triple that.

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Gunny

[GOZR]

Hoo Yes it is on High Gunny Thx

[RocketDog]

Grrrr.... my 6970/Cat 11.4 gives me the blue lines with land shading on high. I'm going to have to try as many different combinations of CCC and game settings as I can and see if I can get rid of them.