Kelticheart, YOU'RE A GENIUS!!!!!

Rami

Rami

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Hey guys,

Kelticheart gets the CFS2 member of the week award in my book. Poor frame rates have plagued the FDGv2 B-17 since its release in large numbers. The natural assumption of course was that with four engines, the model was just too resource-intensive on most PCs.

Well, this is one occasion where I am THRILLED to be wrong! Testing the AI bombs .dp mod for the FDG B-17s, I immediately noticed a HUGE difference...

Frame rates are much better! I was averaging about 12-15 FPS with three or four formations of eight B-17s, but as you can see in this picture, there are 32 B-17s as well as an escort of eight Mustangs, and the FPS is holding steady at 25-28! This makes the missions much easier to fly, and the fact that you did it for Bismarck13's AI B-17s means that those should likely be greatly improved as well!

It wasn't the aircraft that was bogging down frame rates, it was the bombs! :jawdrop:

Thank you so much, Kelti! :medals: :icon29:
 
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Kelti,

If you want to, I can take the .dp files you gave me (send the FDG package to my e-mail one more time) and put them into the prop and .dp package you uploaded recently, that way we can consolidate the .dp files and make installation easier. :wiggle:
 
Not another genius! Thanks for sharing your expertize with us Kelti. I am beginning to believe some of you fellas may also be genii (pl. for genie), but, you already know that!:salute::ernae:

Rick....FPS, IQ, about equal
 
Hear, hear....

mariereid said:
Not another genius! .....
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Yeah, absolutely!

I know of other SOH members that are true geniuses like those who discovered the innermost secrets of CFS2, or building an aircraft/scenery from scratch, or understanding how a flight model works, or even how that remarkable s.o.b. called Mission Builder works: the list could be very long! Certainly not me, for doing something so simple like adding an extra payload to a dp file.

Rami, I am glad using Tango Romeo's AI bomb drop had such a positive impact on framerate. I didn't know it would have, I just tried to help with a CFS2 well known bug with AI bombers dropping just one bomb.

But I just recalled that another genius called Talon discovered a way to get AI planes dropping more than one bomb. He uploaded a pack about a year ago with all the stock models modified dps, plus Wolfi's Mitsubishi Nell, where he was capable to make them do a correct drop when flying as AI planes. He could probably figure out the same for FDG2's and Bismarck's B-17s.

What surprises me is that I used for multiple bomb loads Dbolt's weapons that are multires and specifically the "fb" bombs, which he built a little simpler specifically for bomb bays and better fps. In spite of that, they do affect fps negatively.

B.T.W.: I just sent you FDG2's B-17 dp files another time as you requested, and I think the idea of consolidating these latter dps with the ones I uploaded last August 13th sounds just great. Go ahead, my friend! And don't forget I uploaded replacement prop discs for Bismarck's B-17s as well.....

Cheers!
KH :ernae:
 
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