6 missions in and I'm NOT having fun...

[77Scout]

Thanks Parky. I will try the tweaking...no budget for a GTX280 just yet.

I upped the E8400 to 3.6 MHz a couple weeks ago with no troubles so far....even an amateur like me can do it, ha ha.

 

[Over50]

One thing I have noticed with P3. I see far less of that phenomenon than I did with P2. It may have a fair bit to do with the GTX280. I think the additional 512meg of memory on the card helps alleviate it quite a bit, along I'm sure, with a bunch of optimizing from the Winder. I also experimented with Pol's modified TrackIR curve while filiming this and because it's far more sensitive than the one I'm used to, the panning rate is much faster. The faster you pan, the quicker the card has to load and process textures. Mostly a matter of not turning your head as much, or turning it more gradually with a more sensitive curve.

One thing I do like about the more aggressive curve is I don't wake up with a sore neck in the morning.....lol.

You should be able to push that 8400 up to 3.6 with very little effort. Anything much more than that with that processor and you'll see diminished returns from what I've read. I'd try for 3.5 at the very least, but if it blows up.......you know the drill.....lol.

Cheers Mate,

Parky

Just to comment, I've had my 8400 OC'd at 3.6 GHz various times for extended periods w/o issues in my games except initially (crash to desktop and/or lockup) which a Vcore increase helped resolve. Had it up to 3.9 GHz for a period of time but as you noted the relative nominal performance increase wasn't worth the risk with air cooling.

I'm running the GTX 260 216 OC (overclock) edition card with some additional OC cranked in (680 core, 2210 memory) as well which has helped with my FPS rate. But I have to say bumping up my processor to 3.6 GHz had the most impact on performance.

All this said, even with the OC of both the cpu and card, for me forcing v-sync off in the Nvidia control panel nearly doubled my FPS rate with OFF from what I could manage with it set to application preference.

 

[ftgc]

Scott, try following the instructions below. Works for me....works for Dimus. Worth a try.

Go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields (assuming a default install path)

Find your configurationoverridesdw xml. Change the multisample setting to "0" (without the quotation marks). Save the file, then go into your graphics control panel and set your anti-aliasing to the desired level making sure to "override the application settings". 8x or 16x works for me, but you may have to play with the levels to get rid of the FRAPS glitch. Aniso doesn't seem to have any bearing on this particular bug.

Example:<MultisampleType val="D3DMULTISAMPLE_0_SAMPLES"/>

Do NOT set your AA through the CFS3 cfg.



Over50: Pan rate is set to 1.2 but I am using TrackIR. Thanks for the compliment.


Rob.....did I expend that much ammo??? Good thing the guns were jamming a bit then. Also please consider the clip was for instructional purposes only.....besides....I said I was a "dumb" Canadian....not insane.....lol.

Blue Nose.....get back to work......:gossip:


Cheers,


Parky

Parky,

I didn't find a configurationsoverridesdw.xml in my microsoft game folder, in fact the microsoft games folder doesn't have an cfsww1overflandersfields folder in it. I did find both under the OBS folder and set samples to 0 like you showed. It did help I was able to get about 25 fps while recording but I don't think fraps likes it. It still would drop out after about 30 seconds. I'm guess if you have recording set at 25 fps and your in game frame rate drops below that, frap stops recording. Guess I'll have to wait until I can upgrade.

Thanks,
Scott

 

[77Scout]

Scott: I believe the free version of FRAPs will only record 30 seconds of video max...not sure if that applies to your situation or not?

 

[rabu]

Parky,

I didn't find a configurationsoverridesdw.xml in my microsoft game folder, in fact the microsoft games folder doesn't have an cfsww1overflandersfields folder in it. I did find both under the OBS folder and set samples to 0 like you showed. It did help I was able to get about 25 fps while recording but I don't think fraps likes it. It still would drop out after about 30 seconds. I'm guess if you have recording set at 25 fps and your in game frame rate drops below that, frap stops recording. Guess I'll have to wait until I can upgrade.

Thanks,
Scott

The CFS3 and OFF folders have their own paramater editor programs, both named configCFS3.exe
Both have thier own, respective ViewUI.xml files as well.

 

[Parky]

Now I'm completely confused.......

 

[77Scout]

Now I'm completely confused.......

Those of us who installed over Phase 2 still have the install in the old location...under Microsoft games.

Seems that virgin installs go to a different location than Phase 2 did.

So different people can see the files in different locations.

I think....

 

[rabu]

Now I'm completely confused.......

Running CFS3config.exe from the OFF folder is not the same as running the CFS3config.exe from CFS3 folder.. they are separate settings.
If you set up paramaters for CFS3 using the CFS3config.exe in the CFS3 main folder it will only affect CFS3.
If you set up paramaters for OFF using the CFS3config.exe (same exe name) in the OFF main folder it will only affect the settings for OFF.

I think that when importing these files into OFF they should have renamed them as it is confusing.. CFS3config.exe would make more sense if it was named OFFconfig.exe in the OFF folder, but it may not have been possible or feasable... don't know.

 

[Siggi]

Scott: I believe the free version of FRAPs will only record 30 seconds of video max...not sure if that applies to your situation or not?

That's correct, free version will do only 30 seconds. Pay $20 for the registered version and it's unlimited (in 4gb chunks however).