Clouds and FPS!

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Siggi

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Bloody hell!

I flew a campaign mission today that had zero clouds and was seeing 103fps looking forward after I'd become airborne. 180+ looking up. After a while three puffy clouds materialised ahead and my fps went down to around 50.

Those clouds are a real FPS killer. And I have mine on 1.:faint:
 
But they do look nice
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and add to the immersion and feel.

Always a price to pay I guess

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If you can SEE the difference between 1 and 3 on clouds, your eyes are definately better than mine.

I don't wish to volunterily fly Into clouds, soo why on earth is the action of Clouds important. Unless of course you have power and FPS to spare.
 
I can't see the difference between 1 and 5, never mind 3 and 5.
 
Siggi said:
Bloody hell! ..... my fps went down to around 50 .... clouds are a real FPS killer ....:faint:
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My good fellow, compulsive obsessive FPS behaviour is a well known malaise common in such circles as frequented by WW1 simmers. You need help ! Tweakers Anonymous is a respectable self funded organisation with branches throughout the world who provide ongoing support and tips on how to reduce the symptoms of this unfortunate disease.

As a former member myself (although one never loses the urge) and having consulted with Major Parky (a long standing, esteemed and fine upstanding member) it was suggested you perhaps force vertical sync on thus reducing the disparity beween fps trends and alleviating associated pain (and works well with trackir as an added bonus !). Hope this tip helps. Good luck. And remember, we are always here for you.

Sincerely,
former TA lengthy member.
 
catch22 said:
My good fellow, compulsive obsessive FPS behaviour is a well known malaise common in such circles as frequented by WW1 simmers. You need help ! Tweakers Anonymous is a respectable self funded organisation with branches throughout the world who provide ongoing support and tips on how to reduce the symptoms of this unfortunate disease.

As a former member myself (although one never loses the urge) and having consulted with Major Parky (a long standing, esteemed and fine upstanding member) it was suggested you perhaps force vertical sync on thus reducing the disparity beween fps trends and alleviating associated pain (and works well with trackir as an added bonus !). Hope this tip helps. Good luck. And remember, we are always here for you.

Sincerely,
former TA lengthy member.
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I gave it a go but it's no go. Apart from very annoying micro-stutters and jerks it was killing the FPS at bordeline areas. I put down at the first field about 14 minutes into the mission. Fouled plugs donchaknow.

The only graphical improvement it gave was the struts not bi-secting themselves everytime I panned past them. That's never bothered me anyway, I don't notice it unless I'm looking for it.
 
catch22 said:
My good fellow, compulsive obsessive FPS behaviour is a well known malaise common in such circles as frequented by WW1 simmers. You need help ! Tweakers Anonymous is a respectable self funded organisation with branches throughout the world who provide ongoing support and tips on how to reduce the symptoms of this unfortunate disease.

As a former member myself (although one never loses the urge) and having consulted with Major Parky (a long standing, esteemed and fine upstanding member) it was suggested you perhaps force vertical sync on thus reducing the disparity beween fps trends and alleviating associated pain (and works well with trackir as an added bonus !). Hope this tip helps. Good luck. And remember, we are always here for you.

Sincerely,
former TA lengthy member.
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Running with v-sync enabled capped my frame rate at 60 running at 1600x1200 screen resolution (my LCD monitor native resolution) - which is exactly the way it should.

After setting v-sync to "Force Off" in the Nvidia 3D control panel my frame rate will now run as high as the 120's in some instances.

As a fan of first person shooters I learned early on that running a graphics intense game with vsync enabled is like trying to run a relay race with a 20 lb sandbag strapped to your ankle...it's going to slow you down..
 
catch22 said:
As a former member myself (although one never loses the urge) and having consulted with Major Parky (a long standing, esteemed and fine upstanding member)......

Sincerely,

former TA lengthy member.
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I dunno about that, Catcher (Good to see you're still alive by the way).

There are those that would dispute my ability to have achieved "long standing" status. Upstanding perhaps, but usually only for intermittent and typically, fairly short periods.

I personally prefer to think of myself simply as an on and off again, in and out member with a throbbing.......headache. (Due to Chronic Obsessive Compulsive Tweakitis of course).


Cheers Mate,


Major J. L. Parkinson
Latrine Ambience Maintenance Specialist
RNAS 8
 
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