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Apologies if I'm jumping in on a private post, but do these settings relate to ATI or NV cards?

Or perhaps they don't relate to vid cards at all
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Q
 
config settings

just wonder, jg300-stoopy has one tweak different

I have no idea what most of these setting do, so i just go with whatever gets posted....View attachment 73506

he recommends the full screen swap effect be set to discard.

is there a general concensus?
 
quoth said:
Apologies if I'm jumping in on a private post, but do these settings relate to ATI or NV cards?

Or perhaps they don't relate to vid cards at all
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Thanks

Q
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Those are the settings I use on my current Nvidia card. Not in a position to be able to test for ATI unfortunately, but there is an excellent starting point for ATI users right here:

LeBlaque said:
Having continued to tweak, the following settings I have found (based on various authors on this site) to be the "best" thus far. Bold-Italics are additional setting beyond the existing website FAQ. I find these settings very playable thus far on 4/3/2/4/3 (ATI 4850/512) with frame rates rarely dropping below the high teens in any locale.

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"In the overrides section clear the tick in the 'Dual Pass Render' box and tick the 'High Resolution Z-buffer' box immediately below it. Also tick the following:

Disable Write-Only Vertex Buffers
Disable Write-Only Index Buffers
Disable Terrain Texture Ring Blend (possibly/test)
Disable Vertex Buffers
Disable Index Buffers

To disable messages such as whether you've hit your enemy and warnings such as 'Stall' tick the boxes for Disable Chat, Disable Advisor Messages and Disable Simulation Warnings.

Now click on 'Window' at the top of the page again and this time click on 'Texture Info' and set the following:

Composite Terrain Texture Pool - set to Managed
Composite Terrain Texture Usage - set to Rendertarget
Composite Aircraft Texture Pool - set to Managed
Composite Aircraft Texture Usage - set to Rendertarget
Vertex Buffer Pool - set to Managed
Index Buffer Pool - leave as is - should be set to Default
Fullscreen Swap Effect - set to Flip
Now click on the 'Save' button at the bottom of the screen.
Next click on 'File' and choose 'Exit' - do not use the X close button as this will lose the settings you have just made.

Hopefully you will see some improvement with these settings.

From within your \OBDSoftware\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\ folder (that's the default install folder anyway) open the 'Default' folder and then open the file 'cfs3.xml'. You may need to use notepad (if you save double check it does not save it as "cfs3.xml.txt" make sure it is "cfs3.xml" only) . Look for MaxFPS="0" and change the value from '0' to something like '30'. This will help to smooth out the stutters too." You can always try increase this figure later (conservatively /gradually :) ) if your system now works well.

In the ATI Catalyst Control Center 3D Settings (right click on ATI icon) set:

OpenGL Setting Triple Buffering - ON (check mark)
Wait for Vertical Refresh (Vsync) - Always On (thx Polovoski)
Mipmap Detail Level - Performance
Anti-Alaising & Anisotropic Filtering - Application Managed (AA off in OFF)

In OFF config:
Maximize Resolution (e.g. 1600x1200x32)

If all else fails, set Scenery Slider to "1." This, as opposed to most other settings, appears to be the primary FPS killer.

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Regards,
LeBlaque
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SITTINGDUCK said:
just wonder, jg300-stoopy has one tweak different

I have no idea what most of these setting do, so i just go with whatever gets posted....View attachment 73506

he recommends the full screen swap effect be set to discard.

is there a general concensus?
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Hmmm......I believe having full screen swap enabled is the default setting. I don't think it makes a huge difference on most machines. Try it both ways and see what seems to work best on your rig would be my advice.

Cheers,

Parky
 
Thanks for that Parky, I have an Nvidia card (Ge Force 7950 GTX). There's been a lot posted re ATI cards but not much about settings for NV cards and I just wondered what others used as I have no idea what those things mean!!
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So any pointers are much appreciated

Many thanks

Q
 
Thank you Parky! They worked nicely for my 9600GT512. I can now fraps quite well also.
 
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