OFF GRAPHICS FIX (Step-by-Step) Illustrated

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Hey Guys! Since I'm a newbie on this forum and have the dubious distinction of owning an ATI Radeon 4850 GC, I thought I'd post this elaboration on Redwolf's fine post on graphics fixes for OFF. Currently, I'm in the process of experimenting with fixes on my rig. All-in-all I feel fortunate as my particular card runs OFF with only occasional FPS problems. They seem to be most pronounced at the start of each mission and become less problematic as said mission progresses. I'll probably have some later questions for the forum as I'm running into some problems getting into the "original CFS3 xml file" to change the FPS number, so look for my post. This is a great forum with good people, so here is the link and my contribution to help others afflicted with this GC problem:

www.com-central.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopics&t=118
 
edit the cfs3.xml file in
\OBDSoftware\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\default

using notepad
(when opening OR saving, change file type to in the File Type dialogue to *.* first, not .TXT !)
 
Polovski said:
edit the cfs3.xml file in
\OBDSoftware\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\default

using notepad
(when opening OR saving, change file type to in the File Type dialogue to *.* first, not .TXT !)
Click to expand...

gotta mark this thread to come back to it.
 
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
 
Wow! Thank you!

I totally forgot about the ATI thing. I had resigned myself to waiting until I get a new computer, as the stuttering was just too much, but now I can fly this thing!

Using X1950 Pro on an old AGP machine, and with these settings, at least in QC so far, no bumps at 1920 x 1440. Woohoo!
 
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