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LeBlaque
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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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"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