Whisky-Delta Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 Hi All Not so long ago, a collegue at work introduced me Shock Force and i love it. I never thought of myself as a RTS man but it is simply addictive. Now to the problem in hand, firstly my PC Specs Q6600 2,4 Quad 4 Gig of Ram EVGA Nvidia 260 216 core Vista x86 As the specs suggest my comp is no slouch, yet when there are a large amount of entities on screen, my frame rate drops well below 25fps and it becomes a bit of a slide show. I have checked the forums and done a few things here and there, like disable "threaded optimization" and i also tweak the graphics settings in game, latest drivers etc etc. If i turn the model detail down to "fastest" and disable shadows then my frame rate is never a problem, but lets be honest, that is pathetic for my system and the games units no longer look impressive. I checked with the guy in work, and although i dnt know what specs he has got, he stated they are well below mine, yet he has the settings on max, with no frame rate issue. Now i know there are a lot of calculations going on in the background, for ballistics etc, but considering i can play Far Cry 2, Dawn of War 2, COD 4 all on maximum settings without breaking a sweat, and they are somewhat graphically more advanced than CMSF. Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions as to why i am getting peformance issues, when i firmly beleive i shouldnt? Regards Whisky-Delta 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 Agreed, with your specs this should fly. My rig is similar: q6600 at 3.0, 8800gtx, vista64, 8 gig ram. As you say, this program flies (1920x1200). I run other programs in the background. I'm not a tech expert, but something isn't quite right. The obvious question: have you patched CMSF to v1.11? A far better person to have give you help is Schrullenhaft. He's around on these forums. Enjoy the game! Ken 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whisky-Delta Posted March 13, 2009 Author Share Posted March 13, 2009 I can confirm i have patched to 1.11,graphics driver is 182.??, the machine is running efficiently (recetly reformated), i have done all the tricks in the book to improve pc performance, and i am quite compentant when it comes to computers. Some help would be greatly appreciated. I am downloading TOW2, so will see what performance is like in that, judging from the screens it is direct x no open gl Regards Whisky-Delta 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldogchurchill Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 I run XP, on a machine a couple of years old, and with specs lower than yours. Recently I experienced the jerky "slide show" you describe. I started by reducing the resolution to non-widescreen format, and the jerkiness went away. Based on that, I decided there must be a fix, and had a play with the NVIDIA settings. I'll set them out below (the full monty default version I use for most games, and the tweaked version for CMSF). I am not saying they will double your frame rate, but for me they did get rid of the "slide show" feel. Hope it helps: Global Default Settings: Anisotropic filtering = 16x Antialiasing Gamma correction = On Antialiasing mode = Enhance the application setting Antialiasing setting = 16xQ Antialiasing transparency = Supersampling Conformant texture clamp = Use hardware Extension limit = Off Force mipmaps = Trilinear Maximum pre-rendered frames = 8 Multi display/mixed GPU acceleration = Single GPU multiple display performance mode Texture filtering – negative LOD bias = Clamp Texture filtering – Quality = High Quality Triple buffering = On Vertical Sync = Use the application setting CM specific settings Anisotropic filtering = 2x Antialiasing Gamma correction = Use Global Setting (On) Antialiasing mode = Use Global Setting (On) Antialiasing setting = 4x Antialiasing transparency = Multisampling Conformant texture clamp = Use Global Setting (Use hardware) Extension limit = Use Global Setting (Off) Force mipmaps = Use Global Setting (Trilinear) Maximum pre-rendered frames = Use Global Setting (8) Multi display/mixed GPU acceleration = Single display performance mode Texture filtering – anisotropic sample optimisation = Off Texture filtering – negative LOD bias = Clamp Texture filtering – Quality = Quality Texture filtering – Trilinear optimisation = On Triple buffering = Use Global Setting (On) Texture filtering – Anisotropic mip filter optimisation = Off Vertical Sync = Use Global Setting (Use the 3D application setting) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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