FPS behavior

[jamesdietz]

Using Fraps i've determined it doesn't seem to matter alot ( within 1 or 2 or so FPS rates) how much I pile on the realism...no matter what its bumpy in telescopic view or low over ground or with bullets hit target & better ( of course) over sea.Its good & bad news,I guess I get to see everything ( neat) but t here isn't much use trying to speed up play.I sure hope one of the next patches helps!

[Ataros]

SSAO, shadows, landscape shading, ground detail, vsynk (together with triple buffering) make huge difference for FPS. Clouds in difficulty settings too.

Texture settings influences stutters.

[Troll2k]

I thought triple buffering was only for open GL.Since Clod is a DX game I thought it would have no effect.

[White Owl]

This may read like a troll post, but I'm very serious.

A couple weeks ago I turned off the framerate display, so I wouldn't be glancing at it and worrying every five seconds. Immediately, the game became 5x more fun to play. I stopped the obsessive fiddling with graphics options and started flying the airplanes more.

[jamesdietz]

Thanks all ...with 60+ hours on the CloD clock I've tried a whole variety of settings with various patches but mosy haven't really done much to improve or hurt FPS.After today i just reduced everything to low ...no grass...no roads...but kept shadows( otherwise I may just as well go back to Il-2 with 110FPS...) Anyway boom- big improvement ;I'm guess an average of 20 or so...but couldn't live without exhaust & tracers so had to go medium on "effects". Performance suffered a little, but I was able to attack those Wellingtons with a lot more confidence due to higher FPS closing in...so much more fun!
Not perfect ,mind, but one hopes that upcoming patches improve thing& someday I may be able to look in the windows of London & see a pretty young thing getting out of the bath in her flat, just as Oleg promised ( only kidding...would like to see that snappy MG-TB seen in preview screenshots tho...)
Say does anti lasing setting have much effect?

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by Troll2k

I thought triple buffering was only for open GL.Since Clod is a DX game I thought it would have no effect.

No.

Enabling Triple Buffering for OpenGL-based games such as Doom 3, Quake 4, Prey or Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is very simple - go to your graphics card's control panel and enable it from there. However enabling Triple Buffering for Direct3D-based games - the bulk of modern games - actually requires more effort. You will need to use a utility called D3DOverrider which comes with RivaTuner - see the bottom of this page of my Nvidia Forceware Tweak Guide for more details.

http://www.tweakguides.com/Graphics_10.html

Without triple buffering working and with vsynk on you could have only 60, 30 or 15 fps. 35 or 50 fps for example would not be possible. I use ATI Tray Tools instead of D3DOverrider.

[jamesdietz]

Ataros- I'm a bit dim- do you recommend doing any of the above to get a higher FPS out of CloD? It( and Il-2 & Rise of Flight,) are the only PC sims I play/fly...

turn on triple buffer or turn off?