Growing Irate with this Game

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

I have avg fps of 65-85 depends how many planes and what is near bit still game is not smooth at all, specially above the land...so its more about optimisation of the sim than our hardware

Stuttering and fps are two completly different animals. Optimization will help both problems but they are totally unrelated.

[Gryphon_]

If the video memory gets overloaded that will cause stutters for sure. You are unlikely to see the stuttering go away until the game textures are reduced in size or compressed so that the video memory in use is below 1Gb for the high end players and 500Mb for the mass market. Turning off all AA and AF will certainly help keep video memory use down but the main problem is almost certainly high resolution textures.

It would be interesting to see some results from Rivatuner of video memory in use at various settings.

[Reider]

Originally Posted by Gryphon_

If the video memory gets overloaded that will cause stutters for sure. You are unlikely to see the stuttering go away until the game textures are reduced in size or compressed so that the video memory in use is below 1Gb for the high end players and 500Mb for the mass market. Turning off all AA and AF will certainly help keep video memory use down but the main problem is almost certainly high resolution textures.

It would be interesting to see some results from Rivatuner of video memory in use at various settings.

It never Drops below 700-800 for me at all settings Low.
On mid and High it goes up to 1200-1400 immediately.

But this test was befor the last Beta.
I noticed the last beta reduces GPU load but i dont made a detailed test.

[Gryphon_]

An even easier tool to monitor GPU Memory use is the 'GPU Observer' gadget for Win7. If it helps you set up your game so that it's only using video memory within your limit, then post the results and settings.

If the game needs over 1Gb of video memory to play on anything but low settings then that will be something the developer needs to look at, as the cheapest cards over 1Gb are about $250 in the US now, and probably a lot more elsewhere.

[nodlew]

Thanks for the info guys. My 9800gt has only 512mb of vram--I did not consider that this might be the source of much of my trouble. Shows you what I know. Still, the card was a steal when I bought it and it has never failed me...until now. I will try GPU observer (half of my damn HD is taken up with Utilities now. What's one more?) as long as it's free.

[335th_GRAthos]

Originally Posted by Gryphon_

An even easier tool to monitor GPU Memory use is the 'GPU Observer' gadget for Win7.

Thanks Gryphon, I am a GPU-Z kind of guy but I will definitively try this one!