Massive FPS increase with Resolution decrese (?)

[Thee_oddball]

1360x768 medium settings with low land,forest and visual effects and buildings set very low i am getting around 55fps while attacking 4 bombers over land on the channel map in DF server changing resolution to 1600x1200 drops me down to 32-38 fps but still playable .

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by Thee_oddball

1360x768 medium settings with low land,forest and visual effects and buildings set very low i am getting around 55fps while attacking 4 bombers over land on the channel map in DF server changing resolution to 1600x1200 drops me down to 32-38 fps but still playable .

So when going from 1360 x 768(55fps) to 1600x1200 (35fps) you lose over 50% of your fps. Thats a 36% reduction, very significant or an increase of 57% from high to lower res.

Imagine if you were running AA and you turned that off as well you would almost have another increase of 25-50% fps in some instances.

[Gryphon_]

Run the 'GPU Observer' Windows 7 Gadget to see how much video memory you are using at each resolution. As soon as your video memory in use is comfortably below the video memory on your card, you might see stutter free performance. AA and AF will consume more video memory so unless you have over 1Gb on your card turn those off first.