Old patch v1.05.15950 is now live! What to expect next.

[Frequent_Flyer]

Flyingblind- what do you mean by:
"I found the Launcher.exe had gone from nVidia control panel and had to be added again. Now have an increase in fps and very few stutters. " ?
I have a Nvidia card, is there an adjustment I can make to increase framerates and remove stutters?

[pupaxx]

Originally Posted by Frequent_Flyer

Flyingblind- what do you mean by:
"I found the Launcher.exe had gone from nVidia control panel and had to be added again. Now have an increase in fps and very few stutters. " ?
I have a Nvidia card, is there an adjustment I can make to increase framerates and remove stutters?

+1 Please explain better, I'm curious too.
Thanks

[tintifaxl]

Originally Posted by pupaxx

+1 Please explain better, I'm curious too.
Thanks

You can set options for quality via the nvidia cpl for every single application, if you like. So you can add a custom profile for CloD (here you must select the launcher.exe in you steamapps clod dir as application) where you can set various options to enhance either quality or performance.

Ask google about a step-by-step howto.

[pupaxx]

Ok thanks, I thought about some command line to add to the.exe by the property panel.

[flyingblind]

Up untile recently Launcher.exe wouldn't stay in nVidia control panel. You could add it and use the various settings but when the control panel was closed it would lose Launcher.exe from the list of applications. It would be gone on restarting the panel. Plus any settings used had no effect on CloD.

I suddenly found that Launcher.exe was being retained in my control panel even after a complete system shut down and restart although the settinbgs still seems to be having a limited if any effect on the game.

It has always seemed to me that the code put out by the developers is exactly the same for everyone so if one person has good, smooth fps and another has rubbish fps with stutters then the problem must lie somewhere on the computers software, hardware or both. I was getting good and reasonably smooth fps prior to the last official release but afterwards had quite a hit on both. Other people were reporting an improvement so it seemed a bit pointless blaming the game or the developers.

I spent a bit of time going through all the various suggestions and ideas that have been posted on the causes of poor fps and one of the last things I looked at was my nVidea control panel. The Launcher.exe was no longer listed so I added it again. On restarting CloD again I found my fps were now better that they have ever been.

Now I am not saying that having Launcher.exe in the control panel is the reason my fps improved. It may have been or it may just have been a coincidence but it seems reasonable to think that the update installation had changed some settings on my system for the worse and it was a case of trying everything possible, obvious or obscure, in the hope of solving the problem.

As it happens, I succeded, or I could have just said, 'This game sucks, I'll just shelve it untile the developers fix my problem'.

[Vengeanze]

@flyingblind
Most settings on the card (i.e. the controlpanel for the card) has proven to be non functional. V-sync does nothing AA does nothing.
Perhaps you had AA applied in the games video settings. Then when adding launcher to your cards controlpanel the settings for the AA was "override games settings" thus effectivly turning off the games AA while applying the nonexisting card AA!?
Just a thought. Hope you understood what I wrote.

[jayrc]

I have vsync working in nvidia control panel global settings, no AA though

[Tiger27]

Originally Posted by Vengeanze

@flyingblind
Most settings on the card (i.e. the controlpanel for the card) has proven to be non functional. V-sync does nothing AA does nothing.
Perhaps you had AA applied in the games video settings. Then when adding launcher to your cards controlpanel the settings for the AA was "override games settings" thus effectivly turning off the games AA while applying the nonexisting card AA!?
Just a thought. Hope you understood what I wrote.

Vsync works for me I have it on in control panel and off in game and it works fine.

[flyingblind]

Originally Posted by Vengeanze

@flyingblind
Most settings on the card (i.e. the controlpanel for the card) has proven to be non functional. V-sync does nothing AA does nothing.
Perhaps you had AA applied in the games video settings. Then when adding launcher to your cards controlpanel the settings for the AA was "override games settings" thus effectivly turning off the games AA while applying the nonexisting card AA!?
Just a thought. Hope you understood what I wrote.

Yes, thanks, I see what you are saying. I actually use those FXAA file thingys dropped in my root folder to get AA.

I was more trying to point out that I, like a number of others, found the official patch seemed like a backwards step performance wise. What I actually found was the download had changed some of my settings and after a bit of tinkering the performance made an increase over pre patch. Adding Launcher.exe back into the control panel was the last thing I tried but I cannot say for sure how much of an effect this had or if any settings helped or even worked. It just might be worth a try for others.

The big problem for PCs and games as complex as CloD is that there are so many variables it is impossible for a developer to guarantee his game will run the best it can on every system or how it will interact. You just have to research and experiement rather than simply blame the code. As someone else said in a post - if you weren't a computer expert before buying CloD you'll probably become one after.