Viggen Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 (edited) So, since I started using the new patch, the stock clouds and effects have done a number on my FPS. Smoke from explosions and factories have also done a number, which makes me amazed that the Phantom's smoke trails haven't. Even on low settings. What INI could I edit to help with this so I'm doing better than 5FPS during a bombing raid? Edited February 1, 2009 by JA 37 Viggen Quote
+Stary Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 So, since I started using the new patch, the stock clouds and effects have done a number on my FPS. Smoke from explosions and factories have also done a number, which makes me amazed that the Phantom's smoke trails haven't. Even on low settings. What INI could I edit to help with this so I'm doing better than 5FPS during a bombing raid? Viggen, using the CAT extractor, extract from your FlightData.cat file "particlesystem.ini", and try lowering the values in red: [ParticleSystem] MaxParticlesPerEmitter=512 MaxEmitters=2048 MaxEffects=1024 MaxFields=128 AdditionalEffectsFolder=Effects it's on top of the file, reduce them by half: [ParticleSystem] MaxParticlesPerEmitter=256 MaxEmitters=1024 MaxEffects=512 MaxFields=128 AdditionalEffectsFolder=Effects As for clouds, maybe try removing/renaming "environmentsystem.ini" from flight folder, DS mod has Widesky version included if i'm not mistaken Quote
Viper6 Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 So, since I started using the new patch, the stock clouds and effects have done a number on my FPS. Smoke from explosions and factories have also done a number, which makes me amazed that the Phantom's smoke trails haven't. Even on low settings. What INI could I edit to help with this so I'm doing better than 5FPS during a bombing raid?Viggen just out of curiousity what vid card are you using Quote
Viggen Posted February 1, 2009 Author Posted February 1, 2009 I don't even know the specs of my PC Viper. Where could I find them? Quote
Viper6 Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 I don't even know the specs of my PC Viper. Where could I find them?Start, Run, then type;dxdiag you will see tabs at the top open display and you will see your card Quote
Viggen Posted February 1, 2009 Author Posted February 1, 2009 Not sure if this is right but: Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller And the clouds, and now the F-4's smoke trails, are causeing most of the problems. Quote
Viper6 Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 Not sure if this is right but: Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller And the clouds, and now the F-4's smoke trails, are causeing most of the problems. is that in the display tab? Quote
Viper6 Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 turn down the ini for the smoke emitter for the exausts as Stary recommended. Quote
Viggen Posted February 1, 2009 Author Posted February 1, 2009 I already have. Didn't work so well, so I'll need to again. Quote
Fubar512 Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 Not sure if this is right but: Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...14234155AAZ6Duz Quote
Viper6 Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 Yes then you have on-board graphics which are not as good as a 'card' if you have a slot on your motherboard for a card; AGP,PCI or PCI-Express then you can buy a card if not then you will have to turn down some of the things that are causing you low FPS. Quote
Viggen Posted February 1, 2009 Author Posted February 1, 2009 I knew it was a piece of crap, but not that bad. There isn't a slot either. I'm happy I'm saving up for a new PC in anycase. Quote
Fubar512 Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 There isn't a slot either. I'm happy I'm saving up for a new PC in anycase. What make and model PC is it? I have a Radeon 256 mb X800 series AGP card that you can have, if you have the slot for it. Quote
Viggen Posted February 1, 2009 Author Posted February 1, 2009 Dell Dimension 3000 Pentium 4 CPU at 2.80GHz 510MB RAM Clearly something that should have died out before it was purchased in 2005. Quote
Fubar512 Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 Dell Dimension 3000Pentium 4 CPU at 2.80GHz 510MB RAM Clearly something that should have died out before it was purchased in 2005. It wasn't a bad system back in its day, other than the fact that it really was not designed as a gaming rig. Unfortunately, it has no open AGP slot, just integrated video (on the AGP bus), and three PCI slots. Quote
Viggen Posted February 1, 2009 Author Posted February 1, 2009 I'm pretty sure a laptop I've been looking at would be able to run DS better than this. Quote
Viper6 Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 (edited) It wasn't a bad system back in its day, other than the fact that it really was not designed as a gaming rig. Unfortunately, it has no open AGP slot, just integrated video (on the AGP bus), and three PCI slots.the pci slots can hold a graphics card. if you do get a card make it is a card for the PCI slot then disable the on board graphics also ad as much ram as you can Edited February 1, 2009 by Viper6 Quote
Nixou Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 (edited) I thought PCI graphic cards were not used anymore since Cristopher Columbus? Edited February 1, 2009 by nixarass Quote
Viper6 Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 I thought PCI graphic cards were not used anymore since Cristopher Columbus?I thught the AGP slot was not used any more mine has two PCI-Express slots(SLI) and it is new Quote
Nixou Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 Yea lol but PCI express and PCI have just nothing to see, two different things ;) Quote
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