Turn off VSynch in Series 1

[+swambast 717]

Gents, quick question as it's been a while, but how do I force VSync off in the Series 1 games? I have it turned off via the Nvidia Control Panel, but can't quite remember the steps to do so in-game. Thanks for any guidance...

[Fubar512 1,350]

The card's control panel should have overidden any other settings, but look in the options.ini file, under "graphicsoptions" and set ForceVSyncOff=TRUE

[Fuza 0]

Fubar

just one off topic question:

this line in the option.ini file

 

AntiAliasing=0

 

what are the valid range of values for this parameter?

[+swambast 717]

Thanks Ed...something's still terribly wrong. I'm getting frame rates in the single digits to 20 on a pretty decent rig...it almost seems like VSync settings are NOT overriding the game's settings...it's really strange...and frustrating!!!

 

Intel Core2 Quad 9450 (2.66Ghz@1333MhZ FSB), 4GB DDR2-800MHz dual channel SDRAM, 1GB PNY NVIDIA GeForce GTX460 using the 260.99 drivers, WD VelociRaptor 300GB 10K RPM Hard Drive, Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer, Windows XP Professional

[Panama Red 22]

I have an OC'ed i7 975 (3.75 GHz), ATI Crossfire 4970's and with High details in WOV, I get 25 FPS on the runway with an F-4 (with radar on) and Green Hell 2 terrain. But I get 50 FPS with the same F-4 (radar on), same runway, and same Green Hell2 terrain using SF2V with better settings.

 

Bottom line, is that the 1st Gen games are a lot harder on your FPS than the 2nd Gen (which are made for multicore PC's).

[Fubar512 1,350]

Fubar

just one off topic question:

this line in the option.ini file

 

AntiAliasing=0

 

what are the valid range of values for this parameter?

 

I use 4 at 1680x1050 resolution. You can input anything, experiment and see what works best for you. But as Panama Red just stated, SF2 is just soooooo much smoother right out of the box, because of its superior coding and DX10 shaders (in Vista and Windows 7).

[Fuza 0]

Thanks fubar

I know SF2 has good looking cockpit

 

stange about the frame rates..I played FE1 there is a enhancement mod which brigtens the sky and the frame rates is higher...I saw it on youtube.. but forgotten the link...

 

Is SF2 available on retail outlet like Amazon?

[+PureBlue 71]

I use 4 at 1680x1050 resolution. You can input anything, experiment and see what works best for you. But as Panama Red just stated, SF2 is just soooooo much smoother right out of the box, because of its superior coding and DX10 shaders (in Vista and Windows 7).

 

2nd gen engine is great.

Every option set to unlimited, 4 airports in a 10mile radius, all very populated, a harbour with ships, Stary's hirez GermanyCE tiles, lots and lots of groundobjects... Gfx settings 16xAA & AF, rez 1680x1050.

FPS is never below a playable 35-40, and pegged at 59 most of the time.

Now with Exp2 and quad core support, I even bumped the DetailMeshSize to 8.

 

Once I tried Win7 and SF2, I never went back.

[Fubar512 1,350]

Is SF2 available on retail outlet like Amazon?

 

SF2 is available only as a digital download from the developer's site: https://store.thirdwire.com/store.htm

Edited December 12, 2010 by Fubar512

[+swambast 717]

Well, the conclusion I have reached is with the new GeForce GTX460 graphics card the 260.99 drivers are total crap - especially with older DirectX9 based games. This has been confirmed in numerous forums as well, and it appears most owners of this card are waiting for a driver update...myself included. With the 8800 series card I had, I was easily in the 50s-60s frame rates no problem at 1920x1080. But this problem is with the new FERMI architecture it is causing some major problems with older titles resulting in an inappropriate GPU utilization which then adds unnecessary stress/allocation back to the CPU, as implied here: "We still have not yet determined the root cause but looks related to our multi-core optimizations. I expect that the fix will also address the low GPU usage issue as well. We haven't looked into DX10 but once we figure out what is causing this micro-stuttering issue and have a fix, I'll take a look at DX10. It is likely that is related."

 

What the heck were the Nvidia Quality Assurance Testers smoking when they released this driver...???

Well, wanted to post an update just in case others with the GTX460 are experiencing this problem...

[Fubar512 1,350]

Do you have "threaded oprimaztions" enabled, or disabled, in the Nvidia control panel?

[+swambast 717]

Hey Ed, tried them both Enabled and Disabled along with a bunch of other tweaks/edit tests with little to no significant difference at all, thanks for the idea though. Still thoroughly convinced it's due to the GTX460 and 260.99 driver combo.