Author Topic: Test for Hitech on shuddering FE (Read 399 times)

Torque · « **on:** March 14, 2000, 06:19:00 PM »

I told HT I would post this message here asking you all to try a test to determine if the FE shuddering/hesitation is caused by the monitor refresh rate.

My monitor is old and can only pump up to 60hz.

People with new machines: could you test your monitor at a lower refresh rate and see if the FE shudders/hesitates. Try this: Level flight with terrian visible, do barrel rolls and see if you get any shuddering or hesitation. Try also firing guns at the same time and let us know what happens.

Thx.

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AKDejaVu · « **Reply #1 on:** March 14, 2000, 06:23:00 PM »

So disabling the modem window in your control box didn't fix this problem for you torque?

AKDejaVu

Torque · « **Reply #2 on:** March 14, 2000, 06:39:00 PM »

I'm cable modem so i don't have a modem icon there AKDejaVu. Thx anyhow.

Westy · « **Reply #3 on:** March 15, 2000, 08:17:00 AM »

I'll try it out as soon as I get home.

-Westy

maik · « **Reply #4 on:** March 15, 2000, 08:25:00 AM »

will do that too

as soon as i get home.

maik
<JG2 Richthofen>

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Mox · « **Reply #5 on:** March 15, 2000, 08:56:00 AM »

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Originally posted by Torque:
People with new machines: could you test your monitor at a lower refresh rate and see if the FE shudders/hesitates. Try this: Level flight with terrian visible, do barrel rolls and see if you get any shuddering or hesitation. Try also firing guns at the same time and let us know what happens.
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I'll give it a try tonight.

Have you checked and made sure that "findfast" is not running? Findfast lags HD's big time and should never be ran. I can reproduce this problem everytime if I load findfast.

Mox
The Wrecking Crew

Minotaur · « **Reply #6 on:** March 15, 2000, 10:29:00 AM »

Torque;

I seem very smooth all the time. Sorry Bud, no clue.

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Robert · « **Reply #7 on:** March 15, 2000, 10:49:00 AM »

i get the screen stutter and screen freeze when i vulch as well. as i dive and shoot every thing is ok til the plane explodes then the screen freezes for just a second and inevitabley i auger even though i have the joystick pulled back. this happened 2 times the other day.
one thing i must admitt my computer isn't performing like it should for some reason.
the other simms i have run flawlessly with hi fps.

Yeager · « **Reply #8 on:** March 15, 2000, 11:08:00 AM »

Torque,

FWIW, I had a situation where the terrain *pulse paused* at a rate of two to three pulses per second. Thes pauses were almost unoticable until I noticed them

I also had a situation where firing the P38 guns caused a micro freeze.

Coupled with these was the fact that my HD was being accessed EVERY TIME an Icon painted
(imagine 15 to 20 icons painting at the same time).

I recently installed the the latest Nvidia TNT drivers over my Asus TNT drivers. All was well until v1.1 then everythng started deteriorating.

I recently re-installed the Asus drivers and all these problems stopped.

Yeager

Torque · « **Reply #9 on:** March 15, 2000, 11:28:00 AM »

Yep Chuck I've done all that but the problem is still persisting.

Duckwing6 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 15, 2000, 11:52:00 AM »

Hmmm Torque i have a very old Hitachi 20" Monitor CM1473ME (up to 80Hz max refreshrate tho).. i'm running a Voodoo³ 3000 AGP and a Celeron 466, 128MB RAM

I tried with the lowest refreshrate i could set (60 Hz) and didn't see any effect like this flying barrel rolls over the airfield with clutter (sheeps) visible) while shooting in F4U.

I have had owever something similar after having had a graphic memory overflow (?) in Brand W but that was resetable.

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Skeleton Crew

Ripsnort · « **Reply #11 on:** March 15, 2000, 11:59:00 AM »

What Yeager discribed,... the "Pulse pause", is something I've experienced before, and both times I experienced it, I was in a diving barrel roll, firing guns at same time. Only lasted for a split second, and it's only happened twice to me.

Torque · « **Reply #12 on:** March 15, 2000, 01:08:00 PM »

Thx for info.
I had nice smooth motion before, just after that last patch my Fe started to do the shudder.Especially now during close explosions my FE does micro freezes and before it was smooth.Nothing was changed on my puter before or after that patch.

I've tried with no engine sound, damper on full for roll, still the apparent shudder.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #13 on:** March 15, 2000, 01:31:00 PM »

Testing engineering software is my business, I can tell you one thing, if it's not repeatable, but it's present, (some get it, some don't), then, when you build on that software, eventually the bug starts to surface and eventually becomes consistant and repeatable. So if it's a bug, it will raise it's ugly head for ALL to see eventually.

Cya's up !

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maik · « **Reply #14 on:** March 16, 2000, 05:20:00 AM »

Tested it last night.
Screen Res 1152 x 864
on a Voodoo 3/3000 AGP, pII-300
SBlive player
128 mb

Screen Res 60Hz, Was OK only light shuddering.

Screen Res 75Hz, Bad shuddering

Screen Res 85Hz, OK, only VERY light no shuddering.

I was flying offline, a 109g10 from field 1, got to deck an did several Barrel Rolls and som vertical maneuvers.

Framerate showed always around 40, no differences on different Res. Settings.

Groundclutters were off.

Maik
<JG2 Richthofen>

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