Opt test discussion

[Pyro]

HT made a new test version that fixes a CTD bug.  You can download it at the same link, the file name did not change.  You don't need to retest with this version, the performance should not be any different.  If you plan on playing online and downloaded the initial version, you'll want to get this one to avoid the CTD bug that he fixed.

[BlueJ1]

My results showed just how sad my FPS is and how much Im willing to go through just to play my addiction.

[jodgi]

Wow, I had substantial improvement on my system.

From 27fps P51 fwd to 100fps P51 fwd.

[Gianlupo]

I'd like to help with the test, but I have a problem: the instructions say to check that Vsync is off.... well, I feel very ashamed for this, but I wasn't able to find where to check it. I looked under Video setup in the clipboard at the splash screen, and under Setup --> Video when offline, but I found nothing.... must I disable it in the video card driver setup? Can someone help me?

[Skuzzy]

Should be in the video card's control panel.  For ATI cards it is under the "3D" tab.  Not sure where it is for NVidia cards.

[BlueJ1]

For NVidia cards its under Performance and Quality settings, should be on the list that shows up, its says vertical sync.

[Gianlupo]

Ok. First of all, thanks for the quick reply, Skuzzy and BlueJ1.

In second place, I'm dumb.

I have a Radeon X850XT, with Catalyst 5.3 installed. This is the Control center, with the 3D voice opened:



And this are all the options available:









What must I do?

Thanks for your patience.

[zmeg]

Overall results are great, but I ran into a problem with custom objects. The trees in the background are clutter and the ones on th beach are stand alone objects but otherwise they're the same objects. This only happens if I start the test version with optimize objects already checked. If I uncheck it then recheck it everything looks normal.

[hitech]

Pyro messed up the 2nd upload this afternoon, optest.zip is now the correct link for redownloading.

HiTech

[Wotan]

Gianlupo:

What must I do?

Where it says 'wait for vertical refresh' slide that to the far right.

Also the 5.8CCCs are out, you might give them a try...

[Gianlupo]

Thanks for the help, Wotan.

I'll try the 5.8!

[Nomde]

I set the video to SKuzzy's reccommendations:
1280 X 1024

Now I have a couple "anomilies" occuring while running the optest online:
1. When I goto the Hanger, and highlight the ship/field gunner position, I see red and blue shapes instead of the field. I'll get booted if I trry to lower the clipboard.

2. When climbing, the clouds are all distorted until I reach 7.9k alt, then they appear correctly. I took a picture with "alt + s", but when I looked at the bitmap, it only shows a clear sky  


3. I'm getting CTD every 30 minutes, and I have the new optest loaded

[Gianlupo]

Originally posted by Wotan

Where it says 'wait for vertical refresh' slide that to the far right.

Sorry to bother you again, Wotan, but I want to be sure: if I set the slider to far right, the ccc says it's "always on", on far left, it's "always off"... must I put the slider on far right?

[Murdr]

Originally posted by Nomde
Now I have a couple "anomilies" occuring while running the optest online:
1. When I goto the Hanger, and highlight the ship/field gunner position, I see red and blue shapes instead of the field. I'll get booted if I trry to lower the clipboard.


3. I'm getting CTD every 30 minutes, and I have the new optest loaded

im in 800x600 got the same thing in the hanger, and I did get a CTD.  Clouds were fine here.

[Bullethead]

I didn't get AHoptest until about 2200 tonight, which I assume was after everybody'd gone home and thus is the most current version.  It worked fine so far except for 1 thing:  I get a CTD when I try to select the B24 in the hangar.  So far, that's the only ride I've had that problem with, but I've only tried 5 or 6 of them yet.

I'm greatly impressed by the increased performance all around.  I've been using 128k textures and other such radically lowballed settings, despite having a 3.4 and a 9800, but my FPS has never been satisfactory since the new trees came out a few versions back (previously it was OK, although I still had to skimp a little on some detail settings).  With AHoptest going, however, all is wonderful, even with 1024 textures and nothing preloaded.  Damn, I'd forgotten how good this game looks .