Option to Turn Off Hangar Smoke!

[STEELE]

Please let us turn off the black clouds of smoke coming from burning hangars and such , if I get anywhere near it, my frame rate goes from mid 50's down to 4-10 FPS!
  

[GNucks]

It kills my frame rate too. I just don't fly through the smoke.

[Karnak]

Sorry, no.  If it could be turned off all players would practically have to turn it off so as not to lose sight of a guy who won't lose sight of them.

I have a five and a half year old computer with a, as of Dec. 2010, $100 video card in it and the smoke doesn't significantly alter my frame rates.  Seek hardware/driver advise.

[StokesAk]

I have a five and a half year old computer with a, as of Dec. 2010, $100 video card in it and the smoke doesn't significantly alter my frame rates.  Seek hardware/driver advise.

Well, then you are one of the lucky ones, I for one have a horrible computer that cannot have an upgraded video card, and I don't have the money to get a whole new one.

HTC has to represent the lower end of the spectrum. I have a few freinds who have monster computers that get 60 FPS with all the eye candy running and they still have problems.

If it could be turned off all players would practically have to turn it off so as not to lose sight of a guy who won't lose sight of them.

What about the people that run with their view distance at .5 miles, they cannot see tanks or flaks when the tanks of flaks have the possibility of seeing them.

IMO I don't see a problem with disabling the hanger smoke.

[Estes]

Well, then you are one of the lucky ones, I for one have a horrible computer that cannot have an upgraded video card, and I don't have the money to get a whole new one.

HTC has to represent the lower end of the spectrum. I have a few freinds who have monster computers that get 60 FPS with all the eye candy running and they still have problems.
 

What about the people that run with their view distance at .5 miles, they cannot see tanks or flaks when the tanks of flaks have the possibility of seeing them.

IMO I don't see a problem with disabling the hanger smoke.

I'm one of the guys that has a monster machine, and at times, crap kills my frame rate as well. For example, that night they implemented the new vox codec, it tanked my frame rate for no apparent reason. So, I think there are guys out there like me, that have plenty of machine to run it flawlessly, yet there are a few buggy things that will tank frame rate.

[guncrasher]

no, then it will be like before with gv's lower the res so no trees or bushes can be seen.  some people like to hide in the smoke, flames , or perhaps use the smokes/flames to confuse another enemy and get away.  i have many times run thru smoking hangars and got away because the smoke hid my icon for a second or two, enough to make a sudden move and get away.

semp

[coombz]

HTC has to represent the lower end of the spectrum.

it already does *shrug*

[Noir]

I believe the smoke is very videocard dependent...try updating the drivers

[ImADot]

People eventually reach a point where they no longer meet "minimum system requirements"; do you meet these:

Game Requirements

Perhaps go to the tech support forum and post your dxdiag report and ask for help.

[StokesAk]

Looking at my computer, it is within the minimum requirements to run the game. I don't mind flying around with 30FPS, a little less on Titanic Teusday, but when my frames go to hell just because someone carpet bombed everything on the base I do mind.

I am no computer programmer, but I do know the smoke is 2D, like a + sign looked from above. I don't see how this could impact frame rates and make them go to 5-10, when I normally run 30FPS.

Maybe there is a bug with it, I don't know. I'm not knowledgeable on computers and the coading that goes into the game. To me it doesn't seem like a 2d object should kill frame rates. The trees don't do that to my machine when I see them.

As stated before, I know people that have frame stutters and lesser frame rates when they are around the smoke. Bad thing is, they have good computers with upgraded video.

I will admit that my PC is crap, but I don't see how a 2 dimensional polygon is to blame for frame rate loss.