FPS

[gyrene81]

how

you can force it and take a chance on shortening the life of your monitor, lcd/plasma especially. if the monitor is rated at 1080p 60hz, dropping the resolution will allow you to increase the refresh rate generally to 75hz. not recommended. if you had a 102hz monitor, using a dual link dvi connection you could run vsync'd at 120 fps (prices on 120hz monitors is going down).

[Tracerfi]

you can force it and take a chance on shortening the life of your monitor, lcd/plasma especially. if the monitor is rated at 1080p 60hz, dropping the resolution will allow you to increase the refresh rate generally to 75hz. not recommended. if you had a 102hz monitor, using a dual link dvi connection you could run vsync'd at 120 fps (prices on 120hz monitors is going down).

Cant and no thank you

[gyrene81]

Cant and no thank you

oh come on man, you know you want one...or 2...or 3...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009222

[Tracerfi]

oh come on man, you know you want one...or 2...or 3...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009222

A 15 year old cant afford that

[gyrene81]

A 15 year old cant afford that

  sure ya can...

[SEseph]

A 15 year old cant afford that

Age means nothing. I have a wife.

[Midway]

oh come on man, you know you want one...or 2...or 3...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009222

Wow.   Nice price.  I remember paying $700 for my monitors nowhere near this good.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Age means nothing. I have a wife.

You could have a rich wife. Think about it 

[gyrene81]

Age means nothing. I have a wife.

you trying to tell us something?

[SEseph]

you trying to tell us something?

(Image removed from quote.)

Paragraph 4 explains it all!

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(my wife hates this joke, amongst others, so it was appropriate! )

[guncrasher]

When my fps drops anywhere below hi 50's everything gets choppy . What am I doing wrong ?

you get mini freezes. probably either the cpu or the vc get overloaded.  only way to get rid of them is to lower your eye candy a bit.  I bet your frame rate goes lower around either cv ack or big furballs.  that's when the cpu or vc get used the most.

assuming that you dont have a zillion processes running in the back ground then either your cpu or vc or both need to be upgraded if you want full candy.  only way around it is to lower the eye candy.  just that simple.


semp

[Megalodon]

how

Right click the desk top.. Properties, Settings, Advanced, pick your video card tab. ..try 75hz... go into game and see if fps went up.

Most have a box to mark ...Only show video settings this monitor can handle...check/mark that.

Going to high just defualts back to th previous setting..



 

[Gixer]

When my fps drops anywhere below hi 50's everything gets choppy . What am I doing wrong ?

Nothing, for some reason AH has the lowest level of graphics of any sim/game I've ever loaded but with the worst performance by long margin. I can run FSX and any new release maxed out but this turns into a choppy mess with any setting above default graphics and bump mapped terrain. I think it's due to dated graphics engine doesn't make use of GPU's to any extent, wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't even utilize dual or quad core CPUs.


<S>...-Gixer

[guncrasher]

Nothing, for some reason AH has the lowest level of graphics of any sim/game I've ever loaded but with the worst performance by long margin. I can run FSX and any new release maxed out but this turns into a choppy mess with any setting above default graphics and bump mapped terrain. I think it's due to dated graphics engine doesn't make use of GPU's to any extent, wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't even utilize dual or quad core CPUs.


<S>...-Gixer

and yet it's not the same comparison.  compare aces high with let's say world of tanks.  in aces high you can see how far?  and in world of tanks how far can you see? perhaps 2 miles?  if aces high was to be like world of warplanes, i am pretty sure hitech would have way better graphics than wop could.  how many airplanes do you have flying around in fsx?  how far can you see in fsx?  there's a reason xbox and playstation offer better graphics than aces high even though they use cpus that wouldnt even play aces high at low settings. their field of view is limited just like is the distance.

and do you know that most games dont come close to using quad core cpus?  if they did, they would kick out a good portion of the buyers since lots of them still have computers that are more than 5 years old.

I play world of tanks and i get stutters and mini frezes all the time in that game.  and yet I can play ah with full candy and shadows at 4096 with fps going down to 55 on occasion even in heavy action/ack.  in wot i get 50 at the most in high graphics. if i add custom sounds to wot then it gets worst. and I dont have a low end computer.

semp

[titanic3]

Core2Duo E7500 2.93Ghz
4GB RAM
Radeon 5570
Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit

I can run Wings of Prey completely maxes out at 30-40 FPS with no stutter at all even in the largest of missions. Yet I can't run AH maxed out (no bump map terrain, no shadows on others, buildings and self shadows) without poor FPS in 10+ furballs and the ground detail range is set at the halfway mark. Wings of Prey graphics make AH looks like Battlefield 1942 as it is to Battlefield 3.

Face it, the only thing that sets AH from all others flight sim is the fly model and massive arenas with hundreds of players. It fails in comparison to everything else. Graphics, coding (just try to blow up that tree), and size (HTC is puny compared to larger companies, we'd be getting 1 plane every month or two if it was the size of EA, Activision, THQ, Codemasters etc etc etc).

And that's fine with me, I love the accurate flight models (I never flown a plane but I know enough to know that not *every* plane stalls to the left and flat spins like it is in Wings of Prey), and I love the massive arenas. But if a game ever comes out with graphics like WoP and the flight models/arena size of AH, my 15 bucks is going somewhere else.