Who Turned on the clouds

[Tracerfi]

This is getting tiring the best frame rate i get is 11 and it seems that my computer cant handle it the problem is its only a year old i am getting sort of angry because the game is unplayable at the moment

[The Fugitive]

If you get a cheap computer a year ago, it's going to be even worst now. Post your Dxdiag report and the settings your using in the game a you might get some suggestions on what to tweak, instead of just sitting there and complaining.

[ImADot]

As Fugi said, a dxdiag will help point out the bottleneck of your computer. My computer is three years old and handles the new clouds just fine. Your issue could be either the video card or the CPU (or both).

[Randy1]

I went down to a frame rate of 3.  It is my integrated video that is knocking mine down.  I turned everything off in the game then went out lowed the texture to 512.  Got up to 13 in the clouds.  It was unplayable for sure.  There were many areas without clouds so I went there. 

The budget want allow a widow card upgrade and a power supply upgrade on my emachine which seems to be the normal recommendation.  It doesn't make sense either to put much money in a four year old computer.  I will post a topic in the hardware section to see if there is a low power video card that would give me some boost.

I see the future is the clouds so I know they must want to keep going with them but if they are everywhere then they may have a member drop off for sure. Seems like when the clouds first went puffy last year I did not take as big of a hit.

[uptown]

If you cant afford to play, then you cant afford to play. Why should we all suffer because some of you want to play this game on $300.00 Black Friday E Machines?

[RedBull1]

If you cant afford to play, then you cant afford to play. Why should we all suffer because some of you want to play this game on $300.00 Black Friday E Machines?

Because half of the customer base plays on PC's similar to this, you guys need to realize this, in FSO last night I was holding ~5 FPS through the clouds.

If there's no option to 'dumb them down' or something to help FPS and we get these clouds more and more, on more maps, and in more places I can foresee some unsubscribing.

[uptown]

Well then half the customer base needs to upgrade their stuff. I mean really, if you're going to dish out the cash for 250.oo joysticks, throttle and rudder pedals then why not spend 300 bucks on a video card and or power supply and some memory?

I've spent a couple grand easy over the years trying to keep up with the changes. If HTC wants to keep moving forward and compete with the other eye candy games out there, I'm all for it. I'm here for the long term. The "half of player base" you speak of Redbull will be gone as soon as the next flashy game comes along. So I say to them, if ya want to play this game then get the stuff to play it with.

[Weirdguy]

Because half of the customer base plays on PC's similar to this, you guys need to realize this, in FSO last night I was holding ~5 FPS through the clouds.

If there's no option to 'dumb them down' or something to help FPS and we get these clouds more and more, on more maps, and in more places I can foresee some unsubscribing.

Half of the people play on those machines?  I find your guess a bit hard to believe, and it is a guess on your part.

I also don't agree with this argument that what is needed are lower tech graphics to attract more players.  That sounds counter intuitive to me.

[RedBull1]

Well then half the customer base needs to upgrade their stuff. I mean really, if you're going to dish out the cash for 250.oo joysticks, throttle and rudder pedals then why not spend 300 bucks on a video card and or power supply and some memory?

I've spent a couple grand easy over the years trying to keep up with the changes. If HTC wants to keep moving forward and compete with the other eye candy games out there, I'm all for it. I'm here for the long term. The "half of player base" you speak of Redbull will be gone as soon as the next flashy game comes along. So I say to them, if ya want to play this game then get the stuff to play it with.

250? o.O

Not counting the subscription itself I've spent a total of $45 total in my near 2 years in Aces High

All 3 were new Logitech 3D Pro's ...

I am about due for a new one though, so you can chalk it up to 60 

[Scotch]

Weird, I didn't see where the poster said anything about the quality of his computer, just that it was a year old. Help him out with some performance suggestions. But to start implying he's some low class cheapskate whiner is pretty lame.

[uptown]

250? o.O

Not counting the subscription itself I've spent a total of $45 total in my near 2 years in Aces High

All 3 were new Logitech 3D Pro's ...

I am about due for a new one though, so you can chalk it up to 60 

I like the fact that you're frugal with your money, but do you think it's fair to other players to have to go without the eye candy because you're too damned cheap to spend some money? This is the only game I play. So that's where I put my extra cash. 

[titanic3]

Head into the Classified section and ask for used stuff, or better, go into the well known hardware sites (Tom's Hardware, overclockers.net) and ask for used/free stuff. You'd be surprised at what people are willing to give away. I built my dad a mediocre frankenstein of a PC from parts people were throwing away. He only uses it for mail and daily news, I paid a total of 40? 50 ish bucks for it.

[uptown]

Weird, I didn't see where the poster said anything about the quality of his computer, just that it was a year old. Help him out with some performance suggestions. But to start implying he's some low class cheapskate whiner is pretty lame.

well that's the impression I get from reading Randy1's post. That's whom I'm referring to...not the OP. The OP really doesn't get enough info to help him with. Other then he's angry that his year old computer is getting a FR of 11.

I think I did make some performance suggestions.....i.e. spend some money on ram, video card and power supply.

[ImADot]

The only thing you can do with clouds is turn on or off the "bump map clouds" setting. You cannot remove the clouds. For some, even turning off the cloud bump mapping doesn't help much. I'm pretty sure they will have to upgrade some PC components - unless HTC can figure out why the new clouds impact frame rates so much. As far as I know, they are working on it and it's why there are very few clouds in the main arenas and the ones that are there are limited to a small section of the map.

[Changeup]

If you cant afford to play, then you cant afford to play. Why should we all suffer because some of you want to play this game on $300.00 Black Friday E Machines?

Easy there....I, therefore you, is not a good practice.  You have no idea who can afford what, yes?  Sometimes folks don't know how to set their systems up to maximize the game.  If you go to the Hardware and Software area right now, there is a thread that will blow you away regarding nVidia control panel settings.  Those settings worked better on my machine and apparently others too, that have had issues and I promise you, I got the money, lol.

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,338724.195.html