Clouds and Frame Rates

[earl1937]

  We flew a mission last night to the "Bish" strats and there was a fairly large formations of clouds, just east of the Bish Strats, can't remember the sector numbers, and the altitude seemed to be staggered from about 8K up to about 16K. Not one person in the mission, about 30 rooks, mentioned the loss of frame rate, nor any control damping with the clouds. I don't know if these are "new" clouds, set up a different way than the other I have encountered, but these caused no ill effects which I could detect.
I purposely descended down through them just to see if there were any ill effects and could detect non. I see no reason why we couldn't have these though out our game, because it certainly adds a touch of realism to the game.
We used to have a map in the game which had a lot of clouds, but I no longer see it in rotation, and it did affect frame rates and control issues.

[Tracerfi]

I have major issues with them without the clouds i average 59 with the clouds in the teens so some people can handle them and some cannot

[Karnak]

Per HiTech the clouds are going to be reworked a bit now that shader 3.0 will be required and this will allow some improvements to the way they are handled.  Frame rate impact should be reduced.

[The Fugitive]

I love the clouds!

[jedi25]

I was there last night too and didn't have any frame rate issue and btw I love the cloulds..

This was my real first experience flying in and out of them.. Finally, clould I used as cover..

[Sunka]

I miss the clouds ,it gave a great depth to the game. Very few peoples pc cant handle it,wish HTC would bring em back.
The new clouds are great but we dont even have the hard deck 15 k cloud layer anymore.And that sucks. 

[Megalodon]

I have no problems with the clouds ....not sure if I have shader 3 though.....  


Edit: I do   


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[Drano]

My rig is a couple of years old. I usually had no problems with the clouds but on occasion did. I don't know if it was clouds on certain maps that did it or what. I totally miss the clouds. Flying in a Martian atmosphere totally devoid of any clouds at all kinda takes away from the experience. Glad to hear HTC is working toward bringing them back.

[LCADolby]

My 3 year old rig barely notices them.

[Tracerfi]

how do i find out if i have shader 3?

[Triton28]

My laptop took a huge hit with the thick MA clouds.  I couldn't fly in the center island without having single digit numbers.  The thinner clouds they eventually got to in FSO were fine though.  Could always stay above 30 FPS.

New rig looks at the marshmallow clouds and laughs heartily.   

[Greebo]

how do i find out if i have shader 3?

What video card does your PC have? For Nvidia cards you are OK if you have a 6000-9000 series or one of the later 100-700 series cards. For AMD shader 3.0 support is included with the X1300, the HD 2000-7000 and the latest R7-R9 cards. Not sure about Intel, but I think the fourth generation cards all support 3.0.

[Karnak]

HiTech said that less than 20 accounts that logged in over the last year didn't have Shader 3.0 support.

[Brooke]

I think that clouds are fine for the vast majority of people and that even $500 computer systems can handle them fine.

[Tracerfi]

What video card does your PC have? For Nvidia cards you are OK if you have a 6000-9000 series or one of the later 100-700 series cards. For AMD shader 3.0 support is included with the X1300, the HD 2000-7000 and the latest R7-R9 cards. Not sure about Intel, but I think the fourth generation cards all support 3.0.

NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430