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Offline ONTOS

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Dark Clouds
« on: June 24, 2017, 11:38:46 AM »
The storm clouds yesterday (June 23), sent my frame rate to 5. If this is to continue, flying is not going to be fun anymore. I spent over five hundred dollars to update just to be able to play AH III and that with almost all settings cut off. The scenery is beautiful, but if you can't fly, what good is it.
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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2017, 11:45:54 AM »
I7 6700
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1060 3gb

Normally 60, clouds had me 40's but playable.
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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2017, 11:47:49 AM »
Quote from: shilo on June 24, 2017, 11:38:46 AM
The storm clouds yesterday (June 23), sent my frame rate to 5. If this is to continue, flying is not going to be fun anymore. I spent over five hundred dollars to update just to be able to play AH III and that with almost all settings cut off. The scenery is beautiful, but if you can't fly, what good is it.
My frame rate was not so bad during that fight last night,even in the clouds it was not dipping below 55 from the 70 I have it locked to.However many people were complaining it was terrible (usually after they were shot down ) even though I have a beast of a computer I still turn off all those post lighting effects as a personal preference and disable reflections so as to never dip below 70 no matter what is on screen.Bump mapping is the biggest killer in my opinion so I turn that slider to none.


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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2017, 12:42:23 PM »
Quote from: cav58d on June 24, 2017, 11:45:54 AM
I7 6700
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Normally 60, clouds had me 40's but playable.
I have the same setup with a 6gb card overclocked a bit. I'm not having the bad FR in clouds but am still getting the little random 1 sec freezes.

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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2017, 01:06:51 PM »
I have an initial drop of frame rates when the clouds first start to draw in but then frame rates stabilize at 60fps for me in the clouds.  I have suggested to some that are having problems to disable "bump mapping" in the graphic settings.  That has seem to lessen the frame rate loss for some.
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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2017, 01:33:15 PM »
Last night and late this morning were my first forays into this cloud system of HTC's with my not-so-fast PC. (I'll get a hold of something better when I'm not financially enslaved to the dentist office  :D ) Pretty, but I had to slide my graphics down a fair bit to attempt to minimize the "lurching" along I seemed to observe, and get my frames back up into a manageable range. Also observed a whole slew of "Texture Creation Error"(s) in the text buffer, even while sitting in the tower after my sortie.

Time of this report: 6/24/2017, 06:18:14
             Machine name: DESKTOP-6NQBHBN
               Machine Id: {40981C3C-A98C-4F52-8D3F-D28EBFA5B671}
         Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 14393) (14393.rs1_release.170602-2252)
                 Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
      System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
             System Model: System Product Name
                     BIOS: BIOS Date: 06/26/09 17:13:58 Ver: 08.00.15
                Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
                   Memory: 7168MB RAM
      Available OS Memory: 7168MB RAM
                Page File: 2385MB used, 6798MB available
              Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
          DirectX Version: DirectX 12
      DX Setup Parameters: Not found
         User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
       System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
          DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
                 Miracast: Not Available
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
           DxDiag Version: 10.00.14393.0000 64bit Unicode
Display Devices
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          Card name: AMD Radeon HD 6770
       Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
          Chip type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x68B8)
           DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
        Device Type: Full Device
         Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68B8&SUBSYS_25431002&REV_00
      Device Status: 0180200A [DN_DRIVER_LOADED|DN_STARTED|DN_DISABLEABLE|DN_NT_ENUMERATOR|DN_NT_DRIVER]
Device Problem Code: No Problem
Driver Problem Code: Unknown
     Display Memory: 4339 MB
   Dedicated Memory: 1011 MB
      Shared Memory: 3328 MB
       Current Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (60Hz)
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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2017, 05:06:35 PM »
It's not "the clouds" causing bad frame rates. It's a particular set of clouds that does (for me, 60 (capped) down to 6). Pretty low ceiling, quite dark. Probably some embedded CBs. Strong updrifts, and I think I saw some lightning.

About 24 hours ago that particular cloud was south of a58 near the knight aaa-factory.
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Offline Schwalbee

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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2017, 06:22:10 PM »
Everyone disable bump mapping and it minimizes fps lose.


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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2017, 06:36:12 PM »
Maybe just add Nexrad to the game? I pretty sure it was the thunder bumpers that caused the slide show.
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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2017, 09:05:15 PM »
I have killed the shadows,reflections, all clutter, post lighting, and bump map to 1rst slider instance.
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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2017, 02:13:43 AM »
Quote from: save on June 24, 2017, 09:05:15 PM
I have killed the shadows,reflections, all clutter, post lighting, and bump map to 1rst slider instance.
Put bump mapping slider to none, it's s killer even on my system at low alt<S>

Ryzen 1600 @3.8Ghz and a 290x gpu


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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2017, 06:40:15 AM »
Quote from: thndregg on June 24, 2017, 01:33:15 PM
Last night and late this morning were my first forays into this cloud system of HTC's with my not-so-fast PC. (I'll get a hold of something better when I'm not financially enslaved to the dentist office  :D ) Pretty, but I had to slide my graphics down a fair bit to attempt to minimize the "lurching" along I seemed to observe, and get my frames back up into a manageable range. Also observed a whole slew of "Texture Creation Error"(s) in the text buffer, even while sitting in the tower after my sortie.

Time of this report: 6/24/2017, 06:18:14
             Machine name: DESKTOP-6NQBHBN
               Machine Id: {40981C3C-A98C-4F52-8D3F-D28EBFA5B671}
         Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 14393) (14393.rs1_release.170602-2252)
                 Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
      System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
             System Model: System Product Name
                     BIOS: BIOS Date: 06/26/09 17:13:58 Ver: 08.00.15
                Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
                   Memory: 7168MB RAM
      Available OS Memory: 7168MB RAM
                Page File: 2385MB used, 6798MB available
              Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
          DirectX Version: DirectX 12
      DX Setup Parameters: Not found
         User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
       System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
          DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
                 Miracast: Not Available
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
           DxDiag Version: 10.00.14393.0000 64bit Unicode
Display Devices
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          Card name: AMD Radeon HD 6770
       Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
          Chip type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x68B8)
           DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
        Device Type: Full Device
         Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68B8&SUBSYS_25431002&REV_00
      Device Status: 0180200A [DN_DRIVER_LOADED|DN_STARTED|DN_DISABLEABLE|DN_NT_ENUMERATOR|DN_NT_DRIVER]
Device Problem Code: No Problem
Driver Problem Code: Unknown
     Display Memory: 4339 MB
   Dedicated Memory: 1011 MB
      Shared Memory: 3328 MB
       Current Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (60Hz)

That video card is going to have texture resource issues.  1GB video cards can run out of memory if you set the video graphic options higher.  Try disabling shadows to gain back a lot of video memory.
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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2017, 06:45:08 AM »
Quote from: Skuzzy on June 25, 2017, 06:40:15 AM
That video card is going to have texture resource issues.  1GB video cards can run out of memory if you set the video graphic options higher.  Try disabling shadows to gain back a lot of video memory.

Yeah...  I wondered about that. My brother (Flayed1) originally built me a beefy machine for its time for AH2 with this card, and I ran it for a great many years. Thank you, sir.
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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #13 on: June 25, 2017, 07:05:44 AM »
The dark gray "overcast" clouds reduce my frame rate from 180ish to 25ish.  The long narrow cloud "banks" don't have such a drastic effect.

Can't seem to attach DxDiag.

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Re: Dark Clouds
« Reply #14 on: June 25, 2017, 07:07:41 AM »
Quote from: popeye on June 25, 2017, 07:05:44 AM
The dark gray "overcast" clouds reduce my frame rate from 180ish to 25ish.  The long narrow cloud "banks" don't have such a drastic effect.

Can't seem to attach DxDiag.

I saved it as a .txt file, then just copied/pasted the relevant info here.
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