[BH_Blue]

I have an odd problem, my game runs as smooth as can be up until I go to ground attacking. When I fire my guns into the dirt or fire rockets and am looking directly at where they hit my frames drop to like 6-7fps, when i dont ground attack its always between 50-60.
I am using AAA unified installer 1.1 with patch.

Specs are:

AMD 64X2 4800+ 2.5ghz
3gigs ram
windows 7 64bit RC
XFX Nvidia 9800GT

[anti-addick]

Depends on the map and where you are attacking but basically you are overloading the video card. If the frame rate drops then you need to turn down your settings.

Where did you take that pic in your sig btw? Was it a private hanger in Florida a few years ago? I've been there too, I was lucky enough to have a private tour around the collection of Mustangs, the Spitfire IX, the P40, the P-38 and the trainers.

[BH_Blue]

328th-Doodle made the sig for me, im not sure if he took the picture himself or not.

Could it really be overloading my card?

i mean i dont get how shooting the ground kills my frames could there be any other possible reason?

[Guest]

Again it depends on the map. If, say, you are running the channel map with autogen trees on then I too get framerate loss on that when I get down low. However, I normally get very good fps when I'm not over the autogen trees. 8)


Hope this is of some help
8)

[anti-addick]

~S~

Just because the game is old it doesn't mean that a new card will just handle it all. I imagine there are some inefficiencies in the game itself which will lose you frames plus new modded maps, such as Canons Channel, have a lot of detail. Unfortunately I can't enjoy this detail - I have to turn down my card for this map alone!! I have an overclocked HD4890 too - it's a very modern card.

If your colleague is interested I have some more photos from the collection he was at, I checked mine and I am certain we were at the same collection. Perhaps we can do an exchange? Please PM me a mail address if he wants to do that

[F22-Raptor-2006]

~S~

Just because the game is old it doesn't mean that a new card will just handle it all. I imagine there are some inefficiencies in the game itself which will lose you frames plus new modded maps, such as Canons Channel, have a lot of detail. Unfortunately I can't enjoy this detail - I have to turn down my card for this map alone!! I have an overclocked HD4890 too - it's a very modern card.

If your colleague is interested I have some more photos from the collection he was at, I checked mine and I am certain we were at the same collection. Perhaps we can do an exchange? Please PM me a mail address if he wants to do that

Interesting how you say you guys have to turn down your graphics settings to play on cannons channel map, my game runs fine on perfect mode with every setting up, including the stuff in the Nvidia control panel. I'm running on a 8800GT 512mb card, not overclocked. 4gb ram, 2.66ghz quad core, not overclocked either. My friend also runs fine on the map with a dual core 2.8 ghz some older version of my graphics card as his PSU unit doesn't allow him to run a 8800GT right now, and also less ram.

Maybe i've missed something in the settings or something's just odd lol

[anti-addick]

Different setups perform differently, but i'd wager you aren't running on 1920x1200 resolution on a native 24" display at least. Also, I have the AA, AF and v-sych etc all maxed out.

[F22-Raptor-2006]

i run 22 inch monitor and yes Anti aliasing and all the other stuff is maxed out on the nvidia control panel.

[Hannable69]

I'm not sure what all is in the AAA UI, but if you're using any ground effects mods, that can kill fps, too. The ground effects mod AAA_Effects_Platinum_Edition has really helped with fps with ground attacks and ship guns. I'm running an older system with an AMD dual core 2.2 Ghz with an Nvida 8600 GT and I haven't had major frame loss after installing that mod.

[Aviar]

From your description, it seems the problem is your 'Effects' setting. Open your conf file and look for this:

VideoSetupId=0
Water=2
Effects=1

[BH_Blue]

that effects change did it thanks. All good now

[randomaccess]

I had the exact same problem try this mod it uses new smoke and effects and seemed to fix the problem for me.

With thx to the Holy Grail team for making this mod:

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