Low FPS Even With Low GFX
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Yeah, this laptop has Optimus (nVidia’s thing that thinks it can determine the “proper card” to use for each program, I’d personally rather just choose myself) but I had already switched from my integrated card (Intel HD 3000) to my discrete one (nVidia GT 555M) before I even loaded up any of the missions.
And like I said, I had already turned off all of the shader options and it still chugged (though there was a bit of improvement). For the sake of completeness I tried your suggestion with the lighting and it didn’t seem to improve things any further.
And as for that Maverick mission suggestion, I loaded it up and it was just as frame-y even without the Maverick view turned on.
Thanks for all the help so far, I’ll look into those forum threads you mentioned and see if any of them can give me some ideas.
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Take a look at my hot list at the performance gain section. Also Gamebooster could help u quickly kill unwanted apps and services that hold your cpu down.
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I have like the exact same system on my laptop, use A.S’s recommended settings on falcon-online.org. Some settings combinations are weird and make mine run terrible, but with that config as a basis I get 60+ instead of like 10 or 15.
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%Arty
I’ve already looked at the hotlist and tried many of the recommendations. And it’s definitely not a CPU issue (at most BMS only uses about 5% of my CPU as I said above) so I doubt Gamebooster would do much.
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Is this the thread you’re talking about? http://falcon-online.org/forum/index.php?topic=244.0
Or is it a different one?
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Update: Seems I was being generous with my framerate estimates. With all the latest tweaks I’m getting 6-7 FPS on the Maverick training mission. This is just absurd.
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I had exactly the same problem with the exact same GPU and optimus and switching falconBMS.exe to the GT555M solved it. Deactivate some shaders afterwards but you should be just fine.
You have to select the program exe in the Nvidia Control Panel (setup panel -> hardware & audio), go to the applications tab, “add” and then Falcon BMS 4.32/Bin/FalconBMS.exe (not the launcher !)
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@ Rezzy: do you and OldGoat5 and l3crusader have the same graphics driver version installed?
Graphics settings in both BMS and nVidia cp and the impact of the driver version is demonstrated here:
http://www.72ndvfw.org/forum/m/5688083/viewthread/11304553-woot-i-think-my-friend-stumbled-onto-answer-for-nvidia-hardware-guys-bms -
Thanks, but I’ve already done that, and I verified that it was the .exe and not the launcher. And ingame it definitely says I’m using the 555M.
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I don’t know about the others, but I have driver version 337.88 installed on mine.
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Is this the thread you’re talking about? http://falcon-online.org/forum/index.php?topic=244.0
Or is it a different one?
Thats the one. If i use anything else i get major fps drops. I have the 337 driver as well.
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About the resolution: anything else than the native resolution of your monitor and card is not guaranteed to give better results,
even if it is a lower resolution. I believe the GPU just calculates the normal frames and composes a lower resolution frame based on those. -
Huh, that’s really weird, because I tried those same settings and I’m not even getting 10 FPS.
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Well that would explain why lowering the resolution doesn’t help. Do you know if running the game windowed would cause issues?
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Don’t know if this is the cause of the problem.
But you have it in windowed mode because it crashes if you don’t? That’s weird…Maybe, you could try to check which GPU is being used when you fly in the 3D world,
by logging the GPU use data for a small amount of time.
I know you forced BMS and Optimus to use the discrete card, but with the fancy switching software around,
it could be that Optimus views your choice as a “suggestion” instead of an obligation and still decides to use what it sees fit.
I know this sounds stupid, but this is the case with the AMD counterpart, AMD Vision Engine.
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Rezzy, do you have Teamspeak??
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Well, I dunno why it’s working now, but I switched it back into Fullscreen mode @ 1080p and now not only is it not crashing, but my FPS is now easily 60+ on both the Rampstart and the Maverick missions, I even saw it going as high as 117. Either way, I’m super stoked now, thanks for all the help, everyone!
One more question would be is there anyway to change the resolution of the main menu (not the launcher, the step after that where you choose missions and such)? It looks really low res compared to the ingame stuff and it messes with my laptop monitor (have a multi-monitor setup going between my main monitor and my laptop and they are drastically different resolutions, 1080p versus…768p?).
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I do, why do you ask?
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Alright cool. Under Configuratons/Settings Hardware/Shaders to off, and It runs smooth like a new PC.