Frame rate question

[Navigator857]

JUst spent 30 minutes searching the forums trying to find a possible fix for the framerate issue. I saw it on one of the threads while I was at work, but can't seem to find it again. It had a place to edit in a Developer spot with some lines. Can anyone direct me to that post or help with the edit if they know what I'm referring to? Thanks in advance.

[DaMaGe007]

Main.cfg there are 2 of them one in the game dir and one in my documents.

I edit both since I dont know which the game uses.

there are 3 things in the developer section change yes to no.

It didnt help my fps at all...

[Navigator857]

Thanks DaMaGe007, I'll try it and see what happens.

[-Pv-]

I think the edit in question was an attempt to kill the "box-of-death" which is an attempt to render a ship too far away by the engine. Changing the developer debug strings have no effect on frame rates or the box-of-death. Best solution if your computer only meets the minimum specs is to upgrade.

My computer was meeting all the minumum specs with some margine to spare. My graphic card was the weak part (even though it had all the rendering engine specs, plus some.) 512 memory too. I was only getting 6 fps in storms. Best clear weather frames I got with two ships in view was 15 frames. Doggy mouse.

I upgraded to another ATI vid card with same Catalyst version, same general specs and faster GPU and my storm FPS jumped to 30. Mouse problems cleared up. So, the quality of the vid card (assuming you have a CPU/system mem that meets the specs) is probably the single most effective hardware performance enhancer you can do for SH4. This game is a BIG jump in hardware requirement from SH3.

Of course having a clean, trouble free OS is another issue.
-Pv-

[WFGood]

I think you are refering to a post a couple of days ago that discussed a debugging issue that appears to have been left on. It was in the main.cfg file. The lines involved were:

[DEVELOPING]
DevDebugEnable=No
DevEditEnable=No
MiniDump=No

In the original, these are all YES, but it was suggested that you change them to NO. I did it along with turning off the environmental effects, and my FPS went up dramatically. (I am not sure which had the bigger effect, but it did not harm anything.)