ROW & Trigger Maru - Low Frame Rates

[beartooth91]

Folks,

Just installed TM-1.6.5 along with the recommended ROW mods. Looks gorgeous, but, my frame rates really took a hit and the game is now choppy. I run at 1024x768 100hz refresh, high quality, with 4x AA and 4x AF. The pc is an Athlon XP-M 2400+ running at 200mHz x 12 overclocked (which works out to around a 3200 perf rating). Video card is a GeForce 7600GS AGP with 256 meg of ddr2. System memory is 1 GB of Corsair XMS. Turning AF off didn't help much. I suspect its ROW which is causing the hit, but, is there anything I can do other than uninstalling the mod to bump my frame rates ?

Thanks
beartooth91

[partyboy]

I'm surprised you didn't have framerate problems with the base game with that hardware and those settings.

I doubt you'll be able to do anything software-wise that'll make much difference. Besides an older video card, only 1gig of memory will start to be an issue with those mods.

[Rockin Robbins]

Folks,

Just installed TM-1.6.5 along with the recommended ROW mods. Looks gorgeous, but, my frame rates really took a hit and the game is now choppy. I run at 1024x768 100hz refresh, high quality, with 4x AA and 4x AF. The pc is an Athlon XP-M 2400+ running at 200mHz x 12 overclocked (which works out to around a 3200 perf rating). Video card is a GeForce 7600GS AGP with 256 meg of ddr2. System memory is 1 GB of Corsair XMS. Turning AF off didn't help much. I suspect its ROW which is causing the hit, but, is there anything I can do other than uninstalling the mod to bump my frame rates ?

Thanks
beartooth91

Card should be fine as long as you avoid the hi-res sea foam. You might upgrade the CPU a bit. I suspect my Athlon 64 3700+ is a bit slow. But your main problem is 1 gb of memory. Double that and you'll see vast improvement. And get rid of hi-res sea foam if you're using it. You can back off the refresh rate on the card to 70hz and never see the difference too.

[beartooth91]

I'm using the "classic" sea foam.
Will TM-1.6.5 work without any or all of the ROW mods ?

As for upgrading - I have 2 PC's. The one I mentioned is my older machine. I play the game on both PC's. I simply don't have the riches many do to keep both PC's upgraded. In fact, the 7600GS is a new upgrade (2 weeks ago) from my FX5500 EQ !

beartooth91

[partyboy]

I'm using the "classic" sea foam.
Will TM-1.6.5 work without any or all of the ROW mods ?
Yes, all the ROW stuff is optional.

[Ducimus]

stock/slighly modified scene.dat in support directory

[Hartmann]

Folks,

Just installed TM-1.6.5 along with the recommended ROW mods. Looks gorgeous, but, my frame rates really took a hit and the game is now choppy. I run at 1024x768 100hz refresh, high quality, with 4x AA and 4x AF. The pc is an Athlon XP-M 2400+ running at 200mHz x 12 overclocked (which works out to around a 3200 perf rating). Video card is a GeForce 7600GS AGP with 256 meg of ddr2. System memory is 1 GB of Corsair XMS. Turning AF off didn't help much. I suspect its ROW which is causing the hit, but, is there anything I can do other than uninstalling the mod to bump my frame rates ?

Thanks
beartooth91

Defrag your hard disk , perhaps it can help a bit.

[donut]

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=687085&highlight=increase#post687085

[ryanwigginton]

4 x AA will cripple your frame rate. Try going slightly higher resolution with 2 x AA.

I've got a 512MB nvidia card and 2GB Ram and 4 x AA is too big a hit for my system. So I run 1600x1000 with 2 x AA and it looks sharp enough.

[John Channing]

Just in case you haven't already done this...

Load Notepad
Open the file C:\program Files\ubisoft\Silent Hunter 4 Wolves of the Pacific\data\cfg\Main.cfg

Go right to the bottom of this file

You'll see:

[DEVELOPING]
DevDebugEnable=Yes
DevEditEnable=Yes
MiniDump=Yes

Change Yes to No and save your changes. It will help a little, but you still have hardware challenges.

JCC

[beartooth91]

First, thanks for all the replies.

After installing ROW and TM-1.6.5, my frame rates were 8 fps - on the bridge, leaving port.

After checking V-Sync and setting AA to 2x, it jumped to 16 fps.

Then made the "No" settings in the [Developing] Section of Main.cfg - also enabled Dynamic Shadows. Running 16-17 fps - on the bridge, leaving port.

I'm satisfied with that. We'll see what happens in combat.

The v-sync was interesting as disabling it in IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 jumped my frame rates to 43 fps with AA 4x and AF 4x.

beartooth91