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Patboot
08-01-06, 06:48 PM
Anyone else have an issue with lag/stutter using TC as your mission tonnage goes up?

Might be related also- it seems the saved game takes longer to fully load as the score goes up.

New patrol, 2048 books right along; Bag a few, 1024 tc is max smooth.

RAM issue?
Ducimus
08-01-06, 07:36 PM
I only stutter when theres alot of ships around, or anywhere near my vacinity.
Sailor Steve
08-01-06, 07:46 PM
I stutter whenever the admiral asks my opinion.
HunterICX
08-02-06, 09:31 AM
:-? Mine stutters when an Convoy nearby... handy :up:
sstratos1234
08-03-06, 04:05 AM
Mine does the same thing !! if i sink alot of merchants , it gets a little buggy... But i like it because it does the same thing when i approach a convoy.So i immediately drop the tc to 1x , order periscope depth and go to the hydrophone room to hear for contacts !!! it's kind of helpful.I don't know if i have a slow machine , it's p4 2.8ghz , 1256 ram , fx5600xt
Dowly
08-03-06, 04:27 AM
:-? Mine stutters when an Convoy nearby... handy :up:

:damn: I want my old PC back!! :rotfl:
Kruger
08-03-06, 04:49 AM
Mine does the same thing !! if i sink alot of merchants , it gets a little buggy... But i like it because it does the same thing when i approach a convoy.So i immediately drop the tc to 1x , order periscope depth and go to the hydrophone room to hear for contacts !!! it's kind of helpful.I don't know if i have a slow machine , it's p4 2.8ghz , 1256 ram , fx5600xt


Except the videocard, your computer is great.
stabiz
08-03-06, 05:54 AM
It is a ram/cpu-issue.
Darksun
08-03-06, 03:23 PM
I get a little stutter when nearing a convoy. However, last night I was being stalked by a Catalina. I couldn't get TC above 8. At 16 the frame rate would crash and I couldn't get the game to accept any input. After pounding on the - key for about 30 seconds I got the TC to drop back down. (I tried shooting it down, but I couldn't seem to kill it.)

Anyone else have problems like that?

Another thing that makes me crazy. I have it set to drop TC to 1 when a ship is detected, but when flanking a convoy, it just keeps going off. I wish there was a temporary overide. I have resorted to sending the sonarman to his bunk sometimes to keep his chatter from making me crazy.

-D
Garrincha
08-03-06, 03:32 PM
@ darksun: You can change the max tc in SH3 commander... that might take care of some of your problems...

I seem to have the same shutter problems problems a described earlier: spins like a kitten, then on tc 1024 it skips 3 minutes on gametime, and i know there is bait nearby.

Another question for those who know their PC stuff:
If you have Hyperthreading tech on your CPU, i have p4 3 Ghz with HT, does SH3 only use one side of the chip? So the game thinks i only have a 1.5 Ghz? Logic doesn't help me here, so i you can, please do!

thx,
Garrincha