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Could you be a little more detailed on the CPU usage (a % value maybe?)?
Thanks.

Running a Q9550 here, GeForce GTX 260, 8 gigs RAM in Win 7 64-bit, all options maxed with medium AA and my FPS are in the toilet inside the sub. On the bridge and external 40-60 fps. But inside the boat, especially in the control room and the radio shack they are anywhere from 15-20 and very jerky. Pretty wierd inconsistency, must be a driver issue

Well, I'm told my methods are inaccurate. I haven't really pinned it down very well, but in normal situations task manager is showing me about 65% on both cores. It seems somwhat more CPU-intensive than SHIV, but really not by much.

Galanti: yeah, sounds like a driver issue very possibly. Might be an nvidia thing...

I tried it on my other PC today, haven't done the exact metrics mostly for the reason that I didn't feel like testing it through on an older Athlon 64 with a 256-mb video card when I have a much better rig to enjoy it on :88) It's rather so-so. Low 20s on that.

If your using windows 7, it automaticly devides all cpu use, between all availible cores.

I wonder if they didn't get the chance to optimize as much as they would have liked. Perhaps patch 1 will address this?

I wouldn't say that. TC might need a little optimizing but frame rates are actually better than expected for me. The difference with SHIV is minor but the graphics improvements are actually pretty big.

It's the shadows, I turned them off and viola, fps quadrupled in the control room, and up to 80+ on the bridge. But obviously it's a conflict between shadows and my driver version in particular, as I'm pretty sure a GTX 260 can handle the shadows this engine renders.

I'm running 191.07, will try a few tomorrow. I know there's more recent drivers available, but they tend to suck with other games.

Anyone using a ATI HD 4870 1GB card on this game?
Any dramas/issues?
Not from a fps point of view but from a driver issue or otherwise point of view?
If using the card, how's the performance? FPS, especially in sub?
cheers...

Hm, isn't it almost the same card as my 5770, only without the DX11 support?

true, very similar cards actually, i noticed your specs and how you are running the game ie setup, what's the max tc in this game?

thanks, that's good news for me. :salute:

I thought I would wait to purchase, but I dunno... I drop 50 bucks a week at the liquor store. But my system is several years old:

AMD Athlon 64x2 dual core 3800+
2 Ghz
2 GB RAM (unfortunately that's a full bank of 500MB dimms, or i would have upgraded already)
NVidia GeForce 8600GTS, 256MB

So strictly from a performance standpoint, should I even bother considering a purchase of sh5? :hmmm:

Hey Flopper,

My other PC, where I have SH5 also installed, is almost identical to yours (AMD 4600+, 2GB RAM, 8600GTS). I will try and look into it a bit more later today, but from my first look at it.... It wasn't especially great, but it seemed playable on med-low options and 1680x1050. I was getting low to mid 20s as far as FPS goes in the open sea, which is actually fairly decent. I'll try to lower the settings and resolution a bit after I get back from work later today and see what happens.

Patch 1 has apparently addressed this very issue, how are frame-rates now (They specifically say that there's an FPS improvement in the Sub Penn)?:hmmm:

I implore people to state their version of the graphics driver that they are using when they comment on their gfx card and fps count.