FPS reports!
 

Looking forward to invest in this sim, but I still have a semi-old system. AMD Sempron 2.0GHz Radeon 9600 Pro and 712M RAM...

How would it work on my current sys?

Looking forward to update it this fall (a totally new one...) Too bad I wrecked one side of my car in a parking house two weeks ago... :damn:

To be honest.. I think you will watch a slideshow with your system.
It's just to slow

Have a look here:http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=107783

By the looks of things you may be fairly hard pressed to run the game. SH4 is a system hog for sure.


RDP

You are at the lower end of the spectrum to run this game. This game is a serious resource/power monster. Currently I run the game with this set up:

AMD 3200+ (runs at 2.2)
2 gig DDR ram
Visiontek Radeon X1300 XGE 512mb card
onboard sound

I get 15-25 FPS(on the bridge) with most sliders to full and most boxes check (eye candy). While these FPS readings are fine for me and the game plays great, most like to have the FPS up in the 60's.

You're below minimum specs with the RAM, and your video card won't handle SH4 at all well. Even on low graphical settings the game will crawl. Wait until you get your new system.

Ok, thanx for your input! (Yeah I´m a Flight-sim guy and FPS concerns me much)

Matter of fact Im not sure that that particular vid card will run SH4 at all ! Something about pixel shaders.

You could most likely run sh3..I think?

I think even SH3 will be hard pressed to run on that system. It def wont with mods like GWX or RUB

seriously need an upgrade man.

And this is a random side comment....I don't know who said your eyes cannot see a difference between 30fps and 70fps....but I watched it drop to 30 yesterday with 4 smoke plums and wow..major difference.

I do not detect a difference in this game between 15FPS to infinity concerning FPS. My game runs between 15-25 on the bridge. No issues for me and looks smooth. Action is smooth. From what I gather, everyone is a bit different on how the brain processes visuals in motion.

i had to change my 9600 for a geogorce. It will run it...but it crawls. I have a geoforce 7600 now and with 1.5gb ram its runs ok. My cpu is a P4 3g

secret to running SH4: multi core processor.

The multi threaded aspects of SH4 are the main reason it runs slow. Taking too much time to process information before sending it to the video card...which then has to process it again. I'm no computer whiz, but I noticed an immediate change with a new processor and no other changes.

....heck Half Life 2 said it wouldn't run on my multi-core processor since it had a low Ghz (2.333)...but since its quad core it is irrelivant.

Have a Pentium D 3.2 with the same VC ^^^, 2 gigs of ram, get 35-45fps on the bridge, etc.
Runs smooth, this is with all settings maxed out, except V. Fog.


RDP

Well that system will be stressed out for sure but you WILL be able to play the game smoothly if you give up most of the eye candy.

A less potent rig than the one posted will run SH3 without ANY issues, hands down. SH4, just move those detail sliders left and uncheck the left-side checkboxes. There.

What ???

It was my understanding that SH4 did not make use of multi core threading.

really? I was told the exact opposite by my computer guru.

I don't think he is wrong though, because I went from a 3.2 ghz AMD to a 2.33 ghz quad core and it runs bitchin fast.

I'm thinking SW is correct. Upon release, many with dual cores were having some issues. I believe they had to assign one core only to the game to prevent studdering. The other core was assigned to other background programs.

Concerns about FPS
 

My fps are usually around 60 or above, have had them up to 160/190.
My question is when I use the navigation map and accelerate time the fps drops from 60 to 5 fps for about 10 to 30 seconds.
This only happens once or twice during my missions and only when I'm in the navigation map scene. Is there a way to stop this, If I adjust my AA or AF on my video card will this help, I noticed in other forum topics that some members set their AA/AF to 2X or 4X on their video card to produce better game play, will this help if how do I do this?

My computer Specs:
CPU: AMD 64x2 5200+
MOBO: Asus mv2
RAM: 3 gig ddr2 6700
VIDEO: GeForce 7600GT 256mb gddr3
HDD: 250gig SataII
Op SYSTEM: Window vista home premium 32bit

Must be a fluke on my part then. Cuz everything got better with a new processor.