Quick Question
 

Ok so I stopped playing Silent Hunter 5 a while back. Everything was running great, and I was happy. However, recently it's started to get worse and worse with this one game. Everything else runs spectacular. I run everything on High as well. I have modded my game in the past, but uninstalled all of them and then re-downloaded the game. Got a fresh copy, same problem. It's not my computer because I run more advanced games Ex: Crysis with no problem at all, I run Crysis on ultra high settings and get around 30 to 50 frames. I don't know why I'm getting this problem. Anyone know of any solutions?

I can't help you, to be honest my game has taken a steady decline in fps as well. To the point its almost unplayable. And I run a monster of a system, that chews everything up on max settings, and I can't even get Silent Hunter to run anymore with AA enabled without looking like a slide show.

As long as you don't run ATI I think you should be able to run it fairly well. But I know it plays like GARBAGE on both my ATI systems. including my beast 5870. I've got an older slower, sadder computer that can run sh5 ok.. with a nivida card and windows xp.

Oh and for some reason the windows 7 update KILLS silent hunter performance.

I run Windows 7 with Nvidia.. It's horrible, Really is a let down.

Like I said, runs on smooth on XP. :yeah: lol.

But the stronger fasters more modern computers seem to be getting worse at handling it. if that makes any sense. A month ago I was running sh5 with all maxed and Loads of mods. Now I can't get it to run with just the mega mod. without turning into a 10 fps sludge fest. Sadly i've monitored my system and its barely taking a any load when running sh5 so figure that out.

Run the in game shadow slider on half .
Graphic card settings AA mode = Multi sample AA
With the mega mod install the optional shadow mod lite . (found in patch 2 of the mega mod patch)

runs fine on my Win7 Ultimate 64bit system with nVidia GTX480. I am at 60fps (v-sync enabled) and everything on high @ 1920 X 1200. I did not install service pack 1 though. Never install a service pack from Microsoft when they first release it. You are a BETA tester if you do :nope:

New computer?
 

Hello..sh5 runs fine on my current computer..amd athalon 64 fx 57 single cpu.4 gigs ram...windows xp pro..BUT this computer is starting to give up the ghost..although I can coax it along propbably a while longer.but its really time for a NEW rig ....and anyone ( Iread your post Dark Wraith) else had any issues good or bad running SH5 on a windows 7 64 bit Platform? Im looking at a AMD phenon II cpu at 3.2...16 gigs corsair ram...Asus mobo...newer nvidia 570 card..all direct x 11..however..I soo love this game..I just want to play it on the new system..and NOT have to hook up this rig to the net every time I want to play it....ANY advice thoughts greatly appreciated..thanks!

Seems SH5 is funny. Runs fine on some systems and horrid on others.

SH5 ran great on my single core athlon 3500+. with just one small problem....

When i had a large convoy on my hydro, the game would drop to about 2fps...
This was prob because my single core cpu was far below the min specs for the game.

So I bought a new Mobo and CPU. A phenom 965 (four cores) and I had really bad lag, stuttering etc. My FPS were jumping from around 30 fps to 150 fps.

ANTI LAG .dll fixed this for me by locking my FPS to 35. :yep:

Now SH5 runs smooth on my system.:woot:

I guess SH5 isn't optimized very well.