[misha1967]

I drop as well near harbors. That can't be avoided. The question is "where does it drop to?"

If it drops to 18-24 FPS as it did on my old rig, then that can be pretty distracting. But if it "drops" to about 50 FPS during Kiel rush hour (which it does on my new rig), then it really doesn't matter in my opinion, as our eyes are "wired" to about 30FPS.

What I found was that the "bottleneck" for SH5 appears to be the CPU load. My old rig, an AMD Phenom 9850 BE @2.5GHz didn't see hardly any improvement at all in "tough areas" like harbors when I upgraded my GPU from an nVidia 260 to a 570, which surprised me a bit. Never had a chance to try out upping my RAM from 4Gb to 8Gb on that one, but I'm not sure that would have made much of a difference as the HDD LED wasn't really flashing that much near harbors.

But upgrading to my current rig (in my sig), which was mainly a CPU upgrade, made a world of difference, so I suspect it's mainly CPU load keeping the FPS's down.