Been through hell and back!
And mystery solved!
After arrival at patrol grid I suddenly had the stutter again!
Thought something might have been screwed up, so made a fresh 1.03 install with my few tweaks
increased Windows swapfile (just to be sure), defragmented all discs and rebooted before starting SH3 via Sh3Cmdr. Everything was fine, 70-80 fps in
all zoomlevels in Lorient harbour with 19 ships. Once in open sea fps increases to 130. Test with lots of waypoints - no difference.
Save and exit, run Sh3Gen, reboot (to clear cache) and run sh3.exe without Sh3Cmdr (everything should by now have been generated). No difference. 80 fps everywhere at a minimum. Save and exit. Reboot.
Start this time with Sh3Cmdr (rolling back and copying files for minutes...
). All fine! 80 fps... heading for patrol grid CF49.
Then!
Had plotted some lines for ideas for a cruise around the islands... and
that did it!
zooming back to ship now shows fps drops to 3-5 in extreme zoom! Removed the lines - and we're back on +80 fps
And none of the lines have to be of any perticular lenght. Just being there. Argh!
:rotfl:
Sorry for blaming GWX
