Slow frame rate in Penang port

[Sirkam]

I decided to start a career in the German side. When i am docked, i turn the view to the right and i have a horrible poor performance. Is it normal? (however, never i started a career before).

[Fortune]

Same problem here. In all axis ports. When I look towards the village/harbour(those old and chinese(?) looking houses) the framerate decreases dramatically. But the weird thing is when I keep looking towards the village and move my "head" a little bit, the framerate gets back to a normal level for harbours after 10-20s. Just like nothing happened.

My System:
Athlon A64-3000+@3,5Ghz
2GB Ram
Sapphire HD2600XT
Windows XP-Pro

Runs fine with all turned on + 4xAA/8xAS, even in harbours.

[Sirkam]

My specs are similar: Happend the same thing in allied harbours?

P4 3,2 GHZ (LGA775 2Mb Caché L2).
2Gb RAM DDR400.
GF 7600GT 256Mb.

[Rockin Robbins]

I thought it was just something us owners of lowly graphics cards experienced, but an owner of a shiny nVidia 8800GT, said no, it came with being in port. It's the increase in objects your computer has to keep track of at one time that the slowdown occurs. The most congested place is a harbor, so that is where we see the slowdowns. You can help it a little, and this applies to fleet boats and U-Boats.

Turn off your radar. That will cut the number of contacts greatly. Reduce time compression. There's nothing like the resounding crash of entering a harbor at 2048x with your controls frozen and that look of horror on your face won't save you!:rotfl:Other than that, slowdowns there are a fact of live. That's why originally harbors were so empty. The slowdowns are due to populating the harbors in response to players' complaints.

Must be hell to be a developer. Hat's off to all of them!

[EAGLE_01]

3.4 Dual, 8800GTX 768, getting around 80 FPS there in Panang harbour, free cam, on the bridge, wherever. I'd look elsewhere for your bottleneck...

[Rockin Robbins]

And an 8800GT owner reports slowdown as well. Of course with high-falootin' graphics cards, slowdown has a whole new meaning, like 80 fps! We're running about 30 fps in open ocean in bridge view and more like 25 with the 7600GT. A slowdown from there is a different situation.

Please reflect that people with modest equipment buy enough games to make them profitable. Without those players, those of you with high end cards would have no games to play. Hardcore gamers are a minority that cannot economically support game companies, even though they are prepared to spend more money.