FPS issue make this game unplayable.

[SgtPotato]

I'm using the 64-bit and I bought this game from Steam, so it is in the steam folder where the games are. It just happened when I was in japan for a patrol, near tokyo.

[SteamWake]

You dident hit a spot wit dozens upon dozens of ship textures loading did you? If so it should pass eventually.

also as mentioned above it sounds like some process is hogging cpu cycles try looking at what or how many processes you are running and try to thin it out a little.

Lastley its entirely possible your video card is going bye bye. Do other games and or bench marks show poor performance?

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

You dident hit a spot wit dozens upon dozens of ship textures loading did you? If so it should pass eventually.

also as mentioned above it sounds like some process is hogging cpu cycles try looking at what or how many processes you are running and try to thin it out a little.

Lastley its entirely possible your video card is going bye bye. Do other games and or bench marks show poor performance?

I would look here as well. For the game to just out of the blue start act like you describe I'm inclined to believe it is a hardware issue.

[SgtPotato]

The CPU is fine, but I noticed that it used 3.11 GB of 4 GB ram. Is that bad?

[AVGWarhawk]

No, Vista will use all kinds of RAM.

[SgtPotato]

Every time I exit the game and im kept getting the error said this game crashed for no reason. I think it has to do with the save files or not.

[AVGWarhawk]

I think you need a fresh install. Play the game and see how it goes in stock. Something is definitely screwed.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by SgtPotato

The CPU is fine, but I noticed that it used 3.11 GB of 4 GB ram. Is that bad?

I would still tweak to cut off all those background services and programs, reload and try the stock game. You should be able to play fine with your system. Is it possible you had a program come on such as virus scan, ect. why you were playing?

[JREX53]

SgtPotato,

Another thing you should do is not install the game into the "Program Files" folder because of the EULA that Vista uses. Create a new folder such as "Games" or "Ubi", anyplace other than the "Program Files" folder.

[SgtPotato]

As you didn't know, I'm using the Steam version of SH4. How can I install this game to "Games" folder from Steam?

[SgtPotato]

Guys, I discovered the problem with the fps drop rapidly to 30. It has something to do with the time compression. When you increasing the time compression, more than 2072 something, it caused the game overloading the graphic glitch and rapidly drop to 1 and remained 30 fps all the way. Lucky, I saved before I start the whole thing. It seem that Game Fixes Only mod don't work well with time compression. Maybe, will Webster look it up and update to v1.2?

[Arclight]

I'm not sure, but I seem to recall that SH (3 or 4?) can act up if it's installed in the "program files" folder when running 64-bit Win. I'm guessing that's where Steam defaults to for install as well.

RR, you know about this? Is it a possibility besides mod-soup? I'm not too familiar with SH troubleshooting to be honest.

[irish1958]

Try AlacrityPC (www.alacritypc.com) to turn off everything not needed to run the game.
If that solves the problem, something is hogging your CPU.
If it doesn't, run a new install of SHIV; if OK it is a mod mix.
If not OK, price new video cards as it is probably the problem

[Rockin Robbins]

I use EndItAll when I need to terminate processes in one keypress. But I'm able to run SH4 at decent framerates with a truly scary list of programs running in my tray.

It's not impossible for another program to steal enough clock cycles to kill your framerate, but it's likely to be a single application doing that. Tell you what.

Alt-tab out of SH4. Press ctrl-alt-delete and bring up your task manager. Choose the processes tab and check out the CPU column, which shows the percentage of CPU utilization by process. System Idle Process is not a true process, but unused clock cycles, so disregard this. Is any other process hogging your CPU? You can terminate it right from Task Manager. Chances are you won't find any guilty parties there and will be back to eating mod soup. Yum!

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

I use EndItAll when I need to terminate processes in one keypress. But I'm able to run SH4 at decent framerates with a truly scary list of programs running in my tray.

It's not impossible for another program to steal enough clock cycles to kill your framerate, but it's likely to be a single application doing that. Tell you what.

Alt-tab out of SH4. Press ctrl-alt-delete and bring up your task manager. Choose the processes tab and check out the CPU column, which shows the percentage of CPU utilization by process. System Idle Process is not a true process, but unused clock cycles, so disregard this. Is any other process hogging your CPU? You can terminate it right from Task Manager. Chances are you won't find any guilty parties there and will be back to eating mod soup. Yum!

Ummm its vista