Water and performance

[pickinthebanjo]

I use an old laptop with basicly the same specs, in video options turn off enhancment options, if you can afford it buy some ram as this will greatly boost system performance. Also make sure you have no other background programs running, as that will drain system performance as well.

If your having performance problems with a stock install, supermods and enviornment mods would probably worsen that problem and would be best avoided as they add so much to the game that they tend to drain performance even further.

[irish1958]

Originally Posted by pickinthebanjo

I use an old laptop with basicly the same specs, in video options turn off enhancment options, if you can afford it buy some ram as this will greatly boost system performance. Also make sure you have no other background programs running, as that will drain system performance as well.

If your having performance problems with a stock install, supermods and enviornment mods would probably worsen that problem and would be best avoided as they add so much to the game that they tend to drain performance even further.

GWX shouldn't lower your fps; the real frame rate killers are harbor traffic mods, sea floor mods, water mods, 16 or 20 Km atmosphere mods, encountering convoys and most GUI mods.
You must lower competing processes stealing your RAM. See: http://alacritypc.en.softonic.com/co...o-winoptimizer.
Adding some RAM would be ultra-useful.
Finally, when on the surface, if you scan 360 degrees, your frame rate will pick up a bit.

[pickinthebanjo]

Originally Posted by irish1958

the real frame rate killers are harbor traffic mods, sea floor mods, water mods, 16 or 20 Km atmosphere mods, encountering convoys and most GUI mods.
You must lower competing processes stealing your RAM. See: http://alacritypc.en.softonic.com/co...o-winoptimizer.
Adding some RAM would be ultra-useful. .

I'm with Irish on the ram, and it's a cheap upgrade (it cost me less than 100$ for an extra 2 gigs. Also explosions can drop fps

[melnibonian]

I agree. If you add a bit more RAM you should see a massive improvement on your game. Long time ago I was playing with 512MB and as soon as I upgraded the laptop to 2GB I was playing a different game.

[irish1958]

You already have two Gb RAM, which is enough for XP. If you have vista or 7, 4 GB of RAM is very nice, but you need to use the 4GB Patch.
Getting a better video card would be helpful also if you can.

[pickinthebanjo]

Originally Posted by irish1958

You already have two Gb RAM, which is enough for XP. If you have vista or 7, 4 GB of RAM is very nice, but you need to use the 4GB Patch.
Getting a better video card would be helpful also if you can.

what's the 4gb patch? I use a laptop with vista 32 and 4gb ram without a patch and it seems to do, but if this patch corrects something i'm unaware of it could help to know.

[irish1958]

Originally Posted by pickinthebanjo

what's the 4gb patch? I use a laptop with vista 32 and 4gb ram without a patch and it seems to do, but if this patch corrects something i'm unaware of it could help to know.

The 4Gb patch allows the game (all the SilentHunters) to use all of the RAM. Without it, it only uses 2Gb. And, apparently, XP can only use 2Gb no matter how much you install.
I don' have a current link