Deck/Periscope issues (huge lag)

[Capt. Morgan]

Somewhere in here I remember reading that in some situations, you need to do a full 360' rotation of your view in order to read all of the visual elements into memory. Once done, the FPS pick up dramatically.

I've found this works well in busy places like harbours.

[krashkart]

That's true, but it has more to do with loading nearby models and textures. On some systems it doesn't make any difference when switched to an external view -- as long as the horizon is in FOV the framerate grinds along at slideshow quality. Through optics (UZO/periscope) the framerates pick up again and are much more bearable. I don't know why.

[Paulie76]

Originally Posted by krashkart

...Through optics (UZO/periscope) the framerates pick up again and are much more bearable. I don't know why.

Most of your screen in UZO/Periscope view is taken up by a fairly simple (graphics-wise) 2D layout with the only 3D rendering taking place in a little circle viewport in the middle. Doesn't have to work as hard with that. Less water in the view, usually one ship at a time, etc... I believe, as far as the processing is concerned, the rest of the 3D world (basically) ceases to exist outside of that circle until you pan to it, and it's faster in processing it when you do pan to it since it's a smaller patch to have to render at any given time.

Panning 360 to get everything to render once seems to make a whole lot of sense to me. I run a rather unspectacular 30-50fps consistently, but when I enter the control room and pan across the attack scope in the middle of the room, it lags for a split second the first time. No idea why...it's the only place that happens. Kinda weird, but it's literally a split second so I don't worry about it.

[Tossik]

Wow, thanks to all the quick replies. Well, I tried most of the things you recommended and there wasn't much of a difference. The (keygetys?) DirectX .dll thingy seems to have improved my fps while viewing the horizon by about 5 but it is still pretty unplayable. I guess I just need a better graphics card. Thanks again. Good hunting

[Missing Name]

I thought it was just because of my un-upgradable POS graphics card (laptop, x86 family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8). But it seems to be something many others have issues with... ok. I just run at the lowest possible settings and it helps.