Poor performance/FPS

vickers03 · 01-31-08, 04:51 AM

turn down anisotropic filtering to 4x ...

AkbarGulag · 01-31-08, 04:55 AM

Can't remember what thread this was posted in.....

"---- Instructions for improving FPS in game with no functionality loss:

Open the file C:\program Files\ubisoft\Silent Hunter 4 Wolves of the Pacific\data\cfg\Main.cfg

Go right to the bottom of this file

You'll see

[DEVELOPING]
DevDebugEnable=Yes
DevEditEnable=Yes
MiniDump=Yes

Change them to

[DEVELOPING]
DevDebugEnable=No
DevEditEnable=No
MiniDump=No

That should get you a few more FPS.

JCC ----"

donut · 01-31-08, 05:45 AM

These only load down ram. Had only 1024 TC returning to Midway last patrol w/overwrites.

jas39 · 01-31-08, 10:53 AM

Ati cards have problems with AA AF, especially when in crossfire mode...

walrusbomb · 01-31-08, 11:26 AM

are you using onboard audio?

I recently disabled my onboard audio and installed a Soundblaster card and noticed a nice bump in framerate. It's rather indirect, but after looking deeper, the onboard audio was causing my northbridge and southbridge to run too hot. which hurt performance.

jdkbph · 01-31-08, 12:12 PM

Another thing you might want to try is removing 1GB of RAM. Yeah... REmoving

so that you're left with an even number of identical DIMMs installed totalling 2GB.

Is he crazy? Is he nuts?

Maybe not. Depending on the configuration (eg, 2 x 1GB and 2 x 512MB, or 1x 2Gb and 2 x 512MB) you may have disabled or degraded your ability to run in dual channel mode. I honestly don't know for a fact what impact that would have on SH4, but I do know that, in theory, it could be significant.

If that helps, you then might want to consider upgrading to 4GB by adding 2 more DIMMs identical to the first 2.

And yeah, yeah, I know about the 32bit memory address limitation... but for a few bucks "wasted" you get the RAM you need without giving up dual channel.

JD

Fishie · 01-31-08, 12:24 PM

Are you trying to run antiostopic (sp?) filtering at 4x or above? If so, tune it back to 2X, and all will be well.

01-31-08, 04:55 AM	#2
AkbarGulag Samurai Navy Join Date: May 2007 Location: cfgdatsimZOMGddstgasns Posts: 571 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 1	Can't remember what thread this was posted in..... "---- Instructions for improving FPS in game with no functionality loss: Open the file C:\program Files\ubisoft\Silent Hunter 4 Wolves of the Pacific\data\cfg\Main.cfg Go right to the bottom of this file You'll see [DEVELOPING] DevDebugEnable=Yes DevEditEnable=Yes MiniDump=Yes Change them to [DEVELOPING] DevDebugEnable=No DevEditEnable=No MiniDump=No That should get you a few more FPS. JCC ----" __________________ "6 days into his patrol, the first enemy ship was spotted... a trawler... ...It was at this point, Captain AkbarGulag realised how green his crew was..."

01-31-08, 05:45 AM	#3
donut The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: The Shifting, Whispering Sands, NM Posts: 1,463 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Defrag,do not collect/overwrite saves These only load down ram. Had only 1024 TC returning to Midway last patrol w/overwrites.

01-31-08, 12:24 PM	#7
Fishie Loader Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 82 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	Are you trying to run antiostopic (sp?) filtering at 4x or above? If so, tune it back to 2X, and all will be well. __________________ One fish, two fish, three fish, BOOM! Fishie, Commander SS-215 Fear the Growler!

01-31-08, 04:51 AM	#1
vickers03 Pooped from posting Join Date: May 2007 Location: germany Posts: 999 Downloads: 712 Uploads: 37	turn down anisotropic filtering to 4x ...

01-31-08, 10:53 AM	#4
jas39 A-ganger Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 77 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	Ati cards have problems with AA AF, especially when in crossfire mode...

01-31-08, 11:26 AM	#5
walrusbomb Planesman Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 180 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	are you using onboard audio? I recently disabled my onboard audio and installed a Soundblaster card and noticed a nice bump in framerate. It's rather indirect, but after looking deeper, the onboard audio was causing my northbridge and southbridge to run too hot. which hurt performance.

01-31-08, 12:12 PM	#6
jdkbph Captain Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 508 Downloads: 104 Uploads: 0	Another thing you might want to try is removing 1GB of RAM. Yeah... REmoving so that you're left with an even number of identical DIMMs installed totalling 2GB. Is he crazy? Is he nuts? Maybe not. Depending on the configuration (eg, 2 x 1GB and 2 x 512MB, or 1x 2Gb and 2 x 512MB) you may have disabled or degraded your ability to run in dual channel mode. I honestly don't know for a fact what impact that would have on SH4, but I do know that, in theory, it could be significant. If that helps, you then might want to consider upgrading to 4GB by adding 2 more DIMMs identical to the first 2. And yeah, yeah, I know about the 32bit memory address limitation... but for a few bucks "wasted" you get the RAM you need without giving up dual channel. JD