Overall Performance After 1.3 Patch?

[Jmack]

dev debug ? ... now you got me whats that ?

[John Channing]

Hang on... I'll be right back.

JCC

OK... I'm back. I just had to find a post I made the oher day.

Go to C:Program Files/Ubisoft//Sh4/Data/Cfg/Main.

Look for...

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


and change to ...

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


This is one of those tweaks you read about that actually sems to work!

JCC

[ReM]

Originally Posted by John Channing

Hang on... I'll be right back.

JCC

OK... I'm back. I just had to find a post I made the oher day.

Go to C:Program Files/Ubisoft//Sh4/Data/Cfg/Main.

Look for...

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

and change to ...

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


This is one of those tweaks you read about that actually sems to work!

JCC

I'll try it, but what does it do?

[Jmack]

for me it did nothing ... fps still sucks ...

[John Channing]

Originally Posted by Jmack

for me it did nothing ... fps still sucks ...

What kind of system do you have?

JCC

[miner1436]

feels the same as 1.2

[Marko_Ramius]

I think you must do it too into the save folder in "my Documents/SH3" . I may be wrong though..

[Jmack]

i have ... a dual core 6400 2.14ghz
2048mb ddr ram
geforce 7300 gt 512mb

its not the worlds greatest but it should run it
in fact it did ... but now it doenst

[azn_132]

Originally Posted by Jmack

i have ... a dual core 6400 2.14ghz
2048mb ddr ram
geforce 7300 gt 512mb

its not the worlds greatest but it should run it
in fact it did ... but now it doenst

2.14Ghz? Or 2.4Ghz? might be dat.

[PepsiCan]

Originally Posted by Jmack

i have ... a dual core 6400 2.14ghz
2048mb ddr ram
geforce 7300 gt 512mb

its not the worlds greatest but it should run it
in fact it did ... but now it doenst

Hi

I had the same issue. After 1.3, it wouldn't run. Turns out that I was the cause of it. My save games contained some 1.2 files I had put there that made the game crash as soon as I wanted to start running a training mission or save game. Here's what I did.

- deinstall SH4
- check that all folders (including the SH4 folder under My Documents) are gone and deleted
- restart your PC
- install SH4 from DVD
- restart your pc
- install patch 1.3 (it is cummulative, so it includes 1.1 and 1.2)
- restart your pc
- run the game

I know, you lose your save games this way, but it runs.

- insert the necessary mods.

Hope this helps.

[SteamWake]

Just a little feedback.

1.3 downloaded quickly, installed without a hitch, and performs quite nicely. No problems here.

I did not notice any difference in FPS.

[Saintaw]

I noticed an FPS drop, but am not sure if this had something to do with me running the 'TM' mod before (it has things like 'no grainy effect' that might have led to better performance)

I now disabled environmental fog & post process... and upped the resolution to 1280/1024 ... looks nice enough, and runs smoothly.

Amd 64 2.4 Ghz
X800 AGP
2GB Ram

[stabiz]

No probs in 1.3.

[Nightmare]

I've only had a couple hours to mess with the latest patch so far. As far as performance I've seen a big decline in performance coming out of Pearl (might be due to the wrecked battleships). I'm seeing FPS is the mid 20's to low 30's in harbor (used to be mid 40's in 1.2). I've noticed the spray from the props causes big FPS loss in external cam which wasn't the case in 1.2. In open ocean and attacking a small convoy yielded about the same frame rate. However the spray from the torpedos when they hit also caused FPS loss as well.

I did a complete uninstall, reinstall, and patch directly to 1.3. All graphics and sound setting set exactly as they were from 1.2 and I'm running 1200x960 4xAA and 8x AF (same as before). Running most current Nvidia drivers.

Overall I'm happy with the patch. Slightly disappointed in the degrade in performance though.

Specs:
Core2Duo 6600 @ 2.4Ghz
2 gigs DDR2 800
8800GTS 320Mb
Sound Blaster X-Fi ExtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional

[cunnutazzo]

Originally Posted by cunnutazzo

I can see smoother fps in the leaked beta 1.3, although you can see huge explosions and convoys. No stutters at all. Ati driver 7.6.

smoother fps running official 1.3.