Framedrops and Flickering

Meldric · 08-17-11, 09:40 AM

Hi everyone!

This is only a thread to cry for help...

I have managed to get some decent framerates out of SH5 (by disabling shadows, playing with mods up and down)... Some of you may have seen the one or the other problem I faced here in the forum...

But whatever I do, I cannot get rid of those flickering textures (they do not show all the time but often enough to drive me crazy) and a stutter every now and then. This is:
I am on the bridge and everything is fine (40-60 fps) and then everything stopps for about 2-5 seconds maybe 2-3 times a minute and then just runs on again. It is not stuttering in the sense of the word... it is like another software would kick in and block all CPU for 2 seconds and then SH5 starts up again (I have checked for running processes, but there is nothing... I even stopped a number of services with TurboMode of TuneUp-Utilities). This happenes without any visible reason, even without any mouse movement or action...

Sometimes I disable a mod and it seems the problem is gone... I am happy and with the next start of the game the problem is back... Yesterday I thought I was sure to have pinned down the flickering to the subflags mod (as in the boat things stopped flickering when the boat was diving). But on the next run, subflags disabled, it was flickering again... I have the feeling that I really can not do anything with a solid result. It has the feeling of pure luck...

If I could solve these two things, I think I could really enjoy the game finally. I may just ignore the ugly seabed or the ugly sunrays shining right through my boat under water and many other things... but this flickering causes headaces and the stuttering is just major annyoing.
I am thinking of uninstalling SH5 and return to SH3 because of that but SH5 looks so much better (in certain aspects).

Anyone else having these problems or a solution for them?

Meldric

08-17-11, 09:40 AM	#1
Meldric Officer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Germany Posts: 237 Downloads: 167 Uploads: 0	Framedrops and Flickering Hi everyone! This is only a thread to cry for help... I have managed to get some decent framerates out of SH5 (by disabling shadows, playing with mods up and down)... Some of you may have seen the one or the other problem I faced here in the forum... But whatever I do, I cannot get rid of those flickering textures (they do not show all the time but often enough to drive me crazy) and a stutter every now and then. This is: I am on the bridge and everything is fine (40-60 fps) and then everything stopps for about 2-5 seconds maybe 2-3 times a minute and then just runs on again. It is not stuttering in the sense of the word... it is like another software would kick in and block all CPU for 2 seconds and then SH5 starts up again (I have checked for running processes, but there is nothing... I even stopped a number of services with TurboMode of TuneUp-Utilities). This happenes without any visible reason, even without any mouse movement or action... Sometimes I disable a mod and it seems the problem is gone... I am happy and with the next start of the game the problem is back... Yesterday I thought I was sure to have pinned down the flickering to the subflags mod (as in the boat things stopped flickering when the boat was diving). But on the next run, subflags disabled, it was flickering again... I have the feeling that I really can not do anything with a solid result. It has the feeling of pure luck... If I could solve these two things, I think I could really enjoy the game finally. I may just ignore the ugly seabed or the ugly sunrays shining right through my boat under water and many other things... but this flickering causes headaces and the stuttering is just major annyoing. I am thinking of uninstalling SH5 and return to SH3 because of that but SH5 looks so much better (in certain aspects). Anyone else having these problems or a solution for them? Meldric Last edited by Meldric; 08-17-11 at 09:53 AM.