Yet ANOTHER Lag Thread (I'm So Confused!)

[BurritoBandito]

Hey so I know how most of these threads go...someone with a meh computer trying to run SH5 on max settings and asking why they have lag. Well, that used to be me...except now it's 1000x more confusing.

So I have a laptop that I got about 3 months ago which is an MSI GS60 Ghost Pro Laptop. It can run any game on 1080p and get almost 60fps (except for horribly optimized games), but it can run ArmA 2 at ~60fps and around 40fps in cities which is really good for ArmA. The only game it can't run, is Silent Hunter 5.

So here's how it goes. I boot up steam, see SH5 in my library and think to myself "i think I'll download and play some SH5." So after it's done downloading, boot it up, go through the annoying 20min setup that uPlay asks for, get into the game. Here's where it gets interesting. Getting roughly 60FPS on the title screen which is pretty bad. I think to myself, "Oh! Well, I imagine Ubisoft just limited the title scene to 60fps" because it wasn't going above or below it, just staying right at 60.

I don't think much about it so I head into a new campaign with the Open Horizons II mod, get into the game, immediate 10-15 FPS. Never higher. Immediately get confused, so I check out my settings. Okay, I've got everything on high and BOOM! I found the problem, or so i thought. Resolution was set to 2880x something that I can't remember exactly. (Basically 3K resolution.) Turn that down to 1920x1080, restart the game. Title screen is still 60FPS, head into the game, still 10-15 except now it would occasionally go up to 17 or 18. Check my settings again.

Turn off Vsync and turn shadows all the way off, restart game. Now at the title screen I am getting 250FPS! I get really excited because I think I fixed it, get into the game, 10-15FPS. Check all my settings, turn everything on low. Restart game.

Launch the game, 300FPS at title screen. Actual game loads up, max of 20FPS. With everything LOW! Did some research online, downloaded the lag fix. It gave me approximately 0 extra frames. I'm just so lost, this doesn't make any sense to me at all.

Specs (Not exact but specific enough to know that they are good enough to run SH5)

Processor: Intel i7 4-core @2.5ghz overclockable up to 3.6ghz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 870M w/ 3gb vram
RAM 16GB DDR3 (or DDR4 can't remember)
1TB HDD and 128MB 2Msata SSD

Answers I'm not looking for:

-"Try the lag fix!" I already did that...
-"SH5 doesn't work on laptops" Not true, I used to run SH5 on high getting 25-40fps on an older laptop with 8gb ram and a GTX 640M (Way worse than this one)
-"SH5 doesn't bode well with Nvidia graphics" Maybe, but if it could run pretty well on a 640M there is no reason it shouldn't run really well on a 870M

I checked my task manager, only 27% of RAM being used including SH's ram usage which is almost 1GB, sometimes more.

Turned off internet, restarted computer to make sure everything was closed and booted up SH, still 10-15 fps maybe 20 if I'm lucky on the worst possible settings.

Tried restoring files and booting up Sh5 without Open Horizons and still no FPS gain. keep in mind the 20fps only came when I was in port, I wasn't even near lots of models or anything. And the reason i was in port was because I tried booting a campaign half way through with silentotto code and it also didn't work (obviously) lol.

What is this? Also don't tell me that my drivers need to be updated. This computer is almost brand new and I just updated my drivers a week ago. looking at it right now, says that all drivers are up to date.

Again it can run literally almost any game (including Battlefield 4 on ULTRA and ArmA 2 on ULTRA) but can't get more than 20FPS on Silent Hunter 5.

Any suggestions please leave them.

EDIT: I'm also running it on Windows 8.1, which is what i ran it on before so idk why this would be the problem.

[Sjizzle]

Originally Posted by BurritoBandito

Hey so I know how most of these threads go...someone with a meh computer trying to run SH5 on max settings and asking why they have lag. Well, that used to be me...except now it's 1000x more confusing.

So I have a laptop that I got about 3 months ago which is an MSI GS60 Ghost Pro Laptop. It can run any game on 1080p and get almost 60fps (except for horribly optimized games), but it can run ArmA 2 at ~60fps and around 40fps in cities which is really good for ArmA. The only game it can't run, is Silent Hunter 5.

So here's how it goes. I boot up steam, see SH5 in my library and think to myself "i think I'll download and play some SH5." So after it's done downloading, boot it up, go through the annoying 20min setup that uPlay asks for, get into the game. Here's where it gets interesting. Getting roughly 60FPS on the title screen which is pretty bad. I think to myself, "Oh! Well, I imagine Ubisoft just limited the title scene to 60fps" because it wasn't going above or below it, just staying right at 60.

I don't think much about it so I head into a new campaign with the Open Horizons II mod, get into the game, immediate 10-15 FPS. Never higher. Immediately get confused, so I check out my settings. Okay, I've got everything on high and BOOM! I found the problem, or so i thought. Resolution was set to 2880x something that I can't remember exactly. (Basically 3K resolution.) Turn that down to 1920x1080, restart the game. Title screen is still 60FPS, head into the game, still 10-15 except now it would occasionally go up to 17 or 18. Check my settings again.

Turn off Vsync and turn shadows all the way off, restart game. Now at the title screen I am getting 250FPS! I get really excited because I think I fixed it, get into the game, 10-15FPS. Check all my settings, turn everything on low. Restart game.

Launch the game, 300FPS at title screen. Actual game loads up, max of 20FPS. With everything LOW! Did some research online, downloaded the lag fix. It gave me approximately 0 extra frames. I'm just so lost, this doesn't make any sense to me at all.

Specs (Not exact but specific enough to know that they are good enough to run SH5)

Processor: Intel i7 4-core @2.5ghz overclockable up to 3.6ghz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 870M w/ 3gb vram
RAM 16GB DDR3 (or DDR4 can't remember)
1TB HDD and 128MB 2Msata SSD

Answers I'm not looking for:

-"Try the lag fix!" I already did that...
-"SH5 doesn't work on laptops" Not true, I used to run SH5 on high getting 25-40fps on an older laptop with 8gb ram and a GTX 640M (Way worse than this one)
-"SH5 doesn't bode well with Nvidia graphics" Maybe, but if it could run pretty well on a 640M there is no reason it shouldn't run really well on a 870M

I checked my task manager, only 27% of RAM being used including SH's ram usage which is almost 1GB, sometimes more.

Turned off internet, restarted computer to make sure everything was closed and booted up SH, still 10-15 fps maybe 20 if I'm lucky on the worst possible settings.

Tried restoring files and booting up Sh5 without Open Horizons and still no FPS gain. keep in mind the 20fps only came when I was in port, I wasn't even near lots of models or anything. And the reason i was in port was because I tried booting a campaign half way through with silentotto code and it also didn't work (obviously) lol.

What is this? Also don't tell me that my drivers need to be updated. This computer is almost brand new and I just updated my drivers a week ago. looking at it right now, says that all drivers are up to date.

Again it can run literally almost any game (including Battlefield 4 on ULTRA and ArmA 2 on ULTRA) but can't get more than 20FPS on Silent Hunter 5.

Any suggestions please leave them.

EDIT: I'm also running it on Windows 8.1, which is what i ran it on before so idk why this would be the problem.

can u post your mod list ???????

[BurritoBandito]

Only mods I have on right this second are Open Horizons II and the Lag Fix which doesn't even really count as a mod.

And I tried doing a fresh install and got lag so not sure why that would be the problem. Nevertheless, I appreciate your help good sir

[Sjizzle]

Originally Posted by BurritoBandito

Only mods I have on right this second are Open Horizons II and the Lag Fix which doesn't even really count as a mod.

And I tried doing a fresh install and got lag so not sure why that would be the problem. Nevertheless, I appreciate your help good sir

the lag fix it's not a mod and must not be enabled with Generic mod enabler .....if u mean the antilag u must copy all files from Antliga folder to the main Sh5 folder to work properly .........

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