Redfalcon

I remember 2 years ago I was out for a walk in late September and the weather had been good all summer, when I noticed a band of dark moody looking cloud that spanned from horizon to horizon approaching from the north east, when the band of cloud got overhead the temperature dropped and a winter feel engulfed the land for the rest of the year, the band of cloud was like the dividing line between summer and winter.....very strange to witness.

I've noticed that TAW seems to be running slightly fast.......maybe its because I have performance mode selected in ASUS options?, the cloud stuttering I noticed in last MP session never used to happen on old laptop?.

In that last pic I'm looking over shoulder at wingman.....pretty cool!. .....first time I've noticed that.

That's brilliant that avatar Mike.

Aww hey Neph he we go again!......the strange behavior of BMS: Full shaders, multi-sampling 7, constant 60-61 FPS in campaign over Kimpo, same over front lines....no drops?.........I'm starting to think that performance mode in ASUS ez mode only increases the CPU at certain moments in the game?, can't explain it otherwise!?.......I even have High Contrast MFD's selected in BMS config.?

I've noticed that only one core of the i5 is at max when slowdowns in BMS occur?, GPU looks fine I think?, why only the one core?, is it not meant to spread the load over all 4 cores?

FPS back up this morning after driver install but we'll see if it stays like that?....probably not!, nevermind though a drop to 40 FPS at times is ok I guess.

New Nvidia driver out today for 5 series: GeForce R295 Driver Version: 295.73 WHQL Release Date: 2012.02.21 Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit Language: English (UK) File Size: 198 MB I'll see if it makes any difference to BMS?, I'm ok with frame rate dropping to 40 ish I just want to make sure I'm doing everything to get best performance out of BMS thats all.....Hope I succeed!?

I did a CCleaner sweep so I think so.....its ok really it just looks funky and weird, take a bit getting used too, I hate change.....well, until I get used to it. .....yeah Stans is right though, stick all the most used emoticon face things up front!, cheers Dude.

Mike whats with the Black Adder hair cut?..........Stans avatar is all over my screen!, this whole site looks really freaky and weird, I don't think I've been sniffing glue tonight?, so hoping its just the forum upgrade!.

Well I came back from work today, fired up BMS, no settings changed from last night, and now I'm back to 40-38 FPS over Kimpo and through smoke, over front lines etc.. I can't understand it?, yet last night I was getting 60 with Vsync on everywhere!.......your getting 76 over Kimpo and through smoke with 3d off?, then I guess I must have something slowing me down?.

No slowdown through smoke now?.....infact I'm getting no slowdown anywhere at all?, I must write down all my settings in Nvidia and BMS and Windows and motherboard right now and guard them with my life. .

Right well more strange behavior with BMS.....turned Multi-Sampling up to 7 and now I get this?? Explosion at Kimpo in campaign 60FPS Multi-Sampling 7 Over Kimpo in campaign 60 FPS Multi-Sampling 7 Over Front lines in campaign 61 FPS Multi-Sampling 7 How the hell has FPS gone up?, I thought Multi-Sampling was harder on system?, all these pic's at max object density........to achive 60 FPS at Kimpo before raising MS I had to drop object density to 4?

I flew in helicopter over Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, RAF stunt pilots were flying same time, the drop feel from time to time in the stomach is worrying.....not to mention the flimsy plastic door and crappy seat belt.

My pursuit for 60 FPS is justified ......I WANT THIS REALISM ....and so do you!! EDIT: Even this vid looks about 48 FPS.....could be better.

Sounds good!, northeast England not so warm at the mo, but spring on the way, which is bad!, because during winter I have excuse to stay indoors and fly TAW and Falcon, in summer I can't use that excuse, and I have to cut grass and dig garden and paint house!!, I need more excuses in summer

Success at last.......stable 60 FPS at Kimpo, flew around Kimpo in circles for 10 mins before landing....no drop from 60 FPS!

Mike thats awesome.....drink lots of coffee and take anti-sleep drugs and crack on, your progress with this is worth a medal, your bringing it back!, the mother of flight sims EF2000, we all applaud you for this.....welldone!

This is a XS BENCH test........I'm not overclocked I think but in ASUS EZ MODE you have three options, ECO MODE, NORMAL, and PERFORMANCE, this is in PERFORMANCE MODE?

Hey Wombat you back now?.....I've had 2 engineers out and all my cables renewed and I got the master socket moved so computer runs directly off that now because apparently all the telephone extensions in the house were causing problems too so my internet should be fixed now and speed gone up a little too.

Turned off the FPS counter, reinstalled BMS, running on full graphics, maxed out, can't even notice the difference now?, even over Kimpo.......Its that stupid FPS counter thing, its bad for OCD.

I told you all before.......I have OCD ........I can't rest till I get thing the way I need them, but I'm almost there now!, there is a tool you can bang in the bin x86 folder to limit FPS to 40 or 30 which would give a constant frame rate but I don't need that just yet, but if the OCD gets bad and I can't solve things, then it will be a must!.

Multi Sampling enabled at level one....OC probably won't work because Mike has i7 2600 and GTX 590 and he still gets slowdowns, anyway I'm almost there now, I'm getting smooth play in campaign but having to play at Object Density 3, but thats not bad, still lots of ground units and air targets.....all shaders off and cockpit reflections off, but very smooth 60 FPS so-far.

Could try OC on card and CPU as long as its safe?.....worth a try I guess?

If I run BMS maxed out I get FPS drops at random times, sometimes just sitting on runway looking about, you look in one direction and its a nice smooth 60 FPS, turn and look in another direction and it drops to 53 or 45 or sometimes 38......when the explosions are happening in campaign with ground units it slows down a lot too, just looking at the battle from a distance causes the slowdown, you don't need to fly through smoke, drops to about 48 FPS from 60 FPS (Vsync on), even with Vsync off it still drops to 48 or 38, and even if you drop resolution and disable all shaders it still slows down??, disabling the high graphics and shaders does nothing to stop these slowdowns??......so I think Mike could be right, its a problem with Falcon. EDIT: The only thing that alleviates the problem a little is Object Density....the lower that is the better the FPS, but even that set to 1 does not fully cure it.