Frame Rate

[Jim McGhee]

Hi all,

just wanted to get a few benchmarks for FPS.

Wolfdale 3.33 @ 4.01 Ghz
2Gb DDR3 1.6 Ghz
4870 512Mb DDR5
2x 250Gb Raid
P45 Asus Deluxe
onboard 8 channel sound
XP SP3
8.10 Cats

I get some dodgy frame issues when going round corners. Like days of old when GFx cards couldnt render anything other that in a straight line!

Is this an issue with the GTRe engine?

 

[Olaf.j Linortner]

I tried to fit my old soundblaster sound card but my computer didn't even recognise it.

It dawned on me though, if the sounds are taking up too much CPU power from the proccessors then couldn't I just turn down the number of simultaneous sounds. I turned it down from 16 (stuttering) down to 8 (no sound difference) and is now running perfectly fine with 100 fps and on ultra graphics settings.

SWEEET

ok sounds interesting .where do i find this ? the setting from 16 down to 8 ???

 

[Jim McGhee]

ok sounds interesting .where do i find this ? the setting from 16 down to 8 ???

its in the sound settings, number of effects

 

[Sander Hogendoorn]

I'm pretty sure I don't have that option in the audio options menu..

 

[Jim McGhee]

hmm, you are right, I must have been thinking of rFactor. FelipeFan - where did you find that?

 

[FelipeFan]

I found it in the .PLR file in the USER DATA folder.

It's pretty much the same as rfactor which you can open with notepad or wordpad!

 

[Sander Hogendoorn]

Hm, didn't work for me, thx anyway

 

[Dietmar]

I have a similar system just less power:
E6600
Asus P5Q-E (P45 based)
ATI 3870

Using onboard sound, I have never measured my FPS, but I do not see stuttering. I have smaler 'hick-ups' when I enter time attack, I have an effect that I see object in far distance being drawn (but that effect got significantly better after I increased my view distance to max, I think 150%). But nothing that I think is worth further tweaking.

 

[FelipeFan]

I've tried what you just suggested by changing the draw distance but won't be able to try it out till after the Grand Prix this afternoon. God I hate having to do college work!! ARGH. lol

 

[Pieter Theron]

Thanks the sound setting change also seems to have solved the problems I had with poor frame rate especially leaving garage down the pitlane and around corners...:victory: