Should my game be this slow?

[DracoPaladore 0]

Hey, I've been having this problem since I've owned the game. Most of it has been seen in the recent Resistance pack.

First is my system specifications:

1.5 ghz AMD Athlon

Radeon 7200

256mb DDR

Audigy Sound Card

Windows XP Prof.

My problem is that the game seems to run too slow sometimes. While I understand that it's probobly my video card, is there some way to speed it up?

My game settings right now is:

1024*768*32

Hardware T&L: Enabled

MultiTexturing: Disabled

W Buffer: Disabled

All shadows are turned off.

Cloudlets: Enabled(I understand it's drain, but the game dosn't look right without em.)

Blood: Enabled

My Framerate is set about 15, and my details at around 4 or 5. As well, my view distance is set at a 900 range(Had to learn how to follow tracers in MP back to attacker. Works too!)

I have the ground setting on Very Low.

Textures(Advanced out of game setup:

Cockpits: 512x512

Objects: 512x512

Landscape: 1024x768(I think I'll turn this down too)

Special Effects: 64x64

Autodropdown: 4x

Details:

Max Objs: 256(I'm guessing memory related?)

Object LOD: 0.020

Shadow LOD: 0.005(I turned them off, but I thought this might help somehow)

My game, however, stills runs quite slow. I can barely play on Nogova. All the older islands still work great.

Problem is that I can't lower the resolution without making ALL text blurry(I've checked AVON's for this, but my settings were at the suggested). This makes looking at ABR's and settings hard to read(but menu and editor text is fine?). The game also looks quite horrible at such low resolutions(but thats a no brainer.)

I keep my add-ons quite small in number. Right now, I only have RHS tanks and OPN's Canadian units and vehicles in the folder, minus all of BIS's stuff.

I was wondering if people had any secrets or magic wands that could boost your game performance while still keeping on par with visuals. It's odd that I can play games like HALO and COD, plus a few others without any real slow downs except at max settings.

Any suggested would help. This slow down is getting annoying. Nothing more frustrating when you have a short pause in Nogova's capital, especially when your the only one in it.

[bn880 5]

Set your FPS to maximum. That sohuld make OFP try to adjust details so that you can have a better framerate.

I just stick to 16bit believe it or not.

[Blackblood 0]

You should set the SHADOW LOD to 1.000.

I know it sounds strange but 1.000 is the lowest possible detail and 0.005 is the highest (most demanding) detail level.

Also the landtextures do look ok with a setting of 256.

Effects looks fine even on 32x32.

And ofcourse the obvious: No background apps, mate.

No viruschecker, no Messenger, no ICQ and so on.

[theavonlady 2]

Get another 256MB of RAM.

[DracoPaladore 0]

Thanks for the help.

I just might ask my father if I could get another stick of ram.

And I'll do what you suggested with my settings.

[Acro 0]

I've got Radeon 9600, 1.7 ghz amd xp, 256mb ddr and sometimes OFP awfully low framerates. Especially in MP. Any suggestions?

[toadlife 3]

I've got Radeon 9600, 1.7 ghz amd xp, 256mb ddr and sometimes OFP awfully low framerates. Especially in MP. Any suggestions?

Again, RAM would help a bit. 512MB makes a BIG difference over 256MB when it comes to OFP performance.

[Acro 0]

I'll be buying it at no time. Thanks advising.

[BraTTy 0]

I've played OFP on computers with low ram before,I found that moving the memory slider (in ofp preferences)

Down a little, seemed to help me some

[DracoPaladore 0]

Thanks. I've followed suggestions here and made some tweaks, and the game runs great now.

I just tweaked the memory slider, so I'll try that out.

[BraTTy 0]

ANd you said especially in MP, don't forget to scan for spyware

[Kuja- 0]

OFP just runs like ass. I play on:

Tbred B 2.4 (12*200)

Epox 8RDA+ (nforce2)

512 XMS3200

9800Pro

Audigy 2 ZS

and granted I'm playing in 1280*960 with 4xAA 8xAF, but I rarely pull >40 FPS.

[theavonlady 2]

OFP just runs like ass.

SpeedDonkey, if you're reading this, pay no attention.

Quote[/b] ]and granted I'm playing in 1280*960 with 4xAA 8xAF, but I rarely pull >40 FPS.

What happens when you reduce AA and AF?

What TERRAIN DETAIL and VISIBILITY settings are you playing with?

[Kuja- 0]

OFP just runs like ass.

SpeedDonkey, if you're reading this, pay no attention.

Quote[/b] ]and granted I'm playing in 1280*960 with 4xAA 8xAF, but I rarely pull >40 FPS.

What happens when you reduce AA and AF?

What TERRAIN DETAIL and VISIBILITY settings are you playing with?

Ahh it's going to be one of those debates.  Well give me a few minutes to bumble around and see if I can find where I installed OFP, then I'll figure out how to open the application, and if I get that far, I'll try and figure out what my detail settings are, so you can share your infinite wisdom and get OFP running at 150FPS for me

I'm playing with 900/normal, and the system scores 13k in 3dmark01 with game settings, as an indication of performance. Also, reducing AA/AF does not do a great deal to improve framerates.

[theavonlady 2]

And TERRAIN DETAIL?

[Kuja- 0]

And TERRAIN DETAIL?

I'm playing with 900/normal

[theavonlady 2]

Your system should be more than up to snuff. What Radeon Catalysts are you using?

What's your Windows virtual swap file size setting?

[Kuja- 0]

*sigh*

There is nothing wrong with my system. OFP just doesn't scale worth a damn.

I'm using a fixed 1024mb swapfile on a separate HDD, on a separate IDE channel and I have used from Cat 3.1 -> Cat 3.10 (formatting each time a new Cat came out), none of which have markedly improved FPS.

[theavonlady 2]

*sigh*

There is nothing wrong with my system.  OFP just doesn't scale worth a damn.

I'm playing with relatively lower specs than yours and OFP runs fine.

If you're willing to run a little test, first back up and then delete the following two files:

1. \OperationFlashpoint\Flashpoint.cfg

2. \OperationFlashpoint\Users\yourPlayerName\userinfo.cfg

Then run the OFP Resistance Preferences program, click on the AUTODETECT button and then start OFP.

[Kuja- 0]

*sigh*

There is nothing wrong with my system.  OFP just doesn't scale worth a damn.

I'm playing with relatively lower specs than yours and OFP runs fine.

If you're willing to run a little test, first back up and then delete the following two files:

1. \OperationFlashpoint\Flashpoint.cfg

2. \OperationFlashpoint\Users\yourPlayerName\userinfo.cfg

Then run the OFP Resistance Preferences program, click on the AUTODETECT button and then start OFP.

*sigh*

The values for LOD, dropdown, texture resolution, T&L, 3d performance [etc] are already correctly set.

[theavonlady 2]

*sigh*

There is nothing wrong with my system.  OFP just doesn't scale worth a damn.

I'm playing with relatively lower specs than yours and OFP runs fine.

If you're willing to run a little test, first back up and then delete the following two files:

1. \OperationFlashpoint\Flashpoint.cfg

2. \OperationFlashpoint\Users\yourPlayerName\userinfo.cfg

Then run the OFP Resistance Preferences program, click on the AUTODETECT button and then start OFP.

*sigh*

The values for LOD, dropdown, texture resolution, T&L, 3d performance [etc] are already correctly set.

Did you try it? Doesn't hurt that much. It's helped other in the past on occasion.

[Kuja- 0]

I reinstalled like 3 days ago, and I don't bother tweaking the values cuz there's nothing to tweak.

Product="Resistance";

Language="English";

HW_Type="Direct3D HW T&L";

Adapter=0;

3D_Performance="6500";

CPU_Benchmark=6500;

Resolution_W="1280";

Resolution_H="960";

Resolution_Bpp="32";

LOD=7.500000;

Limit_LOD=0.005000;

Shadows_LOD=1.000000;

MaxObjects=256;

Cockpit_Textures=1024;

Landscape_Textures=1024;

Object_Textures=1024;

Animated_Textures=64;

Textures_Drop_Down=2;

Texture_Heap="16";

File_Heap="16";

Total_Memory="512";

MaxLights=32;

Light_Explo=1;

Light_Missile=1;

Light_Static=1;

Frame_Rate_Pref=500;

Quality_Pref=500;

refresh=85;

LOD is set at minimum, textures to 1024, otherwise it is completely default. Similarly, userinfo is default with the exception of visualquality/lod. I think we just have different perceptions of what running fine is :P

[BraTTy 0]

Only 900m view and Normal quality ? Granted you are using 4x AA and 8x AF.And you never get more than 40 fps?

Have you moved the framerate slider within the games options to the right? And I am curious what refresh rate your monitor is capable at @ 1280 X 960 ..it says your running 85hz, and whether vertical sync is enabled

[Gadger 0]

Just turn the res down to 1024x768 expecting the game to run like a dream on that res. with those specs is asking too much imo.

Current hardware has yet to catch up with ofp yet

[theavonlady 2]

Just turn the res down to 1024x768 expecting the game to run like a dream on that res. with those specs is asking too much imo.

Current hardware has yet to catch up with ofp yet  

Running OFP on a 2Ghz P4, 512MB Dell Latitude Notebook with a lousy 64MB Geforce 4 Go chipset.

TERRAIN DETAIL set to NORMAL. VISIBILITY to 1500. Advanced preferences mostly upped to max.

Runs like a charm!

And the new 2.8Ghz machine with 128MB Radeon 9600 Pro at home is collosal!