Lag despite a good system?

[Shalashaska 0]

I've seen some great screenshots, and well, I'm thinking that my system is not getting the best out of itself for Operation Flashpoint.

Its a 3.0 Ghz Pentium 4 processor Alienware

ATI Radeon 9800 256 MB

2 gigs of Ram

120 Gigabytes of Harddrive (90-80 gigs free)

And a range of other hardware and soforth.

And yet with more than roughtly 1,200 distance (The fog) it seems to lag, the settings are:

1024 x 768 Resolution 32 bit

75 Refresh Rate

Hardware T&L: Enabled

Multi-texturing: Enabled

W-Buffer: Disabled

Object Shadows: Disabled

Vehicle shadows: Disabled

cloudlets: Enabled

Blood: Enabled

Terrain Detail is Low.

Visibility is 1497.

Visual Quality 11.23

Frame rate 8.16

Gamma Correction 1.3

Brightness 1.2

Im just wondering what people have done to have Operation Flashpoint run smoother and more efficently...still with some good graphics.

[BraTTy 0]

Someone prolly give you a better answer,but I think that frame rate slider maybe holding you back.I slide mine all the way to the right (20 or something I think)

You should surely be able to play 2000 or more view distance with a system like that

edit: increase your refresh rate if you can,depending on your monitor

[Placebo 12]

AA and to a lesser extent AF are the FPS killers, what are those set to?

And unless I'm remembering wrong if you set FPS to 20 it will reduce the detail of objects until it feels you have the required FPS, his system set up right should do 20fps+ easy, so setting it to 20 you will lose image quality, FPS should be set to minimum, 10? That way no textures or models will be reduced by the program

[lee_h._oswald 0]

Shalashaska, if you want, send me your flashpoint.cfg and userinfo.cfg

I will take a look at it and see what I can improve for you.

MfG Lee

[DanAK47 1]

Take your visual quality down from 11 to the 9-10 zone. I have a good system and it was still lagging until I did this.