Frame rate drops over water in A2

[ekempey 10]

Hey guys,

Whenever I am in any mission (SP or MP) on any map, and I look at or fly over the water (lakes, streams, oceans, etc.) my frame rate drops to roughly 2fps. I searched dev heaven and came up with a thread that has since been closed (http://dev-heaven.net/issues/show/5526). My specs: 2.6 ghz Dual Core, 3gb Ram, HD 4650 512mb with most recent drivers, 620gb HD. Can anyone shed some light on this? I am fully patched to 1.05.

[[aps]gnat 28]

I guess its related the the Bump mapping of the water surface.

But what causes it, I cant guess.

Have you tried different video parameter settings, in both the game and the Gfx drivers?

How did you patch?

Worst case I would suggest patching from a new install (assuming 1.01) straight to 1.05. No other patches.

[Alex72 1]

Many have FPS drops when flying or looking at coastlines. Water + land in the same frame. I know my FPS drops badly when i zoom in coastlines. Many have reported it and its in 1.05 as well for me.

[ekempey 10]

I've tried lowering everything down to low/off in CCC, decreasing the screen resolution, etc... Nothing has been able to fix it. I patched from a beta to 1.05. I use the steam version

[[aps]gnat 28]

I don't mean lowering everything ekempey!

I mean say; switching on/off PreProcessing or V-Synch or Anti-Alaising or Anisotropic filtering ingame or anything similar in your ATI software.

[kklownboy 43]

I've tried lowering everything down to low/off in CCC, decreasing the screen resolution, etc... Nothing has been able to fix it. I patched from a beta to 1.05. I use the steam version

In the CCC(only) you should set AA and AF to "application settings". Lower "Mipmap" to "Quality".

In your "In Game" videosettings; try normal textures, Low AF, ViewDistance to 1200,Normal ObjectDetail.

Your 4650 512MB should be ok at 1280/1024 with normal or low Game settings and no AA(sad:<)

[Flash Thunder 10]

Hey guys,

Whenever I am in any mission (SP or MP) on any map, and I look at or fly over the water (lakes, streams, oceans, etc.) my frame rate drops to roughly 2fps. I searched dev heaven and came up with a thread that has since been closed (http://dev-heaven.net/issues/show/5526). My specs: 2.6 ghz Dual Core, 3gb Ram, HD 4650 512mb with most recent drivers, 620gb HD. Can anyone shed some light on this? I am fully patched to 1.05.

Finally somebody has the same problem as I, yeah I filed that ticket over at dev-heaven 5526 it was recently in feeback but I had them close it, since im getting my new 8800gtx OC in a few days.

Yeah I had this problem since I downloaded 1.03 patch didnt have it when I bought the game retail with 1.02 US version.

Anyways I tried every fix under the sun, CCC options, Drivers, Config mod confliction, settings lower nothing works. It was suppose to be addressed in 1.05 as said by Dev-heaven but the issue still remains.

Sadly I don't think anything will work, its Hardware related 99% sure. :(

Check the dev-heaven ticket for my System specs.