Frame Rate Since 3.007

[KiwiM8]

First I'd like to say I cant stay away from this game since I downloaded it, however, since downloading the latest update I have noticed a significant frame rate drop.  Significant because I had not changed a single setting and have been enjoying the game up to this point.

After downloading update on Steam, I have gone from around 50 to 60'ish FPS to 5 FPS and again no settings have been changed or anything before update.

 

So I cant really rate the update as I believe the update itself may have something to do with it? 

 

Forgive me if I sound like a Noob as I am but I'm at a loss as to why now this is happening, I have had the odd occasional lag here and there however, last night played till daybreak with no performance issues at all.  Now after update....I just cant play it!

 

Ok so a little on what I'm running.  Any ideas...please! I'd love to be playing right now than having this issue.

 

Alienware 17 R3  

• CPU: Intel Core i7-6700HQ
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M (3GB GDDR5)
• DISPLAY: 17.3”, Full HD (1920 x 1080), IPS
• STORAGE: 1000GB HDD + 256GB SSD
• RAM: 16GB DDR4

 

I'd appreciate any ideas, could the update require I make graphic settings lower (which would be a shame)

 

Thanks Again.

[O_Smiladon]

Hey mate, 

 

From one Kiwi to another all I can say is no good Bro!

 

May I suggest that you turn down all the graphics settings, then bring them up again one by one until the loss of frame rates start to happen. Then you can pinpoint the cause and go from there. 

 

Cheers mate and good luck 

O_Smiladon

[Synchro]

Kiwi, try to uninstall all bos, and install new. I had this problem and now it works great.

 

 

[IRRE_Centx]

I have almost the same setup (proc + graphic card) and no problem for me to run the game with high/ultra settings.

 

Check your graphic card driver, maybe it need an update.
If it doesn't solve your FPS problem, try uninstall/reinstall the game.

[Diggun]

Sounds to me like the issue I had initially where sometimes the game can default to attempting to use your onboard graphics rather than your graphics card... 

[KiwiM8]

Thank you all so much, great suggestions and so will trouble shoot them out. I'll update on what works....well I hope otherwise somethings gone crook with the Alien.? 

[Jade_Monkey]

1 hour ago, Diggun said:

Sounds to me like the issue I had initially where sometimes the game can default to attempting to use your onboard graphics rather than your graphics card... 

This^^^

[Diggun]

41 minutes ago, KiwiM8 said:

the Alien.?  

If you're on a laptop, bet you 10p it's the issue I mentioned. There is an easy fix, but I can't find it for some reason... 

[Jade_Monkey]

Force the drivers to use nvidia instead of intel

[69th_Mobile_BBQ]

3 hours ago, Synchro said:

... try to uninstall all bos, and install new. I had this problem and now it works great.

 

 

I would like to do a clean re-install.  Can I save my key bindings / joystick button mapping to a separate folder?  If so, where do I find the file with my saved key bindings?

 

20 minutes ago, Jade_Monkey said:

Force the drivers to use nvidia instead of intel

 

How would I go about doing this? 

 

[Jade_Monkey]

Fiddle with the driver settings. Maybe set the full performace in the nvidia profile for IL2.

 

If you google intel vs nvidia driver in laprop im sure you will find it right away.

[Rjel]

40 minutes ago, Mobile_BBQ said:

I would like to do a clean re-install.  Can I save my key bindings / joystick button mapping to a separate folder?  If so, where do I find the file with my saved key bindings?

 

 

How would I go about doing this? 

 

It's in the Data\Input folder.

 

[69th_Mobile_BBQ]

Even though I noticed only a small performance drop with the new update, I did a clean re-install and saw a very good amount of improvement.  I recommend it.

[Sybreed]

weird, perfomance seems to be better on BoK for me.

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

3 minutes ago, Mobile_BBQ said:

Even though I noticed only a small performance drop with the new update, I did a clean re-install and saw a very good amount of improvement.  I recommend it.

I don't know how reinstalling the game can make it run better. In assumption that you do not using mods , changed badly configuration and don't know how to undo. My installation is from 2014 and runs smoothly up to today. 

[69th_Mobile_BBQ]

10 minutes ago, 307_Tomcat said:

I don't know how reinstalling the game can make it run better. In assumption that you do not using mods , changed badly configuration and don't know how to undo. My installation is from 2014 and runs smoothly up to today. 

When the update came, I noticed a 10-15 FPS drop from what I was getting.  I reinstalled and not only did I get the FPS back, I can run a some higher graphics settings without loss.  I don't know why either, but it worked for me.  And no, I didn't have a previous bad configuration.  I only ever changed settings in the in-game menu not cfg. files.  I'm using the same settings again + SSAO and HDR which were lowering FPS in the previous version for me. 

 

If your installation is working the way you expect it to, then good.  All I know is reinstalling did give me some improvement.   

[DD_Arthur]

53 minutes ago, 307_Tomcat said:

I don't know how reinstalling the game can make it run better. In assumption that you do not using mods , changed badly configuration and don't know how to undo. My installation is from 2014 and runs smoothly up to today. 

 

Tomcat;  I re-installed my game a couple of months ago.  I've had it right from the beginning and had never had to do a re-install before.

 

I don't know why - but it did make a worthwhile difference.

[69th_Mobile_BBQ]

My best (probably uneducated) guess is my disk drive is a bit old - by today's standards - and the game installation may have been more fragmented than running the defragmenter led me to believe.

[Rolling_Thunder]

6 hours ago, Mobile_BBQ said:

How would I go about doing this? 

 

right click on desktop, nvidia control panel/3D settings/Manage 3D settings/global settings or under program settings for BoX/ preferred graphics driver. If i recall correctly. It's been a while since I've been on a laptop

[HansBlitz]

I haven't flown much yet since the update but last night I saw a 10~15 FPS increase on Kuban map in VR.

[SCG_ErwinP]

To me, FPS drops a little bit n Kuban map.

Edited November 22, 2018 by 3./JG15_HansPhilipp

[KiwiM8]

12 hours ago, Diggun said:

If you're on a laptop, bet you 10p it's the issue I mentioned. There is an easy fix, but I can't find it for some reason... 

Definately plausible and one I'll definatly check on. Thanks mate?

[Gambit21]

FPS increase for me across the board using a 4K monitor.

Still stutters that are independent of frame rate - caused by trees (not clouds)  on the Kuban map.

[KiwiM8]

I understand the grapics for the trees were addressed. Hence the read me on the new update release. 

I will trouble shoot this by reinstalling the game and making sure it's not running graphics from the inbored.  

[Rjel]

Whether it's necessary or not, I always disable Mods On before I patch. I also reboot before firing up the game again. I also do a complete reinstall generally after a major patch like this. Again, maybe it isn't needed but with a good internet connection not that much time is needed and I like a fresh install every so often. It's never caused me any pain either way.

[Gambit21]

New install is an emergency measure only for me - slow connection.

[Rjel]

1 hour ago, Gambit21 said:

New install is an emergency measure only for me - slow connection.

A secondary option would be to burn a copy to DVD of whatever version someone had that they felt was running great and then use that as their base if ever a problem arose after a possible bad patch experience.

 

Considering the size of the installs with skins most of us would have, burning to a Blu-ray is a better option than DVD.

Edited November 22, 2018 by Rjel

[ShamrockOneFive]

59 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

FPS increase for me across the board using a 4K monitor.

Still stutters that are independent of frame rate - caused by trees (not clouds)  on the Kuban map.

 

Same here. Frame rates are up a bit on this patch for sure.

[TWC_Ace]

No change in FPS for me (locked at 60) but noticed that MP servers went wild again last night...stutters all around....I hope it will stabilize. with time as usual.....

[KiwiM8]

Well it sounds like what I have been experiencing too....I noticed since recent update that when I'm in the games menu and you see your aircraft panning around in the hanger, that ever so slightly stutters too! It never did that before update. 

Just saying because prior to that update, everything worked well and now I just cant play it anymore with it the way it is.

I even reinstalled the game with no change, ran Alienware Hardware Scans from Dell's Support app... All good and in working order.

So maybe it's a server issue? Maybe it's what you just described blackram....who knows...

 

[TWC_Ace]

Like I said from time to time MP goes stutterish (not so often though) and almost after every bigger update....

[KiwiM8]

Oh well, have to wait and see, but thanks anyway.

[KiwiM8]

On 11/22/2018 at 1:21 AM, Mobile_BBQ said:

I would like to do a clean re-install.  Can I save my key bindings / joystick button mapping to a separate folder?  If so, where do I find the file with my saved key bindings?

 

 

How would I go about doing this? 

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but under the Intel settings R Click on desktop and select Intel graphic settings, (on mine it's under the sub menu gaming) You have the option of running either inboard graphics or Nvidia as is my 970M and Auto which is Recommended (and is default) I didn't change any of those settings and left it on Auto. Not gonna play with it if it's default set. Now like I said, I could be wrong but that how I understand it when selecting graphic cards to use.