Reducing Jerkiness

[Smoke2much]

I have tried all the fixes that I can find and I cannot prevent CFS3 from becoming jerky at times.  I get a faily steady framerate of about 20 FPS in most situations but occasionally it plummets fo a few seconds and is very noticable.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Will

[_526th_Fireman]

Here are the BIG frame rate hogs in CFS3.

1] Clouds
2] Effects
3] Land and Water quality.

Try turning down the clouds first. Then the EFFECTS and so on.

Knowing a little about your system would help.

Good luck and keep trying.

[bzhyoyo]

To me, the big fps hogs are the terrain and scenery.
What we need to know :
- your system specs
- what are the tweaks/settings you use in cfs3config
- your resolution, etc...

[IndioBlack]

I think it's a good idea to defrag your hard drive(s), especially if you've been downloading a lot of new stuff.
I was getting frame rate dips for no reason, but a good defrag helped immensely.

[Smoke2much]

My system Specs:

Pentium 4 1.7Ghz
512 MB RAM
GeForce 5200 256MB
60 GB HD

When I reinstalled CFS3 approx 3 months ago I applied the tweaks as recommended by RAF SHEP.

Iam running most settings at 2, except clouds which are at 1.

Thanks for the help.

Will

[bzhyoyo]

There's not much hope, I'm afraid, of having a very good-looking cfs3 with your system.
Your PCU is a bit on the weak side, and cfs3 loves RAM. I personally recommend at least 768Mo (1024Mo preferable if your OS can support that amount).

Anyway, I don't know if you've already tried it, but this tweaking guide is quite comprehensive and with MAX clouds and terrain, is aimed at relatively low-end systems such as yours.

http://www.com-central.net/index.php?na ... opic&t=118

Hope it will help.

[bzhyoyo]

BTW, if you're planning to upgrade, I think the main target should be the CPU.

[Smoke2much]

Thanks for the help.  I think my wife is planning an upgrade soon and then we'll se what happens!

Will

[IndioBlack]

look, I'm going to say it again: defrag.

I had a jerkiness problem that crept up and defrag cured it.

There may be other issues, but do a defrag.

[bzhyoyo]

Indioblack is completely right :
I usually defrag once a week. The other thing that can help is to kill all the background applications that run in the background and that eat up RAM space and CPU cycles unecessarily. There's a neat little and free application that helps you do it - it's called "enditall" (google it).

Anyway, the minimum requirements (roughly) to run cfs3 are IMO :
- equivalent 2Ghz CPU
- 512 Mo RAM
- DX9 128Mo GPU

To have good results (not maxxed graphics options though, but still satisfactory) :
- 2.5Ghz CPU
- 1024Mo RAM
- mid range GPU such as the ATI 9800 Pro

My specs are :
- 2.8Ghz oc'ed to 3Ghz
- 1024Mo RAM
- ATI 9800 Pro

I get 35ish fps with minimum tweaking, sliders at 5/5/4/3/3/2 and it looks goooooooooood!

[Mathias]

Modded pleload.xml, helps reducing st-st-st-stutter.
http://www.combatfs.com/index.php?loc=d ... ileID=3068