Simviation Forum - A Cure For All CFS3 Stuttering??

Aug 21^st, 2003 at 7:00am

JonVic Offline
Colonel
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

Posts: 16

Take a trip over to the fs2004 forum and look at the thread about improving framerates would this not be the case too for CFS3, it may cure the many problems that people have had????????

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #1 - Aug 21^st, 2003 at 12:28pm

ozzy72 Offline
Global Moderator
Pretty scary huh?
Madsville

Gender:
Posts: 37122

Jon look at the tweaks thread just above this post, you'll find a host of useful information.

Ozzy Wink

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #2 - Aug 21^st, 2003 at 3:40pm

Iroquois Offline
Colonel
Happy Halloween
Ontario Canada

Gender:
Posts: 3244

I think I may have figured out when CFS3 is so choppy after I installed my Geforce FX5200. The card isn't on the list of supported cards. I'm going to try and figure out how to solve this.

I only pretend to know what I'm talking about. Heck, that's what lawyers, car mechanics, and IT professionals do everyday. Wink

&&The Rig: &&AMD Athlon XP2000+ Palomino, ECS K7S5A 3.1, 1GB PC2700 DDR, Geforce FX5200 128mb, SB Live Platinum, 16xDVD, 16x10x40x CDRW, 40/60gb 7200rpm HDD, 325w Power, Windows XP Home SP1, Directx 9.0c with 66.81 Beta gfx drivers

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #3 - Aug 21^st, 2003 at 4:41pm

ozzy72 Offline
Global Moderator
Pretty scary huh?
Madsville

Gender:
Posts: 37122

The latest drivers and a big hammer Orenda? Grin

Ozzy

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #4 - Aug 21^st, 2003 at 5:22pm

Iroquois Offline
Colonel
Happy Halloween
Ontario Canada

Gender:
Posts: 3244

Quote:

The latest drivers and a big hammer Orenda? Grin

Ozzy

I already have the 45.02 drivers. The hammer sounds tempting. Wink

I couldn't find how to do it JonVic's way. There doesn't seem to be a CFS3.cfg file.

I only pretend to know what I'm talking about. Heck, that's what lawyers, car mechanics, and IT professionals do everyday. Wink

&&The Rig: &&AMD Athlon XP2000+ Palomino, ECS K7S5A 3.1, 1GB PC2700 DDR, Geforce FX5200 128mb, SB Live Platinum, 16xDVD, 16x10x40x CDRW, 40/60gb 7200rpm HDD, 325w Power, Windows XP Home SP1, Directx 9.0c with 66.81 Beta gfx drivers

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #5 - Aug 22^nd, 2003 at 4:48am

JonVic Offline
Colonel
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

Posts: 16

The thing is guys that i do not have CFS3 as i have been putting off buying it because of the fear of all the performance problems i have been seeing on the forums. Therefore i do not have any way of checking if this works. However when i saw the FS2004 thread i though that if fs2004 has this graphics card listing issue is it not fair to assume that CFS3 may have this too? If it does i will buy the game cause i really want to. So somebody have a go and see if it works it could be just the breakthrough for all the CFS3 performance issues

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #6 - Aug 28^th, 2003 at 7:44pm

4_Series_Scania Offline
Colonel
He who laughs last, thinks
slowest.
Stoke on Trent England U.K.

Gender:
Posts: 3638

I've found the new 45.23 drivers have made a big improvement with CFS3!

Its still not anything like as smooth as I'd want but its playable at least..........

Posting drivel here since Jan 31st, 2002. - That long!

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #7 - Aug 29^th, 2003 at 4:31am

bobc1 Offline
Colonel
I'm giggling like a little
schoolgirl, tehehehe...

Gender:
Posts: 197

JonVic,

Wait a little while longer and you should be able to pick up a copy of CFS3 from the "Bargain Bin" at BestBuy for just a couple bucks. Cheesy

Are you this cautious in all of your purchases? It's only a combat flight simulator/game. Excuse me if I'm out of line because perhaps you're really strapped for money but frugality has its downside too, like denying yourself the pleasure of the combat flight simulator while you drag your feet as to when or whether to buy it.

To get any recently released flight simulator to play well you're going to need a pretty fast computer. I have a P4_2.6GHz, 512MBs of RDRAM and a Radeon 9700 Pro (3Dmark2001 SE benchmark = 14,237) and although CFS3 runs fairly well on it I sure wish that it would run a lot better. Even with a top of the line P4_3.2GHz, 1GB of RAM and a Radeon 9800 Pro which benchmarks in the mid 17,000s you still won't be able to max out everything in your video card's control panel and CFS3's display options under all circumstances and not suffer some annoying framerate slowdowns. Flight simulators are notorious for being resource hogs, it's the nature of the beast.

You can pick up a used copy at Amazon for as low as $17.99 or a brand new copy for $28.99. I imagine Ebay probably has a copy or two for around $5.00.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/offering/list/-/B00006IIVJ/all/ref=s...

All the tweaks in the world can't make up for raw horsepower. Tweaking is just about trading off graphic quality/eye candy for performance/FPS and no matter how you cut it, tweaking CFS3 will only have a slight positive effect around the edges.

Good luck.

Bob

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #8 - Aug 29^th, 2003 at 6:30pm

Iroquois Offline
Colonel
Happy Halloween
Ontario Canada

Gender:
Posts: 3244

I did what 4_Series_Scania did. I had the new drivers installed before for COF but then I got the idea to do a complete reinstall of CFS3. Well needless to say, the game still shutters a bit but I can pull high speed manouvers in the default craft without the fps slowing down too much. It's a lot smoother.

I think the problem may lie in the fact that CFS3 is not entirely compatible with FX cards.

I only pretend to know what I'm talking about. Heck, that's what lawyers, car mechanics, and IT professionals do everyday. Wink

&&The Rig: &&AMD Athlon XP2000+ Palomino, ECS K7S5A 3.1, 1GB PC2700 DDR, Geforce FX5200 128mb, SB Live Platinum, 16xDVD, 16x10x40x CDRW, 40/60gb 7200rpm HDD, 325w Power, Windows XP Home SP1, Directx 9.0c with 66.81 Beta gfx drivers

Back to top

IP Logged

	Search the archive: