hoggydog Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 I have two issue with 4.1 1) Runaway RAM, as soon as I enter a mission on any map with any graphics and terrain details my RAM usage jumps up to a whisker below system max (8gb) this makes the FPS drop below 10 and has frequent freezes, sound and control drop outs, and very slow transitions around the map or in vehicle. This is almost unbearable. 2) The palm switch on my gunner handle seems to have the wrong polarity now, (on is off and off is on) any ideas? Ben 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jartsev Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 16 minutes ago, hoggydog said: 1) Runaway RAM, as soon as I enter a mission on any map with any graphics and terrain details my RAM usage jumps up to a whisker below system max (8gb) this makes the FPS drop below 10 and has frequent freezes, sound and control drop outs, and very slow transitions around the map or in vehicle. This is almost unbearable. Ok, we will try to investigate this 17 minutes ago, hoggydog said: 2) The palm switch on my gunner handle seems to have the wrong polarity now, (on is off and off is on) any ideas? So... Just checking- "Control handle" option is enabled in the "Controls" menu, right? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TankHunter Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Hoggy, can you provide information on your system? What hardware and OS are you using, along with what are your drivers? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jartsev Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Part about control handles and palm switches functionality is a #7749 now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoggydog Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 7 minutes ago, TankHunter said: Hoggy, can you provide information on your system? What hardware and OS are you using, along with what are your drivers? you tell me what you need and how to get it and its yours 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 (edited) 32 minutes ago, hoggydog said: 1) Runaway RAM, as soon as I enter a mission on any map with any graphics and terrain details my RAM usage jumps up to a whisker below system max (8gb) this makes the FPS drop below 10 and has frequent freezes, sound and control drop outs, and very slow transitions around the map or in vehicle. This is almost unbearable. You might try setting the "Dynamic Cache Size" slider in the Terrain options dialog (Alt-D) to the minimum. This should reduce the RAM consumed by SB by several hundred MB. (Note: modifying that slider will require quitting and restarting the application for the changes to produce an effect...) Edited July 29, 2019 by Jam 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoggydog Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 This should be a spec sheet in text format Spoiler BEN-PC1.txt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoggydog Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 Reducing dynamic cache makes little or no difference 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 What size is your Windows swap file set to? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Retro Posted July 29, 2019 Members Share Posted July 29, 2019 53 minutes ago, hoggydog said: 2) The palm switch on my gunner handle seems to have the wrong polarity now, (on is off and off is on) any ideas? Is that in all vehicles/crew positions? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted July 29, 2019 Members Share Posted July 29, 2019 As far as RAM usage is concerned, I recommend opening the task manager , and in the "Processes" tab you can sort the applications by RAM usage. While this doesn't address the core issue, at least it might help for the moment to close the most RAM-intense applications such as web browsers (I have two windows with five tabs open, and mine already wants 600 MBytes. Crazy). Some "CTF loader" wants another 350, and I don't even know what it does. Two instances of Windows Explorer - 180 MBytes (WTF?). Excel (one 10 MByte sheet open), wants 150 MBytes RAM. Virus scanner: 120 MBytes, etc. So that's 1.5 GBytes RAM usage with just the five top applications. Might be interesting to find out if reducing RAM usage by other applications helps with the framerate. If not, there might be some other problem. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoggydog Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 I Will look at the virtual RAM issue a little later, it may be this as my C drive is pretty close to full. As for the CR2 handles, I have tried them in the CR2 and M1 gunner positions so far, they are wrong there, however they are correct in the M1 commanders position. Again I will investigate further. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoggydog Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 Okay, clearing space on C Drive and increasing virtual memory to double that of physical memory has made no difference. The amount of terrain detail and complexity in a scenario or map makes little or no difference to the RAM issue but can effect FPS It is the RAM issue causing the drop outs and stuttering rather than an actual drop in FPS. Use of Ram seems to hover between 6.5GB and 7.5GB. When it goes above 7.0 is when drop outs really start. After a scenario has been run, it will stay at this high usage in all game menus and when Alt Tabbed out of SB and will not fall away until SB is terminated 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoggydog Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 I have terminated all none essential programs and this does increase available RAM by about 800mb, however SB just sucks it all up and gets back above 6.5GB within seconds 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoggydog Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 I HAVE FOUND THE CULPRIT..... If I reduce Road rendering detail to its lowest level it drops RAM usage by about 2GB 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted July 29, 2019 Members Share Posted July 29, 2019 You aren't using a graphics card that draws on system RAM, do you? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotareneg Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 (edited) It's because his GTX 1050 has 2 gigs of video ram. With that road detail setting on 3 the sim is using more than 2 gigs of video memory, spilling over onto system ram and dramatically slowing things down. My GTX 760 also has 2 gigs of video ram and is doing the same thing. Edited July 29, 2019 by Rotareneg 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Volcano Posted July 30, 2019 Moderators Share Posted July 30, 2019 5 hours ago, hoggydog said: I HAVE FOUND THE CULPRIT..... If I reduce Road rendering detail to its lowest level it drops RAM usage by about 2GB OK, yes, try putting the ALT+G back to default and try again. I found that, on my machine at least, my older video card (I have been planning to get a new PC for years now) cannot handle Road Render Detail at 5. It causes the same issues you mention. You mentioned that you lowered it to 0 and its OK now, but try the default "3" setting for that slider, and you might get some additional detail without having to go to 0 detail there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Volcano Posted July 30, 2019 Moderators Share Posted July 30, 2019 Fixed both issues in the original post now, for a patch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoggydog Posted July 31, 2019 Author Share Posted July 31, 2019 20 hours ago, Volcano said: Fixed both issues in the original post now, for a patch. awesome 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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