YdnarB Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Playing cavalry to the rescue ProPE version, (I added 2 M2A2 for practice), had the game lock up while trying to give commands to units in the map view. The M2 I was in was reloading missles so I jumped to the map view to set routes to others. Came back out and the frame rate was stuck at .61. Game sort of sputtered and I had to kill it. I could switch out and the task manager was showing SB at 50% CPU and as non-responsive. No other apps running (such as virusware).Played the scenario immediately with not even a reboot (restarted the game only). Could not replicate a slow down and the scenario finished fine. Frame rates hardly dipping below 55.I've had it slow into the teens before but then recover. This time it did not appear to be recovering.I have my video drivers up to date with the latest from Nvidia.System: Vista Ultimate, 3.0Ghz dual core, 8800GTS videoGame: 1400x900x32 using a CH Products fighterstick 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted June 6, 2008 Members Share Posted June 6, 2008 Hm. Maybe there is some background task interfering. You may want to run it in windowed mode so that eventual error messages can pop up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YdnarB Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 I'll do that.When I alt-tabbed out of SB, I checked the task manager and SB was the only thing taking up CPU time. If there was another task, wouldn't I have seen it there? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted June 6, 2008 Members Share Posted June 6, 2008 ...unless it had terminated itself already. Also, it could be a service which shows up in the process list but not the task list. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YdnarB Posted June 7, 2008 Author Share Posted June 7, 2008 Ok, tried a few scenarios in windowed mode. I get about half the frame rates in windowed mode as I do full screen at 1400x900x32. Settings on default. Is that to be expected, that is, is windowed mode typically give slower performance? Or is there something else going on? I have all the vista "gadgets" turned off (screen stuff) that I can find, no other apps running. Hard to say but was wondering if anyone else seeing something like that.Good news is that I never got a lock up. Even with arty falling, shooting through woods, etc etc, in full screen mode I was getting frame rates rarely dipped below 55. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted June 7, 2008 Members Share Posted June 7, 2008 Ok, tried a few scenarios in windowed mode. I get about half the frame rates in windowed mode as I do full screen at 1400x900x32.Are you using the desktop mode with transparency for window frames etc.?Since drawing these requires DirectX function calls I could imagine that the effect is that the graphics card must render two independent scenes which typically cuts the frame rate in half if not worse, even if the second scene is trivial to render. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YdnarB Posted June 7, 2008 Author Share Posted June 7, 2008 I'll turn that off and give it another go. After playing at 50+ frame rates, I'm spoiled. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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