low performance with decent specs

[heinlein]

I have nvidia 8800gts and core2duo E6550, which should be more then enough for Spring. But in large games framerate drops dramatically, it even becomes unplayable. And ideas why this happens? I turned shadows off and its still the same. Also, I've installed latest drivers, no effect.

[Peet]

Did you read the whole "common questions" post, at the very top of this forum?

[heinlein]

no, but I've just tried what was written there - no effect

[Vadi]

Try using SpringSettings to set the settings as I have them:



I'm on an 8600gt 512ram, and a 1.5ghz dualcore intel, so you should be OK. Unless you're on Vista.

[heinlein]

I'm using same options, except for 3d trees - i had to turn them off beacuse they caused strange bugs.

[Vadi]

OS?

[heinlein]

Windows XP with sp2

[LordMatt]

Turn off threading optimizations.

[heinlein]

already did, no effect

[Satirik]

i think you didn't ... or you did it wrong :)

[heinlein]

I'm quite sure there is no way i could did it wrong. I tried both turning off threading optimisation for "spring.exe" and turning it off in global settings.

[Satirik]

ground decals too high ? the version from the installer is bugged on that ? i think anyway threading optimisation and ground decals are the things that can slow your framerate, if it's not that it means you did something wrong on your comp, i have the same config as you (e6600 and 8800gts) and shadows at 4096 aa etc and it's just smooth

[Archangel of Death]

Let me translate Satirik's post into "what-you-need-to-check"ese:

Make sure ground decals isn't set higher than 1 or 2.

Its not a "detail level" slider, its a lifetime multiplier, so setting it high makes a lot more decals stick around a lot longer = a lot of decals to render = lag.