i was getting good fps from the word go, but a buddy of mine wasnt, so i helped him out, we spent an hour or so messing with settings and testing, and i found setting filtering to bilinear (bit old fashioned i know) instead of anisotropic gave a massive boost, and it didnt hurt the visual quality much at all, i also use AA on 2x as that was causing a bit of fps loss.

Hello Ming, yes I did disbled vsync, No joy. also droped the filter, to bilinaer. The Filter droped to bilinaer help a little but still get skiping and it is hard to dogfight.

OK I fond the two main problems to my Performance drop off . First what the settings of RoF . I attached a Pic to see the settings. I found that the Higher Resolution was better with this settings then going lower. I did not know why but the higher resolution was better. Also when I put Landscape to high was a big hit to the frame rate so med was way better low did not make a difference. And the Reflection was a hit also so I put that to off did not see a difference in the looks of the game. Last Anti-aliasing and Bilinear that Anti-aliasing mad no difference but the Filter did so that is why Bilinear. Also Post effects was a hit so that is not on also. Note I did this test After I found the other problem and that was my memory sticks they where high end memory stick by OCZ memory and they where on the compatible list for my mother bored but when I put in the Trident memory I got a medium improvement in the game but as I noted above I still could not go all the way with my settings so It still might be my sound card or my video card which have no problems with games except Crysis.

Specs Gigabyte mother bored with Realtek audio HD sonund card, AMD Athlon 64 Duel core 6000+ 3.10 GHz,
4 gig of ddr2 ram, EVGA nivida 8800 GTS KO OC 640mem, Windows Vista 64 Ultimate. Hope It helps

Alan,

Glad you were able to getting it running better. :-)

Jason

alan untick each of those POST effects, then untick the main post one, should offer a performance increase.

As long as the main post one is unticked it shouldn't make a difference to the memory usage if the others are ticked or not.

It still might be my sound card or my video card

You can temporarily Disable sound from Control Panel/Device Manager, see what difference that makes, get a clue if soundcard drivers are doing ok

It's difficult to know how one's system is performing without benchmarking to find out where the bottlenecks are. Is my system running something slowly because my graphics card is the bottleneck, or perhaps the motherboard or CPU is the bottleneck

If I had a problem with a game running slowly I would first find out how similar systems to mine are performing under the same game, same settings: there might be nothing to be done but lower quality settings or screen resolution. Then I'd run a benchmark like 3DMark Vantage that'll tell me how my graphics system is running, make a few changes, see if anything helps. Then I might overclock whatever I can wherever I can after installing a flow-through cooling system

Running in a window vs running fullscreen might be worth checking, and a full defragmentation of your hard drive, pagefile usage etc might be worth looking at. For example, if I saw the disk access LED lighting up in sync with pauses onscreen I would check that my pagefile 'virtual memory' was not heavily fragmented or set too small to be useful

RoF uses CPU or CPUs very intensively for physics, upgrading one's videocard to get more fps may not be so useful as a CPU upgrade (or overclocking the CPU without needing the fire brigade on standby)

Ming