I recently started playing RoF again. I have upgraded my video card from a GTX 260 to a 560ti 2GB and I am a bit disappointed as my frame rates are still rather low. I hardly see much of an improvement with the new video card.

These are the settings I am running:



The rest of my specs:
AMD 965
GTX 560ti 2B
8GB DDR2
WD Black HDD
Win 7 64bit

On the ground (SP quick mission, a few AI planes and AA) when taking off I get around 19-21 frame rates with the settings above. Engine smoke from planes can kill my frame rates by a large amount (5-10).

I am wondering what settings I should turn down? And are there any frame rate/performance tweaks I should try?

And is my GPU still limiting or is my CPU the big bottleneck in this title?

I think Super Sampling is the biggest frame rate killer. I'd try that first.

RedToo.

I would try:
- supersampling off
- multi-gpu on
- Set a FPS-limit, it normally helps getting rid of stutters

I think that should do it.

If its still struggling, AA from 8 to 4.
I don't see that much improvement but it takes alot of GPU-power.

On the other hand you can increase Gras, Anisotropic Filter to 8x and Reflections to high without much a loss.
Also think about increasing Objects distance to 80% or 100%.

Get rid of super sampling. That's going to kill your framerate. I don't know what high contrast does, I had it enabled once and then disabled it and didn't notice any difference - up to you but you could just axe that.

At that resolution you should try 4x AA.

Since you are using a single card solution, you shouldn't enable multi-gpu.

turn off super sampling and reduce shadows from special high to med. then increase AF to full or (x8)at least

Also try turning down 'landscape' to medium - it uses far more resources on high than it does on med. and the difference in view is slight

use your monitors native resolution

I would try to. It increases FPS even on non-multigpu. Some experience stutters though. So just test it.

I'd guess that if he turns off super sampling everything will be fine. SS is a major frame rate hog.

I'll turn off Super Sampling and see what my frame rates look like.

Though at first I had it disabled and the jaggies in the distance and on my plane were rather noticeable. Should I disable AA and try forcing it through the Nvidia control panel?

Jason already stated that you don't run supersampling along with AAX8, otherwise you'll get slide show!
Best to keep supersampling on, is to decrease AA to X2, and AF to bilinear.
Perso i much prefer staying with AAX8, AFX8, and no supersampling...but SSGSA X2 in inspector.

No CPU bottleneck, check you CPU usage during game play and you will see that it does not even come close to using its max potential. My 6core AMD is similar to yours in clock speed and it never goes above 40% usage in this game.

Check your GPU usage while playing this game and you will see even with everything pretty much maxed out it does not use even 50% of the GPU power. The highest I've seen it use on my system is 51% GPU with vram usage at 98% on a 1GB 560ti. Running the game with less % on the vram has almost no impact on how many FPS you get.

This game is poorly optimized and pretty much any settings you pick beside super sampling will have almost no effect on how the game runs. To me the game runs crappier with each release.

Your system should stomp a mudhole in this 3 year old game...