#4260203 - 05/14/16 07:04 PM
Finally, I got it!
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Hey Community, A small Wonder has happened... I am running WOFF finally nearly smooth and liquid, as it should be from the beginning... So what happened? I've bought a Program called "Driver Easy" (which was as a Freeware-Program in a very popular German Computer-Magazine with a 1-Year Free-License) and installed it. After running this Program, I was shocked: My System needs 22 new Drivers, even though i've installed Windows 10 only 2 Months ago! Said and done, everything installed (which was done in less than 10 Minutes), restarted my System, and then I started WOFF. And... A very big Step Forward! The Game now runs smooth and liquid, well, to be honest at 98%. Surely it needs some more small Tweaks to get it at 100%. I am very surprised! What was also a BIG help was to set down the Refreshrate for my Monitor from 60 HZ to 50 HZ. That means, my FPS are now automatically locked at 50 with V-Sync ON. I don't know why, but this helped a lot! I also set the Pre-rendered Frames to "Application-Controlled" and AA to "Super-Sampling". As I said, a very big Step forward in my Case. It is the first time ever, I can say to myself: Welcome to the Woff-World! I am enjoying the Game very much. I can even Play a Campaign with Jasta 1 in August 1918, with Medium Air-Activity without Stutters... What a big fun this Game is now for me!!! And I just wanted to apologize to anyone who felt personally attacked from my (not so nicely) Postings in the Past. Now I hope to enjoy the Game and the Immersion as much as you Guys do! Let's spend together a good time in our virtual WW1-World Andy
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#4260206 - 05/14/16 07:12 PM
Re: Finally, I got it!
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That's great news, Andy! Thanks for sharing your information
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#4260218 - 05/14/16 08:08 PM
Re: Finally, I got it!
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Yes, no need to apologize, glad you stuck with it and found something that helps.
Now you can enjoy your just rewards.
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#4260221 - 05/14/16 08:24 PM
Re: Finally, I got it!
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Andy
So good to hear from you again! I thought your virtual name had gone west!
Welcome back!
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#4260651 - 05/16/16 09:52 AM
Re: Finally, I got it!
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I hope Bronnx won't mind me adding his quote to this thread also: Yes, i did now. I tested for about an hour, a wonder happened. I got rid of the stutterings, for about 90-95 %, and now i can use even everything ( almost ) at highest settings, AA x 8, SweetFX, mods, etc. Now it's a lot of fun to play it Sorry, DukeIronHand, i didnt mean that bad, i was just angry. guns sound mod?I've got an i7-4790k/GTX 970 based system. And like everyone else I'm looking to get back some FPS with WOFF 3. I built my rig about 15 months ago, and I used all the right drivers at the time. But I don't know every little thing about drivers and how to make sure they are all up to date (I was mostly using the installation disks that came with the components). So I also bought Driver Easy after reading Andy's OP and used it. It found 22 drivers to update. Some I recognized and were obvious. But most were obscure and I would have been clueless to explain them. After using Driver Easy and installing 20 of the 22 drivers it recommended the end result for me is an overall gain of somewhere in the 5 to 10 fps range depending on what is happening in game. I have not done any methodical testing. This is just my perception from flying around for the past 2 days (6 or 8 sorties). My FPS has obviously improved with all other things left unchanged. Just thought I'd share... I always knew drivers mattered, but I had no idea mine could get so out of whack in just 15 months, with me updating the drivers I knew to update, but not updating obscure drivers long forgotten after I built my machine. Driver Easy is the best $30 I've ever spent. But a performance increase would be entirely machine dependent. If you already know for sure every driver in your system is current/compatible with everything else, then you'd be wasting $30. I couldn't honestly say that, and it paid off for me. Thank you, Andy73 for sharing this information. Your persistence paid off for not just you, but others as well P.S. Interestingly, one of the two drivers I did not accept was the latest nVidia driver (I am running on one dated a month earlier). So my fps gain did not include an nVidia driver update. And I just upgraded to a G-SYNC monitor last week and its driver is current. So this driver update did not include the two drivers I would have thought would most help in an fps gain. This might be a reach, but I now realize if you are not an expert in understanding how to maintain all of your system's drivers in the "holistic" sense, then you probably need a freeware or payware program to help. It might not be that you need a new driver, it might be that you need a whole bunch of new drivers that are all current and can talk to each other with the latest lingo and fixes.
Dogfighting is what you do "after" you drop your bombs and blow something up! Can you say "JABO!"
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#4260668 - 05/16/16 11:15 AM
Re: Finally, I got it!
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This "Driver Easy" sounds like it might be worth checking out. Thought I kind of kept up on my driver/bios stuff but you guys are not computer neophytes. Sounds like I may be in for a surprise.
EDIT: $29.95 for one year.
Last edited by DukeIronHand; 05/16/16 01:23 PM.
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#4260719 - 05/16/16 02:28 PM
Re: Finally, I got it!
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I could not get to the free version really - so I downloaded another program, called "All In One Runtimes". It found some (12 I think) things to update.
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#4260915 - 05/16/16 11:57 PM
Re: Finally, I got it!
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I really love to hear that some more Players can use my solution also for themselves! And I really like to repeat that, because it helped a lot in my Case: Try to reduce the Refreshrate for your Monitor. You can do this in your NVIDIA-Control Panel under the Tab "Change Resolution". I put it down from 60 HZ to 50 HZ. My FPS are now automatically locked at 50 with V-sync ON in NVIDIA-Control Panel. I don't know what this Effect exactly does, but it really helped for smooth Gameplay! Of course this might be only helpful for Guys without an G-Sync Monitor! What might be also important, is to set AA to "Application-Controlled" and AA-Transparency to OFF. So try to use the Ingame-AA-Settings! I am also using PROCESS-LASSO for my Games, this Program will also help you. With this Program (Freeware) you can assign your Games to different Cores. In my Case I placed the CFS3.exe on Core 2 to 7, and Windows and my other Background-Programs are running on Core 0 and 1. Will be back here next Weekend...
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