[OFFICIAL] Planetside 2 Thread - Page 164

Originally Posted by Kazumi 

The reason why NC and TR lose against the VS is because the NC/TR fight to our strenghs. We excell at mid/long range battles. We can dance side to side all day long and bob shots with ease. The TR/NC cannot do that without giving up their sides which to a decent tanker will exploit this and deal huge damage. What the TR/NC need to do is negate our strafe ability..How? Close the gap. If you try and fight the VS at mid range you will lose 7/10. But if you close the gap you can come out on top. More so if your NC with the shield.

Originally Posted by Aparition 

So I did the Ultra config setup and enabled PhysX.
I put the FPS Cap to 60 (60hz monitor) and disabled V-sync.
Ieft view distance at the 999999.999 that it was set at. 6k in the game settings.

Heavy fights with lots of particles bogged down to about 40fps area, still playable, and consistently 50-64 fps all other cases.
Fps seems to fluctuate randomly with PS2 so I think those rates are good.

Game crashed 15 minutes into the first login. I don't think physx is stable yet. No crashes for a 2 hour game session with PhysX disabled.
I just installed the newest drivers and PhysX drivers this morning. 314.07.

Originally Posted by samoth777 

Does hyper threading help with frames?

Originally Posted by mott555 

It may hurt fps actually, PS2 doesn't seem to make heavy use of threading. I wanted to experiment on my m11x but options were limited, was hoping to disable HyperThreading and reduce thermals so my Turbo Boost could run higher, but m11x BIOS is near worthless.

Try disabling HT sometime and see what happens. I bet your FPS goes up if that lets Turbo run more.

Originally Posted by mott555 

I couldn't disable HT, there's no option in my BIOS. At this point I'm only assuming it would help.

This is on my m11x. I haven't tried disabling HT on my desktop because it's GPU-limited anyway, a faster CPU wouldn't give me more FPS.

Originally Posted by mavisky 

I had the same issue and posted about it above. I dropped the view distance to 6000 and set all the "5's" to "4's" in the ini file and gained all my stability back along with switching out of aero mode for my desktop. Were you also getting hte WDM.exe failure along with the crash?

Originally Posted by Aparition 

Didn't get the WDM.exe failure. Actually what happened is I got 3 freezes, on the 3rd freeze the PS2.exe app crash notification came up. I did not receive any Aero notices either.

It is possible it was just a fluke as PS2 has done the crash on exit thing multiple times. Although with no further in game crashes I'm still pointing at PhysX.

I'll try setting the values to 4 and see what happens later.
Is there any difference between 4 / 5 with textures? I wish I knew what each value actually affected.

Originally Posted by Ganf 

Actually yeah, I couldn't notice a difference between high settings and 4 in the textures, but the difference between high and 5 is night and day.