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[MasterGlink]

Hello,

I just updated the game and was about to start a new campaign, but I notice that I'm having and extreme framerate loss, even on the menu screens. Really averaging around 9 FPS in the main menu, and maybe 15 FPS while traveling. I haven't even tried combat. I had the previous version of SF, and that ran fine even on 1080p native resolution. Here is my system configuration for reference:

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/LHuGAjY3UOn4YyE2lBMKusA

[Alex]

Hi - can you make sure you're running Starfarer on your good graphics card, not the "Windows Live Display Driver" one? That might account for what's going on.

Performance-wise, it should really be a bit faster than it was, if anything.

[MasterGlink]

Hmm, as far as I can tell it is running on my dedicated card and not on the Windows one. I tried running the game windowed at 1024x768 resolution and it still barely manages 15FPS on the Main menu. Slightly topping that in gameplay (travel not combat).

I don't know if there is another way to run the game on a specific card though. I'm going to try running it on another PC I have, that lower spec and see how it goes.

[Alex]

Rebooting might be worth a shot, too.

There's just nothing that this version is doing that should cause this kind of thing. Not to say that that's impossible, but just seems extremely unlikely. Hmm.

A couple of potentially useful links:
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=1383.msg14797#msg14797
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=2340.0
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=2923.msg40163#msg40163

There was a much more detailed explanation of how to make sure you run with the NVIDIA card, but I can't seem to find it now.

[MasterGlink]

Yeah, rebooting fixed it. I've been having some issues with the driver I think. Usually I can spot slowdown before I even start a game, but the PC was running smoothly at the moment.

Thanks for your time, though. I'm really enjoying the new update, great job.

[Alex]

Thank you!

Glad you got it sorted out