'622' 762mm causes serious slowdown

it's like when you fire every rocket you have on the A10 C and emptying the gun at the same point x2.

Even standing parked and emptying the ammo into nothing, it almost freezes the sim. The Huey don't really lag it down a lot when going berserk on the gatlings. It seems there are more tracers on the Mi-8? And/or they act differently when fired (I know it's an early beta) Just wanted to report it, and see if others have the same problem on their decent rigs?

Specs:

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor 3.4GHz

GeForce GTX 460 1 gig mem

8 gig ram

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

1680 x 1050 res

Yep, have the same issue here. Tried this recently. Just flying about, I was getting a solid 60 fps. Then, while continuously firing 12.7mm mini-guns, frame-rates slowed steadily down to 10! Now call me Mr Picky but that's just not right.

The 7.62 mm are 10 times worse then the 12.7 mm on my computer. Try to fire all the shots in one go when parked!

The 7.62 mm are 10 times worse then the 12.7 mm on my computer. Try to fire all the shots in one go when parked!

Will do.

Confirmed. Mi-8 on the ground, continuous firing of both 7.62mm and then 12.7mm mini-guns, frame-rates drop drastically. The reason why the 7.62 mm rates drop more is because the magazines hold more rounds, hence longer firing time of the weapon.

possibly also Higher rate of fire on the 7.62mm?

Anyway, also getting this slow down.

Then again, you would normally not fire the pods for such long times.

Still, even when firing bursts, there is a very noticeable impact on frame rates.

Hoping that Belsimtek will try and improve on this.

(or ED, as long as its improved)

The combined rate of fire of the two gunpods is 24000 rounds per minute...

You realise that a three second burst has introduced 1200 new bullets into the ballistics calculation? So, I'd recommend keeping the bursts short - each second on the trigger unleashes another 400 rounds to assault your CPU/GPU

That said - any optimisation (e.g. only assigning SFX to a fraction of the bullets in the belt) would be useful for those with lower end rigs.

The continuous fire affect on frame rate is interesting sort of but when would you want to do that in the context of a regular mission. Mostly you would want to be employing short controlled burst wouldn't you ?

It could be an awesome online weapon, to freeze opponents with sub-par computers. 3 MI-8's all firing at once.. and the enemy dives into the ground from lag :smilewink:

It could be an awesome online weapon, to freeze opponents with sub-par computers. 3 MI-8's all firing at once.. and the enemy dives into the ground from lag :smilewink:

Yeah I think this is exactly what the devs had in mind :thumbup:

Be interesting to revisit this problem after next ed patch and the latest optomisation:music_whistling:

It could be an awesome online weapon, to freeze opponents with sub-par computers. 3 MI-8's all firing at once.. and the enemy dives into the ground from lag :smilewink:

I hadn't thought of that.... All I knew was that a wicked short burst from ether caliber will easily take out a Humvee or fuel truck or similar :megalol:

I hadn't thought of that.... All I knew was that a wicked short burst from ether caliber will easily take out a Humvee or fuel truck or similar :megalol:

Actually the Su-25T's gunpods were bugged a number of versions ago so that they appeared to be continuously firing to all other clients, and people did load up the pods as a defensive technique. Hard to engage a Toad WVR when they crash your game.