So, I purchased a new PC recently, installed Disco on it. It all worked fine until I undocked and noticed the FPS is lower than it should be. The game looks slightly different from what I'm used to (brighter, blurrier) and my FPS is stuck around 100 regardless of what's going on around me, my settings or whether I have bloom effect turned on or off. I have Dxtory set to limit the FPS to 155 but it never reaches that value. I use the same installation, same screen and same settings as I had on my laptop and neither of those ever had any issues, so I assume it's something wrong with the PC.
As I never had any issues with Freelancer and I'm not quite knowledgeable on newest tech, I have no idea what could cause it. I have a pmuch average setup; Nvidia graphics card, Intel processor, Windows 10, everything freshly installed and updated a few days ago. So, any ideas on how to fix it?
(02-08-2019, 02:40 PM)Laz Wrote: Do you have the Nvidia 3D Vision stuff you get when you install your drivers? FL sometimes hates that. Uninstalling those be my go-to for trying to fix it
There was an option when installing Discovery asking you if you want bloom or not. Maybe you have it different from the previous install
it might also be related to the settings you have on your video card driver regarding contrast gamma etc
edit: im saying this because theres no option ingame regarding bloom and the option you selected during the install might make a difference
I Had a similar problem few years ago with the blurried screen,i got a new Monitor, i just had to click Some Auto-adjust and " move " the image to the center to fix it.
Bloom is not the problem because I tried to manually disable it. It did help with the blur and brightness, but the FPS remained the same.
Monitor isn't the problem either because I use the same for my laptop (disable laptop screen, use only desk one) and it works just fine. Not to mention that I play many other games that are countless times more demanding than Freelancer and they work perfectly.
Laz, I'll try with your suggestion once I get home.
I have had this in other games as well. As far as i could backtrack it is related to the color white mostly. The more white it has to produce the less frames you will get, add bloom onto that and your'e fps will drop to an unplayable point. Hope you will manage to find a fix tho, i was never really able too sadly enough, just small improvements but nothing that truly showed me it got fixed forcing me to stop playing that game all together.
I tried all the suggestions I have received, but it got only slightly better. Weird bloom effect seems to be gone, I believe removing 3D Vision solved it, but low FPS is still there. It fluctuates between 120 and 140, but never hits 155. As much as it doesn't sound that bad, I still can't believe that my 8 year old laptop can run Disco better than a brand new expensive PC.
Got a dozen suggestions on Discord, but I'm afraid neither worked. I was able to run it smoothly on my laptop using the same screen, so a new PC shouldn't have any issues.
PC = i5 9600k, GTX 1060 6GB, 8GB DDR4, SSD, Windows 10, 1920x1080 (75Hz, Vsync off), results in ~130 FPS.
Laptop = i7 4th gen, Intel Quadro 2GB, 20GB DDR3, SSD, Windows 7, 1920x1080(75Hz, Vsync off), results in ~155 FPS (bit lower outside of Conn)
My laptop is more than 6 years old, and PC is brand new. Kinda weird to have Disco running better on old one than on new one.