' Wrote:That isn't always the case. I have a decent graphics card that can handle everything I throw at it in all games I've tried, yet I still get massive framerate drops in certain systems. Omega 5 and 41 are the worst. Probably something to do with the ATI card I have. I had an older nvidia card and had no issues at all.
Regardless, I'll give this a try and see how it goes.
Yes, but then the issue probably isn't related to the processor anyhow. Telling that a program that can't utilize more than one core of your processor in Task Manager that it can use four won't change anything performance-wise. FL isn't multi-threaded, and can't take advantage of them.
Doing some tests right now anyways, but I can't seem to get the overlay to turn off vsync so I can do a comparison. If anyone has any suggestions, that'd help a lot. I presume running full-screen should fix it though.
EDIT: Fixed by pressing Alt + Enter twice. No problem.
Anyhow, I found that FL was already set to have the ability to run on any core under W7. I presume that's the default setting for any program under W7/Vista, might not be under XP. I also didn't see any frame rate drop when I set it to only run on Core 0, as expected.
EDIT2: Nor any major (reproducible) difference in minimum/average frame rate when I was firing a full volley of Heavy Mortars from a Battlestar II on the... Lost Battlestar in Delta in each ~20 second benchmark run with Fraps.