6000 visibile distance playable with GameBooster

[doveman]

I'd finely tuned OA/CO and had it working nicely at around 2000-3000 Visibile distance but I recently was playing a chopper mission so upped it to around 6000 for that.

Then I forgot to reduce it and started a Battlefield LAN game and it was unplayably jerky right at the start inside the compund. I'd recently installed GameBooster so Alt-tabbed out and put it into Boost mode and was delighted that it got rid of all the jerkiness, so now I can play ground missions with 6000 visible distance as well. I haven't got round to measuring the FPS yet, but it seems fine to me, so I just wanted to share this tip in case it helps others.

All Gamebooster does is stop some services and clean the RAM, so I'm not sure which services being stopped gives the boost but I don't really care. I like that it lets me restart all the services with one click as well, rather than having to mess around in Services turning them off/on manually.

[MavericK96]

What's your system spec?

[doveman]

Phenom II X4 955, 8GB, 6950 2GB, Samsung 2TB HDD

[stk2008]

Really does it work can some one else confirm this?

[doveman]

I really should do some fps tests as I've got plenty of results from before when I was tweaking it. Anyway, I'll post my graphics settings so you can see what I'm using:

Visibility: 6175
Quality Preference: Very High
3D and Interface Resolution: 1920x1080
Texture Detail: Very High
Video Memory: Default
Anisotropic Filtering: Very High
Antialiasing: Disabled
Terrain Detail: Very Low
Object Detail: Normal
Shadow Detail: High
HDR Quality: Normal
Post Process Effects: Very Low
Interface Size: Normal
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Vsync: Enabled

and from the cfg:

AToC=7;
PPAA=3;
PPAA_Level=2;
Windowed=0;
FXAA=0;

[NeuroFunker]

I really should do some fps tests as I've got plenty of results from before when I was tweaking it. Anyway, I'll post my graphics settings so you can see what I'm using:

Visibility: 6175
Quality Preference: Very High
3D and Interface Resolution: 1920x1080
Texture Detail: Very High
Video Memory: Default
Anisotropic Filtering: Very High
Antialiasing: Disabled
Terrain Detail: Very Low
Object Detail: Normal
Shadow Detail: High
HDR Quality: Normal
Post Process Effects: Very Low
Interface Size: Normal
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Vsync: Enabled

and from the cfg:

AToC=7;
PPAA=3;
PPAA_Level=2;
Windowed=0;
FXAA=0;

woot, it works with DEFAULT vram by urs? My ATI 6970, worked incredibly bad with default vram, with very high it was fine.

[doveman]

Apparently setting Video Memory to Default lets it use as much VRAM as the card has, whilst the other settings restrict it (I don't recall the numbers but Very High might be 1GB, whereas I have a 2GB card).

[NeuroFunker]

Apparently setting Video Memory to Default lets it use as much VRAM as the card has, whilst the other settings restrict it (I don't recall the numbers but Very High might be 1GB, whereas I have a 2GB card).

i know, but im getting about 10fps lag and stutter everywhere with default. Damn ati cards, 1 works properly another dont.

[rob151515]

i know, but im getting about 10fps lag and stutter everywhere with default. Damn ati cards, 1 works properly another dont.

I have 2x6970 and have the exact same behaviour using the "Default" memory setting so you are not alone.

[MavericK96]

What would be good is some actual benchmarks with GameBooster on vs. off.