69782 performance and stability feedback

[MrN]

After I confidently stated that

Installed 10.4 and slowdowns have been eliminated. Average is back to 25-30 with beta.

I've played some more and it's not the case.

I haven't been playing much recently so I've just spent the last few hours trying the last few betas with a simple test mission on Utes using a few squads of infantry.
Hardly a scientific test but here's my quick impressions, all FPS measured with Fraps with Task Manager open, no discernible difference between versions on CPU usage and tried a few runs just to make sure the textures were loaded.

63826: The best performing, aiming "feels" snappy and consistent FPS
69645: Looks nicer for some reason, aiming "feels" a bit heavy and intermittantly get a FPS bog-down where it slows to around 3FPS
69782: Again, looks better than 63826 but aiming "feels" heavy again even though the FPS is the same. The major problem is the bog-down is even more severe, dropping to 0/1FPS for a few seconds then continuing. Tried to find a pattern but it's too random for me to tell. Unplayable and infuriating.

And I was going to post all that ^^ then remembered I wasn't actually running a vanilla game...

So, tried again.
63826: The best performing, aiming "feels" snappy and consistent FPS
69645: Looks nicer for some reason, aiming "feels" a bit heavy but NO major FPS bog-down
69782: Again, looks better than 63826 but aiming "feels" heavy again even though the FPS is the same. No major slow-down

I've been at this for 2 1/2 hours now so it could be purely my imagination and frankly there's got to be better things to be doing with my time but I have a hunch that when I was running a sound mod (CSM to be precise, although not blaming that one I don't have another installed to try) I got the major slowdowns, no sound mod = no major slow downs on the last two beta's although it feels heavier to play.

Can anyone else verify this or am I just talking crap as usual?

[seragavlg]

Dedicated server 69782. Server start freez on reading mission

[Nerdwing]

Hello

Really low spec computer here :P

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor 3800
Geforce 7950, latest drivers
2 Gigs ram
Windows XP Media Center Edition

Latest series of beta's yield a frame rate in Benchmark 1 and 2 of 23/8 respectively. Previously was getting 29/16 roughly.

Will continue tweaking settings, as this enormous a drop sounds like it may be something with my install settings.

[wchafe]

Did you try the startup command -cpucount=4 ?

Works for me. Didnt touch HT in BIOS yet.

Works for me too, thanks for the tip!

[MrN]

Can anyone else verify this or am I just talking crap as usual?

Just to confirm...I was talking crap!

Still have horrific slowdowns in vanilla game too.