frame rates

[Legion-Bazzacop]

hello again people
rite im fairly new to computers,and dont no how to change things but i am learning.i have had a few probs with this game and have sorted them out thanks to all you guys who answer my posts. i notice on reading the forum that alot of tweaking goes on.aspecially with frame rates etc. not sure what you lot are talking about i think its how fast the picture is?
i was wondering how you alta the frame rates not that i think mind needs altaing unless the reason for my picture freezes now and then is something to do with frame rates.
my question again is how do you alta the frame rates
thank you

[Legion-Bazzacop]

hello again people
rite im fairly new to computers,and dont no how to change things but i am learning.i have had a few probs with this game and have sorted them out thanks to all you guys who answer my posts. i notice on reading the forum that alot of tweaking goes on.aspecially with frame rates etc. not sure what you lot are talking about i think its how fast the picture is?
i was wondering how you alta the frame rates not that i think mind needs altaing unless the reason for my picture freezes now and then is something to do with frame rates.
my question again is how do you alta the frame rates
thank you

[Legion-Bazzacop]

also how do you no how many frame rates your machine is showing

[WhiskeyRomeo]

Cntl+Backspace will turn on your frame rate display. Cntl+Backspace again and it will show more detail. Cntl+Backspace a 3rd time and it will shut off the frame rate display.

About the only way to alter the frame rates is to change the graphics settings. For example, you should see higher frame rates with graphics set to LOW instead of MEDIUM.
Another example - With MEDIUM graphics settings, try setting Water Quality to LOW. You should see some improvement in FPS doing that.

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[Legion-Bazzacop]

thanks very much whiskeyRomeo

[Jedddddd]

and to elaborate on what is FPS ... it is short for frames per second (a frame being an individual picture of what is going on in the game) a descent FPS is around 20 and up but you will notice in Lock On that when the action heats up (a lot of fires, smoke, flares etc) frames can drop to a meagre 5 or so which makes the game like a slide show and impossible to play ... lower settings on your video card (found in display properties) can also improve frame rates along with Whiskey's example above.

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