DiRT frame rate problems with good system?

BlueMak · Oct 26, 2007, 03:21 PM

I tried the demo and once it was running good and once very bad with races with other cars on the road.
Even reaching single digit frame rate.

A friend gave me his full game for a while and I couldn't make it not run like crap with any race that had other cars in.

I read something about the game having problem with requiring internet connection active and that when you let it you get higher frame rate. Don't know if it is true or not but it might help some.
What I did to fix the problems I was having was to change the sound options from Hardware (or Openal) to SOFTWARE mode and disable the DSP and put sound quality at medium. Restart the game and the game has no noticable frame drops between races. Good frame rate and better driving.

(the game still isn't as good as Toca Race Driver 3 though).

I hope this help some of you that have good powerful systems and can't figure out the drop in frames.

OmegaRED · Oct 26, 2007, 10:16 PM

I had heard it was the sound issues that lowered the framerate. Someone tweaked the files and I found it did increase the framerate at a cost of slightly buggy sound if you tried anything other than a 2 speaker configuration.

Codemasters forum - FPS and Sound tweaks

Rename the .txt file to .rar

Tril · Oct 26, 2007, 11:05 PM

Is the DiRT demo supposed to run with high FPS with a video card such as the 7900GT? That's still a good card but when I tried the demo, I got very low framerates (below 1 fps) with high settings.

After I set every video settings to their lowest and modified a config file to disable post-processing, I was still getting low fps (worse with other cars).

OmegaRED, does this fix work on the demo?

OmegaRED · Oct 26, 2007, 11:52 PM

Yes it works with the demo and no it won't run well on a 7900GT, or rather it might be fine but only if you're racing by yourself because it's other cars cause the framerate drops.

Oct 26, 2007, 03:21 PM	#1
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	DiRT frame rate problems with good system? I tried the demo and once it was running good and once very bad with races with other cars on the road. Even reaching single digit frame rate. A friend gave me his full game for a while and I couldn't make it not run like crap with any race that had other cars in. I read something about the game having problem with requiring internet connection active and that when you let it you get higher frame rate. Don't know if it is true or not but it might help some. What I did to fix the problems I was having was to change the sound options from Hardware (or Openal) to SOFTWARE mode and disable the DSP and put sound quality at medium. Restart the game and the game has no noticable frame drops between races. Good frame rate and better driving. (the game still isn't as good as Toca Race Driver 3 though). I hope this help some of you that have good powerful systems and can't figure out the drop in frames. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Oct 26, 2007, 11:52 PM	#4
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,688 Rep Power: 173 System Specs	Yes it works with the demo and no it won't run well on a 7900GT, or rather it might be fine but only if you're racing by yourself because it's other cars cause the framerate drops. __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

Oct 26, 2007, 11:05 PM	#3
Tril S-3D enthusiast Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 1,676 Rep Power: 64 System Specs	Is the DiRT demo supposed to run with high FPS with a video card such as the 7900GT? That's still a good card but when I tried the demo, I got very low framerates (below 1 fps) with high settings. After I set every video settings to their lowest and modified a config file to disable post-processing, I was still getting low fps (worse with other cars). OmegaRED, does this fix work on the demo?