Volador wrote in Sat May 29, 2021 4:09 pm:I'm not certain but without WS3 disabled (ie WS2) I seemed to be getting quite a respectable 30-40 fps on my 10 y/o system, (EDDH everything on max), so I wonder if there has been some optimisation going on under the hood too? - granted, I did get a fairly decent 1070 8bg GPU about 2 years ago (before the gpu crisis!)
Your nightly branch settings might be different from the LTS branch ones. There was a settings rearrangement in the nightly as well. Are you getting better FPS with the exact same settings, in the same conditions and LoD ranges - e.g. one way to reproducibility check is starting at runway with ufo or another craft and not changing view? Try custom settings in the nightly, and check if the settings haven't changed a bit.
I think there was some optimisation/fixes just recently reducing VRAM usage with some craft, but not sure if they were compositor specific or apply without compositor.
As you're CPU bound with a 1070, may as well give the GPU something to do: you should be able to really turn up GPU heavy settings like AA/transparency AA, overlays, tree density etc.
If you have a 10-year old i5 (ivy bridge?) those should still work pretty well. LoD: rough helps with being CPU bound
Kind regards