FAF game stuttering.

[VsUK]

I'm been playing Sup Com: FA for a while in skirmish mode. I enjoy it & I love the 7v1 battles, that can last hour hours on end. The drag is the slowdown of the game after about an hour. The unit movements are still silky smooth, just slow & a delay in their responses. However, I wanted to try & resolve this with a mod that removes automatically the wreckage, which is the main cause of the slowdown. As every wreckage is still an active process, as if it was alive, until reclaimed. So I found the mod that required FAF, so I set it up & I do like the FAF version. But I have a really big problem with stuttering units. After 20 minutes, they stutter as they move. It's really annoying & ruins the enjoyability of the game. I've played the game with 0 mods enabled & still the stuttering. I removed FAF & played with no mods & no stuttering, just the agonising slowdown. Fired it up again with all mods I like, no stuttering just the slowdown. Put FAF back on & there the stuttering appears.

I run GTX 1060 3GB, Ryzen 1600x with 16G DDR4 on Win 10. I've no issues with any gaming, even Rust, which is a very big resource hog. So I'm stumped to what to try or do to try & resolve this. I don't have the time to play with others. I like the ability to save & continue when I choose, so skirmish fits the bill.

Thanks in advance.

[PhilipJFry]

take a look at the loud project -> viewtopic.php?f=41&t=14136

[VsUK]

take a look at the loud project -> viewtopic.php?f=41&t=14136

Good stuff ty.

I have Sup Come FA in both DVD & Steam. So I think I will use this mod for the steam version & use FAF for the DVD version, just in case I fancy having a quick game with others online. Thanks again

[PhilipJFry]

you don't have to use different game installs

faf installs its patch files in C:\ProgramData\FAForever and those files are only used if you run the game with a command line switch to call the correct ini file (whenever you run the game via the client)
loud stores its files in a sub directory of the game install and those files are also only used if you run the game with their updater or exe so both projects will not cause any conflicts

[Uveso]

I wanted to try & resolve this with a mod that removes automatically the wreckage, which is the main cause of the slowdown.

Well, my AI mod has such a function.
A wreck will vanish after 20 minutes if you don't reclaim it.

But you will see, wrecks are not the main cause of sim slowdowns.
It's more the active unitcount.

Just try to use a low unitcap for all players.
Your PC can handle up to 1800 units without sim speed dropping under 0.

So, when you play against 7 AI's then use a unitcount of 225 for each player.
Or when you play against a single AI, use 875 as unitcap for every player (you and the AI)

If you want to try it: (works only with FAF game version)
viewtopic.php?f=88&t=16381