Fleet Command Framerate

Bureaucromancer · 01-03-2011, 04:02 PM

My Fleet Command is entirely playable, but at a very low frame rate. Is there anything to be done about this, or is there something inherent in the software that makes it run slowly on modern systems?

Sigma 7 · 03-27-2011, 02:35 PM

Wow... I never noticed that until I used Fraps to check. Of course, the flickering is more of an issue, even when I've minimized Steam to tray.

Penthouse32 · 06-23-2011, 01:25 PM

Can't play it at all, flickers wildly.

Dr.Jones · 07-01-2011, 06:49 AM

Which OS do you use, I can't run it on Windows 7 64bit.

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Dr.Jones

Penthouse32 · 07-08-2011, 06:46 AM

Runs on Win7 x64, but flickers like hell. Unplayable and have tried different glide wrappers, but no luck.

mbar · 11-30-2011, 11:35 AM

Frame rate is related to the video driver. I've run Fleet Command on 2 different Windows 7 64 bit systems. The one with on board Intel graphics drivers works best with a smooth frame rate. Nvidia 330 is choppy. I haven't played around with Nvidia setting to see if it will render better. F3 and that 3D window runs very smooth so the frame rate problems are with the 2D overlay.

~~I need to launch Steam as administrator~~ to run FC otherwise it "can't locate Steam" closes the game and opens a browser window to the Steam web page.

EDIT: The "can't locate Steam" problem only happens after hibernating my laptop. If I restart Steam after hibernating FC will run. However, I don't have that problem with any other Steam game.

bassgojoe · 06-01-2012, 07:13 PM

I had the same problem. The trick is to turn off the radar ranges with CTRL+V. For whatever reason, those make the map screen framerate tank (for me, it went from ~2 FPS to solid 60+).

mbar · 12-02-2012, 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bassgojoe

I had the same problem. The trick is to turn off the radar ranges with CTRL+V. For whatever reason, those make the map screen framerate tank (for me, it went from ~2 FPS to solid 60+).

THANK YOU! I'd given up on this game until I found this trick. Works perfect!

01-03-2011, 04:02 PM	#1
Bureaucromancer Join Date: Feb 2009 Reputation: 0 Posts: 9	Fleet Command Framerate My Fleet Command is entirely playable, but at a very low frame rate. Is there anything to be done about this, or is there something inherent in the software that makes it run slowly on modern systems?

11-30-2011, 11:35 AM	#6
mbar Join Date: May 2011 Reputation: 6 Posts: 93	Frame rate is related to the video driver. I've run Fleet Command on 2 different Windows 7 64 bit systems. The one with on board Intel graphics drivers works best with a smooth frame rate. Nvidia 330 is choppy. I haven't played around with Nvidia setting to see if it will render better. F3 and that 3D window runs very smooth so the frame rate problems are with the 2D overlay. ~~I need to launch Steam as administrator~~ to run FC otherwise it "can't locate Steam" closes the game and opens a browser window to the Steam web page. EDIT: The "can't locate Steam" problem only happens after hibernating my laptop. If I restart Steam after hibernating FC will run. However, I don't have that problem with any other Steam game. Last edited by mbar: 12-06-2011 at 06:45 AM.

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03-27-2011, 02:35 PM	#2
Sigma 7 Join Date: Mar 2004 Reputation: 0 Posts: 60	Wow... I never noticed that until I used Fraps to check. Of course, the flickering is more of an issue, even when I've minimized Steam to tray.

06-23-2011, 01:25 PM	#3
Penthouse32 Join Date: Jan 2010 Reputation: 5 Posts: 189	Can't play it at all, flickers wildly.

07-01-2011, 06:49 AM	#4
Dr.Jones Join Date: Oct 2008 Reputation: 70 Posts: 501	Which OS do you use, I can't run it on Windows 7 64bit. br. Dr.Jones

07-08-2011, 06:46 AM	#5
Penthouse32 Join Date: Jan 2010 Reputation: 5 Posts: 189	Runs on Win7 x64, but flickers like hell. Unplayable and have tried different glide wrappers, but no luck.

06-01-2012, 07:13 PM	#7
bassgojoe Join Date: May 2012 Reputation: 0 Posts: 1	I had the same problem. The trick is to turn off the radar ranges with CTRL+V. For whatever reason, those make the map screen framerate tank (for me, it went from ~2 FPS to solid 60+).