SureAI

Hey everyone loving the mod except for one for annoying aspect, the performance seems to be all over the place with 200 fps in some rooms than 20 fps in other areas.

Comp
Core i7 960 3.2 @ 3.8 Oc'ed
Zotac GTX 580
G.Skill DDR3 12 gigs 1600
Corsair 850 Watt PSU

In regular oblivion with graphic mods and texture packs I never see below 100 fps, anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? I play at 1920x1200 resolution with everything maxed out it doesn't matter if I have everything on the lowest or highest the fps drops still occur.

Edit: The game is only using like 20% of my gpu with everything maced and 25% of my cpu, so my computer is not being stressed it just for some reason has very low fps in certain areas no matter my settings.

That's normal... especially in Erothin and Ostian the performance is really bad. E.g. I get around 10 fps in Erothin and maybe 15-20 in Ostian.
But in the wilderness and in dungeons/interiors the performance should be fine.
The reason is the engine, wich isn't optimized to run with such a high number of objects. Just look at the citys. In Oblivion they are seperate cells, so they are not loaded with the landscape around.
But in Nehrim almost everything is done within a single exterior. Also, the engine only uses a single cpu-thread/core, so multicore-cpu's won't better the performance (the gpu isn't the problem).
You can tweak Nehrim a little bit by activating the dual-cpu usage and by giving it more ram. The settings can be found in the Nehrim-launcher-->settings--->performance.

Ya I've enabled all the optimization and allocated more ram, thanks for the reply though. I do think it has to do with how many objects are on screen even though it isn't stressing my computer the engine is choking on so many draw calls.

I always thought it was my pc's fault but yeah the engine is pretty old. Can't wait to see what they're going to pull off with the Creation Engine.

I'm running 2.6gig I-7 Dual Core, 4gigs of DDR3 RAM and I too have to turn off the distant landscape setting when I hit the Black Forest and Erothin (Ostian also). It helps tremendously, still a little laggy in the cities, but much much better. Then I just turn on the distant landscape setting once I'm back on the road.

Unfortunately it's the only way.

Good day,

Galt