poor pes5 performance

[robmcm]

This has probably been covered a thousand times before, but I'm getting really wound up by it.

I just got a new pc - Athlon64 3200, 1GBRAM, GeForce6600, and PES5 plays like a DOG on it! I'm getting 20fps in high detail, but if I drop it down to medium then the game is smooth at 60fps. Strangely, this is true regardless of the resolution - it's still jerky and ~20fps even at 640x480! I've tried locking frame rates, turning vsync on and off and everything else, but no luck - only dropping to medium detail has any effect at all!

I probably wouldn't mind this and would be happy with medium detail except on my old machine (P4 1.7, 256MBRAM, GeForce4Ti4600) the demo of PES5 played like silk - absolutely smooth at 1280x1024 at high detail. The demo shows the same weird problem as the full game on the new pc, by the way.

What's happened? Have konami just not bothered to optimise their game for high(er) end machines? Am I just unlucky? It's really bugging me - more than it probably should, actually, but I just want it to look it's best! Any ideas??

 

[Pinho]

What's your monitors refresh rate on?

 

[robmcm]

I've tried it locked at 60hz, multiples of 60hz, everything else, and it still is the same - lovely at medium detail, terrible on high.

I have heard about the lock at 60fps / 60hz that Konami have built in. Any reason why? Any way around it?

 

[robmcm]

FIXED!!!

After spending most of the afternoon playing around with driver settings, I've managed to fix the problem!!




For some reason, if I force the nVidia driver settings to turn anisotropic filtering ON, pes5 runs silky smooth at high detail in 1280x1024! Hooray!! Set up an app profile to force af on for pes5, and it's off to super-sharp silky smooth graphics heaven for me!

Phew!!