Game Performance/Low Framerate

[Spoon Cake]

Before I bought the game I made sure I met or exceeded all of the game requirements. When I play I have extremely low framerates (about 5 fps) when I am facing in the direction of the farm or turn the camera. If I make sure to keep the camera facing opposite the farm I can get maybe 25 fps. I have a Toshiba Satellite P750, NVIDIA Ge Force 540 M graphics card, 6 GB RAM. I set Farming Simulator to run as High Priority, removed any other non-essential processes while I'm playing, turned off anti-aliasing and turned off the spectropic feature. I changed Farming simulator.exe to run high performance on the NVIDIA graphics card and even set the game in windowed mode but nothing has even slightly improved the performance. What's going on here? My specs should run this game without a problem, especially since I have everything on the lowest settings.

As a side note, when I run the game in fullscreen and minimize the window to get to the desktop; when I go back to the game one half of the screen will be black and glitchy. Sometimes its the upper 1/2 but usually its the bottom half of the screen.

[Knottypine]

It sounds like a video card compatibility issue. By all rights you should be able to run it no problem, and you've tried and done what sounds like pretty well every possibly solution.

[Spoon Cake]

What can I do to fix this? I can't even begin to play the game with these problems.

[nicksil]

To begin, I suggest you do a "clean" install of the the latest drivers for your card.

Go to http://nvidia.com, select "Drivers" from the options at the top and do a search for your video card.

Or, go to this link[www.geforce.com] which will take you directly to the driver's download page.

Once downloaded, execute the .exe and pay attention to each screen as you're clicking the "next" or "continue" button before the installation process begins. There will be one window where it gives you an option to select "Advanced" install options. Click on that. There, you will be given the option to do a "clean" install of the driver. Make sure you select this option. Once that's selected, let it do its thing and install. Expect your display to flicker once or twice during the install process. If necessary, restart the machine after the install.

Once that is all done, try the game once again. If nothing has changed, let us know - perhaps we may be able to help you out further.

Best of luck

Cheers!

[Spoon Cake]

Thanks for posting those links! That really sped up the whole process. I did the clean install and the system restarted twice during the process. Nothing new popped up after the second restart so I took that as it finished the install. I didn't make any changes to NVIDIA and kept the game and normal priority, went back into the game and nothing new had changed. If I gained anything it wasn't noticeable. While trying to play some today I did realize if I take the camera to look directly down the game runs alot smoother. It gradually gets worse as I move the camera more towards a horizontal angle. If I want any smooth gameplay I pretty much have to keep the camera completely verticle, making doing anything productive ridiculously difficult. I don't know if that can gave anyone and indication of what's causing the problem.

Edit: came back a few minutes later and game runs great. Maybe computer wasn't running at peak performance after the restart. Game looks amazing seeing it run so well. I will try again tomorrow and hope things continue to work well. Thanks for the tip!

[RyanGA]

The more equipment you get and park at the farm the more your fps will drop when around the farm. My game runs fantastic until I reach 'end game' and own most of the needed products. I have to try my best at spreading out the equipment across the map instead of focusing on parking everything at the farm.

[r3b5]

I have the exact problem....
i have a i7, GeForce GT 540M (2GB) and 6GB ram.
when i look only the gound its fine but if i lock in front i have a huge drop of fps

[clif9710]

Originally posted by Spoon Cake:

I have a Toshiba Satellite P750, NVIDIA Ge Force 540 M graphics card, 6 GB RAM.

The "god's - eye" view looking down from straight overhead is the least demanding view because the density of objects (a field of mature canola is the biggest challenge) is lowest. That was the view I would use with my laptop when I needed to see what was going on in the field for more than a minute or two. If I left the laptop on scenes looking out over a mature field of wheat - a crash would occur within a few minutes as the GPU overheated.

You can monitor your GPU temperature with a freeware program called GPU-Z.

Make sure you don't have any programs running in the background that are running checks on files, etc. (Avast, ZoneAlarm, Norton, etc.)

I went to Game-Debate and looked up your GPU - it gets a 5 rating on a scale of 10. My laptop GPU has a rating of 3 and it could pull 25-30 FPS without trouble at the low quality FS2013 setting, so you should at least be able to do that rate.

[r3b5]

i am playing at low quality disable everything. i only get low fps on farming simulator, i play call of duty, CS GO, DOTA2 high quality and still runing 60fps...

[WiN_WiN]

дибилоиды

[r3b5]

good for you ;)