Slow downs

[Goomba]

Hey,

Something is bothering me, it's the slow down when there's a lot of smoke on your screen.

Like when you press W+S it makes your wheels smoke, and then the fps drops or something.

It's really anoying, and I hope there is something to fix this problem.

Here are my specs just in case, but I don't think it should slow down with my specs.

Q6600 @ 3ghz

4GB Ram

Ati Radeon HD4850 512mb

Please reply if you got a solution for this.

Greets.

[Mr.Hankey]

GTA simply isn't designed to have so many smoke particle effects rendered at the same time and thus does it very inefficient and causes such a heavy impact on your fps.

[robhol]

* stomps on Goomba *

(Couldn't resist.)

GTA:SA seems to handle smoke rather clumsily - it also slows down a lot with certain kinds of clouds/fog. You may want to check if there are any new drivers for your graphics card, apart from that, I'm not sure.

[Scarface]

This is very typical in almost all games. FPS is dropped tremendously when smoke must be rendered by the graphics card.

You don't seem to have a 'bad' system, what is your average FPS? (apart from while being in smoke)

[Goomba]

I'm not sure but I thought it's around 30-35 but I think that's because of a fps limiter.

[Scarface]

Disable the FPS limiter from the SA settings, that will help.