Red Faction Guerrilla - I Can make it not lag, but it wont stay not laggy.

[13thvulture]

Originally Posted by sprower

Not sure about your issue 13th. All I can say is this game is pretty damn picky. More recent drivers were giving me crap with it left and right (though that was more of a crossfire issue).

Try different drivers or maybe RadeonPro to force the frame rate to 60?

Another thought is if the game crashes on you the settings.ini may return to defaults after restarting the game. That may be causing some conflict or IQ settings to be set higher than your mobility likes.

radeonpro is doing nothing for me, and being that im on a laptop with an integrated graphics card, im not really sure how to update the drivers, but the thing is, the game has worked perfectly before, which proves it can.

[13thvulture]

Originally Posted by TheHunter

so did you try and downgrade to 1.1 patch?

ive tried both patches, and unpatched.

[Rumpus01]

I have had this issue as well. My game always ran at 59Hz in the setting, so I thought the game was just really demanding on a system and poorly coded. But then one day i started to play it, and it ran perfectly smooth for about 3 minutes until it went back to jitteryness. During those 3 minutes, i looked in the settings and it showed 60Hz for the first time instead of 59Hz. After that, i was determined to only play it at 60Hz, so i started messing with monitor drivers and forcing 60Hz through nvidia control panel, etc. None of that worked. In my research, i found that monitors getting stuck at 59Hz is a common issue with no solution, though it has not affected any games other than this that i have been able to tell. I have an Nvidia GPU and a stock clock i7 920. It was a serious tease to let me play it perfectly smooth for a whole 3 minutes. I have not tried turning Aero off though, I will give that a shot.

Let me know if you find a solution.

[13thvulture]

ive confirmed that this is indeed a RFG problem rather than a problem with my monitor's actual refresh rate. RFG is refreshing at 59hz while my monitor is refreshing at 60hz. ive found a few other games that also have a refresh rate setting ingame, and they all stick at 60hz, matching my monitor, and run smoothly.

even when i open rfg along side another game that is at 60hz, just seeing if it makes a difference, rfg still stays at 59. so this is definitely a rfg problem rather than a monitor thing.