general complaints and goodbye

[noname219]

This post might explain :

Originally Posted by Zageron

This is likely because Skype uses hardware acceleration properly, and flash does not. When Skype is "activated" your video card would turn itself into high power mode to run whatever was necessary for Skype, when the notification is over the video card returns to low power mode.

If you have an NVidia video card, you can find your standalone executable and register it into the profiles area in the NV Control Panel. Reduce the prerendered frame count to 1, and force high performance mode.

This may help, it may not. (If you use an Intel Embeded graphics system or an ATI card, I don't know how to force high performance modes. )

OP, this might be worth a shot :

Originally Posted by PrawnSkunk

Thank you so much!!! If anyone else has frame rate issues on FP10/11, I highly recommend trying this out!

In dxdiag, I noticed directx hardware acceleration was enabled by default. So, I downloaded the DirectX Control Panel 9.0c, and unchecked "Use Hardware Acceleration" on the Direct3D and DirectDraw tabs. I have so many frames now, I have no idea what to do with them all

[choof]

you can't force high performance mode on intel embedded, iirc

[Callipygian]

Originally Posted by choof

you can't force high performance mode on intel embedded, iirc

Yep, couldn't find a way to do that either. I changed my directX settings, but it didn't change anything (and I certainly couldn't increase my fps). Thanks for the suggestions though, noname.

[RB_Spirit]

Originally Posted by Velocity

I'll just make FFR for console, at least the specs are consistent.

LMAO!!!

Have you tried out using an external monitor?
This laptop I use is also recent I got it in December. It's an HP 2000 Notebook with an HD screen. The specs are better than my old laptop which ran FFR great. For some reason the new laptop was consistently choppy no matter what the fps was but ffr was playable. Any other rhythm or flash game is 100% smooth.
One night I sat on the lid cracking the screen horribly and had to plug in an external monitor to use the laptop. The external monitor did not lag at all, the game looked 100% smooth with r^3 set to 80fps. Later my sister gave me a newer lcd monitor and the game chopped just as much as the laptop's screen. I tried external hdmi to TV out and that was the worst. 3 out of 4 screens I tried sucked ass for r^3. The monitor that didn't is an old CRT Monitor made by eMachines model 17f3 that we've had since 2003.

[Untimely Friction]

@velocity you should make an executeable that virtualizes an ideal ffr environment (Virtual server of some kind obviously local hosted) that then launches the game in the same said virtual environment ;o. The real standalone.

[RagedBerserker]

This is actually quite interesting. I hope you come across a solution Callipygian.

I too have trouble running FFR without slight choppiness on my brand new computer which runs Windows 8.1. I can't seem to figure out how to fix it either. So, I just keep playing on my old laptop.