I have similar setup.

Core2Quad Q6600 Undervolted
GTX260 Core216 OC
Win 7 64bit

I too notice FPS drops when servers are busy. LFS only uses one CPU thread which seriously impedes performance.
So LFS no matter what. can not use more than 25% of that Core2Quad.

Upgrading CPU could be done, but shouldn't be required.
You could wait until the game uses multi-threading.

Funnily enough, on Linux my FPS are steady, so i guess Windows has a much bigger overhead.

I own a ATi 4870 512MB overclocked, which can run the game easily.

And i haves 4GB RAM.

@ zeugnimod: yeahh. But this was more of what people though specifically to multithreading.

Live for Speed requires a lot of CPU calculations for mostly the game physics.
Which is usually fine.

But when it is busy online FPS can drop to 40FPS (for me) which can only be down to the game's use of only one CPU thread.

I have a Core2Quad so LFS uses an amazing 25% of my CPU...
Most PCs ship with Dual Core now, it's very hard to find something new with a singlole core CPU.

Time to update methinks.

Thoughts?

Hello

Thanks for replying!

Yes i do have texture packs but i was getting FPS drops with the unmodified Z patch.

LFS without vsync is ugly and even without it, i get FPS drops.

I run the latest Catalyst (9.6) and latest nForce (15.25)

I believe the FPs drops are down the the game lack of support for multithreading.
There is a lot of physics and the game uses a single thread. Which in 2009, is totally bonkers.

It's not my graphics, i run Crysis: Warhead maxed out with higher than standard settings and i get consistent FPS.

I get a solid 75FPS (vsync) throughout the game, but on some occassions if i face certain directions, they plummet to 36FPS which i believe is down to bad coding for this day and age technology.

Sorry! forgot to put my hardware:

- Intel Core2Quad Q6600 overclock 2.7GHz
- ATi HD4870 Overclock 800/1000
- 4GB Corsair XMS2 800MHz
- 650W SLi Cert. PSU
- Windoze ¬_¬ XP SP3 MCE 2005 OEM
- 1280x1024 res blah

Hello all

I purchased LFS S2 Patch Z a few months ago.
The last patch i used was a long time ago.

But on this Z i keep getting FPS drops, down to like 36FPS at times which is ridiculous?

Is there a bug? Memory leak at all?

Thanks.