for the nerdies, what are the technical reasons for the increase in minimum fps?
I am curious what people think.
I never take the minimum number too serious. The PC is usually doing way more things than just playing Coh2. The game itself may doing weird things like caching textures or terrain, updating steam items, etc. Between Windows and Coh2 you are bound to get hiccups.
In the old days we would run tests at least twice. Windows may be caching things from the Hard Drive etc and the 2nd run was always a little better. Anti Virus software could be slowing things down as you read from disk also.
In the world they have a term for things that are reliable and will work exactly the same all the time: deterministic. Things like PLCs, Real-Time OS, etc. Windows is NOT deterministic. You cant rely on it to ever do the same thing twice.