Texture Sizes !

im thinking of putting out a half size resolution pack of textures for the key culprits. the texture memory drawn for them for me personally is just too much. if the majority of people use high then surely we can cope with a 1024 texture and not a 2048 which is an exponential increase in size and probally handling by the engine. also we could have an extra mipmap out at the horizon possibly making things even smoother transitionaly

[Querer]

Wonderful idea, I am sure that a reduction from 2048 to 1024 regarding texture resolution would already lead to a huge improvement with little loss of quality... I think the textures would still look better than on medium with this decrease in resolution...

[Rattlehead]

Medium setting.

ive just halfed all the scenery based texture. and theres definetly some difference ! loading time has been cut to about 1/4 of the original time and ingame the stutter is reduced for me so far(but not eliminated). i think if i reduce the normal map details to half too and well nobody could actually argue against the performance increase v visual loss. i dont appear to be getting any FPS increase however. another aspect im seeing is a smoother scenery visually.

conclusion so far is that there is severe strain going on somwhere .possibly an issue with how these textures are being streamed in and out of the memory and not so much the amount of texture calls for massive files.

i was fine with medium before, now when i set high with the reduced texture pack, i get that similar improvment in performance with medium, but it definetly looks nicer. this will be an optional mod for sure guys benneficial for some, controvertial for others.

*Medium*

well I'm fully in agreeance with you Ali, 2040 is just ludicrous, Lord knows why the Dev's went with this. Here's to hoping its on the fix list, as well as a set view distance as at the moment people with Original Textures get a bigger view distance than those on low.

View distance. this would be good as a configurable option IMO i feel half my problems could be solved with that.

the part that could be controvertial is the fact that previous to any mod here the engine is simply dipping into a 5 meg file to use the 2nd stage or 1st stage mip map, a first stage mip map is the original texture a second stage is the next mip obviously but it s half the size. with this mod the system is dipping into a 1.3 meg file, its controvertial as to wether im seeing better imagery or not and wether this file size is so important as to produce better stability ingame.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Medium here. 5770 is a gig.

[lensman1945]

Original for me....

good frame rates and very little stuttering. Modest resolution tho' to match my 1280x720 projector.

[Orpheus]

Voted high, after last patch actually managed to use Original though with big stutters - but now I get launcher crashes and stutters are now unplayable.

You know roughly when I last installed Ali, so I'd say it's taken about a week/2 weeks of quite rare play to degrade to this point.

[335th_GRAthos]

medium


Thanks for testing Ali, looking forward to hear more