[REL] Reduced Traffic Mod v1.2

[Excalibur Bane]

Thanks, good to know it's proving useful. If the interest is there, I can provide an even higher performance layer that removes the friendly stuff in port as well as the friendly taskforces altogether. This is what I've been using myself, I've got very good results with this. Not sure how many people would be interested in this though.

I might split them upto into two versions, a "heavy" and a "light" performance RND layer. We'll see

[PULSEOX]

I would definitely be interested in the "Heavy" version. While all the friendly traffic is nice if you have a system that can handle it-it is unnecessary and just slows things down to a crawl on marginal systems.
If it means I can raise my fps to a enjoyable level and have less choppy gameplay-I'd be glad to sacrifice the "friendly" traffic all together!
Thanks Again!

[cpomd]

My Spec is 1.4Mhz Intel P4, 6200 nvidia graphics, 1GB Ram and I found a small around 5 or so FPS improvement so i would definitely like a Heavy version to try out.
Tia

[Excalibur Bane]

Alrighty, new version is up. Oooh, it looks like a real mod now. Fancy that.

I hope I got it written properly and everything is correct...:hmm:

this sounds very user friendly and it should be very popular since most buyers of sh4 find thier computers have trouble running it. maybe now they can enjoy it without spending money to upgrade thier computers just to play a game.

doing the "heavy" and "light" versions are a good way to go depending on your system you can decide which is the best fit. as you said, "this was a problem in sh3 as well", will you do this same mod for sh3 as well?

i think many people who like playing silent hunter, do so because they love the "game" and don't need a history accurate simulation so speeding up loading times and fps might be worth the cost of losing some eye candy.

[Bluesub 6]

"remove some enemy coastal traffic(sampans,tugs,junks)" thank you,this have made more difficulties that other traffic.
Good job

[Excalibur Bane]

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

this sounds very user friendly and it should be very popular since most buyers of sh4 find thier computers have trouble running it. maybe now they can enjoy it without spending money to upgrade thier computers just to play a game.

doing the "heavy" and "light" versions are a good way to go depending on your system you can decide which is the best fit. as you said, "this was a problem in sh3 as well", will you do this same mod for sh3 as well?

i think many people who like playing silent hunter, do so because they love the "game" and don't need a history accurate simulation so speeding up loading times and fps might be worth the cost of losing some eye candy.

SH3 is a different story altogether, the traffic in it is not nearly as crippling as SH4. I don't have any plans to make a similiar mod for SH3 at the moment. I decided to drop the light version of the mod for SH4 as well, because it simply wasn't providing enough of a performance gain.

People play the game the way they wish, though I'm fairly certain most people here are very realism oriented (kinda goes without saying ) but this mod is here just to present people with options. The mod doesn't remove anything that would affect gameplay at all, it simply removes the eye-candy that some people can't afford to having running in the background. Granted, you could say it does affect gameplay to a degree because you will rarely have to figure out if your detecting friend or foe but I don't think that's a big deal personally.

[Navigator857]

Just ran your mod, works fantastic. Saw a great improvement in TC and loading times. Much appreciated. :p

[Excalibur Bane]

Glad you guys are enjoying it!

just tried it, my grafics went from cartoonish to movie looking when i activated your mod. this will be a manditory fix for my old computer. the only times i get reduced fps now is when aircraft are diving, but i had that in sh3 as well.

is " Reduced Traffic Mod v1.2" the "heavy" version or are you still working on that one?

[Excalibur Bane]

Yes, this is most definately the heavy version. There is nothing left to remove that wouldn't have a serious impact on gameplay.

Originally Posted by Excalibur Bane

Yes, this is most definately the heavy version. There is nothing left to remove that wouldn't have a serious impact on gameplay.

ok, thanks

i suspect almost anyone without a new computer or anyone who upgraded to vista will be needing this mod.

very nice work, thank you

[Excalibur Bane]

Just a quick note: If you decide to use this with the beta 1.3 patch that's floating around, you will most likely not get much of an improvement, as the new code they put in for various additions to the game has not been optimized with the beta patch.

It should work just fine with the official 1.3 patch when it's released.

[Von Tonner]

Excalibur Bane

The mod doesn't remove anything that would affect gameplay at all, it simply removes the eye-candy that some people can't afford to having running in the background. Granted, you could say it does affect gameplay to a degree because you will rarely have to figure out if your detecting friend or foe but I don't think that's a big deal personally.

This mod sounds great and one I would want to use when I am patched up to 1.3 BUT, my concern is the sampans etc, Correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that if you allowed a sampan or fishing boat to sight you, chances were you would soon find a destroyer looking for you as they had radioed your position in. It happened to me but this could have been purely coincedental.

[Excalibur Bane]

Very likely true. However, I don't think it will spawn a DD, it would simply bring down some planes on you from a nearby airbase. In any event, pretend you got sighted by a pretend sampan and had to make a pretend crash dive to avoid getting bombed by a couple of make-believe Emily's and your all set.