Yes! now I finaly have an excuse to my wife to turn all the lights down and wearing a head lamp so I can see the keyboard when I play Silent hunter 4 (only turn it on when I absolutely need to offcause :rotfl: ) , it's good to hear you like the night colours swdw :up: so that is why there are so many buttons in RFB :yep:

BTW have you been experiencing any problems running pe4 with RFB?

CPU is fine, 3.2ghz for the time being. But as mentioned plan to upgrade hopefully later this year, though home renovations and a new 42" LCD TV and Home Theatre may put a damper on that :oops: One question, would an older LCD Monitor affect video quality much. Edit: Just hooked up an older monitor and now running the game at Max Res with no slow-downs, it was that old LCD at least for res.

Yeah, indoor hockey with the boys is non-stop, and actually playing on the ice this summer with about 20 lads. Ahhhh, going to the rink in the summer, nice way to get cheap air conditioning, plus the beer is awesome :yep::D

Edit: I'll report back on the performance question later.


RDP

Benchmarks
 

These benchmarks were done with the following settings in nVidia control panel:

Anistropic : 16x
Gamma corr : off
AA mode : Override
AA : 8x Multisampling
Vsynch off
Mid ocean test done at high noon, Pearl Harbor done at 8 AM
No weather = no wind, no fog, no preciptation, no clouds
heavy weather = highest settings for all of above

User vessel only mid ocean:

____________________No weather________Heavy weather____
________________ w/o PE _____ w PE ____ w/o PE ____ w PE
Bridge cam............. 63 ............... 72 .......... 39 ........... 47 ....yes those numbers are in correct order
External cam.......... 56 ............... 63 .......... 35 ........... 39 ...and so are these



Pearl Harbor :


____________________No weather________Heavy weather____
________________ w/o PE _____ w PE ____ w/o PE ____ w PE
Bridge cam............. 28 ............... 29 .......... 34 ........... 30
External cam.......... 28 ............... 27 .......... 33 ........... 30
Free cam aimed at.. 16 ............... 16 .......... 18 ........... 16
buildings in harbor

Will try to do clear day different cloud settings later

Nice report DT, great break-down there :yep::up:


RDP

If you got an HD-TV why not use this?

I’m using my 42” FHD-TV to play.

Resolution: 1920x1080
Game Detail Settings: Max. Details
Visual Mod: PE 3.3

AA: 16xQ
AF: 16x
Transparent AA: Supersampling
Filter Quality: High Quality

Slightly compressed Screenshot (2MB): http://server.imageparadise.net/~web...ba0fcfec3d.png


FPS are usually around 30~60 (V-Sync is on) on my PC: 8800GTX, EE6600, 4GB DDR2-800

'Preciate it. :D

Here's the "rest of the story" (clouds and wind)

Clouds (all from the bridge):

__________ w/o PE __ w PE
Medium........ 57 ......... 68
Heavy.......... 57 ........ 45


Wind (all from free cam):

__________ w/o PE __ w PE
0................. 48 .........58
5................. 48 .........55
10............... 46 .........55
15............... 46 .........55

Going back to double check the cloud figures. Will edit if anything comes out differently.
Edit : Nope I wasn't imagining it, those numbers check out.

Nice DT:up: This graph represents how the game runs with and without PE4 and you can see that sometime PE4 runs better than stock SH4, I think that the optimization I did with resizing some textures and save them in a better DX format doest the trick, but allso I have removed the clouds-shadows, since they were wrong made by the devs, which mean that you could see a shadow from the clouds on the sea in stock SH4, but if you watched closely it had a very weird shape not matching with the clouds! :o After examining it more closely with Seeadler we found out that the devs simply have "forgot" to make a vertex shader for the clouds, instead they made a pixel shader, so there is no chance to get it working the right way.

Allso those "cloud shadows" were causing some of the black sea when cloudy and windy..

Phew! that was a long story, but now you know ;)

Yay, I learned something new today, I can quit thinking for the rest of the day:rotfl:

Thanks for sharing some of the "inner workings". It's good to know these things. Well, it's good to know for folks like me who have lots of spare room in their heads to fill up:88).

I just wanted to chime in here... I noticed an fps increase of 10-15% using PE3.x over the 'stock" settings as well. Very cool! Improved visuals with an attending increase in fps to enjoy them with! :up::up:

Yep, I play with very little light. If I play in the day time I have the shades drawn. I can not play with any type of background lighting because I can not see ships when it is night time in the game. Also, my wife says I do my best work in the dark.

Anyway, I forgot to mention my FPS went up a notch or two with this beta.

No need for a head lamp to see the keyboard. Get one that lights up! I have a Saitek keyboard that has three different colors of light to choose and it has a reostat to dim the board lights if need be. I keep my board set to red light. All lights off around me. No problem :up:

PE 4 seems to run fun with RFB.

Red LED lights work great :yep:. Until the cops show up asking what I'm doing :nope:.

:lol:

I have the similar Logitech G15 with the blue lights. Wouldn't want any other keyboard, that's for sure! It's perfect for gaming, no matter what the game is.

Kriller, I know this is too late for the initial release, but do you have any requests for particle effects changes. I want to re-do the Marge Simpson oil fire, but if you'd like anything else done as well then just let me know.

That goes to everyone else as well. I changed the depth charge effect for PE 3, is it better, or needs more adjustment? Would anyone like to see any new special effects included in PE 4.1?

Nisgeis.

Hi Nisgeis, welcome back. That doesn't sound nice about the redundancy process, that's a nerve wrecking process, we had a similar one for some years ago.

Well I was trying to make some extra attention for you ;), I have some ideas I would like you to take a look at, check your pm in sec. and it's not to late, the PE4 mod is under alpha testing at the moment, so there is still room for some extra eyecandy.