I'm having the same prob with my GeForce GFX card.

Turn off Volumetric Fog in graphic settings. It will double your FPS when viewing anything outside, without really upsetting graphical splendour.

Lol, this Ati crap of mine seems to be equivalent to Nvidia GF 6200!

i've been getting up to about a 50 fps drop at times on my 2900XT when up close to a burning ship

To be honest, it's nearly unplayable for me when there are multiple ships burning.
I always tested with only one or two burning ships.:oops:

I think I have to make the smoke less dense with fewer particles. This means that I have to test several setups again. So I need a day or so before a better version is released.
Thanks for your patience ...

Tell

Yeah, I get a frame rate drop too on SLI'ed 8800GTXs with a Q6600 to about 10-20 FPS when I lit up a Mogami and 3 escorts all in the same area.

Love the extra height the smoke can reach.:up:

This is at 1920x1200 resolution.

@WilhelmTell

Which parts of that particles.dat file you've tweaked? There's so much info about everything! :doh:

THe giant smoke cloud does not look right to me. Should it not dissipate and spread out more towards the upper part? More like a funnel? It just seems to hang together very thick all the way up.

Trout

I've tweaked nearly everything in FastParticleGenerator of the node #Smoke_big, #Burning_oil_smoke, #Burning_oil_smoke_small and #Funnel_smoke. Speaking of the Silent3ditor structure.

I think you are right, but it isn't too easy to find a balance of all the values to make it look really realistic. Changing one value means to change another and another ...
Though I think you will like the next version I release much better.

Regards,
Tell

Ok, thanks! I'll see what kind of tweaking I can come up. Haven't done this kind of modding ever before but with Silent 3ditor it's so ridiculously easy :p

Smoke On The Water -beta5-
ready to download ! :)
(See the first post of the thread for further info and screenshots)

The smoke isn't that gigantic anymore but looks in my opinion more realistic. And you should have much better framerates now. So give it a try ...

The previous version beta4 can still be downloaded though if you like it better.

Regards,
WilhelmTell

Did some quick testing with the latest version and it's much better now. No AA or AF and lowest fps I got was 28 and the smoke itself looked much, much better. Nice job! :up:

And did this running with stock clocks of my GPU. All the other test were when I had overclocked it to core@682Mhz, Mem@992Mhz and once again, with Ati X1950XT 256Mb

Thanks alot !
The consequence is that the smoke isn't as voluminous than before, but I think it's a lot better than the vanilla smoke.
Maybe I continue working on the smoke mod later this weak but for now I play the game with all the other great mods that recently have been released.

Thank you all for your constructive criticism and adulation :D

Regards,
WilhelmTell

Awesome, Thanks WT :up:

great work WilhelmTell
 

I know that changing things and checking them is a total pain so the effert you put into this is great and totaly apreciated.

Sorry it took me so long to say anything been busy!