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Old 01-02-16, 10:27 AM   #2
Fahnenbohn
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Originally Posted by frankiekam View Post
Hi Herr Kaleun

I know this sounds crazy, but I am trying to figure out a way to dumb down the water graphics effects in Silent Hunter 3. I am playing the stock SH3 without any mods. The main reason I am doing this is because I am running SH3 on my 2007 Dell Vostro 1000 AMD AthlonX2 (64bit) laptop that has integrated ATI graphics and 2.37Gb main RAM. All parts of SH3 runs satisfactorily until I click on the external view graphics with the sub surfaced - SH3's water graphics, that extends all the way to the horizon, slows down the framerate a whole lot on my 9-year old laptop. So I noticed that the water in SH3 is a major framerate-killer for older PCs.

In summary, I want SH3 to run faster in an old PC, especially in the external view with all the water surface showing when the submarine is shown surfaced.

Any ideas?
I would advise you to try my environment mod, that I've made on a PC like yours (old and not powerful, and with an Intel card => problems with reflections on the sea). I have better fps in game with my mod than with others 16 km atmosphere mods.

See in my signature.

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