Crikey! Those nice looking Abnenerbe skins from Onealex, and the ones that weren't included in Onealex, (VIIC Skins 6, 7, and 8), separately dl'd, really chew up the FPS.It's not so noticeable at sea, but in port sitting at dock it drops around 20-25 FPS.
Fifi has done a masterful job of increasing FPS by among other things, reducing graphic and sound file size loads. The crew uniforms were cut in half, (1024x1024 halved), so you can change them just fine, but one needs to follow Fifi's method of reducing the size. They look great and help the FPS. Don't know what all graphics he reduced throughout the game, but the crew uniforms can really chew up FPS. The bigger they are the more they use. It didn't occur to me that the sub skins worked the same (duh). And so do the sound files. I tried to replace Fifi's "amb_SubmarineInterior.wav" with an old favorite of mine thats 141mb (Fifi's is like 27mb), and that also chewed into my FPS. I went back to Fifi's file.
The Fifi default skin, at least for the VIIC, does not use an inordinate amount of FPS. This is an unfortunate circumstance as the Onealex Abnenerbe skins are beautiful. Would really like to use those. So now my question is; how's come the default VIIC skin doesn't have the same effect? Or, put another way, why do the other skins from Onealex and Abnenerbe really kill my FPS? And I figure if they do that in port, they will also do it in the midst of a convoy. Since I don't like surprises, I'll just stick with the Fifi default VIIC skin (which is beautiful in it's own right).
Wonder what happens if one does a 1024x768 halved of the boat skin graphic files? Can that even be done? Gonna give that a shot, see what happens.
...it's always the lil things.
