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[John Channing]

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[Salty Longshanks]

Leo, or anyone in the know. I'm in the process of making these changes as we speak, but I've got a (foolish?) question about the following string.
[VIDEO]
Resolution=1024,768,60,22

Obviously, the 1024,768 is the resolution (which was incorrect from the way I had it setup in game) but what is the 60, and the 22. Taking a guess, I'd say the 60 is the refresh rate Hz, but I don't have a clue what the 22 is. Any help would be great! TIA guys. :hmm:

[leovampire]

Originally Posted by Salty Longshanks

Leo, or anyone in the know. I'm in the process of making these changes as we speak, but I've got a (foolish?) question about the following string.
[VIDEO]
Resolution=1024,768,60,22

Obviously, the 1024,768 is the resolution (which was incorrect from the way I had it setup in game) but what is the 60, and the 22. Taking a guess, I'd say the 60 is the refresh rate Hz, but I don't have a clue what the 22 is. Any help would be great! TIA guys. :hmm:

I have my refresh rate set the same as it is for my desk to which is 60hz but I think the last figure is actual game refresh rate as I have timed it in game and it seem's to match.

[Salty Longshanks]

Originally Posted by leovampire

I have my refresh rate set the same as it is for my desk to which is 60hz but I think the last figure is actual game refresh rate as I have timed it in game and it seem's to match.

First up, thanks for the quick reply Leo. So what your saying is, I can just change the 60 to my actual refresh rate, and leave the 22 alone and I should be good?

[leovampire]

Originally Posted by Salty Longshanks

First up, thanks for the quick reply Leo. So what your saying is, I can just change the 60 to my actual refresh rate, and leave the 22 alone and I should be good?

Seeing it is easily setable from the game menu and always seems to take I would leave that one alone and only set it in game to the resilutions you want.

I run my game at 1280x1024 @60hz and as you can see it dosn;t show the 1280 only the 1024 so maybe that should be left alone. I only included it so that no one would get screwed up in refrence line's.

[THE_MASK]

I have tried everything there is to try , to get better framerates . It is my conclusion that the only way to get better frame rates is a better graphics card LOL .

[leovampire]

Originally Posted by sober

I have tried everything there is to try , to get better framerates . It is my conclusion that the only way to get better frame rates is a better graphics card LOL .

Kriller2 got better frame rates with better grafic's on his older ATI card.

Solved camera movment stutter for Pantherclies

Gave me better frame rate and slightly better reflections on the ocean.

But it changes from PC to PC and graffic's card to graffic's card.

[leovampire]

The Dynamic Shadow's is not the lighting option you have can turn on and off in the game graffic's menu. If your card can run it this is the effect the Dynamic Shadow's can create.





Basicly it enhances the shadow effect inbetween each high and lower object that blocks the light source. So it tend's to bring out more the ocean's detail work. Looking at the sun set you can see the shadow of each wave ripple the blocks the light.

[Galanti]

I'm kind of interested in the LOD settings in effects.cfg. Anybody have any idea what the values mean?

[Fincuan]

If you make the changes specified in the first post, remember to make them to the files in My Documents/Sh4 folder. The main.cfg and GfxSettings.cfg in the SH4 folder have absolutely no effect on how the game runs. You can actually remove the files, and the only thing you lose is the default(low/med/high) settings in the gfx options.

[Doolittle81]

Originally Posted by leovampire

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I run my game at 1280x1024 @60hz and as you can see it dosn;t show the 1280 only the 1024 so maybe that should be left alone. I only included it so that no one would get screwed up in refrence line's.

It seems to me that if you check your main.ini config file in the Documents/SH4 folder, you will see that it contains the Correct settings reflecting what you are running SH4 at, resolution wise...and your other settings which you set in-Game. As noted above, these are the config files which are 'looked at' when you run the game.

On the other hand, the config files in the SH4/Data/Cfg folder, itself, are only the Default settings. Of course, when you make some changes in those default files, they can/will also be 'transferred' over to the player's config files in the Documents/SH4/data/cfg folder files...and you will therefore see the results in the Game.

In other words, the config files in the Documents/SH4/Data/Cfg folder over-ride the config files in the Ubisoft/Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific/SH4/Data/Cfg folder.

Or so it seems to me.


Edit: OOPS! Looks like this has already been explained...sorry i came in late.