Found something everyone might want to consider doing

[leovampire]

Originaly Panthercules was having some major stutter problems with his game and did some digging to in his game to see what might be going on and found some discrepencies in the main CFG file's that differed from what he wanted from settings and more.

I went a step further and fully checked out the main settings for graffic's and more and so far everyone who has made these changes have gotten better frame rate's and a smoother running game.

These file's can be opened and adjusted with any thing like word pad after making changes just save them and start up the game and play.

Data/CFG/Main.cfg and GFXSettings.cfg and Effects.cfg

This is my set up for the Data/CFG/Main.cfg:

[SETTINGS]
LoadingMovie=No
VoiceCommand=No
DisableMessages=No
EventCamera=No

[TIME COMPRESSION]
TimeStop=0
RealTime=1
LandProximity=4
CriticalDamage=1
CrewEfficiency=128;1
AirEnemyDetected=1
SoundEffects=2
CharacterAnim=4
EnemyDetected=8
RadioReport=8
Particles=8
PrayState=8
HunterState=32
3DRender=32
Maximum=8192

[VIDEO]
Resolution=1024,768,60,22 this one depends on what you have the video graffic's set for.
DynamicShadows=Yes this was no
FullScreen=Yes
Synchronized=Yes this was no I had it checked for a yes
TextureResolutionHigh=Yes

[SOUND]
Music=Yes
VolumeGeneral=100
VolumeMusic=100
VolumeFx=100
VolumeSpeech=100
VolumeRadio=100
VolumeGeneralMute=false
VolumeMusicMute=True this was false even though I had it checked in game
VolumeFxMute=false
VolumeSpeechMute=false
VolumeRadioMute=false
Max3DSounds=32
SoundTravel=True this was false even though I had it checked in game

[Ubi.Com]
GameName=SILENTHUNTER4
Version=SH4PC1.0
RememberCDKey=true

[DEVELOPING]
DevDebugEnable=No this was yes
DevEditEnable=No this was yes
MiniDump=No this was yes


Now for the Data/CFG/GFXSettings.cfg:

[Minimum]
DepthBufferEffects=0
Filters=0
Glare=0
UnderwaterDispMap=0
LightShafts=1 this was 0
3DShipWakes=1 this was 0
DetailedWaveRipples=1 this was 0
UnitNormalMaps=1
ShipCausticsEffects=1 this was 0
Ship3DDamage=0
CharacterDetail=1 this was 0
ParticlesDetail=5
TerrainObjectsDensity=2
TerrainObjectsLODSize=10
GammaCorrection=50
VolumetricFog=0

[Medium]
DepthBufferEffects=0
Filters=0
Glare=0
UnderwaterDispMap=1
LightShafts=1
3DShipWakes=1
DetailedWaveRipples=1
UnitNormalMaps=1
ShipCausticsEffects=1
Ship3DDamage=1
CharacterDetail=1
ParticlesDetail=8
TerrainObjectsDensity=5
TerrainObjectsLODSize=8
GammaCorrection=50
VolumetricFog=0

[Full]
DepthBufferEffects=1
Filters=1
Glare=1
UnderwaterDispMap=1
LightShafts=1
3DShipWakes=1
DetailedWaveRipples=1
UnitNormalMaps=1
ShipCausticsEffects=1
Ship3DDamage=2
CharacterDetail=1
ParticlesDetail=10
TerrainObjectsDensity=8
TerrainObjectsLODSize=5
GammaCorrection=50
VolumetricFog=1

now for the Data/CFG/effects.cfg:

[WaterDroplets]
DifractionCoef=0.03
WaterSpeed=3
MaxBlurMipMap=4

[BlurEffect]
MaxBlurMipMap=4

[Glare]
LOD0Factor=0.7 these are level of detail setting's
LOD1Factor=0.7 these are level of detail settings
LOD1=3 this is a total level of detail setting

I hope it help's people out for their own game's. Also as it has been pointed out in the main SHIV save folder in My Document's there are file's in there that can be adjusted. MyDocuments/SHIV/Data/CFG Main.cfg and GFXSettings.cfg

[leovampire]

And also gave Kriller2 an increase of 8 FPS above and beyond what he already had. You end up with better graffics as well with thr reflections and more.

[stabiz]

Nice find! I was crusading against micro-stutters in the early days of SH4, but we never came up with anything apart from the Devdebug-thingy. I dont have the stutters with my 8800 (had a 7950GT), but I will try this anyway.

Edit: No noticable difference here, but then I dont have any problems at all.

[Hartmann]

Originally Posted by leovampire

And also gave Kriller2 an increase of 8 FPS above and beyond what he already had. You end up with better graffics as well with thr reflections and more.

What mod is it ?? :hmm:

thanks

[leovampire]

Originally Posted by Hartmann

What mod is it ?? :hmm:

thanks

This is manual changes that you have to make to these 3 file's in your own game using something like word pad then save start up the game and you are good to go.

[Gunner]

Made a nice improvement in my game, maybe cause dynamic shadows was turned off, line on horizon , transition looks much better. allaround nice improvement on my 8800 GTS card. Changed files in saved game as well as SH4 root directory just to be sure, nice find Leo. Thanks for info

[AVGWarhawk]

I'll give this a try with the ATI card. Report back later



Ok, I made a few minor changes as most of what was there was the same as you posted. No frame gain noticed. Anyway, I forgot about the minidump deal and change all those to no.

[Fincuan]

Are you sure it helps to alter those CFGs in the main game folder? Just asking, because main.cfg and GFXSettings.cfg also exist in My Documents/SH4, which has traditionally been the place to do it. Also, all my gfx settings are as they should be in the My Documents/SH4/Data/main.cfg, while the one located with the main game has none of them.

[Ragtag]

Originally Posted by Fincuan

Are you sure it helps to alter those CFGs in the main game folder? Just asking, because main.cfg and GFXSettings.cfg also exist in My Documents/SH4, which has traditionally been the place to do it. Also, all my gfx settings are as they should be in the My Documents/SH4/Data/main.cfg, while the one located with the main game has none of them.

I'm thinking the same because the cfg files in the gamefolder is the default settings, while the cfg files in the documentsfolder is the ones being used by the player.

[capt_frank]

Originally Posted by Gunner

Made a nice improvement in my game, maybe cause dynamic shadows was turned off, line on horizon , transition looks much better. allaround nice improvement on my 8800 GTS card. Changed files in saved game as well as SH4 root directory just to be sure, nice find Leo. Thanks for info

Worked great for me also, much better look, thanks!

[leovampire]

Originally Posted by capt_frank

Worked great for me also, much better look, thanks!

I try to share what I find in the game that can help others.

[MONOLITH]

Originally Posted by Ragtag

I'm thinking the same because the cfg files in the gamefolder is the default settings, while the cfg files in the documentsfolder is the ones being used by the player.

Honestly, I believe this is correct and this is how the game engine sees it to. If you were to select "default settings" in the options screen, the game would read the cfg's in the SH4 folder to make the default selections.

That's how it appears to me, anyway.

The only real visible effects actually occur when the cfg's in the C:/My documents/ folder are changed. There has to be 2 cfg's; one for the players choices, and one for the game to know what the defaults are.

[jazman]

I modified some things in my user's directory main.cfg. I have an NVIDIA 7600 GT, it seems to have improved my framerate by about 7 fps.

[capt_frank]

I made the changes this morning in the My Documents/SH4 folder as I did last nite in the main game CFG files, with the exception of "Synchronized", and I am enjoying the same great benefits.

Works for me!

Does anyone know whether this kind of information is forwarded to the devs? It would be a shame if they were unaware of it with a patch due to be released. It would seem to be the kind of change that they could easily do and maybe improve on...:hmm: