[REL] Reduced Traffic Mod v1.2

[PULSEOX]

I would definitely be interested in the "Heavy" version. While all the friendly traffic is nice if you have a system that can handle it-it is unnecessary and just slows things down to a crawl on marginal systems.
If it means I can raise my fps to a enjoyable level and have less choppy gameplay-I'd be glad to sacrifice the "friendly" traffic all together!
Thanks Again!

[cpomd]

My Spec is 1.4Mhz Intel P4, 6200 nvidia graphics, 1GB Ram and I found a small around 5 or so FPS improvement so i would definitely like a Heavy version to try out.
Tia

[Excalibur Bane]

Alrighty, new version is up. Oooh, it looks like a real mod now. Fancy that.

I hope I got it written properly and everything is correct...:hmm:

this sounds very user friendly and it should be very popular since most buyers of sh4 find thier computers have trouble running it. maybe now they can enjoy it without spending money to upgrade thier computers just to play a game.

doing the "heavy" and "light" versions are a good way to go depending on your system you can decide which is the best fit. as you said, "this was a problem in sh3 as well", will you do this same mod for sh3 as well?

i think many people who like playing silent hunter, do so because they love the "game" and don't need a history accurate simulation so speeding up loading times and fps might be worth the cost of losing some eye candy.

[Bluesub 6]

"remove some enemy coastal traffic(sampans,tugs,junks)" thank you,this have made more difficulties that other traffic.
Good job

[Excalibur Bane]

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

this sounds very user friendly and it should be very popular since most buyers of sh4 find thier computers have trouble running it. maybe now they can enjoy it without spending money to upgrade thier computers just to play a game.

doing the "heavy" and "light" versions are a good way to go depending on your system you can decide which is the best fit. as you said, "this was a problem in sh3 as well", will you do this same mod for sh3 as well?

i think many people who like playing silent hunter, do so because they love the "game" and don't need a history accurate simulation so speeding up loading times and fps might be worth the cost of losing some eye candy.

SH3 is a different story altogether, the traffic in it is not nearly as crippling as SH4. I don't have any plans to make a similiar mod for SH3 at the moment. I decided to drop the light version of the mod for SH4 as well, because it simply wasn't providing enough of a performance gain.

People play the game the way they wish, though I'm fairly certain most people here are very realism oriented (kinda goes without saying ) but this mod is here just to present people with options. The mod doesn't remove anything that would affect gameplay at all, it simply removes the eye-candy that some people can't afford to having running in the background. Granted, you could say it does affect gameplay to a degree because you will rarely have to figure out if your detecting friend or foe but I don't think that's a big deal personally.

[Von Tonner]

Excalibur Bane

The mod doesn't remove anything that would affect gameplay at all, it simply removes the eye-candy that some people can't afford to having running in the background. Granted, you could say it does affect gameplay to a degree because you will rarely have to figure out if your detecting friend or foe but I don't think that's a big deal personally.

This mod sounds great and one I would want to use when I am patched up to 1.3 BUT, my concern is the sampans etc, Correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that if you allowed a sampan or fishing boat to sight you, chances were you would soon find a destroyer looking for you as they had radioed your position in. It happened to me but this could have been purely coincedental.

[Excalibur Bane]

Very likely true. However, I don't think it will spawn a DD, it would simply bring down some planes on you from a nearby airbase. In any event, pretend you got sighted by a pretend sampan and had to make a pretend crash dive to avoid getting bombed by a couple of make-believe Emily's and your all set.