Question for modders... simpler water?

[robbierob2005]

Your videocart (ATI Radeon Xpress 1200) is not made for gaming.
It uses shared memory from your laptops ram.

The videocart is made for the office and not for games which use 3d rendering.

[gimpy117]

your puny card is crushed by the glory of GWX!! ALL HAIL THE GREY WOLVES!!!

[melendir]

You're propably right that it's not made for gaming... that's why I have the desktop. But but... since it's only "so little" from being playable, it would be possible to get it going on my laptop too... if only I could lower the "load" little bit by simplifying water or reducing view distance.

I have 2 GB memory on my laptop so sharing is not problem on memory amount... only memory "speed"... I have 1 GB RAM on my desktop with ATI X800 XT 256MB and that's working fine...

Is there any way to squeeze 10-15 fps more from wave graphics?
Game is playable everywhere else but at conning tower or periscope (low zoom) at surface, where it gives around 10 fps
Even UZO gives so little "load" that fps stays at 30-40

[melendir]

Originally Posted by Mikhayl

Hello Melendir, maybe the FPS has to do with the water reflection. I once used a "more reflection" mod, all went fine until 3 ships lit their searchlight at night. Then I had barely 1 FPS on my "not that poor" system (3ghz, 2GB RAM, ATI 1650).
I found this one from Reece, it's a 16km but it may be worth a try :
http://files.filefront.com/GWX+16k+S.../fileinfo.html

Hope this helps

Thanks, I'll test it. Maybe not today, since my father has birthday and I will spend the evening there, but hopefully tomorrow.

This is just the kind of help I was hoping... if it works... even better

[onelifecrisis]

I'm not sure scene.dat will make that much difference because the problem occurs when sea "foam" wave textures appear in rough weather. Besides, using non-GWX scene.dat files with GWX is not always advisable. Melendir, I suggest this:

Go into the data\Misc\ folder and delete the following files (make backup copies first):

Peak.tga
SeaFoam01.tga
SeaFoam02.tga
SeaFoam03.tga
SeaFoam04.tga
SeaFoam05.tga
SeaFoam06.tga
SeaFoam07.tga
SeaFoam08.tga
SeaFoam09.tga
SeaFoam10.tga
SeaFoam11.tga
SeaFoam12.tga

That should do the trick (I tested it just now) and won't have any adverse effects apart from the lack of foam.

[melendir]

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

I'm not sure scene.dat will make that much difference because the problem occurs when sea "foam" wave textures appear in rough weather. Besides, using non-GWX scene.dat files with GWX is not always advisable. Melendir, I suggest this:

Go into the data\Misc\ folder and delete the following files (make backup copies first):

Peak.tga
SeaFoam01.tga
SeaFoam02.tga
SeaFoam03.tga
SeaFoam04.tga
SeaFoam05.tga
SeaFoam06.tga
SeaFoam07.tga
SeaFoam08.tga
SeaFoam09.tga
SeaFoam10.tga
SeaFoam11.tga
SeaFoam12.tga

That should do the trick (I tested it just now) and won't have any adverse effects apart from the lack of foam.

Thanks for the tip
I tried this but unfortunately it didn't make any difference in my system.
Steady 10 fps. I even tried to delete nore... (cloud) files, but it didn't have any effect for the fps either.

This far, the viewing distance seems to have biggest effect.

[onelifecrisis]

Originally Posted by melendir

Thanks for the tip
I tried this but unfortunately it didn't make any difference in my system.
Steady 10 fps. I even tried to delete nore... (cloud) files, but it didn't have any effect for the fps either.

This far, the viewing distance seems to have biggest effect.

Did I understand the problem correctly? From post #1 it sounded like you only get low fps when the weather is rough and you see wave textures. :hmm:

Edit: what FPS do you get through the scope when it's raised?

[melendir]

Originally Posted by Mikhayl

Hello Melendir, maybe the FPS has to do with the water reflection. I once used a "more reflection" mod, all went fine until 3 ships lit their searchlight at night. Then I had barely 1 FPS on my "not that poor" system (3ghz, 2GB RAM, ATI 1650).
I found this one from Reece, it's a 16km but it may be worth a try :
http://files.filefront.com/GWX+16k+S.../fileinfo.html

Hope this helps

I was able to test this today after all. Unfortunately it made things worse... just like the 16km GWX's "basic" 16km athmosphere... 1-3 fps
When I went back to 8km athmosphere... 10 fps