EB Performance

**Tellos Athenaios** · 02-20-2009, 05:33

Originally Posted by Tiberius Claudius Marcellus

This lovely little patch will revert the sea graphics w/ all of their memory/processor-eating cloud animation back to the Vanilla R:TW plain sea graphic.

Once I started using this I haven't looked back.

Right. A) AFAIK it's not a cloud animation. B) AFAIK it's not an animation of any kind at all: it is a texture. C) The texture is made with exactly the same constraints as the original one was. D) And it doesn't eat a CPU as it is the job of a GPU to render the texture. E) It doesn't eat GPUs either, it is a very small texture -- way smaller than typical of an RTW/EB unit. So F) the question is: are you enjoying a placebo effect?

**antisocialmunky** · 02-20-2009, 05:40

I was under the impression it used some shader effects.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 02-20-2009, 06:01

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

I was under the impression it used some shader effects.

From the creator of the EB sea texture:

Originally Posted by stefan25

He's deadright . I made the new sea textures myself and the size did not change what so ever because that is not possible. I only added more detail , contrast and color to the tga's of the campaign map. The files did not change in size. They just look far better overall .
What did change with 1.0 is the adding of more scriptlines to the script .

In this thread: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=94107.

Anyways as for shaders: well, if I understand shaders correctly then there is no shader involved apart from the built-in one used to project the shadows of the clouds onto the water surface. Oh and before you ask: that effect is present with the Vanilla seas as well; AFAIK it is the *exact same* effect.

**A Terribly Harmful Name** · 02-20-2009, 06:52

Turn off shadows, set campaign resolution to [your screen res]X16.

**Vasiliyi** · 02-20-2009, 07:27

Do you see the Search option on the top right of this page. well type in "How to make EB run faster. A guide" or something like that. there was this one post that i read (and followed directions) and my game experience has increased dramatically. btw welcome to the forums.

**chenkai11** · 02-20-2009, 07:44

Originally Posted by Vasiliyi

Do you see the Search option on the top right of this page. well type in "How to make EB run faster. A guide" or something like that. there was this one post that i read (and followed directions) and my game experience has increased dramatically. btw welcome to the forums.

Best answer so far.