Ways to majorly(!) boost battle performance

[FactionHeir]

Life sucks with a laptop now doesn't it? ;)

Well I'm still trying to get the most out of my 2 year old laptop.
I've come across another file you can safely use a blank for:

descr_engine_torch_effects.txt
Basically the night torches for siege engines and tools.

Btw, I was looking at the other files for vegetation and building_effects but couldn't figure out what they meant (my physics is too weak).

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I did find a section in the descr_vegetation that was dealing with wind and tree sway and edited it out, but haven't paid attention to whether my campaignmap trees are now static or not or whether that was for battlemap trees. Will post tomorrow (well today after some sleep :p )

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Added info into 1st post, the vegetation change only worked for battlefield sadly so I won't include it

[TevashSzat]

Every game that seem to be impossible to run smoothly on a normal computer have some secrets to it.

Even for Oblivion which ran just horribly on my comp could get out 30fps once I followed some guides and configured some files

[FactionHeir]

Every game that seem to be impossible to run smoothly on a normal computer have some secrets to it.

Even for Oblivion which ran just horribly on my comp could get out 30fps once I followed some guides and configured some files

Yeah, I wish CA would put out a guide on their own for us low end spec people to make things smoother instead of having us dig around in hopes of finding something

[FactionHeir]

OK, after some discussion with Ralendil over at TWC, we have now managed to make larger settlements (i.e. cities and fortresses+) look exactly like smaller ones with the higher level buildings and towers displaying properly and so far without crashes.

This basically remedies all siege lag for me and probably will for you as well!

Link to topic and how to do it:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=91758

If you got any questions you can post them there or here and I'll walk you through.

[Foz]

OK, after some discussion with Ralendil over at TWC, we have now managed to make larger settlements (i.e. cities and fortresses+) look exactly like smaller ones with the higher level buildings and towers displaying properly and so far without crashes.

This basically remedies all siege lag for me and probably will for you as well!

Link to topic and how to do it:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=91758

If you got any questions you can post them there or here and I'll walk you through.

While I'm not sure I'm going to do it myself (big siege battles have yet to make my game intolerable), I think it's safe to assume others will want to do this, so you should probably write a tutorial for exactly what you did, and consider releasing it as a mod. People like mods

[rrdew]

While I'm not sure I'm going to do it myself (big siege battles have yet to make my game intolerable), I think it's safe to assume others will want to do this, so you should probably write a tutorial for exactly what you did, and consider releasing it as a mod. People like mods

Foz,
That is just what I was about to ask for. A mod for people with low powered rigs to up thier performacy.

[FactionHeir]

Meh, making a mod would make me have to support it compared to putting out the hint ;)
Besides, then I would even have to publish my vnv fix mod and whatever else I made...and I don't think I even documented what I did...I only know it works.

Fine I'll put up a tutorial for it somewhere (modding tutorials forum I suppose?), but don't expect me to make it a mod...those files are huge. I think all those together took like ~300 megs on my drive. Well if you unpack everything and then get rid of the packs you'd save 300, but who would ever do that :D