[Rewrite] Reducing battle ambients for smoother battles

[John_Longarrow]

~Isabella of Castile~

On your shortcut, please make sure that the "Start In:" line contains the full path to the directory where your MTW2 is located. As an example, my command line is

"c:\Program Files\Total War\MTW2\medieval2.exe --io.file_first"

My Start In line is
"c:\Program Files\Total War\MTW2"

If you are accidentally starting the game in the wrong location you get all kinds of wierd results.

[Red Spot]

Simple yet effective, I like it .. :)

Do you, or anyone else for that matter, know about what else can be done to smoothen out siege battles a bit more without reverting to making large settlements show up as small ones, as is when Denmark sieges me with 4 armies things get a bit .. er .. unsmooth when my retinue longbowmen open up fire or things get hectic at a breach(lots of animations going bezerc at 1 spot), once missile-fire is off and/or there is no fighting in breaches its all fine (enough)

Anyway thanks for the tut.


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[FactionHeir]

I'd imagine turning down textures, unit size and unit details would help with that (and of course AA and shader).
Beside that, nothing I can think of, save manually working on the low detail textures making them even lower in detail.

[Red Spot]

I've turned down the shader version to v1 as that gives the biggest boost with the smallest effect on how well everything looks (do note I dont mind the loss of shadows, I've seen them before ..:P)

Anything else isnt worth turning down imo(except ofcourse AA and antrostropic filtering(?) to ~4 as minimum)

Anyway thanks again as your tut. makes my 5 army sieges go from just barelly playable at times to "playable with low FPS moments", wich imo is just about the boost that was needed in my game/for my rig.



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