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#3272249 - 04/17/11 11:38 AM
Re: Performance improvement mod(s) (no SSAO, no mipmaps, lower detail textures)
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Dear Kegetys,
Now that the beta patch is out and I see that your results have been put inside, one TRILLION thanks for the work you did, it made the difference! (I do not believe they would have put all this in the patch had it not been you!
~S~
Agreed 100%, without you Kegetys who knows how long this would have taken, well posted GRAthos 
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#3272537 - 04/17/11 09:18 PM
Re: Performance improvement mod(s) (no SSAO, no mipmaps, lower detail textures)
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#3272583 - 04/17/11 10:49 PM
Re: Performance improvement mod(s) (no SSAO, no mipmaps, lower detail textures)
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I'm running 2 GTX 260's in SLI and they each have 1.8GB of mem....so I guess it recognizes that (hence the chart) but doesn't advise as such in the stats.
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#3273765 - 04/19/11 01:24 AM
Re: Performance improvement mod(s) (no SSAO, no mipmaps, lower detail textures)
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I did a few more performance mods for some parts that I found annoying still in v1.00.14101 (nothing major though): lowclouds: Simplifies the clouds and smoke effects to reduce the framerate hit from them. Esp. visible when flying into clouds and with runway dust when taking off etc. lowgrass: Simplifies the grass pixel shader for reduced FPS hit, especially from the high grass. Makes the grass a bit ugly though as it will lose the gounds based coloring. lowshadows: Simplifies the shadow mapping, it does't have a huge effect, but maybe useful as a middle ground between keeping the shadows on or off for lower end video cards. Makes the shadows lose the softness but reduces the fps hit a bit. All three are downloadable here: http://junk.kegetys.net/lowcgsmod.zipUse is the same as previousy, with: -mod=lowclouds -mod=lowgrass -mod=lowshadows commandline parameters when sfsMod is installed. (sfsMod readme has more info)
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#3273797 - 04/19/11 02:36 AM
Re: Performance improvement mod(s) (no SSAO, no mipmaps, lower detail textures)
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I did a few more performance mods for some parts that I found annoying still in v1.00.14101 (nothing major though): lowclouds: Simplifies the clouds and smoke effects to reduce the framerate hit from them. Esp. visible when flying into clouds and with runway dust when taking off etc. lowgrass: Simplifies the grass pixel shader for reduced FPS hit, especially from the high grass. Makes the grass a bit ugly though as it will lose the gounds based coloring. lowshadows: Simplifies the shadow mapping, it does't have a huge effect, but maybe useful as a middle ground between keeping the shadows on or off for lower end video cards. Makes the shadows lose the softness but reduces the fps hit a bit. All three are downloadable here: http://junk.kegetys.net/lowcgsmod.zipUse is the same as previousy, with: -mod=lowclouds -mod=lowgrass -mod=lowshadows commandline parameters when sfsMod is installed. (sfsMod readme has more info) Cool - thanks, will give them a go. Expect to see them in Luthier's release notes for this coming Friday 
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#3273939 - 04/19/11 08:45 AM
Re: Performance improvement mod(s) (no SSAO, no mipmaps, lower detail textures)
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I'll definetly try the lowclouds-mod, because even medium-sized formations of standard clouds (the ones controlled in "mission parameters", not the "local weather" ones) tend to give me huge FPS hits.
It's really great that you're still helping them out on your own time, Kegetys. You wouldn't know by any chance why the industrial areas/docks have become such a huge show-stopper?
Oh and BTW: Any sense in still using any of your older mods? For example: I don't remember the plane-skins looking as ugly as they do now (even on "High Textures") when I was using your low-tex mod.
S.
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#3273955 - 04/19/11 09:41 AM
Re: Performance improvement mod(s) (no SSAO, no mipmaps, lower detail textures)
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(I do not believe they would have put all this in the patch had it not been you! ~S~ Agreed 100%, without you Kegetys who knows how long this would have taken, well posted GRAthos Same here, Kegetys vs. CoD-Team 1:1  now Kegetys´ turn (go for it, hey-ya hey-ya)
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#3273996 - 04/19/11 11:05 AM
Re: Performance improvement mod(s) (no SSAO, no mipmaps, lower detail textures)
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Oh and BTW: Any sense in still using any of your older mods? For example: I don't remember the plane-skins looking as ugly as they do now (even on "High Textures") when I was using your low-tex mod
I'd guess the lowtex mod still works, but I haven't checked if any of the textures there have changed in the patches. Nossao is useless since the video options setting now does the same thing... Nomipmaps still fixes the stuttering for me which the patch did not. (And unfortunately causes crashing as well. As someone else discovered, the crashing can be reduced/fixed by deleting the nomipmaps\$core\painters\LandDefault.tep file. It will cause a bit more stuttering that way but should be more usable)
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#3278167 - 04/23/11 09:18 PM
Re: Performance improvement mod(s) (no SSAO, no mipmaps, lower detail textures)
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I think the new patch changed something as now mods do not work.
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#3311500 - 06/05/11 08:58 PM
Re: Performance improvement mod(s) (no SSAO, no mipmaps, lower detail textures)
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Do any of these mods still improve performance since the patches?
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#3311867 - 06/06/11 01:20 PM
Re: Performance improvement mods (Low clouds/smoke/grass/shadow, no mipmaps, etc)
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#3312245 - 06/06/11 09:33 PM
Re: Performance improvement mods (Low clouds/smoke/grass/shadow, no mipmaps, etc)
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Yes I still use the smoke and dust mod he made.
"A time when America was great,,when the chrome was thick and the women were straight" - Micheal Savage
"If you really want to experience flight in this life then you have to strap a DC-3 to your ass." - Buffalo Joe McBryan President & Captain Buffalo Airways
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#3313545 - 06/08/11 07:16 AM
Re: Performance improvement mods (Low clouds/smoke/grass/shadow, no mipmaps, etc)
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Yes I still use the smoke and dust mod he made. Thanks mate. I'll give that one a go. I switched the mods I was using off (ssao and no mipmap) after the last patch as it made big improvements for me.
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#3313801 - 06/08/11 03:03 PM
Re: Performance improvement mods (Low clouds/smoke/grass/shadow, no mipmaps, etc)
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Without the smoke mod I was getting a bit of stutter if I followed a taxing plane's dust or got into some heavy smoke but after that mod all is smooth. It says it effects the clouds also but they look the same to me.
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