I have recently got back in to Steel Fury and one thing that struck me was the very short LOD distance of the trees, grass and shrubs. I am not sure if I am using the highest possible detail, as I think some of my graphics options are hidden due to an error about not having more than 128Mb of video RAM being plastered all over my graphics config screen. So I looked through the config files and found this in the config.engcfg

Do a search for "lod_dist" and you will be brought to this entry in the file.

lod_dist0 = 25.000000; <-- I changed this to 750.000000
lod_dist1 = 150.000000; <-- I changed this to 1000.000000
lod_dist2 = 0.000000; <-- I changed this to 500.000000

config.engcfg is located in "Steel Fury - Kharkov 1942\data\k42\loc_rus\config"

Now the trees and shrubs have a far further LOD change distance. Feel free to experiment with less or even further LOD distances. I have an i7 2600K clocked at 4.7 GHz with 16GB DDR3 RAM and a HD6970 and any higher than the numbers I posted and the game starts to stutter.

Nice find 2005AD
Have been testing it and I see a definate improvement. I hope you don't mind byt I posted your findings at the Graviteam SFK42 forums. Lots of active players there so you will probably get a more wider testing audiance. Pop over and see what happening if you get a chance.

I can't get on to the Graviteam SFK42 forums, I get the following error no matter what option I choose. I thought the forum was just broken or removed.

Boy thats weird, I'll drop a PM to Kyth at the Graviteam forums, maybe he can help. A lot has changed at the forum, it's much better and spam free now

It looks like your IP has been blocked! It's happened before, I think,

I'll have to see whether Iceman can do anything about it,

Thanks guys, for the record I have tried two different PCs and get the same error on both. My ISP uses DHCP IP addresses so it might be down to a particular range of IPs being blocked.

I have the same error.Now I have to use a proxy server to login.

Hi,

I hope you managed to get access to the site? If not, you'll need to contact Iceman to unblock your IP address,