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romanov77
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posted December 14, 2007 02:15 PM |
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How to disable the Hero Trail
After finally starting the TotE campaigns (exams done!! ) I noticed that there is still 1 little thing that lags my game (I swear I will buy a new videocard and another 1024 RAM stick....)
I need to disable the hero trails.
By trails I dont mean the little moving circles around them, but the trail left behind powerful heroes (example: The green smoke left by necros or the violet one left by wizards)
I tried to look in the cfg file, but all I found was the option to swith on-off the "special hero trail"....
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romanov77
Known Hero
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posted December 15, 2007 07:34 PM |
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Never mind, looks like I solved this one by myself!
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sfidanza
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted December 16, 2007 01:51 PM |
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Good! You were too quick for anyone to have time to answer!
For reference, can you explain here what you did?
Or maybe, when you have the time, you can even explain all the configs and settings and modding you used to solve your graphics performance problem? It would be like a "tweak your game for low-end graphics" guide.
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romanov77
Known Hero
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posted December 16, 2007 11:08 PM |
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Sfidanza, I'll post my entire cfg file if you want, as I really dont even remember anymore all the tweaks I made....people could just copy and paste it on their cfg... just one thing before I post it: would it reveal any sensible information on me/my machine? (Im sooo paranoid, I know! )
I play at highest setting, and removing all the useless stuff, the game looks still great and very smooth...all this with 1024 RAM and a pre-historic Radeon X550 (1€ on e-bay if you are interested)
As for the hero trail thingy I didnt deactivated it...I discovered that putting "0" on the "fsaa" entry in the cfg (dont even know what is it ) made them "lighter" for my system...
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sfidanza
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted December 17, 2007 02:48 AM |
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Here's what I suggest: create a new profile, it will have the default cfg. Then you can compare the default with yours, and post only what differs.
The reason I asked you is more to educate, so that people can learn by reading it, not get something to copy-paste without understanding what they're doing.
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romanov77
Known Hero
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posted December 17, 2007 09:34 AM |
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I dont understand many of the things I changed...all I know that the game runs faster....
Anyway, here's all the stuff I did to make the game smooth on my machine :
Turn off fly-by town view (disable from the option menu)
In the cfg file I modified:
Anisotropic filter = 0
Ban lags = 0
Dynamic lights = 0
fsaa = 0
Lightmap calculations = 0
Lightmap quality = 0
nonclipped_water = 0
nopixelshaders = 0
noshadows = 1
particles = 0
gfx_quality = 0.25
shadows_quality = 0
texture_mip = 0
true_water_reflection = 0
vsync = 0
shadow_on_trees = 0
terra_quality = 0
As for the titan alternate animation mod (remove the HUGE lag when his special ability is activated):
Here's your own explanation I followed:
How to remove the laggy cloud effect from the Titan alternate:
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Open the data file with WINRAR, not Powerarchiver
I'll assume you know how to make a mod. Ask if anything is not clear.
I'll also assume you mean the effect on the target when the Storm Titan uses his Call Storm ability.
I think the files are in the folder:
GameMechanics\Spell\Creature_Abilities\Academy\
CallStorm.xdb is the entry point: at the end, you have a "visuals" tag:
<visuals>
<Item href="CallStorm.(SpellVisual).xdb#xpointer(/SpellVisual)"/>
<Item href="CallStorm_End.(SpellVisual).xdb#xpointer(/SpellVisual)"/>
<Item href="CallStorm_Hit.(SpellVisual).xdb#xpointer(/SpellVisual)"/>
</visuals>
referencing the 3 other CallStorm files in the folder. Try disabling the "effect" tag in those 3 files. Maybe remove a file's reference from the "visuals" tags, one file at a time, and you should find out which is causing the smoke effect.
Also, I recommend to change the default main menu animation which lagged the hell out of my machine....I just used the HeroesV one, downloaded from this site.
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