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cozzE
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia357 Posts
April 19 2011 02:15 GMT
#41
Does anyone know what the "fogvolume=0" setting is in variables.txt?

I love playing on low settings but it's just way too dark in comparison to medium (with monitor brightness levels the same - especially on metalopolis).
PhiliBiRD
Profile Joined November 2009
United States2643 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-19 03:55:00
April 19 2011 02:25 GMT
#42
no noticeable difference in FPS. then again everything is already on low so maybe thats y

on further inspection, seems to have some increase in performance, hard to really say where but its noticeable enough to mention

thx
Sanasante
Profile Joined March 2010
United States321 Posts
April 19 2011 02:26 GMT
#43
On April 19 2011 10:53 Joedaddy wrote:
This change had a negative effect on my game stability. I personally would not recommend this.


You should have a copy of the original variable.txt as backup. Then try doing it again. There is no reason you should have a negative effect.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light
I Hott Sauce I
Profile Joined June 2010
United States91 Posts
April 19 2011 03:29 GMT
#44
Can anyone say for certain what this does to the in game graphics?
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gibbons_
Profile Joined February 2011
52 Posts
April 19 2011 04:21 GMT
#45
I, like others here, only have "softshadows" in our variables.

The others do not exist. Running Ultra settings that brush against 60fps. Would like to keep it 60fps lock.

What do?
Highlight
Profile Joined April 2011
United States75 Posts
April 19 2011 04:26 GMT
#46
im not sure about doubling your FPS but taking off shadows does drastically increase it
sureshot_
Profile Joined August 2010
United States257 Posts
April 19 2011 04:26 GMT
#47
Game is running noticeably smoother, and I can't see a change in graphic quality which is nice. Going to test some of the ones mentioned in the battle.net sticky and see if they're note worthy.
Sabu113
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States11078 Posts
April 19 2011 04:31 GMT
#48
Playing off a macbook so thank you again for the advice.
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Knutzi
Profile Joined July 2009
Norway664 Posts
April 19 2011 05:01 GMT
#49
is setting shadows to 0 supposed to remove shadows completeley? because for me i still have them ingame : ((
omegan
Profile Joined April 2011
76 Posts
April 19 2011 05:47 GMT
#50
I just changed two of those four since two of them were already set to 0. Are there any other safe recommendations? I would like to change my graphics to the lowest of lowest possible and still playable, since my laptop is running on Intel HD, which is not recommended for gaming. I noticed dark templars are more visible.

thanks.
eery1
Profile Joined June 2010
52 Posts
April 19 2011 06:51 GMT
#51
Thanks for this! lol, I only switched long after the beta was over and thought I was retarded cuz I'd always lag up versus zerg :D
deanyo
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom206 Posts
April 19 2011 06:55 GMT
#52
Worked perfectly for me, playing on a mix of ultra/medium settings, and went from 80 to 130 fps at the start of a game <3
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darkevilxe
Profile Joined August 2007
Canada346 Posts
April 19 2011 06:55 GMT
#53
nice, this is great for me thanks
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
April 19 2011 08:22 GMT
#54
This is really strange, because recently I found a similar advice in the Tech support forum and it says to set

simplifiedCloaking=1
simplifiedShaders=1

instead. So now what?
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doomed
Profile Joined May 2010
Australia420 Posts
April 19 2011 08:48 GMT
#55
On April 19 2011 17:22 opisska wrote:
This is really strange, because recently I found a similar advice in the Tech support forum and it says to set

simplifiedCloaking=1
simplifiedShaders=1

instead. So now what?


What you have there is the correct setting if you want to lower the quality. I think the guy got confused.

As we know 0 means no and 1 means yes so are you running simplifiedCloaking= ?

I should be 1

Also if you are on low shaders and set these to 0 you won't see any visual difference except sc2 might use ressources for no good. It's not completely "safe" to change the variable.txt settings (it is, dont worry you can always delete it and let sc2 recreate it) but what im saying is that if you change stuff that does not make sense you can mess up your starcraft performance more than helping it.

the settings applied in this thread is all great though! specially for people running on medium shaders and higer.

Benjef
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United Kingdom6921 Posts
April 19 2011 09:02 GMT
#56
Wow thanks I did do this and noticed considerable performance gain! Sc2 is actually playable on this pc now :D! Thank you!
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SmoKim
Profile Joined March 2010
Denmark10305 Posts
April 19 2011 09:03 GMT
#57
Just wanna say that the 4 mentioned here wasn't in my file, but in the "EditorVariables" (same folder, because i edited the settings)

tried this with cloaking and shaders(others were already 0) hoping it will help thanks OP
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Sanasante
Profile Joined March 2010
United States321 Posts
April 19 2011 14:24 GMT
#58
SimplifiedCloaking=0 makes cloaked units a lot more visible. Highly recommended to change because of annoying dt's.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light
Ftwpker
Profile Joined January 2011
United States165 Posts
April 19 2011 22:45 GMT
#59
I actually found this to lower my frame rate by 5-10. After setting the variables to 0, I loaded up the game and began to play. Minutes within the game i realized the decals became more apperant and I think this might have caused a decrease in frame rates for me. Every building had the decal brightly lit and clearly visible and also it was attached to every marine I had whereas before the decals werent so apperant
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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