On July 07 2012 03:20 Demolicious wrote:
I'm not sure if its already been said, but VSYNC was owning me. Once I turned it off FPS went up up up!
Thanks for this , it looks so dam clear!

It's evident that VSYNC takes fps away.

Chrono000

Korea (South)358 Posts

July 06 2012 18:28 GMT

#182

maybe it is still green but its a yellowish green to me. Can we change the box/highlights Existor?

Treemonkeys

United States2082 Posts

July 06 2012 18:30 GMT

#183

This looks perfect, will the variable.txt settings work regardless of what I have my in game settings set to, or should I set everything to a certain setting first?

Existor

Russian Federation4295 Posts

July 06 2012 18:35 GMT

#184

This looks perfect, will the variable.txt settings work regardless of what I have my in game settings set to, or should I set everything to a certain setting first?

I've updated them some time ago, so it's no matter, what settings you have. Just add new settings to the end of variables.txt

maybe it is still green but its a yellowish green to me. Can we change the box/highlights Existor?

Probably you have "Redecoloring SC2" mod?

slmw

Finland233 Posts

July 06 2012 19:54 GMT

#185

For me, spotting cloaked units with this mod seems to be a bit harder than with higher graphics settings. Do you know which of these settings affect the visibility of cloaked units?

Existor

Russian Federation4295 Posts

July 06 2012 20:07 GMT

#186

On July 07 2012 04:54 slmw wrote:
For me, spotting cloaked units with this mod seems to be a bit harder than with higher graphics settings. Do you know which of these settings affect the visibility of cloaked units?

It's same, as high settings. And I disagree with you. Low settings uses simplified cloaking model, when high settings uses the standart one.

Hybrid settings uses high-settings cloaking model. And especially it's more noticeable because everything is more static and less animation or effects intensive. With static creep you're able to see stealth units quicker, than on creep with animation.

But at same time, as I said, low settings uses simplified cloaking model, so combining both (static creep and less animation intensive everything, and high-settings cloaking model) gives better result

Terranist

United States2496 Posts

July 06 2012 20:21 GMT

#187

On July 06 2012 23:51 Martyrc wrote:
ubuntu
8 fps.

pretty normal for me

Rizell

Sweden237 Posts

July 06 2012 20:46 GMT

#188

My normal settings is everything at lowest possible, tried these and i get around steady 80-90 fps however i have a VERY long load time.. and sometimes the game freezes during play for 3-4 secs.

Any idea what can fix it?

Existor

Russian Federation4295 Posts

July 06 2012 21:01 GMT

#189

Whats your PC?

TheFish7

United States2824 Posts

July 06 2012 23:00 GMT

#190

Love these settings. getting 100 fps even during big fights and it doesn't look horrible like low settings. Awesome!

sceletonx

Czech Republic5 Posts

July 06 2012 23:32 GMT

#191

Existor:

seems pretty good, but I like my own settings (low textures, low gfx, with high model/medium details)

I just wanna ask, cause I didn´t try find it myself (but I wanted to), but u seems a bit experienced in this already

I would like to change a building quality from low to medium (but in ingame settings it has to be done by change shadders from low to medium and it change so much others stuffs - in fact I think shadders change overall looking more than anything else, especially from low to medium...). I ll try to explain it... if u set everything on low, look, than change just shadders on medium and have a look, see that huge different? That is exactly what I dont want to, I just want to increase a bit the building quality (on low for example there aren´t visible decals on terran buildings and stuff like that)

Is that possible?

thx

Existor

Russian Federation4295 Posts

July 06 2012 23:43 GMT

#192

I ll try to explain it... if u set everything on low, look, than change just shadders on medium and have a look, see that huge different? That is exactly what I dont want to, I just want to increase a bit the building quality (on low for example there aren´t visible decals on terran buildings and stuff like that)

Hybridic settings solves this moment especially. The HUGE difference between low-shaders and medium ones. If you change that ingame options, I mean turn shaders to medium, you will turn at same timea lot unneeded parameters in variables.txt.

And if you want decals on buildings, just turn off simplifiedshaders and/or probably (not tested) uselowqualitymodels and lowqualitymodels (both parameters exist in variables)

KirA_TheGreaT

France204 Posts

July 06 2012 23:58 GMT

#193

This looks very nice, i was wondering why it was only low or high... ( medium is just too similar to high ), now we may have true medium settings !
Thanks for this

sceletonx

Czech Republic5 Posts

July 07 2012 00:04 GMT

#194

Turning off simplifiedshaders (with other stuffs "from low shadders ingame") seems to be exactly what I was looking for, thank you. I´ll try compare my own settings with that yours and post a (subjective) report later, anyway thank you.

EDIT: Wow!! Your settings actually looks pretty good (need a bit more "testing" before I´ll use it, and maybe disabling shadows, cause I am not used to them). But YOUR settings is EXACTLY! what I expect from MEDIUM settings (not that blizzard one, in their is actually so huge difference low/medium, and minimal difference medium/high. Thumbs up!

For those who want try settings (not that common one, and a bit "worse quality" than in this topic, try this on:

Set ingame:
Low or Medium textures (up to you, I preffered low)
Low gfx quality, than change Effects to medium, Models to high
(it ll look like low setting but with better animated deaths (fire, acid, zealot cuts,...) and few more things)
than go out of the game and edit variables file

change simplifiedShaders=1 to simplifiedShaders=0
(for better quality buildings)
and change simplifiedCloaking=1 to simplifiedCloaking=0
(for better cloak)

I´ll call this my setting as "improved low settings", and topic author´s one "medium", cause in fact blizzard medium sucks for me, and it´s more like high...

Anyways thumbs up for Existor, cause his setting is rlly awesome.

julianto

2292 Posts

July 07 2012 00:17 GMT

#195

On July 07 2012 03:27 Existor wrote:

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It's evident that VSYNC takes fps away.

what's vsync and how do I turn it off?

Skinnyboy

United States65 Posts

July 07 2012 00:20 GMT

#196

Out of curiosity would this same thing still work on a Mac OSX ? Not sure of specs on it, but curious if it would these would work on it without lagging it too much in game.

SolarJto

United States260 Posts

July 07 2012 01:19 GMT

#197

I used to do this, but I just like all low, personal opinion

Existor

Russian Federation4295 Posts

July 07 2012 01:37 GMT

#198

what's vsync and how do I turn it off?

Vertical Synchronization - makes ingame FPS similar to FPS of your monitor. But this requires a bit more PC resources and can cause lags in some cases

Out of curiosity would this same thing still work on a Mac OSX ? Not sure of specs on it, but curious if it would these would work on it without lagging it too much in game.

Not tested at MacOSX (because I don't have it). So you can test a bit and revert back at any time

jpaolof

28 Posts

July 07 2012 02:33 GMT

#199

Yeahhh! THanks =) Will definitely try this.