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Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
August 05 2012 07:21 GMT
#441
On August 05 2012 15:37 CCalms wrote:
Can you explain what the "spec" variable does? It seems to cause a LOT of lag for me, but I'm still curious. Also, what is the idea behind decreasing shadowmapsize?

spec adds speculars to everything in sc2. In other understandable word, it adds shiny effect (most noticeable on zerg buildings and their creep)

shadowmapsize - resolution of shadows. Lower resolution - more pixelated shadows. The best variant is 1024 - not much high quality, but still it's not pixelated and smoothed.

The moment that at low settings it uses blob shadows. At ingame medium settings it uses 2048 shadowmapsize. We're decreasing it to mid-value, like 1024. Not so low, but less than standart medium
Rasputincz
Profile Joined May 2011
Czech Republic95 Posts
August 05 2012 08:47 GMT
#442
guys i need help with rechanging the visibility of forcefields. I have been playing on low settings all the time but once i found a interesting thread about changing the force fields in variables.txt
after the new patch by blizz the old changes disappeared and i have to rechange it once again. Unfournately i pretty much forgot it. Only thing that i remember was chaning "simplified cloaking from 1 to 0" in variables.txt
is it all or i have to do something too?
I would be grateful for help of any kind
http://cs.twitch.tv/raspcz
Lyyna
Profile Joined June 2011
France776 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-05 09:24:28
August 05 2012 09:21 GMT
#443
With the new method + cache clear, i still get insanely long loading time . . . . so long that i cant even launch a game in fact
Really sad, i loved these settings before the patch...

edit : well, after being able to launch a game,i got huge freezes each time a new unit/building is created
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/459600-how-to-mech-them-cry-lyynas-mech-in-hots - The 2014 Mech guide ! http://www.twitch.tv/lyyna for stream and contact infos
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-05 09:26:07
August 05 2012 09:24 GMT
#444
On August 05 2012 17:47 Rasputincz wrote:
guys i need help with rechanging the visibility of forcefields. I have been playing on low settings all the time but once i found a interesting thread about changing the force fields in variables.txt
after the new patch by blizz the old changes disappeared and i have to rechange it once again. Unfournately i pretty much forgot it. Only thing that i remember was chaning "simplified cloaking from 1 to 0" in variables.txt
is it all or i have to do something too?
I would be grateful for help of any kind

Just change in game options Models low to High.

i still get insanely long loading time . . . . so long that i cant even launch a game in fact
Really sad, i loved these settings before the patch...

Try both solutions? Clear variables + clear cache + fps-limiter?

Or do all steps from instruction, but don't do all variables.txt editing. Test it and then start edit variables.txt, changing parameters one-by-one
oFFoy
Profile Joined March 2011
Lithuania33 Posts
August 05 2012 09:59 GMT
#445
On August 05 2012 18:21 Lyyna wrote:
With the new method + cache clear, i still get insanely long loading time . . . . so long that i cant even launch a game in fact
Really sad, i loved these settings before the patch...

edit : well, after being able to launch a game,i got huge freezes each time a new unit/building is created


same for me, had to revert everything because it was unplayable
wut
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
August 05 2012 10:03 GMT
#446
On August 05 2012 18:59 oFFoy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 05 2012 18:21 Lyyna wrote:
With the new method + cache clear, i still get insanely long loading time . . . . so long that i cant even launch a game in fact
Really sad, i loved these settings before the patch...

edit : well, after being able to launch a game,i got huge freezes each time a new unit/building is created


same for me, had to revert everything because it was unplayable

Why you don't try these settings without variables editing?
Lyyna
Profile Joined June 2011
France776 Posts
August 05 2012 10:34 GMT
#447
On August 05 2012 18:24 Existor wrote:
Show nested quote +
i still get insanely long loading time . . . . so long that i cant even launch a game in fact
Really sad, i loved these settings before the patch...

Try both solutions? Clear variables + clear cache + fps-limiter?

Or do all steps from instruction, but don't do all variables.txt editing. Test it and then start edit variables.txt, changing parameters one-by-one

Well, it fails at the SPEC step. But well, already not bad with the "no variables.txt editing" , thanks a lot =)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/459600-how-to-mech-them-cry-lyynas-mech-in-hots - The 2014 Mech guide ! http://www.twitch.tv/lyyna for stream and contact infos
aLmosTeu
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany101 Posts
August 05 2012 11:09 GMT
#448
again thanks a ton man!
Jago
Profile Joined October 2010
Finland390 Posts
August 05 2012 11:14 GMT
#449
There is no such thing as "SPEC" in my variables.txt, do you people mean "deffspec"?
GeorgeyBeats
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom338 Posts
August 05 2012 11:21 GMT
#450
This was really great! Thanks man :D
How many bears could bear grylls grill if bear grylls coud grill bears?
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
August 05 2012 11:23 GMT
#451
There is no such thing as "SPEC" in my variables.txt, do you people mean "deffspec"?

Then do all steps again before editing variables
Rekcinad
Profile Joined August 2011
Netherlands23 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-05 11:30:39
August 05 2012 11:30 GMT
#452
If Spec isn't in your variables.txt you can just add it yourself.
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
August 05 2012 12:45 GMT
#453
Found one interesting thing.

With alternateLowtextures=1 you're better turn off SPEC, or you will have very brithness lighting on ground terrain.
Or vice versa. If you want turn off alternateLowtextures (changing to 0), you can turn on SPEC, bringing back shiny effect and nicer lighting on terrain.
Deleted User 135096
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
3624 Posts
August 05 2012 13:40 GMT
#454
been trying to get these to work properly since 1.5... I found that I had to have SPEC at the default or I experienced long loading times and massive frame drops. This was less so with non zerg matches, but with zerg it was game breaking.
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Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
August 05 2012 13:52 GMT
#455
On August 05 2012 22:40 wo1fwood wrote:
been trying to get these to work properly since 1.5... I found that I had to have SPEC at the default or I experienced long loading times and massive frame drops. This was less so with non zerg matches, but with zerg it was game breaking.

As I said, do all steps except variables editing. Then launch game and look for lags. Then one-by-one edit parameters in variables and see, what causes lags.
Lyyna
Profile Joined June 2011
France776 Posts
August 05 2012 16:05 GMT
#456
so, actually, doing every step except the SPEC one is ok. i only got a 0.1sec lag when i get a new unit on the field (probably because i didnt delete the cache) but everything else is ok. spec is the only problem here
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/459600-how-to-mech-them-cry-lyynas-mech-in-hots - The 2014 Mech guide ! http://www.twitch.tv/lyyna for stream and contact infos
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
August 05 2012 16:21 GMT
#457
On August 06 2012 01:05 Lyyna wrote:
so, actually, doing every step except the SPEC one is ok. i only got a 0.1sec lag when i get a new unit on the field (probably because i didnt delete the cache) but everything else is ok. spec is the only problem here

Try to clear cache and change SPEC then?
Lyyna
Profile Joined June 2011
France776 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-05 16:42:18
August 05 2012 16:41 GMT
#458
On August 06 2012 01:21 Existor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 06 2012 01:05 Lyyna wrote:
so, actually, doing every step except the SPEC one is ok. i only got a 0.1sec lag when i get a new unit on the field (probably because i didnt delete the cache) but everything else is ok. spec is the only problem here

Try to clear cache and change SPEC then?

regardless of what i do, basically spec is the only thing creating problems.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/459600-how-to-mech-them-cry-lyynas-mech-in-hots - The 2014 Mech guide ! http://www.twitch.tv/lyyna for stream and contact infos
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
August 05 2012 16:47 GMT
#459
On August 06 2012 01:41 Lyyna wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 06 2012 01:21 Existor wrote:
On August 06 2012 01:05 Lyyna wrote:
so, actually, doing every step except the SPEC one is ok. i only got a 0.1sec lag when i get a new unit on the field (probably because i didnt delete the cache) but everything else is ok. spec is the only problem here

Try to clear cache and change SPEC then?

regardless of what i do, basically spec is the only thing creating problems.

Here are some questions:

1) Is normalmap=1 or 0 ?
2) Are you using alternatelowtextures? If yes, turn them off. They're conflicting with SPEC parameter
3) Have you tried to make everything to low and then bring back SPEC and NORMALMAP?
4) Have you tried to clear variables.txt (or copypast all settings to other txt-file for some time) and then all steps again, including clearing cache and manually installing all options?
Lyyna
Profile Joined June 2011
France776 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-05 17:16:09
August 05 2012 17:13 GMT
#460
1)normalmap=1 (never touched it)
2)I dont use alternate low textures
3)I never touched normalmap, but whenever i changed spec, it made the game freezy/long loading/etc
4)Yes, i do it at each change (clearing the .txt and deleting cache)

But well, if you ignore that "spec" thing, the game looks nearly like before the patch, and dont lag
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/459600-how-to-mech-them-cry-lyynas-mech-in-hots - The 2014 Mech guide ! http://www.twitch.tv/lyyna for stream and contact infos
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