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Randomaccount#77123
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States5003 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-28 16:04:22
July 28 2010 15:46 GMT
#121
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xbankx
Profile Joined July 2010
703 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-29 19:30:03
July 29 2010 19:25 GMT
#122
I can't seem to find the protraitoff in Variable.txt in my SC2 folder, can someone help me?
Latham
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
9575 Posts
July 30 2010 10:30 GMT
#123
You can't find the portraitsOff=1 because it doesn't exist. You have to input it manually it seems. I put it below the other Portrait thingy and it worked ingame. Got a small FPS increase.

I also noticed that on the contrary to what the game says, changing the game mode from Fullscreen to Windowed actually boosts my FPS. The only problem I have now is that I can't scroll ingame with my mouse. Can anybody help me with this? How to make the mouse not go "out of bounds" of the game window?
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beigezombie
Profile Joined October 2005
29 Posts
July 30 2010 10:39 GMT
#124
On July 28 2010 22:37 ProjectVirtue wrote:
i think the shadow command also got changed to graphicoptionsshadowquality

also, anybody able to turn off the shadows entirely? setting the shadowquality to 0 made it into the blob under the unit but theres still a real time shadow being casted, any thoughts?


Try adding shadows=0, that only disables real time shadows not the blob shadows.
Seth_
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Belgium184 Posts
July 30 2010 12:46 GMT
#125
hmm, adding portraitsOff=1 doesn't seem to work. (I put it after portraits3d=0) It's supposed to make the portrait rectangle black right? I restarted SC2 after saving the text file.

also, putting GraphicsOptionPortraits on 0 actually decreases my FPS I think. It's standard on 1 even at everything lowest in option settings.
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19203 Posts
July 30 2010 15:09 GMT
#126
Close SC2. Edit. Save. Open SC2.

The game saves current settings on exit, so if you close SC2 after saving changes the changes will be overwritten.
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Darksoldierr
Profile Joined May 2010
Hungary2013 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-07 20:38:43
August 07 2010 20:38 GMT
#127
Even if i set
shadows=0
softshadows=0
GraphicsOptionShadowQuality=0

there are still shadow under the units, and no, its not getting overwritten.
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icy_
Profile Joined April 2010
United States4 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-17 01:14:16
August 17 2010 01:10 GMT
#128
good guide. bringing this back up for those that are in need
Marksman
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Malaysia523 Posts
August 17 2010 01:53 GMT
#129
Adding this link from another thread in TL since I rather not steal the stuff lol

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=142046

Very helpful in getting FPS (Courtesy of PC Gaming Hardware) OR improving your present graphics.
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Elvin
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
149 Posts
March 22 2011 17:07 GMT
#130
Sorry for bumping old thread

I did all what OP recommended and so far so good BUT i just played 1st game with it and had some terrible freezes (like FPS 0 for 5 seconds ) at the beginning of the game mostly ,it happened at least 3 times.
What caused this? Any tips?
johnnyflipside
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada50 Posts
March 22 2011 18:20 GMT
#131
On March 23 2011 02:07 Elvin wrote:
Sorry for bumping old thread

I did all what OP recommended and so far so good BUT i just played 1st game with it and had some terrible freezes (like FPS 0 for 5 seconds ) at the beginning of the game mostly ,it happened at least 3 times.
What caused this? Any tips?

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Is this working for you on the full game or are you running the beta client?
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AkashSky
Profile Joined May 2014
United States257 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-24 00:12:23
December 24 2015 00:09 GMT
#132
Hello, I play sc2 on a pretty bad laptop. In order to be able to play with decent fps, I have changed the following variable in my variables.txt file
I changed
TerrainTextureSize=480
to
TerrainTextureSize=6

Before the patch preparing hots to legacy, my gameplay graphics looked like this:
[image loading]

After the Patch, my gameplay graphics now look quasi normal with small patches of low quality squares, (as if TextureSize was never changed to 480). Also, these patches disappear and are replaced with normal quality textures with time.

[image loading]

In the above image, the yellow high-lighted area are the squares as I wish for them to appear, while the red-highlighted area are squares that are not low enough in quality.

Given sufficient time, the blurred squares (the type I want all squares to be) are replaced by normal ones, as seen in the image below.

[image loading]

My question: is there anything that I can change to make it so that my Terrain Texture Size actually effects, and effects permanently every single square block on my map?
Phantomio
Profile Joined August 2021
1 Post
August 01 2021 14:41 GMT
#133
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