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Norzma
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden160 Posts
July 04 2012 23:36 GMT
#21
Gonna try it out tomorrow, thanks.
Inex
Profile Joined October 2010
Bulgaria443 Posts
July 04 2012 23:51 GMT
#22
Yeah you found out how to turn shadows on, while shaders are off. As for the warping and death animations, that is changed via the ''models high/low'' option in the game menu. The reason all low looks darker is the lack of lighting, which you managed to fix. Good job, but still models on high and shadows eat unnecessary processing power. I play on all low, because looking at those shiny lights and lighting makes my head hurt.

MentalGNT
Profile Joined January 2011
Denmark1264 Posts
July 05 2012 00:04 GMT
#23
You make a lot of cool stuff existor. Thank you

As for the settings; I like them. They look very clean. I will try them out tomorrrow.
What a player
tsango
Profile Joined July 2011
Australia214 Posts
July 05 2012 00:05 GMT
#24
On July 05 2012 08:04 shishy wrote:
Can someone explain to me why whenever I set shaders to medium (from low) my fps drops from 60 to 30 instantly? My specs are:

16gb ram
i7-2600k at 3.4GHz
Radeon 6450 (awful)


Sounds like vertical syncing to me.
Locks your frames at 60 (the refresh rate of your monitor - Hz) so they dont go above that and give you stuttering. If you're system cant handle >60, e.g. with shaders up fps might drop from 70 (vsync'd you see 60) to 50, Vsync will then cut this to half of the refresh rate of the monitor (30fps).
If you dont like something, then that should be reason enough to try and change it
SilSol
Profile Joined April 2012
Sweden2744 Posts
July 05 2012 00:08 GMT
#25
This is quite interesting, thanks for the info btw! So this actually makes it a lot smoother?
http://fragbite.se/user/117868/silsol since 2006 http://www.reddit.com/u/silsol77
Peekay.switch
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada285 Posts
July 05 2012 00:11 GMT
#26
Could we have some cloaked units in the screenshots?

Along with the ring around the pylon plox? :D
LiLSighKoh
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States588 Posts
July 05 2012 00:16 GMT
#27
Just tried it out, makes playing on Medium much more smoothly, higher FPS. Thanks!
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SkullXbones
Profile Joined July 2012
United States58 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-05 00:25:33
July 05 2012 00:24 GMT
#28
On July 05 2012 08:04 shishy wrote:
Can someone explain to me why whenever I set shaders to medium (from low) my fps drops from 60 to 30 instantly? My specs are:

16gb ram
i7-2600k at 3.4GHz
Radeon 6450 (awful)





Do you have vertical sync enabled? Is so, then if your fps ever dipped below 60 the game would go to 30fps automatically. As far as this mod, i don't get it. But w/e. You can try to disable vertical sync and see if that helps, it might cause screen tearing. I always leave it off, but i also don't get screen tearing.
Super_bricklayer
Profile Joined May 2010
France104 Posts
July 05 2012 00:32 GMT
#29
Wow this is great. Thanks for sharing !
I was playing on low but the "toys" look was kind of bad, it's perfect that way, simple & clear with high FPS and way better looking.

Again, big thanks !
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
July 05 2012 00:45 GMT
#30
Good job, but still models on high and shadows eat unnecessary processing power. I play on all low, because looking at those shiny lights and lighting makes my head hurt.

Well, it's free to edit. Some of those parameters I've turned on, because wanted to make it a bit different from low settings by "grabbing" some medium and high parameters. It depends on your PC. And models turned ON don't use a lot processor, so thats why it can be enabled at those "low-high" settings

Could we have some cloaked units in the screenshots?

Along with the ring around the pylon plox? :D

They are same distorted silhouettes, like at medium/high settings. Also thx for remembering about Pylon circle I'll add this one too to differences block. Forget about it

I was playing on low but the "toys" look was kind of bad, it's perfect that way, simple & clear with high FPS and way better looking.

Again, big thanks !

hdr=0 on low settings makes everything more colored and a bit darker. When it's turned ON ("1"), game becomes a bit more realistic and probably 5% less saturated. And Overlords have small glow in their body
Flameling
Profile Joined July 2010
United States413 Posts
July 05 2012 01:05 GMT
#31
How would one turn the pylon ring back into the simple non-animated ring in the variables.txt?
deth
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Australia1757 Posts
July 05 2012 01:19 GMT
#32
Thank you so much for this, I have wanted the look of low with the visibility of cloaked observers and banshees for a long time.

)))
shishy
Profile Joined May 2011
United States115 Posts
July 05 2012 01:30 GMT
#33
On July 05 2012 09:05 tsango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 05 2012 08:04 shishy wrote:
Can someone explain to me why whenever I set shaders to medium (from low) my fps drops from 60 to 30 instantly? My specs are:

16gb ram
i7-2600k at 3.4GHz
Radeon 6450 (awful)


Sounds like vertical syncing to me.
Locks your frames at 60 (the refresh rate of your monitor - Hz) so they dont go above that and give you stuttering. If you're system cant handle >60, e.g. with shaders up fps might drop from 70 (vsync'd you see 60) to 50, Vsync will then cut this to half of the refresh rate of the monitor (30fps).


Nope, vsync was off. When it was enabled it did what you described but after turning it off I got around 24-36 fps with all low but shaders medium lol. Even with ultra textures i get 60+ fps but medium shaders kill it (I even tried to disable shadows through config but that didn't fix it either). Dunno, stupid computer =[.
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-05 01:36:02
July 05 2012 01:34 GMT
#34
On July 05 2012 10:05 Flameling wrote:
How would one turn the pylon ring back into the simple non-animated ring in the variables.txt?

Ugly simply circles without animation, also no more green and fire deaths
useLowqualitymodels=0

Nice hexagonal with animation like at medium-high settings, and with awesome deaths after killing by acid/flame weapon
useLowqualitymodels=1
Amalaxi
Profile Joined December 2010
United States180 Posts
July 05 2012 01:40 GMT
#35
I can't find this file to edit it, am I the only one missing this? :/
justin.tv/amalaxinaoum
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
July 05 2012 01:44 GMT
#36
On July 05 2012 10:40 Amalaxi wrote:
I can't find this file to edit it, am I the only one missing this? :/

XP: My documents -> StarCraft II -> here
Vista/7/8: C:\Users\*****\Documents\StarCraft II\here
Kluey
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada1197 Posts
July 05 2012 01:53 GMT
#37
Is there anyway to change only the graphics and not the mouse settings/sound settings and such?
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
July 05 2012 01:57 GMT
#38
On July 05 2012 10:53 Kluey wrote:
Is there anyway to change only the graphics and not the mouse settings/sound settings and such?

They're resetting to default. Or you can open your old variables.txt, find (Ctrl-F) word "mouse" and copy it to new variables.txt
TSBspartacus
Profile Joined October 2011
England1046 Posts
July 05 2012 01:59 GMT
#39
On July 05 2012 08:09 Stress wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 05 2012 08:04 shishy wrote:
Can someone explain to me why whenever I set shaders to medium (from low) my fps drops from 60 to 30 instantly? My specs are:

16gb ram
i7-2600k at 3.4GHz
Radeon 6450 (awful)

Graphics card can't handle the settings. Interesting config, will try it out.

What happens is that your processor runs the shaders when its on low settings, and your graphics card when you raise it. This is the case with a lot of games, and it puts extra load on your GPU or CPU, depending which way you have it. Put the load on the most powerful, in this case your CPU, so turn the shaders to low.
Amalaxi
Profile Joined December 2010
United States180 Posts
July 05 2012 02:03 GMT
#40
On July 05 2012 10:44 Existor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 05 2012 10:40 Amalaxi wrote:
I can't find this file to edit it, am I the only one missing this? :/

XP: My documents -> StarCraft II -> here
Vista/7/8: C:\Users\*****\Documents\StarCraft II\here



Thank you very much! Will test it out now!~!
justin.tv/amalaxinaoum
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