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    Default CoW 1.4.4 - Reduced City Textures

    Large sized building textures make for low FPS rates in siege battles for older graphic cards.
    I have used reduced texture sizes in my full install version and it appears that it has the desired results. For those that are daunted by the prospect of a huge download I have compiled an installer with just the required files.

    General:
    This installation contains reduced custom building textures for CoW 1.4.4, thereby reducing the load on the card.

    Installation:
    Download from MediaFire and run the installer.
    Note: The installation path is "mods\Call_of_Warhammer" - if yours is different you will have to copy the the data directory into your mod's folder after installation.

    To make full use of this feature I suggest you also download and install this work of mine:

    Creating a World - Reduced City Textures

    Please note that these additional reduced textures need to be installed into your game's main folder as it will otherwise overwrite custom files.

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    Default Re: CoW 1.4.4 - Reduced City Textures

    Quote Originally Posted by Gigantus View Post

    General:
    This installation contains reduced custom building textures for CoW 1.4.4, thereby reducing the load on the card.

    Installation:
    Download from RapidShare and run the installer.
    Note: The installation path is "mods\Call_of_Warhammer" - if yours is different you will have to copy the the data directory into your mod's folder after installation..
    Does this mean that all the COW's custom textures are now 512x512? Some of them are 1024x1024 in the vanilla-CoW (got the idea from Ziher's work actually ), but some 2048.

    Quote Originally Posted by Gigantus View Post
    To make full use of this feature I suggest you also download and install this work of mine:

    Creating a World - Reduced City Textures

    Please note that these additional reduced textures need to be installed into your game's main folder as it will otherwise overwrite custom files.

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    This is a must download if working with older rigs, it has huge impact in siege battles performance, but buildings still look good. Good thing you have kept this download alive.

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    Default Re: CoW 1.4.4 - Reduced City Textures

    Quote Originally Posted by Kahvipannu View Post
    Does this mean that all the COW's custom textures are now 512x512? Some of them are 1024x1024 in the vanilla-CoW (got the idea from Ziher's work actually ), but some 2048.

    This is a must download if working with older rigs, it has huge impact in siege battles performance, but buildings still look good. Good thing you have kept this download alive.
    The max memory size of the textures is now 1366KB\1024*1024 - can't remember which size the original ones were, but 2048*2048 is certainly around 4-5MB.

    Edit: the original teutonic textures for example (included in CoW) - ...\blockset\textures\faction_variations\teutonic_order\winterwalls_castle_large_stone.textures was 2048*2048\5462KB and is now 1024*1024\1366KB - a reduction by 75% without loosing details (at least not on the machines this is change is aimed at).
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    Default Re: CoW 1.4.4 - Reduced City Textures

    1024x1024 sounds perfect. I was asking this since I remember downloading version with 512res textures at some point, so I was wondering if this was the one.

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    Default Re: CoW 1.4.4 - Reduced City Textures

    To be honest can't recall what size the files in the old upload are. Just as well I uploaded them because I can't find the original on my hard drive. The size you refer to is the max size for CoW's custom files, I can't say about the old, uploaded ones.










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    File not found on rapid, tried 5 minutes refreshing just incase and as for mega.. :/
    Any chanse of a new link?

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    Default Re: CoW 1.4.4 - Reduced City Textures

    Thanks for letting me know - I will upload it at MediaFire, give me a while.










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    Good stuff.

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    Default Re: CoW 1.4.4 - Reduced City Textures

    Link updated in first post.










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    hey, is it compatible with ver. 1.5.1 ???

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    Default Re: CoW 1.4.4 - Reduced City Textures

    There might be new textures, but this set should be OK with 1.5.1 as well.










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    Default Re: CoW 1.4.4 - Reduced City Textures

    I've checked it-works perfectly with 1.5.1, thanks.

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    Default Re: CoW 1.4.4 - Reduced City Textures

    Great to hear - hope it helps.










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