Many and detailed trees in campaign map

[CanOmer]

In campaign map there are too many trees. Also I think they have more polygons than the vanilla. So the mod runs slowly when the camera over Gaul, Spain..etc

My PC specifications: HD6850 1gb, Core i7 920 and 12gb dd3

Is there a way to prevent slowdown such as changing tree model or something else? (I don't want to cancel shadows.)

[Maurits]

RTR VII uses the M2 trees, in order to increase performance without turning off campaign map shadows you'd have to reactivate the RTW trees.

[CanOmer]

How can I do this?

[Maurits]

I'm sorry, but I don't know how to do that myself. I'll ask Muizer about it, if I'm right it's he who coded them in

[Muizer]

References to campaign map trees are located in descr_climates.txt. Here you will find lines such as:

../../../../RTRVII/data/terrain/aerial_map/M2_tree_models/M2_cypress_a.cas

These, you should replace with a reference to a vanilla model as found in the vanilla \Data\terrain\aerial_map\tree_models folder. In this example

sparse_tree cypress_a.cas

Note the absence of a path to the folder. Because that folder is the default, you do not need to specify it.

[CanOmer]

Thanks

[moonmonkey]

Does anyone have a descr_climates.txt file for RTRVII with reference to the trees in vanilla?

I'm also having significant slowdown due to all the tree animations on the campaign map,


I must say truly amazing mod, the only problem I can find at all is the slowdown on campaign map due to tree animations.

Thanks for any help!

[Maurits]

You could also try to turn off campaign map shadows through the video options (while being on the campaign map). For me, this solved the issue.

[moonmonkey]

In campaign map there are too many trees. Also I think they have more polygons than the vanilla. So the mod runs slowly when the camera over Gaul, Spain..etc

My PC specifications: HD6850 1gb, Core i7 920 and 12gb dd3

Is there a way to prevent slowdown such as changing tree model or something else? (I don't want to cancel shadows.)

I think the M2TW trees are not really working with the RTW engine, because you can see this computer spec is very high end, i7 & 12gb, there really should be no lag at all with these specs.

Hi, Maurits, yes I turned off the map shadows but still there is severe lag on the campaign map due to the trees, the battle map works perfectly well though and it's very smooth.

Changing the climates.txt is going to take quite a long time to do it manually and there is always the chance I could mess up the file.

If there is an original climates.txt file before the M2TW tree files were encoded, then that would be very handy, not just for me but also for other people getting slowdown.

Cheers!

[CanOmer]

Could you fix this with a new patch?

[moonmonkey]

I changed all the trees in RTR back to vanilla RTW trees,

To use this file just insert this file in the RTR/data folder and overwrite,

I can see 2 points from my testing

1) I have ONLY edited the campaign map trees, nothing on the battlemap has changed. I think now the campaign map game is not quite as pretty with the new trees, looks kinda flat and 2D compared to the RTR trees.

However,

2) The speed is vastly improved (at least on my version), moving the map around and playing the game in general is much faster and now fully playable (it was too slow with the RTR trees to play the game properly).

If you have problems with speed or lagging on the campaign map, feel free to use this climates.txt file, but make a backup of the original file in case you want to see the better graphics again.

For me personally, speed is much more vital than graphics, so I'll be using the vanilla trees.

Hope this helps anyone out.

Cheers!

[Muizer]

If you mean, will we return to RTW campaign vegetation in a patch.......then no. I think you'll have to hope someone makes a submod for it or something.

[moonmonkey]

I am editing the climates.txt file now, as Muizer suggested above, all the trees will be set to Vanilla,

Going to post it up in a minute after testing.

[GRANTO]

In campaign map there are too many trees. Also I think they have more polygons than the vanilla. So the mod runs slowly when the camera over Gaul, Spain..etc

My PC specifications: HD6850 1gb, Core i7 920 and 12gb dd3

Is there a way to prevent slowdown such as changing tree model or something else? (I don't want to cancel shadows.)

rtw engine only uses 1 core , so even on a superb high ender like this computer it will not beat an old single 3 ghz core, also the engine will not use the 12 gig of ram , it might use 2 if your lucky , i have found that having a good single processor is the vital part of rtw engine running great , especialy with mods like this one or rs2 that have pushed the engine to its limits

[BattlerBritain]

Strange - I've got a quad-core and all my cores are being used equally with RTR.

On Napoleon Total War that really was single core: CPU nailed at 25% with a single core at 100%. Now that game really did run like a dawg