Three questions?

[Thorn777]

Hi all,

Like the title says.

1. How do I change custom settlement names in RS2.1a?
2. Is there a forced diplomacy mod available? Couldnt find one after quick search.
3. What about the lag? How to get rid of it best way. Tried some suggestions by altering anti-aliasing, changing vegitation, toggling off unit shaders, but differences are minor.

Thx in advance.

EDIT: also get crashes when zooming in by middle mouse button at carthage opponent.

[Ybbon]

Hi all,

Like the title says.

1. How do I change custom settlement names in RS2.1a?
2. Is there a forced diplomacy mod available? Couldnt find one after quick search.
3. What about the lag? How to get rid of it best way. Tried some suggestions by altering anti-aliasing, changing vegitation, toggling off unit shaders, but differences are minor.

Thx in advance.

1. Don't know, not a modder, but it will be one of the descr files (probably!)
2. It's included it doesn't need to be started separately, if you've used it in other mods, it works the same.
3. What are your settings now, but basically reduce vegetation, grasses etc and eventually unit size until you reach a set that work.

What kind of system do you have?

[Thorn777]

1. Don't know, not a modder, but it will be one of the descr files (probably!)
2. It's included it doesn't need to be started separately, if you've used it in other mods, it works the same.
3. What are your settings now, but basically reduce vegetation, grasses etc and eventually unit size until you reach a set that work.

What kind of system do you have?

1. Kay maybe someone else knows. At the early release I asked that question also. I forgot where and how but it was possible according to the devs. I really need to change the name of that Dutch/Belgian settlement to Noviomagum, as I lived there for 15 years and was a key military settlement, at times home of the 10th etc.
2.Kay, but isnt it usually that this icon appears and you have to press the show me how button. But in my few tries all i got was the advice yada.
3.First tried average/high settings. Then I turned everything on low, but unit detail on high and unit scale on huge. Basically just as laggy all in all.

My specs are:

AMD athlon 9600 quad core 2.30 GHz
8 gig ram
windows vista 64 service pack 2
GTX 260

RS 1.5 worked like a charm, but I guess the new vegetation is killing it. Turned that also on lowest, but its not like you can go back to vanilla vegetation. Or can you?

[Brusilov]

You can go into the preferences.txt file and drop the grass draw distance down to a low number so it doesn't draw very much grass - it's eye candy anyway.

What resolution are you playing at?

The forced diplomacy is explained in the '....\data\_IMPORTANT_STUFF\Force_Diplomacy_RS_2\Readme,txt file'.

[Thorn777]

You can go into the preferences.txt file and drop the grass draw distance down to a low number so it doesn't draw very much grass - it's eye candy anyway.

Was on 0 by default. Changed it to 1. No difference in performance.

What resolution are you playing at?

Lowest both at 16 and 32

edit: even at unit size large i get considerable lag
edit: changing vegetation at the launcher to default seemed to have done the trick. still laggy but bearable, even with huge scale, highest unit detail, and vegetation in game menu on high.

Thx guys for the help. So still one question left: how to change settlement name.

[Brusilov]

I've never had the need to change a settlement name so I have no idea how that's done.

I do know that there are internal and external settlement names.

Maybe the best place to ask this question is in the 'Rome Workshop'.

[dvk901]

Hi all,

Like the title says.

1. How do I change custom settlement names in RS2.1a?
2. Is there a forced diplomacy mod available? Couldnt find one after quick search.
3. What about the lag? How to get rid of it best way. Tried some suggestions by altering anti-aliasing, changing vegitation, toggling off unit shaders, but differences are minor.

Thx in advance.

EDIT: also get crashes when zooming in by middle mouse button at carthage opponent.

1. imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt in the 'data\text' folder. Do NOT change the names in the brackets.

2. As said, forced diplomacy is part of the script. See the text file under '_important_stuff\forced_diplomacy'

3. You PC is actually a bit slower than my old 3GHZ Pentium 4....reason being, RTW can only use one processor or 'core'.
Unit shaders must always be ON, or you'll get CTD's when zooming in on units.