Massive Slowdown

[dorian_zuleta]

Quick question for RTR Platinum. I can play RTR Gold with huge settings & mostly high settings with no problems. However, with RTR Platinum I have a major frame rate drop. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[Cheexsta]

If you have a copy of Vanilla on your computer, try copying the data\descr_grass.txt file over to your Platinum data folder, or you could turn it off completely in your settings menu. That should help with battles (grass is a huge resource drain in my experience).

Other than that, I'm not too sure what the problem is.

[dorian_zuleta]

Is grass really that different drom Gold to Platinum? Guess I'll put a mower to the grass then. Hope it helps. Thanks for the reply !

[JoeyJubb]

I didn't think the grass text file was changed from gold to platinum? I know the original RTW is easier on your machine that gold's. I heard somewhere that platinum "does not use sprites"... surely that couldn't be true? it sure *looks* like it does...

EDIT: Sweet, that post bumped me from Knight, to Knight Commander! lol

[Darkarbiter]

I didn't think the grass text file was changed from gold to platinum? I know the original RTW is easier on your machine that gold's. I heard somewhere that platinum "does not use sprites"... surely that couldn't be true? it sure *looks* like it does...

EDIT: Sweet, that post bumped me from Knight, to Knight Commander! lol

Sprites has to do with unit quality on highest i think it doesnt use sprites at all.

[Cheexsta]

It probably isn't any different from Gold to PE. But the difference between Gold and Vanilla is enough to cause slowdown on lots of computers, so I suggested it in case it does help in some way.

And yes, Platinum certainly uses sprites. Even on the maximum model detail, sprites are still used, albeit at a fairly large distance away.