What happen if I select shader 1?

[invicta]

Hi,
I am using this mod cversion 3.1,but I have a problem of performance.
I'm not sure is this is due to the mod,since I'm not playing since last January and before everything was ok.
Now I have a new monitor 22" res 1680x1050 (before 1280x1024 19").
I have a core duo 6700 and 4gb of ram.The vga is a 7900gt 256mb.
The game is set to huge unit size.
Now i a battle with about 5500 unit at a certain point the fremerate become unbilievably slow (less than 1 fps per second)when at the start of the battle was fine).
I have bloom disactivated,no v-syncc detail to the minimum,so the only thing I can try is to turn shader from 2 to 1.It would crash me the game if I do it?

[King Kong]

Hi invicta,

when you chosse shader1 you won't get any crash, but you will have only completely black skies....
You can solve this problem through deleting the whole "globallighting" folder (in Stainless Steel/data) then you will have the normal vanilla skies back.

However, the performance of the game depends mainly on other settings you choose for M2.
I think, shadows need the most performance, so I would first lower the shadow details or just turn them off.
Anti-aliasing, texture details and reflections also affect the performance very much...

So, I would recommend to lower other settings than the shader version, because it doesn't affect the performance much and also it can make some beautiful effects as reflections and bloom...

I hope this helps...

[RazorbackII]

Maybe you could try decreasing Unit Size to Large? Huge is a bit hectic for me and I think Large is perfect all-round. Worth a try?

[King Kong]

that's also a possibility, of course!

However, with my system I've noticed that the unit size doesn't increase the performance very much...

[numerosdecimus]

By the way King Kong, if I put the shader in 1 then those new skies of your mod wouldn't work right? What would happen? Would the sky be completely dark?

[King Kong]

Hi nurerosdecimus,

I believe the skies will be completely dark (at least they were on the pc from a friend of mine..).
There can't happen anything bad, so you could just try it, but probably it won't look very appealing...