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[p4r4g0n]

Just out of curiousity, for those who solved their problem by reinstalling, did you try running the mwo repair tool before doing the reinstall?

[BladeXXL]

Shamous13, on 05 February 2014 - 06:14 AM, said:

Why the heck would the lock down the e_shadows does it stop a cheat? I don't think so. noobs

My fault ... they did not ... they screwed up the sliders in advanced video options... see my edited original post.

[VoodooLou Kerensky]

p4r4g0n, on 05 February 2014 - 07:04 AM, said:

Just out of curiousity, for those who solved their problem by reinstalling, did you try running the mwo repair tool before doing the reinstall?

Ive used the repair tool and I get the forever Connecting problem. Waiting for the Hotfix in hopes that works before I do a full on reinstall.

[z00med]

Guys, did you hear that here might be an issue with the graphics setting?

the labelling went wrong (Info comes from german forum, will test after hotfix)

till that, I copy you the stuff they posted there:

Slider bar setting = real effect

low = high
medium = low
high = medium
very high = high


Please take this with a grain of salt, all I noticed was that I had bit reduced graphic with my normal settings (erything high/very high) and too much filmgraindepthoffieldetccrap (Postprocessing is always on low in my settings...which would equal "high" atm, if the info is correct).

edit: settings added

Edited by z00med, 05 February 2014 - 10:19 AM.

[Matthew Craig]

I am investigating this currently and will try and keep you updated.

[Amarock]

Quote

low = high
medium = low
high = medium
very high = high

Sure? And after HotFix???

[kesuga7]

I thought my game looked prettier then usual
Re-installed and frames were still bad but found out it thankfully wasn't my system piping

horray for possible fix then!


offtopic
but does anyone else get significantly worse framerates on HPG manifold then other maps?!

specifically in the middle area

[Imperius]

I have a GTX 680 and Windows 8.1 2x Xeon 2.8 GHz Quad-Cores (total 8 cores) 10gb ram

The game barley taxes my card when I look at the graphics monitor yet my frames jump between 30-60 sometimes below 30 (big fights) added the High End user.cfg from an old thread FPS went way up. This patch came through and back down to crap.

Two problems I have.

1. I don't think it uses both processors just one.
2. I don't think it uses my card to its full advantage.

I'm not being negative but the game looked and ran better for me FPS wise back in closed beta.

Is there any way I can make cry engine use my card and other processor?

No I don't have power save settings on for either the processors or the graphics card. So no parked cores and no gpu power save.

Please help this rig should easily handle this game.

EDIT: forgot to say yes V-sync is off.

Edited by Imperius, 05 February 2014 - 11:00 AM.

[Matthew Craig]

Ok its the Custom setting that is broken, it's setting all values to 0 (which defaults to 3 = High) this happens if you choose custom or change the sliders.

It does look like the mappings for low to very high are correct, so for now the best course of action is to pick Low to Very High and then not touch any sliders.

[Egomane]

Matthew Craig, on 05 February 2014 - 10:46 AM, said:

Ok its the Custom setting that is broken, it's setting all values to 0 (which defaults to 3 = High) this happens if you choose custom or change the sliders.

It does look like the mappings for low to very high are correct, so for now the best course of action is to pick Low to Very High and then not touch any sliders.

Any timeframe for a fix? A good guess would be nice.

I'm currently unable to comfortably play due to the lack of extra wide screen support in the new UI, so I didn't get to play a real match. The inability to completly disable post processing, so I can make sure to have no blur effects, sounds like its killing it outright for me now. I can't play with blur and the slider for motion blur only disables some blur effects but not all of them. Playing at the lowest level of details just to avoid that, is not what I imagined for yesterdays patch.

Edited by Egomane, 05 February 2014 - 10:55 AM.

[Goose]

Matthew Craig, on 05 February 2014 - 10:46 AM, said:

It does look like the mappings for low to very high are correct, so for now the best course of action is to pick Low to Very High and then not touch any sliders.

That's got'a be wrong: When I set Particales and Shadows to Low, there are in fact shadows and smoke in places they should be turned off, whereas you set them two to Medium, and the two effects are turned off like one would expect for Low.

River City's Tunnel is probably one of the better examples to test for this …

[Matthew Craig]

Egomane what happens if you set the level you want e.g. High and then add r_MotionBlur=0 to your user.cfg

Goose, on 05 February 2014 - 11:07 AM, said:

That's got'a be wrong: When I set Particales and Shadows to Low, there are in fact shadows and smoke in places they should be turned off, whereas you set them two to Medium, and the two effects are turned off like one would expect for Low. River City's Tunnel is probably one of the better examples to test for this …

The sliders are broken, I'm referring to the global settings low/medium/high/very high

[Egomane]

I'll try that in an half an hour or so and report back to you. Might already be in my user.cfg. Haven't touched it since closed beta.

But... I have motion blur off and as far as I know that should work. Its the additional blur effects that come with the various levels of post processing, like distance blur and such that I want to get rid of as well by setting post processing to the lowest value. Any user.cfg settings you know of to achieve that?

[Matthew Craig]

Egomane you can try using these as well

r_DepthOfField = 1
r_MotionBlurMaxViewDist = 16

[Egomane]

I have all three options in my user.cfg, they were disabled. I activated them and will now make a test run. I'll report back after that.

[BladeXXL]

you can not change r_MotionBlur and r_DepthOfField within user.cfg (or anything else which is set in sys_spec* files)
... those days are gone ^^

[Egomane]

Tried those user.cfg options and there is still some minimal blur left. Settings in game are like I always had them.

Will now try with predefined very high settings and no custom regulations.
Edit: This seems to work! Didn't notice any blur on my last match on Alpine Peaks

Thank you, Matt!

Edited by Egomane, 05 February 2014 - 02:06 PM.

[Eldane]

Switching the global dropdown to low fixed my fps issues!

Edited by Eldane, 05 February 2014 - 12:13 PM.

[Shamous13]

Matthew Craig, on 05 February 2014 - 11:25 AM, said:

Egomane you can try using these as well

r_DepthOfField = 1
r_MotionBlurMaxViewDist = 16

BladeXXL, on 05 February 2014 - 11:41 AM, said:

you can not change r_MotionBlur and r_DepthOfField within user.cfg (or anything else which is set in sys_spec* files)
... those days are gone ^^

I'm wondering if they could provide a list of the ones that aren't locked down.

[Reno Blade]

I reset my settings to "Low settings" then to "Very High settings" and went back to advanced settings to switch Post Processing to Medium ( seems to be the value for "low").
I also still have my old config file (the ultry high setting config from Colonel Pada Vinson in the Workaround forum section).
For now everything looks very nice again, but I didn't check specific stuff.

I just noticed most settings were at low/medium when I patched and most of my config settings were not working, or not overwriting the game settings (like LRM smoke and glow missing even with the ultry high config file).