can you explain some of your comments inside the tweaker.ini, alot of these variables are considered to be defunct or cause worse performance, nothing is proven factually of course. id like to know if you know something we dont
things like clone models in background, i think this relates to speed tree, unsure.
allow partial precision, isnt this enabled for performance by default, i think it affects lower shader packages, i see no changes when using SM 2 or 3 shaderpackages
HQ 2.0 Lighting is another interesting one, the comment suggests that without it enabled, lighting uses SM 1? is this true? if this is the case then what are we looking at here, does SM 1 perform faster lighting than SM 2? how does this relate to quadratic or linear settings in light attenuation, as you may know, quadratic is far more complex than linear lighting, yet people suggest that linear lighting results in faster FPS? developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Constant-Linear-Quadratic_Falloff this is for a different game engine of course
what would you suggest? as using a different lighting formula doesnt alter the actual casting radius just the transition of contrast so to speak, it shouldnt really affect FPS, what about fLinear/QuadraticRadiusMult, not included in your tweaker, assuming they work, could be used to globally shrink light casting radius, avoid overlap?
Is the tweaks shown in the picture the ones your programs is preset for? Some of the setting need to be made a note of - one the ipreloadsizelimit really wants to be under 100mb, OBSE and FCOM authors have discovered flaws at high levels, I can confirm that I noticed less crashes by reducing it to 75 and I play with 1.5GB in my VRAM ALONE (the ones I do have are usually corrupted frames from 3 million polys rendering at once lol). couple others also - the highqualitylighting setting takes away your HDR and replaces it with a crap lighting if i'm not mistaken, should be noted that kind of loss in quality can be immersion breaking - most multithreading settings are useless and do nothing, but then most ppl know that - one setting you haven't mentioned from what I can see is the busehardrivecache setting, despite being "not recommended" on the tweakguides.com guide, I have found no harm in using it and I get nearly NO load pauses with this setting on. Worth mentioning, but then again I have Intel Cherryville SSDs .
So I just wrote these pointers down so others could get a better idea also, this will come in handy for some. Your other little mod with the PCB on a timer is a great idea, for that alone I use it. Look forward to seeing more of your works.
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allow partial precision, isnt this enabled for performance by default, i think it affects lower shader packages, i see no changes when using SM 2 or 3 shaderpackages
HQ 2.0 Lighting is another interesting one, the comment suggests that without it enabled, lighting uses SM 1? is this true? if this is the case then what are we looking at here, does SM 1 perform faster lighting than SM 2? how does this relate to quadratic or linear settings in light attenuation, as you may know, quadratic is far more complex than linear lighting, yet people suggest that linear lighting results in faster FPS?
developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Constant-Linear-Quadratic_Falloff this is for a different game engine of course
what would you suggest? as using a different lighting formula doesnt alter the actual casting radius just the transition of contrast so to speak, it shouldnt really affect FPS, what about fLinear/QuadraticRadiusMult, not included in your tweaker, assuming they work, could be used to globally shrink light casting radius, avoid overlap?
So I just wrote these pointers down so others could get a better idea also, this will come in handy for some. Your other little mod with the PCB on a timer is a great idea, for that alone I use it. Look forward to seeing more of your works.