V1.2.7.23803 smoke FX -> horrible stutters & FPS

[msalama]

The new smoke effect from burning vehicles absolutely kills my frames and smoothness - had no probs w/ previous v1.2.7 subversions. Anyone else suffering from this? :helpsmilie:

[AtaliaA1]

The new smoke effect from burning vehicles absolutely kills my frames and smoothness - had no probs w/ previous v1.2.7 subversions. Anyone else suffering from this? :helpsmilie:

 

Yes.

 

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=102808&highlight=Smoke&page=2

[msalama]

Yes.

 

Well I found it's actually the explosion FX sequence that's causing this, but as I said I had no problems whatsoever with previous v1.2.7 subversions. So I'm still wondering what exactly has changed now :huh:

[SkateZilla]

Yes.

 

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=102808&highlight=Smoke&page=2

 

not the same problem.

[msalama]

Swatted the mofo!

 

SOLVED.

 

Went to /Bazar/ParticleEffects/effects and commented out all light-related structures* in the LUA files. Lost all light reflections from the fires, but got rid of the FPS drop too! Yay!

 

* I.e. these:

 

local lb = 1.2

Lights =

{

{

offset = {0,3,0},

color = {{0, {1*lb, 0.6*lb, 0.2*lb}}, {0.3, {0.8*lb, 0.5*lb, 0.1*lb}}, {0.4, {1*lb, 0.6*lb, 0.2*lb}}},

distance = {{0, 10}, {1, 11}, {2, 10}},

},

}

[harv]

Please can you be a little more clear how to edit the particular .LUA files as I don't understand despite some previous experience editing such files...

 

Particularly I don't understand what you mean by 'commented out'?

 

I've changed my 'Effects' in the config.lua to 1 but the problem persists...

Edited March 19, 2014 by harv

[Cnuke]

Excellent solution msalama.

 

@harv

By using '--' in front of a line of code it won't be read by the program. So the code is commented out.

If you use notepad++ to edit lua files you notice the color changes of text, green is commented out.

 

I have edited the files and made it a mod for jsgme. click for download

Edited March 19, 2014 by Cnuke

[msalama]

@Harv: sorry, should've explained it a bit better.

@Cnuke: thanks for taking up the slack & providing the mod, top work :thumbup:

[harv]

Thank you very much for both your replies

 

I'll give it a go!

 

Excellent solution msalama.

 

@harv

By using '--' in front of a line of code it won't be read by the program. So the code is commented out.

If you use notepad++ to edit lua files you notice the color changes of text, green is commented out.

 

I have edited the files and made it a mod for jsgme. click for download

[harv]

It's much smoother!!!

 

Thank you both.

 

May I also ask, what you guys set your pre-load cache distance to?

[msalama]

150000km

[camsr]

Thanks guys, once again shaders are notorious for slowdowns.