luke97 Posted May 28, 2005 Posted May 28, 2005 Hi all. There´s a thing in FC (as did LOMAC) that pisses me off: The server forces you to use his "Scene" settings. I have a good PC and I always play with all my settings (except water and view distance, both in "medium") at "high" (including mirrors). I want to see forests, civilian traffic, etc. This sim is a graphical beauty and I want to enjoy it, but online, the servers use low graphical settings (the most evident is "Scene", that is always low or medium. The rest I´m not sure.) I know that is a fps problem for the server, but it should not be that way. In fact is the only sim in the history that does it. The argumentation about "the people who has best graphical settings have an advantage over the rest of players" is really stupid. Forgotten Battles let you play in "Perfect" mode and do not forces to the other players to play with i.e. water=1. This is absurd!!!! The solution cshould be very simple. Why the server cant force you to DO NOT use the mirrors? So the same should be done for the (at least) "Scene" setting. I dont bother about the server forces me to do not be able to look at my six (F4 key), but let my graphic settings alone!!! Please, ED developers. Take it into consideration on the June patch. Tnx
GGTharos Posted May 28, 2005 Posted May 28, 2005 Ther eason is that scenes can cause objects which are supposed to be in the way to not be there or vice versa for players with different scene settings. I've run intot he opposite problem: Servers running high settings causing problems for peopel who don't have quite as powerful computers. I'm sure there are ways to get around this issue without making mods (there are ways to get around'em right now, but they're not too pretty) ... I'm not sure if ED is going to make it happen though. The scenes are forced for game integrity, and it's bad going up /and/ down the computer power ladder. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Reminder: SAM = Speed Bump :D I used to play flight sims like you, but then I took a slammer to the knee - Yoda
luke97 Posted May 28, 2005 Author Posted May 28, 2005 Tnx for answering! If the problem are some objects, why only focus the solution on the trees? I can live w/o some buildings, but I need the forests and tree lines. I dont think trees and forests can cause problems. The people with lower specifications could see a green surface in the place where I see a forest. Thats all. Im not telling that the server uses a higher setting in order the rest of players be able to see more trees. Im telling that the graphic configuration of the server should not force or affect to the rest of people. Is a matter of fact that, in my case, this problem keeps me away from playing more on HL. With the increase of GPU/CPU power, a lot of people will think the same as I did. Please, as beta tester, can you transmit this to ED? Thanks!
Trident Posted May 28, 2005 Posted May 28, 2005 The trees may well become an issue in future with v1.2, as ED has stated that they will block LOS. However I agree that an option for the server to allow its clients to use what ever options they want would be nice. Let the host decide whether he wants to force his particular settings on the clients or not.
Mustang Posted May 28, 2005 Posted May 28, 2005 easy fix for this, just go to your C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Eagle Dynamics\Lock On\Bazar\Terrain\Scenes folder and there you will see the 3 files Low.scn, Medium.scn and High.scn.....if you want to always see the HIGH settings just rename the original Low.scn and Medium.scn files then make 2 copies of the High.scn file and rename them as Medium.scn and Low.scn (all 3 files should be the same size as the high.scn 78,327kb) likewise, if you want to always see medium or low scenes, just repeat the process but with the desired file :-) oh, and ETL.FSC is left alone 1
luke97 Posted May 28, 2005 Author Posted May 28, 2005 Are you sure? I tried that some time ago (1.01) , and I remember the did not worked. Have you tested this on your dedicated server?, I mean if somebody on your squad has observed that this works. Anyway I m going to test it and I´ll post here if it works. Tnx!
Mustang Posted May 28, 2005 Posted May 28, 2005 yep, been doing this with my lock-on since 1.02, works with 1.1 fine also.....to my knowledge, this modification does not affect clients when you're hosting in any way
luke97 Posted May 28, 2005 Author Posted May 28, 2005 YOU ARE DA MAN!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!! I´ve been flying on your squads server (Taipan and Shepsky downed me while I was testing :-P) that always had no trees, and now THEY ARE THERE!!! Great tip. Should be sticky!! Tnx again.
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