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 merig00, on Jul 22 2010 - 21:52, said:

Excelllent.

Is there a way to keep destroyed tanks burning / having flames. Sometimes i just bounce into a bush where a destoyed tank is hiding. And i have destroyed myself already on such an occasion with a light tank.

Try tapping alt every once in a while, it shows live and dead tanks little silhouette picture above their wreckage. You can also use it to identify tank types through walls if you are good enough at identifying it.

fps improve

   i boost my fps , from 3-4 fps and sometimes 2 fps, to 10-12 fps and more, around 17-18 fps  

i have a normal notebook for normal people: hp 4510s, proccesor t6570 intel dualcore 2,1ghz, 2g ram, video card intel intgrated in main board intel4 series, gma4500, xp sp3 x86

i use and replace that two xml files, but i change few in preferinces.xml , a little different like is in this post/topic. this is my settings in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\W preferences.xml :
..........................

<label> SKY_LIGHT_MAP </label>
<activeOption> 1 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> MRT_DEPTH </label>
<activeOption> 0 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> SHADER_VERSION_CAP </label>
<activeOption> 0 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> TEXTURE_QUALITY </label>
<activeOption> 2 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> TEXTURE_COMPRESSION </label>
<activeOption> 1 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> TEXTURE_FILTERING </label>
<activeOption> 4 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> MORPH_VERTICES </label>
<activeOption> 0 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> WG_SHADOWS_ENABLED </label>
<activeOption> 0 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> SHADOWS_QUALITY </label>
<activeOption> 3 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> SHADOWS_COUNT </label>
<activeOption> 6 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> WEB_SETTINGS </label>
<activeOption> 2 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> TERRAIN_LOD </label>
<activeOption> 2 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> TERRAIN_MESH_RESOLUTION </label>
<activeOption> 2 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> SPEEDTREE_QUALITY </label>
<activeOption> 3 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> WATER_QUALITY </label>
<activeOption> 3 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> WATER_SIMULATION </label>
<activeOption> 2 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> FOOT_PRINTS </label>
<activeOption> 1 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> CLASSIC_TERRAIN_QUALITY </label>
<activeOption> 2 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> FAR_PLANE </label>
<activeOption> 1 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> FLORA_DENSITY </label>
<activeOption> 4 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> OBJECT_LOD </label>
<activeOption> 2 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> VEHICLE_PARTICLES </label>
<activeOption> 2 </activeOption>
</entry>
<entry>
<label> BUMPED_RENDERING </label>
<activeOption> 0 </activeOption>

...........................................

now, the biggest problem, and i expect answer from developers and/or wot team, WHICH PARAMETERS IS WITH SETTINGS 0-1,  0-1-2, 0-1-2-3-4; is very important because maybe one of them change voltage on hardware and burn something in pc/notebook  

Any way to re-bind the chat buttons so I know I'm actually saying stuff in global?

 Orionche, on Jul 27 2010 - 00:41, said:

No key bind just yet

Hello,

I've tried running my prefences all on low, yet the landscape is all gray. Anyone got a chance that they could fix it or...?

 Exactor, on Jul 30 2010 - 22:01, said:

update your video card drivers? does your card support shaders v 3.0?

 merig00, on Jul 30 2010 - 22:28, said:

The Threes and bushes makes it all lag, does anyone know how to remove it? Already edited the file and everything is on its lowest setting.

 TheFlonert, on Aug 01 2010 - 00:48, said:

thats like asking to remove walls in a counterstrike-like game ...
since bushes give camouflage, you are not supposed to remove them.

does your computer meet the system requirements ?

how about crypting the logindata in this file and not showing it blank?

Hi,

Very good topic we have here merig00. Thank you !
However, do you have any idea about the other beacons in this file ?

<label> TEXTURE_COMPRESSION </label>
<label> MORPH_VERTICES </label>
<label> WG_SHADOWS_ENABLED </label>
<label> WEB_SETTINGS </label>
<label> TERRAIN_LOD </label>
<label> WATER_SIMULATION </label>
<label> FOOT_PRINTS </label>
<label> CLASSIC_TERRAIN_QUALITY </label>
<label> VEHICLE_PARTICLES </label>
<label> BUMPED_RENDERING </label>

And what this beacon means ?

<label> TERRAIN_MESH_RESOLUTION </label>

Thanks !

 M0M0zArT, on Aug 02 2010 - 00:33, said:

These are the game engine settings, most of them are provided by its developers (BigWorld). You can modify them in order to find out what they change at your own risk. Don't forget to backup preferences.xml file before modifying it.

And one more thing some of these don't affect in-game graphics directly, but ususally you can understand what each particular command means, like TEXTURE_COMPRESSION or smth.

I prefer to change these preferences settings through the main program's video settings than manually modifying a file.

 merig00, on Jul 22 2010 - 21:52, said:

Never mind... It's hard to get used to a forum that jumps to the last message automatically when I find a thread for the first time.

 Overlord, on Aug 03 2010 - 12:17, said:

You don't really need to back it up just delete it and it will make a new one
and 0 = the highest quality peeps

Flora Density is the lagger turn it offf to get 30+fps boost

Hi all,

Is there any way of reseting view in Depot somehow? I found a bug (reported already to support) which is not allowing me to sell anything at all. I just pressed 'Not compatible with my vehicle' button in modules section and since then my Depot hangs (probbably calculating how many entries found - I need to mention I have a lot of modules and parts because I never tried before to sold them out and I had a few tanks). I've tried to reinstal client but it didn't work (probbably some settings/prefference files left somewhere because all the settings were exact same as before reinstallation). I changed installation directory and I removed some entries in Win registry related to the game but no luck. Please help me if u can.

same problem here...

with account of friend at same pc, no prob to enter their depot, my depot stay crashed

Hi there, I am also trying to find most maxed settings, but there are few things that I can't figure out what do they do, so I need clarification and exact description of each line command:

TEXTURE_COMPRESSION
MORPH_VERTICES
WG_SHADOWS_ENABLED
WEB_SETTINGS
WATER_SIMULATION
CLASSIC_TERRAIN_QUALITY

Okay, so these are the things I need description of what exactly do they change and what are benefits (gains/loses in graphical looks) of changing them.

Also I have 1680x1050 resolution, 16:10 ratio, I've set aspectRatio to 1.600000 and screen looks kinda squashed:


One more thing is that when I edit preferences file for custom settings I lose Anti-Aliasing and edges become rough and jagged (can be seen in screen shot).

EDIT: Comparison on how I lose anti-aliasing when using custom preferences (left AAx8 unmodified, right no AA modified):

(For best notice take a look at window frames in upper left near staircase and compare)

Thanks in advance!

 Godfury, on Jul 10 2010 - 03:47, said:

I had the same problem. The solution is turning off the smoke, that comes out of the barrel after firing. You can do this by renaming the file "shot_main.xml" in the "C:\Program Files\World of Tanks\res\particles\Tank". I have 5 xml files starting with "shot" and tried to rename every one of them, but only renaming shot_main.xml seems to be affecting the smoke from the barrel.
It looks little wierd without the smoke but you can see where your shot landed and adjust the next shot accordingly. I was getting mad everytime I tried to hit fast moving tanks - I was aiming a bit before them but I never saw where the shot landed because of the smoke from the barrel and the horrible 1 second lag that acompanied the shot (normaly I have around 60 fps but while shooting from heavy gun in 1st person it goes to 5 fps or so). Also, this mega fps drop occurs ONLY when shooting 1st person, the very close 3rd person view causes the fps to drop to half or quarter too but the resulting lag is much shorter and i can withstand 15-20 fps for half a second. Not 5fps for whole second though.
Also I would like to appeal on developers to work hard on tuning up the graphical engine - I don't think that this game looks particulary great (even if its not ugly and the graphics is well sufficient) but its very often more demanding than new games with incomparable graphics. Of course, the main problem that causes most of the stress on graphical hardware is smoke and shadows.

Just for the record, I think my PC configuration should be well sufficient for MMO game and represents the graphical hardware that will the average player of WoT have (Core i5-430M, 4GB RAM, Mobility Radeon HD 5650, Win7 x64)