Author Topic: Hi-Res Texture Pack (Read 885 times)

Golfer · « **on:** November 18, 2006, 09:54:00 AM »

How do you un-do it? I loaded it into my laptop and it killed my performance...

Would like to get back to a reasonable framerate if possible!

68Dougal · « **Reply #1 on:** November 18, 2006, 10:10:39 AM »

This is from our squad forum from a few weeks ago. A squaddie had the same problem:

Copy and pasted -

"I don't know if my directions were clear earlier or if they just confused you more. If you weren't able to figure out what I meant, here it is again - with pictures!

So, this is the screen that should show when you first open AH. Click on the "Video Settings" option (conveniently highlighted and pointed out in the pic ).

That should take you to this screen:

And on this screen is the "Max Texture Size" option. Pick one of the 4 options. 512 is probably the best compromise between eye candy and performance. If you already installed the Hi-Res pack, you can still pick a lower resolution. You don't have to uninstall the hi-res pack (I don't even think you can); it just opens up 1024 for selection. Whatever you choose here is what the game will display."

Skuzzy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 18, 2006, 02:54:22 PM »

Dougal is correct. All you have to do is choose another texture size. No need to remove the hires texture pack if your goal is to disable it.

Golfer · « **Reply #3 on:** November 18, 2006, 03:11:16 PM »

well the thing is the computer ran just fine and dandy on the 1024 size. Ate up the frames it seemed with the hi-res pack.

Also Skuzzy,

My framerate in B-17s and other bombers drops from 30 in an F4U down to 7-9 in the B-17s/bombers just sitting on the runway. Default skin and such.

Is there a reason for this other than the 2 drones eat up more resources? It's a bit annoying and if there's something I can adjust/tweak on my end o help that would be great!

I have in my laptop:

128mb video card (ATI Radeon Xpress)
2gb ram
AMD Turion 64 1.8ghz

I use Enditall prior to logging in and even with the 512 texture size selected i drop to a low 7-9 framerate in the bombers. Any ideas?

Sent in my dxdiag results to support at hitechcreations under "golfer dxdiag"

Skuzzy · « **Reply #4 on:** November 19, 2006, 06:42:19 AM »

The Radeon Express is an onboard video chip which is a very low end device which uses your system RAM, versus dedicated video RAM. This makes it even slower.

Golfer · « **Reply #5 on:** November 19, 2006, 07:44:54 AM »

Is it possible to have the Radeon Xpress card swapped out for something else at this stage in the game?

It's not something I'd try on my own and risk turning my machine that runs the game 'reasonably' well into a paperweight.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #6 on:** November 20, 2006, 07:26:51 AM »

Need to check with the manufacturer on that Golfer. Sometimes they can be upgraded, sometimes not.

Forgot to answer the other part of your question. The bombers have a lot more going on in the cockpit than a fighter does.

Golfer · « **Reply #7 on:** November 20, 2006, 10:20:35 AM »

thanks skuzzy. It's a pretty new HP Pavillion machine.

Irwink! · « **Reply #8 on:** November 20, 2006, 10:59:48 AM »

Its been a few years but I had an HP pavillion with onboard video once that wasn't totally up to snuff for some games at the time. I bought a Voodoo 3 2000 (this was year 2000 or so) and disabled the onboard thing via device manager and everything was fine. I don't see why you couldn't do something similar today with the limitation being how much power the new card needs from the power supply.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #9 on:** November 20, 2006, 06:49:05 PM »

Many new HP systems do not have a PCI-E or AGP slot available. Saves money.

TexInVa · « **Reply #10 on:** November 23, 2006, 05:21:52 AM »

Plus, it's a laptop.

Irwink! · « **Reply #11 on:** November 23, 2006, 06:55:24 AM »

Ahh. I didn't think about the possiblity of no available slots, and a laptop to boot. A Pavillion laptop? Didn't know there was one. Whatever. I'll shut up now.

Krusty · « **Reply #12 on:** November 24, 2006, 11:30:26 AM »

You were set at 1024 before you installed the hi-res pack, but without it you're running at 512 (even if set at 1024) -- the 1024 textures aren't included with the base install, as far as I know. So you might have been running it, but really were doing 512.

For your video card I wouldn't even recommend 512! I'd stick with 256 or (gag!) 128. Looks worse but trust me it helps FPS and video lag issues.

make sure you optimize objects and terrains, you turn off skins (if you can bear to) and disable weapons effects, disable animated water, disable vehicle effects, and lower your resolution to 1024x768 (any lower and the game looks like crap).

Turn off any and all anti-aliasing in the card's control panel, and if you have an option set it to "performance" instead of "quality"

I had a huge FPS hit this last update (2.09). No reason for it. It just didn't install the patch properly, or who the heck knows. I ended up renaming my Aces High II folder to "Aces High 2" and re-installed AH with a freshly-downloaded full install (no patch), reinstalled hi-res, copied my files from "2" back to "II", then removed the surplus directory, and I think that's fixed it. Last night I was in MWA and didn't have the crappy FPS I'd had the past week or so. I'd suggest doing the same. It might help.

insiduoustek · « **Reply #13 on:** February 16, 2007, 11:09:37 AM »

wierd cause i just bought an hp pavilion dv9000 series with nvidia geforce go 6150 1.66 ghz processor and amd turion 64 x2 and i can have the hi res tex pack on 1024 everything pretty much as high as can be and have 30 + fps at all times. the only thing i cant seem to do without crashing the game is change my screen resolution.

actually scratch that i just cant change it to 1440x900 which unfortunately is the default screen resolution for my laptop =(