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  1. Black Bart

    Mod Release Build 14 Beta 3.4 Release

    Darn it, spoke too soon. I've had a repeatable CTD while in direct sail mode, that gives a windows error relating to 'merchantflag3.dll' with remarks like wrong name called/used for x etc. There were two different times this happened, and both involved some ship battles in the distance (that i...
  2. Black Bart

    Poll Your Preferred Gameplay Style

    Yeah i'm trying some different settings to see why (in particular) you end up really far away from the island after dropping down into 3D mode from the Map Navigation mode, i 'think' it has something to do with the value '10000' in the file NK.c around line 2200 (where the entries for the Open...
  3. Black Bart

    WIP Black Barts Playtesting thread for Build 14 Beta 4 WIP (ver:18 Jan 2016)

    Well it definately feels way to quick on the current setting, even if it pans out over the long run getting MUCH slower. 5 levels just from doing 'nothing' (i'm not even meant to be the one sailing the ship!) in that one trip from Speightstown to jamaica just does not feel well balanced. To put...
  4. Black Bart

    WIP Black Barts Playtesting thread for Build 14 Beta 4 WIP (ver:18 Jan 2016)

    Well i'm not that much of a fan on the added 'time jump' thing that happens during Direct Sailing around, but i understand why it has been done. I'd prefer a less obtrusive method personally speaking (as a 3D direct sailing mode player) to better ensure the time spent sailing in direct mode...
  5. Black Bart

    Mod Release Build 14 Beta 3.4 Release

    Just a reminder to myself, this is the thread for the version i'm now succesfully running :sail
  6. Black Bart

    Fixed levelling messed up

    maybe not exactly related, and this was before any of the fixes were reasled for Beta 4, but (and i have mentioned this in other threads so sorry for repeating it!) at game start i left Speightstown as either level 2 or 3 (due to trading/fixing ship and a fight or two) and by the time i arrived...
  7. Black Bart

    Poll Your Preferred Gameplay Style

    Interesting question (although i don't see any poll options to vote on, maybe the forum does not mean that by 'Poll'?). I like realism, so most of the realism settings are set to on. I also like to feel i'm in the world the game is set in, so that means as little 'fast travel' as possible...
  8. Black Bart

    Mod Release Build 14 Beta 3.5 Internal WIP For Testing

    Ok well i was coming to post here thinking this was the version i was running, but it appears not, and going by that comment i'm unlikely to try! :eek So as i got my install from MoDdb, it is 3.4 version then, even with the added zip files? It says version Build 14 Beta 3.4 12 Feb 2015 on the...
  9. Black Bart

    WIP Black Barts Playtesting thread for Build 14 Beta 4 WIP (ver:18 Jan 2016)

    Just thought i'd put this here as i don't want to mess up Hylies thread too much! :) I have added the zip fixes to Beta 4, and pedrwyth's fix does seem to fix an recruitable officer sitting at that top table, BUT not any of the other types of npcs that now also sit at that top table (sea crew...
  10. Black Bart

    Solved Windows 10: Low Frame Rates Despite (BECAUSE OF!) Good Hardware

    ;) argh me old Pirate, no offense taken - i just know this old ship i sail PotC on is still up to the task, and most of the issues seem to be with the ENGINE.exe itself. Now this thread of yours has been invaluable as it also provided a fix for me on my humble old rig, and for the exact same...
  11. Black Bart

    Solved Windows 10: Low Frame Rates Despite (BECAUSE OF!) Good Hardware

    I don't know yet for sure this might be happening. The Build project has always been in a state of flux as new features get added etc. But one little example that really is not serious, the example of the people sitting in taverns the wrong way.....that we got a fix for, well it still happens...
  12. Black Bart

    Solved Problems with installing latest WIP version

    Indeed not, and as per my post in Hylies thread about Windows 10 performance issues, i would not do anything drastic to the build just for XP compatibility, as not many people will be running XP with the latest Build Mod. But we can learn some handy stuff re the ENGINE.exe in general and the...
  13. Black Bart

    Solved Windows 10: Low Frame Rates Despite (BECAUSE OF!) Good Hardware

    Huzzah! It works :) ok well at the first land location looking towards Speightstown from the wharf i'm getting around 55 fps and sailing around the French ships at port 30-40 fps (all smooth, no constant micro-stutter). He he...so not 1,000's like Hylie had!! But it is definitely smoother vs...
  14. Black Bart

    Solved Windows 10: Low Frame Rates Despite (BECAUSE OF!) Good Hardware

    I'd say i'm an outlier in terms of what system i'm running the Build Mod on! How many people do you know that still use an XP based machine as their main gaming rig!!! Not many, if any (except myself off course). XP is no longer supported, so it has to be kept off line, and most people do quite...
  15. Black Bart

    Solved Windows 10: Low Frame Rates Despite (BECAUSE OF!) Good Hardware

    3.4 from the MoDdb site with the zip patch file that makes it the 3.5 version is fine, in terms of no CTD on sea/town and land/town transitions. I also have that version running fine without needing to set compatibility mode to 'Win98/ME' on the ENGINE.exe (running under XP off course). It...
  16. Black Bart

    Solved Problems with installing latest WIP version

    Yeah memory usage seems to be the big change in this latest ENGINE.exe But just to repeat, my whole system (RAM and GPU RAM) is only using about 10-15% of the available resources at any time. I always have plenty of spare when running ENGINE.exe, but those changes seem to mean on pre Windows 7...
  17. Black Bart

    Solved Windows 10: Low Frame Rates Despite (BECAUSE OF!) Good Hardware

    I would love to be able to tell you all what my fps is! :) sadly i can't seem to find a way to get that to display (i've turned 'show_fps =1' 'on' in the ini but that does seem to do anything) i've also tried fullscreen and the OSD fps readout thing in RivaTuner Statisitics Server does not seem...
  18. Black Bart

    Solved Problems with installing latest WIP version

    The older exe you gave me did stop the constant CTD on loading a town location, but that was about it. I still had the graphics issues using it and as these graphics issues only happen in the Beta 4 so far (been running Beta 3.5 for a few hours and that seems fine, if a little jerky and...
  19. Black Bart

    WIP Black Barts Playtesting thread for Build 14 Beta 4 WIP (ver:18 Jan 2016)

    ok well unless someone jumps in and say they hate the grey-themed small lock in top right corner change, i will have a go over this weekend to run those icons out. My PotC modding skills are sooo rusty, i'm bludering around all over the tavern floor, spilling beer etc. Atleast once i got my...
  20. Black Bart

    Solved Windows 10: Low Frame Rates Despite (BECAUSE OF!) Good Hardware

    So the solution is Bandicam? I ask because later in this thread Hylie mentiones it stopped working! Then we have the suggestion from Armada to use MSI afterburner to limit the fps................and that tool that Levi made that seems to have been forgotten (like did it work for you Levi and if...
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