Need Help less cannon smoke

[SRACon17]

uhm, can anyone tell me which files i should tweak to minimize the smoke from cannon fire? because whenever i fire my cannons in first person view and look directly at the smoke, the game lags heavily.. help will be very much appreciated

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Merciless Mark happens to be working on updating the game's particle effects again, so I asked him if he can add an option for less smoke. See here:
http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/cannonfx-3-0.20320/page-2#post-446575

 

[SRACon17]

oh, thanks

 

[Merciless Mark]

Does your engine.ini have a line that says: "screen_bpp = D3DFMT_R5G6B5"
If so, try changing it to "screen_bpp = D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8"

 

[SRACon17]

i already did that, but nothing changed much.. perhaps because i don't have a high end pc, but it's not crappy either.

which file do i edit to change the amount of smoke? if for example i want to remove it completely, where do i change it? i've tried messing around with the two particles.ini files and the ship_fire.ini file to no avail.

 

[Merciless Mark]

I don't have a good solution for you right now, but rest assured I am working on it.

Thing is, there exists an option for "stock" cannon smoke like the unmodded game, but someone sometime messed with it.

 

[SRACon17]

wow thanks, i'll be waiting for that

 

[Hylie Pistof]

There should be a setting in your video card control panel about sampling. Like multisampling and supersampling. Try setting that lower than whatever it is set to now. That directly affects FPS while looking at smoke for me.