ET configs, something different for a change............lol!

(MadMattUK) #1

Right, just curious about this, and don’t get upset
with me Kendle, just quoting you out of context.
I know your just talking FPS here, but it gives
me a nice example of what I want to talk about.

  1. How many of you change these sort of settings?
    ( I don’t touch mine ).

  2. I hear some people change some of these settings
    because they feel it makes it easier to ‘see’ there
    opponents, and thus give them an advantage. To
    me, I disagree with this sort of thing, 'cos I think
    you should really play the game as SD intended,
    i.e. all the detail at max etc & fog.

  3. How do you think you’d play ( if you do remove
    the weather/fog etc ), if you played on a Lan
    with all the settings on default ( i.e. max ) settings?.
    In other words, on someone elses computer.

All the settings mentioned that I’m curious about are to do
with graphical settings. I’m too lazy to edit Kendles old
post to get down to the specifics. And I’m not talking
F.P.S. gain, just some kind of gains to be got that may
be tatical to the player, i.e. spotting a target easier
with changed config/cvars than it would be at max detail for example.

(Kendle) #2

NP Matt. Those tweaks make the difference, for me, between the game being playable, and not playable. Default config, out of the box, gives me too low a frame-rate to play the game, so I have to tweak in order to play.

As for the difference they make to my game (apart from the FPS gain), it’s truly minor. ET is great in that you simply can’t do too much to it in the way of tweaks. Try it tweaked and untweaked, and you’ll see it’s not about brightness and seeing other players easier.

There are cvars that will brighten the game, but they’re not in that list there. Things like r_picmip for instance determine texture quality and make zero difference to brightness, but plenty to FPS.

To answer the question about playing with default settings…if I had a PC capable of sustaining a good frame-rate with default settings I imagine I’d play just as well as I do now. Put simply, those tweaks don’t give me any advantage at all, and that’s the honest truth.

(s4n) #3

put
seta s_mixahead “0.1”
seta s_mixPreStep “0.09”

for better performance

all pro-gamers in europe use modified cfg’s, in order to see better and to have 125fps all time.

(MadMattUK) #4

thanks :drink:

BTW what spec is your pc. Mine is middle ground now
(xp+ 2.2 and gf4 4200 ). It runs ET with out a hitch. :smiley:

er, ta s4n, but i wasn’t asking performance issues, just
tactical gameplay related ones

(Ifurita) #5

I have a very extensively tweaked config. WRT brightness, this is what mine looks like:

I play with rain on, but I choose to brighten my screen so that I don’t feel like I’m playing in a closet

(DG) #6

  1. +1

  2. try it for a week and then you can form an opinion that comes from experience, not hearsay. Some of those tweaks give a minor visual advantage (e.g. cg_wolfparticles 0, r_picmip 3 on radar, cg_bloodflash 0); some of them give disadvantage (e.g. r_flares 0, r_dynamiclight 0). Those listed I’d give it an overall disadvantage there, add r_mapoverbrightbits (if you already have a decently bright monitor) and I’d say its roughly equal. Mix r_gamma and intensity and your in the positives, but then its due to the 3 cvars not listed.

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  1. much better, though likely everyone else would be too, due to LAN connection > ISDN (or even *DSL/cable etc). BTW removal of fog isnot commonly classed as “tweaking”, and any admin doing the homework will have prevented this (but not from drivers etc, thanks Nvidia for “the way it wasnt meant to be played”).