2 replies to this topic

[Carolus423]

I recently installed BFME2 and noticed significant lag playing on snowy maps but virtually none otherwise. I've been trying to disable the falling snow effect from being displayed by editing the weather.ini file in ini.BIG using FinalBig Editor (simply by changing SnowEnabled to no and saving)

However, there's no effect of the modification in-game and the choppiness continues on snow maps.

Any solutions for this simple but frustrating problem?

[jimiojoe]

I recently installed BFME2 and noticed significant lag playing on snowy maps but virtually none otherwise. I've been trying to disable the falling snow effect from being displayed by editing the weather.ini file in ini.BIG using FinalBig Editor (simply by changing SnowEnabled to no and saving)

However, there's no effect of the modification in-game and the choppiness continues on snow maps.

Any solutions for this simple but frustrating problem?

Weather
  SnowEnabled = yes			 ; enable/disable snow on the map.
  IsSnowing = no			; is it snowing today?
 
  SnowTexture = EXRainDrop.tga  ; texture used for each snow particle.
  
  SnowBoxHeight = 300		; height from which snow falls
  SnowSpacing = 30			  ; snow spacing -- less means more
  NumberTiles = 4
 
  SnowAmplitude = 0			; amount of side-to-side movement. 
  SnowFrequencyScaleX = 0	; speed of side-to-side wave movement.
  SnowFrequencyScaleY = 0	; speed of side-to-side wave movement. 
 
  SnowSpeed = 50.0			 ; speed at which snow falls
;  SnowXYSpeed = X:0.0 Y:0.0		; xy speed of snow
 
  SnowPointSize = 5			 ; scale the size of snow particles.
  SnowMinPointSize = 40		 ; min point size
  SnowMaxPointSize = 80		 ; max point size
 
; Some video cards can't do hardware accelerated particles. Set this
; setting to "no" in order see what emulation will look like. Use the
; SnowQuadSize setting to make it look similar to PointSprite version.;;;

  SnowPointSprites = no		 ; set to "no" for point-sprite emulation.
  SnowQuadSize = 10			 ; scale the size of snow particles when using point-sprite emulation.

i reckon a lot of that can change to reduce your lag

if you want to completely remove it change snowenabled = no
although im guesing you've already tried that so try changing the SnowTexture to something thats got no picture on it so nothing will be snowed =D

orrr increase snow spacing

Edited by jimiojoe, 31 December 2007 - 06:09 PM.

[lycan]

you can also make it raining or lava rain as well map.ini is a powerful tool.

yeah jimmie joe is right that should reduce your machine issue.

Edited by elvenfury, 31 December 2007 - 06:22 PM.