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Disable -nomansky
Hey guys, this might be kind of a dumb question, but the only answers I could find searching involved stuff that's a little too drastic like re-installing the game, which I doubt I need to do.

I popped the -nomansky launch option in order to gain some FPS, because I've seen some screen shots with it and honestly, I like the amount of clouds and stuff still in the sky and thought it looked pretty decent, like a typical skybox instead of the volumetric and more taxing normal sky. I even read somewhere that you still get a sun and moon, even though I didn't see them in the pics I saw.

So anyway, for a while I was enjoying it, but then I started to notice a pretty distinct absence of rain and other weather effects. And I didn't have a sun or moon either, just clouds and stars. Not sure if this is the way the command is intended to work, and like I said it still looks great if you don't mind the absence of these things - but man I was really missing the atmosphere of that weather, and even with the small number of clouds I can get before the FPS starts to dip it was worth it for those effects. Made the world feel more dangerous and all that immersive stuff.

So TL;DR does anyone know how to disable the -nomansky launch option? Because I deleted it, the obvious thing, from the Launch Option menu but the sky itself remains. I'd like to re-enable the old sky so I can get my weather back. Thanks!
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Gelantious Aug 28, 2017 @ 1:59am 
Had other problem with nomansky, like constant light flickering n such so removed it. But yeah, the game seemed to default to it whenever I had the sky quality slider set too low... For some odd reason.

So had to set the slider high, and also set texture quality to high. Then restart the game and it would be back to the normal. Then I could change the texture setting to medium again and low the sky quality slider. Though if I set it too low the game would change back to nomansky once more the next time I started the game..
That sounds a little odd. I'll give it a try though, thanks!
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Date Posted: Aug 27, 2017 @ 11:54pm
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