Need help with mods please

[Jomi]

I finnaly found some free time to play stalker at least for a litle while but since i was starting a new game i thought of installing some mods. Im looking for graphic overhauls (doesnt need to be something too complex or heavy) be it related to effects on weather or nature and vegetation, and mods that enhance the vanilla experience like increasing the arsenal and such. I have small experience on modding and 0 on stalker modding, and as such, i barely know any mods and the workarounds for when they dont work. I have tried installing a mod that brings an fov console, a mod that increases the arsenal and a mod that changes the vegetation textures at the same time but the game keeps crashing. Its probably the mods conflicting with each other but it doesnt make much sense since they dont change the same "category" of files right? Id be very gratefull if someone could help me either installing these or helping find some that dont conflict with each other.

[Zorgl]

Dual core is not a problem for Stalker, ur proc will do fine (I won t write about ur CG...) U should run it ok with those mods. Atmosfear3 and Absolute Nature 4 are exe and Absolute structure and OW3 are just copy and paste if I remember well. U should try first without OW3 and see how it runs.
Visual Distance: 100%
Textures and Objects: anywhere from 50% to 75%
Anisotropic Filtering: 50% (it s broken)
Anti-Aliasing: OFF (broken)
Grass Density: 50%
Sun Shadow: ON
Lighting Distance: 50%
Shadow Quality: 50% to 100%
NPC Flashlights: ON
Detail Bump: ON
Steep Parallax: ON
Sun Quality: LOW
Sun Rays: LOW
SSAO Mode: HBAO
SSAO Quality: LOW
Soft Water: ON
Soft Particles: ON
Depth of Field: OFF
Volumetric Light: ON
Wet Surfaces: ON
Volumetric Smoke: ON
Tessellation: OFF
Vertical Sync: OFF
Refresh Freq 60Hz: ON (i think it doesn t work with most of laptop)

[Jomi]

Are these tweaks inside stalker or some mod? I recognize most so i usually just lower the most cpu intensive and less noticeable

[Jomi]

Alright ill try these mods and tweaks tomorrow probably and say smth here

[Zorgl]

In the option of the game. Don't go higher than this, u won't see any difference exept for tesselation and grass density.

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

Originally posted by Zorgl:

God rays and Aniso affect performance for sure. In every game, on every engine.
I've always installed my mods manually on Stalker without any problems.
What s ur gpu and cpu Goodmeme ?

no, in stalker godrays do not effect performance unless youre rocking a 15 year old graphic card. and anisitropic dosent do anything at all when enabled in game so it CANT possibly have any performance hit because THE IN GAME OPTION IS KNOWN TO NOT DO ANYTHING. its also well known that anisitropic does not effect performance. i love how your "performance" settings have idiotic recomendations, starting with telling the guy to use DX10 mode. dont use DX10 mode.

[Zorgl]

It's obvious that if aniso doesn't work in a game, it won't affect performance (I thought that unlike SOC it works at 8 on COP). I ve never told him to use my preset but not to go higher. I don't know how his GC will react. I'm playing Stalker modded on my laptop on DX11 with tesselation On and 2MSAA at around 50 fps (but i ve a 660m). And I can tell you, there is a big difference between Sunrays On and OFF and Low and High on my PC.

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

Originally posted by Zorgl:

It's obvious that if aniso doesn't work in a game, it won't affect performance (I thought that unlike SOC it works at 8 on COP). I ve never told him to use my preset but not to go higher. I don't know how his GC will react. I'm playing Stalker modded on my laptop on DX11 with tesselation On and 2MSAA at around 50 fps (but i ve a 660m). And I can tell you, there is a big difference between Sunrays On and OFF and Low and High on my PC.

anisitropic dosent effect performance in ANY game and hasnt since the early 90's when it was considered new and difficult to do. as for your performance loss from simple post processing effects, mybe stop trying to play on a laptop? a 660m is basically a 440.

[Zorgl]

I play on a laptop if I want to. I'm responding to this message to help Goodmeme, not to get any advice from you.

[Oparator Stalker]

Originally posted by Jonny Goodmeme:

I get it now... I didnt know why you asked me to paste something because i didnt copy anything but thanks. Anyways im reinstalling stalker and will try to install the mods then. What mods would you recomend? I tried installing Atmosfear and The armed zone.

That is ok, some get confused because they do not know the debugger can do this. I wish many games could do this, helps figuering out why the game crashed. Just keep it in mind when it happens again..

[Jomi]

Installed atmosfear, absolute nature, OW3 and an fov console changer called xrgame i think.
It crashed so heres the paste thingy:
Expression : I
Function : CInifile::Load
File : D:\prog_repository\sources\trunk\xrCore\Xr_ini.cpp
Line : 256
Description : Can't find include file:
Arguments : instant_action_fuse.ltx


It seems weird because that file is refering to something from the D: disk but i havent installed anything there

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

Originally posted by Jonny Goodmeme:

Installed atmosfear, absolute nature, OW3 and an fov console changer called xrgame i think.
It crashed so heres the paste thingy:
Expression : I
Function : CInifile::Load
File : D:\prog_repository\sources\trunk\xrCore\Xr_ini.cpp
Line : 256
Description : Can't find include file:
Arguments : instant_action_fuse.ltx


It seems weird because that file is refering to something from the D: disk but i havent installed anything there

use JSGME to instal mods for stalker games. it allows you to easilly uninstal them and revert the game back to what it was before each specifc mod. with that log, id say look at the mods zip file and see if you can find the instant_action_fuse.ltx file, and just copy it to every folder to be sure.

[Jomi]

Im still confused why its D: and not C:

[Zorgl]

OWR3 won't work with FOV switcher if it has is own xrgame.dll. Use hud_fov command in the console instead.

[Jomi]

How much can the fov be changed with the ingame console?

[Zorgl]

FOV 75, higher u will start to get fish eye.lens. hud_fov for the HUD (0 to 1)