Graphic issues and stalker dead air and also load times.

[StormTrooper_j]

I see these Russian let's players and it seems like they always have better graphics. the AI characters look better the lighting looks better the guns and hands look better but all my textures look like they're straight out of shadow of Chernobyl there pretty bad. Also the load times are extremely long. when loading into a new Zone it takes about 5 to 10 minutes it's the reason why I don't play anymore. call of pripyat and the anomaly mod does the same thing. It seems to if I have any mods installed it causes longer load times in the mons may not be that much. Is there something in the settings that I could turn on or off that causes load times to be better?. I remember one time I played call of Chernobyl and when I turn down the DirectX 10 to 9 the load times got better is this the same deal any information would be helpful.

[Heresy]

They prob have other addons installed ontop of Dead Air for better graphics. Most versions of stalker will have a long initial load time. But it becomes rapid after that initial launch into the zone.

For example my Call of Misery or my Misery for COP takes 2-3 mins to load into game. However if i load last save or have to reload ever again while in game it takes 5-10 seconds. Map transitions take about 15 seconds.

You could mess with the exlusion radious as well as the mutant/npc spawn population. Everyone has to optomise their own version of stalker it is very picky. I reccomend simply potatoeing the graphics to min levels and slowely raise things one at a time. Until you find the settings that seem to cause the most lag or longst loading times.