Float32 Shader mod for STALKER 20% FPS boost + more eyecandy

[Gray Fox]

This is a repost from a thread I saw in the haus, I thought a lot of folks would like it.

FLOAT32 for STALKER RELEASED

Full reflection vector calculations, better bump mapping, real specular effects! All this detail improvement costs nothing in framerate and you will get 20% better framerate than before if not more! Shadows are soft and no longer jagged and the overall graphical quality has been vastly improved. I am not posting screenies as it does no justice. Download it and see for yourself!

IMPORTANT FOR ATI USERS!

There is an error within the shadows. GSC screwed up and did not support hardware shadows with ati hardware. I removed the software shadows from the script to clean it up since nobody who is using full dynamic should be using software shadow. Well, this broke ATI support and I forgot to fix it. So when you install the shaders, delete "shadow.h" and you should be fine. If you have the entire game extracted, then replace "shadow.h" with the stock one after installing my shaders.

I am working on a fix for you ATI folks to enjoy hardware shadows! Expect it within the next few days.

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve...75/m/860003693831?r=946005164831#946005164831

Sauce

 

[Adabiviak]

I'll bite. Downloaded, and will try it out later this evening. Nice find, by the way, thanks. Have you tried it yet?

 

[Asuka]

I haven't seen screenshots to confirm how this really looks but its really bothers me. I mean if this guy did it that fast why couldn't the developers have made all these touches? I like playing games the way the developer made them, which is why i really never install mods like this.

Someone post some screenshots to see if this is worth it.

 

[xcellerate]

****, my video card doesn't support pixel shader v1.1



stupid x800

 

[DEATHMASTER]

screenies don't do it justice...? Then it sucks to say the least otherwise he would've posted them. He probably wants download counts.

 

[giant384]

****, my video card doesn't support pixel shader v1.1



stupid x800

umm yea it does....your card support up to 2.0b

 

[xcellerate]

umm yea it does....your card support up to 2.0b

Then what the heck happened? I changed the lighting to Dynamic Objects (middle one) and restarted the game, and now it gives me an error that video card doesn't support pixel shader v1.1.

I have updated drives (april 18th) and the newest DirectX....what's up??

 

[xcellerate]

well I took off the shadow.h file, and the game runs now. But my computer is just so terrible, i can't run it with dynamic lighting on anything greater than 800x600 with minimum settings

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I am not posting screenies as it does no justice

So can anybody provide screenies of this?

 

[The Brick]

With this thing motion blur works. It looks awesome and it barely scratches performance. r2_mblur 0.6 is cool.

 

[giant384]

the files dont work for me. can anyone help? in the readme it says you need to extract the files.

 

[The Brick]

Move the "gamedata" folder from the zip file to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.\
If you have an ATI card, go to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.\gamedata\Shaders\r2 and delete shadow.h.

Then open fsgame.ltx with notepad.
Change

$game_data$   		= false|	true|	$fs_root$|		gamedata\

into

$game_data$   		= true|	true|	$fs_root$|		gamedata\

That should be it pretty much. It's recommended to copy the user.ltx file from the zip to Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\stalker-shoc and reconfigure your controls ingame.

To get motion blur working, open the user.ltx file and change "r2_mblur 0." to "r2_mblur 0.6". Then rightclick your shortcut for STALKER, go to properties, then add "-mblur" to the command line. For example

D:\Games\S.T.A.L.K.E.R\bin\XR_3DA.exe -mblur

Ingame you can open the console and change the r2_mblur value between 0.000 and 1.000. You should also enter "rs_stats 0" in console to get rid of all that text on the left.

Reconfigure your graphics options to get the nicest quality/performance and you're set.

 

[MiccyNarc]

Still can't play with dynamic lighting on.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Does dynamic light cause slowdown on your comp, or does it simply not play?

 

[MiccyNarc]

Does dynamic light cause slowdown on your comp, or does it simply not play?

Tremendous slowdown, about 1 Frame per 5 seconds.

 

[xcellerate]

Tremendous slowdown, about 1 Frame per 5 seconds.

yea mine drops to about 10fps...and that's with everything on minimum.

And the lighting is definitely not good enough to make up for trees that are made of legos.

 

[AmishSlayer]

If this improves visuals why aren't there screens at least in this thread?

 

[xcellerate]

 

[Beerdude26]

Looks like sechs

 

[giant384]

why on earth would you want motion blur?? doesnt that hurt your eyes?

 

[Ren.182]

lol, it doesn't improve the graphics, it just blurs out all the crap

That is seriously too much motion blur. Hurts my eyes just looking at it.

 

[The Brick]

Those screenies are when he's moving really fast... If you set it to 0.6 or something it's really nice.

 

[giant384]

i see no change in the game and motion blur does not work. any help? ive done all that youve said.

 

[Gray Fox]

Guys try looking at the haus thread, and/or even try getting help there.
I can't help any of you, since my computer is to old to run the game period, I just posted it because I thought a lot of people liked stalker around here, and from the reactions in the haus, it seemed to work.

 

[MultiVaC]

I think I'll get it once the ATI fix comes out. Not much use getting just yet considering I just finished the game a couple minutes ago. So it really works?