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BKarza




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PostPosted: Tue, 20th May 2008 19:21    Post subject: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky E3 demo
Anybody know where the leaked demo keeps the options? I have deleted the entire directory unrarred to a different directory to no avail. It starts with my modified (done in game not .ini) settings and everything is blurry like the Depth of Field is fuxxored till I look down my gun.

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1800XTX
Tried to set it to 1680X1050 and it looked great till I tried further video tweaking. I never leave well enough alone..... Sad
Is there something in the registry I am missing?

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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th May 2008 19:49    Post subject:
Same as stalker, it's the user.ltx file in the game directory but it also saves it to a _appdata_ folder in the root of the C drive on exit. (C:/_Appdata_/User.ltx)

I posted my own edits in the first Clear Sky thread but if you are unsure of any value just ask and I will try to explain it or check one of the many guides.

Oh and the easiest method to modify the existing user.ltx in the game directory directly. Smile
(That's how I did it anyhow.)

EDIT: The motion blur tweak doesn't work BTW, sky turns all jittery so leave it at 0.
(R2_Mblur 0. or something like that, don't have it installed anymore as it was just a short demo.)
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BKarza




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PostPosted: Tue, 20th May 2008 21:19    Post subject:
Much ablidge, my friend. off to test the waters.

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Still there. I deleted both user.ltx files and then tried JBeckman's settings to no avail. Shit like this drives me out of my mind. I know it's a WIP but I want to see all of it, damnitt. lol!

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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Wed, 21st May 2008 06:34    Post subject:
Strange, as far as I know that's the only place where the game places it's settings.

I'll look around a bit, perhaps it's in the User (My Documents for Windows XP) folder but I don't think that's the case.

Oh and you should leave one User.ltx file for the game to use, here's the default settings before any alterations. Smile

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(Overwrite the User.ltx file in the game directory and then set the resolution in it.)

Oh and my settings I posted uses R2_AA set to "1" - this does blur the screen slightly as I forgot to post the altered R2_AA values which reduces this to only blur the very distant objects in an effort to reduce "jaggies".
(Stalker can't do normal AA under DX9/Dynamic lightning due to using "deferred shading" for light calculations so this is the only way to reduce jagged edges.)
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PostPosted: Wed, 21st May 2008 13:46    Post subject:
I cant run it either.
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BKarza




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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd May 2008 05:41    Post subject:
JBeckman wrote:
(Overwrite the User.ltx file in the game directory and then set the resolution in it.)



Tried that as well. I will pop in a screenshot tonight after I get home. If you get bored try changing something in one or the other user.ltx files so I can find out what one is actually active. I have uninstalled (at least as far as deleting everything that was unrarred because there is no install to this and I killed the user.ltx in the C:\Users\***\AppData
directory. As far as I know this is all the stuff the gamer installs (thanks to your direction for the AppData info) BUT, everytime I start the game after a fresh "install" it is in the last resolution 1680X1050 and blurry as fuck till I zoom.

I know this is just a little bit of the game and not worth too much time wasting but... Damnitt to hell, I want to check this out and want to know troubleshooting wise WTF is wrong.

Thanks again for keeping up with my issue. I see by the number of posts in the different threads involving this and the original that you don't hate the game... That's a good thing in my book. When the demo said "Prequel to the most ATMOSPHERIC game of 2007" They pegged the "A" word to describe this worth the wait game.
I will owe you and I always payback to my friends. Ask a couple peeps. I been here many years just low post count. Wink
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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd May 2008 06:16    Post subject:
The screen seems to be a thumbnail, can't see much but I'll check around to see if the game adds files to some odd place such as the Appdata folder (Don't think it does.) or the registry. Smile
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BKarza




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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd May 2008 06:42    Post subject:
Fixed the thumber. If you know any active tweaking forums of the such that are free to discuss this (Holy fuckin Guiness Book of early leaks over and over why isn't the culprit fired or changing the password to gaben so it's safe) game shoot me a PM, I may have something for you anyway that makes me look a tad less thick for your trouble.

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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd May 2008 08:29    Post subject:
Based on the now functional screen it really looks like the depth of field effect have been altered to appear closer to the player.

r2_dof -0.250000,1.400000,170.000000
r2_dof_kernel 7.

The easiest way to check this since I don't really know yet where these configurations are saved would be to take down the console and check the above R2_DOF commands so that they don't differ from the above, you don't need all the zeros behind the actual number either so the command should look like this.

r2_dof -0.25,1.4,170
r2_dof_kernel 7

There's a few other commands related to the depth of field effect however, I'll try to find their default value as well since those might be what causes the problem. Smile

EDIT: Oh and any alterations to the config file saves when exiting the game.
(Usually I just use the quite command in the console.)

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r2_dof_far 170.
r2_dof_focus 1.4
r2_dof_near -0.25
r2_dof_sky 30

EDIT: And here's my own User.ltx file.

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(Focuses on maximizing visual quality albeit without "r2_gi on" as it's normally way to performance intensive and can also appear too bright, taken from the _appdata_ folder that the game creates so it's fully complete unlike the previous one I posted which is missing some values new to Stalker: Clear Sky, just overwrite the existing User.ltx file with these values and set resolution and r_s_c_gamma/brightness/contrast values accordingly to match your monitor. - that is, replace both the User.ltx file in the game directory and the one in the C:\_AppData_\ or D:\_Appdata_ directory depending on which drive the game is installed to. /Oh and I hope you didn't misunderstood me previously and checked the C:\User\Username\Appdata folder since there's nothing in there related to Clear Sky.)
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BKarza




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PostPosted: Mon, 2nd Jun 2008 20:32    Post subject:
You are a life saver. Yeah that was the problem, I was using the user directory not the _AppData_ one. Works now. Sorry I took so long to thank you have been off my PC.

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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Jun 2008 05:25    Post subject:
The lighting is amazing. When the sun rises and is partly covered by straw, bushes, trees etc. it looks just like in the real world. It's like they've created a raytracer running realtime in the game.

Took some screenshots of my own:
http://rapidshare.com/files/119692007/Clear_Sky_E3_screenshots.zip.html

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