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Fixes and tweaks for the "UHD" port of Resident Evil 4
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[Feature Request] Feature to toggle certain in-game effects to improve game performance on low-mid pc. #222

Open Heisenborgar opened 2 years ago

Heisenborgar commented 2 years ago

Describe the feature you'd like to see added

A feature to toggle some in-game effects such as smokes and fogs, these are the two heavy hitters for game performance. Notable areas/events that use these effects: The first stage in the village (the first Ganado you have to kill), the second boulder QTE, after del Lago fight (night time), the first Ganado to reveal parasite, dynamite explosions.

Edit: Basically the whole Village section, note that FPS is similar with/without HD Project.

M1sh2 commented 2 years ago

It is worth noting that there is a version of resident evil 4 (2005) US, where the lighting was cut, it goes on the weakest computers and laptops very well. If you add the ability to turn off lighting, turn off the fog, and something else, which was not in the US version, it can give an increase fps. But, maybe should fix the 1.0 sourcenext version ? (or even 1.1.0 ubisoft) There are problems with LOD bias, there is no normal support for the mouse, it is still modifying the community, If you remove the movies from the game, the cutscenes can still be played (but without models,sound, and etc). In general, it is still worth looking at it, because it is unlikely to work with stable fps in the game on weaker PCs/laptops, due to technical improvements from qloc.

Mister-Curious commented 2 years ago

I could assist in helping show where the fog effects are located for these rooms if there is interest in developing something. It might be as easy as a script that searches for bytes when certain rooms are loaded, and if they are found, null them.