STALKER went gold

I work with Float32 + this mod - and more mods like Sharper

 

I'll just throw in all graphics, physics, sound settings!

Code:

_preset Extreme <--- empty to prevent settings override

ai_use_torch_dynamic_lights on

ph_frequency 100.00000
ph_iterations 50

r1_dlights on
r1_dlights_clip 75.
r1_glows_per_frame 32
r1_lmodel_lerp 0.1
r1_pps_u 0.
r1_pps_v 0.
r1_ssa_lod_a 96.
r1_ssa_lod_b 32.
r1_tf_mipbias -0.5

r2_aa off <--- Doesn't work with bloom HDr
r2_aa_break 0.800000,0.500000,0.000000
r2_aa_kernel 0.5
r2_aa_weight 0.250000,0.250000,0.000000
r2_allow_r1_lights on
r2_gi on
r2_gi_clip 0.04
r2_gi_depth 5
r2_gi_photons 12
r2_gi_refl 0.6
r2_gloss_factor 1.5
r2_ls_bloom_fast on
r2_ls_bloom_kernel_b 0.8
r2_ls_bloom_kernel_g 3.
r2_ls_bloom_kernel_scale 0.7
r2_ls_bloom_speed 100.
r2_ls_bloom_threshold 0.2  
r2_ls_depth_bias -0.0003
r2_ls_depth_scale 1.00001
r2_ls_dsm_kernel 0.7
r2_ls_psm_kernel 0.7
r2_ls_squality 1.
r2_ls_ssm_kernel 0.7
r2_mblur 1. <--- I have a CRT so it doesn't blur to much
r2_parallax_h 0.02
r2_slight_fade 2.
r2_ssa_lod_a 96.
r2_ssa_lod_b 32.
r2_sun on
r2_sun_depth_far_bias -0.00001
r2_sun_depth_far_scale 1.
r2_sun_depth_near_bias 0.00001
r2_sun_depth_near_scale 1.
r2_sun_details on
r2_sun_focus on
r2_sun_lumscale 2.8
r2_sun_lumscale_amb 1.4
r2_sun_lumscale_hemi 0.5
r2_sun_near 16. <--- slight shadow focus and color reduction for better s.LOD
r2_sun_near_border 1. <--- makes the shadows look correct when zooming
r2_sun_tsm on
r2_sun_tsm_bias -0.01
r2_sun_tsm_proj 0.3
r2_tf_mipbias -0.5
r2_tonemap on
r2_tonemap_adaptation 1.
r2_tonemap_amount 0.7
r2_tonemap_lowlum 0.075
r2_tonemap_middlegray 0.45
r2_wait_sleep 0
r2_zfill off
r2_zfill_depth 0.5
r2em 2.2
r__detail_density 0.2
r__geometry_lod 1.2
r__supersample 4 
r__tf_aniso 16 <--- nvidia control panel set
renderer renderer_r2
rs_c_brightness 0.75
rs_c_contrast 1.
rs_c_gamma 1.2
rs_fullscreen on
rs_refresh_60hz on
rs_stats off
rs_v_sync on  <--- nvidia control panel set
rs_vis_distance 1.5
texture_lod 0
vid_mode 1280x1024

snd_acceleration on
snd_cache_size 16
snd_efx on
snd_targets 32

And apart from that I use D3Doverrider forcing tripple buffering.

 

Huh, using those settings walking around out fine looked reasonable aside from being rather bright in places. but the arena looked like this:


It also ran absurdly slow, and turning off r2_gi fixed that but gave me the same strange mixture of light and shadow I was talking about before:



How does the arena look and run with those settings for you?

 

r2_allow_r1_lights on with r2_gi_photons 12 takes some perfomance hit, change it to 16 (default) for better fps. I'll have to check the arena but I've not had as intense light as that anywhere so far. I assume though that you did not use my brightness/gamma/contrast settings since those are specific for my monitor!

Neverthless play with r2_ls_bloom_threshold to reduce the intensity.

 

Anyone actually finished the game? Is it worth playing? I have had it sitting on my desk for months already but haven't bothered installing it as of yet.

 

edit

 

Absolutely worth playing! A lot of people can't come to grips with its open ended gameplay but for me it's one of the best FPS's ever made. IMO better than Crysis.

 

Still getting around a second per frame in the area with your other settings. Turning off r2_allow_r1_lights makes the arena run considerably better with r2_gi still on, but still a bit rought.

I did use your settings for the screenshots as I wanted them to be directly comprable to the shots you have posted in this thread, but the issues remain regardless of if I use all of your settings or just enable r2_gi and r2_allow_r1_lights with my own.

Even turnning off r2_ls_bloom_fast shows the same issues.

I'm on my fourth playthough, what have you been waiting for?

 

Time Still don't have much...

Thanks!

 

Some places take a noticable dip with r1_lights + GI, since GI will apply effect to the added r1 lights. Especially true for the fire at the beginning with all the stalker sitting around. But each one alone it is smooth in that place.

Oh ok thats why they where so "glowing"! I will check the shadows in the arena (I've not yet there and never went there from the Rad bar in previous game).

You mean the shadows? Since that variabel is only to reduce the "glowiness".

 

I mean the massive glow with and r2_allow_r1_lights enabled at the same time as r2_gi.

 

Oh I see but r2_ls_bloom_threshold reduces it on my comp greatly. Higher value means less glow, lower value means more glow. I'll recheck it later.

 

Sure, it does the same on mine, and turning R2_ls_bloom_fast off all together reduces it a little more yet. Still insanly bright and slow in the arena with r2_allow_r1_lights and r2_gi enabled at the same time though.

Just ventured over to the bar with those both on and r2_ls_bloom_threshold at 1, it isn't nearly as bad as the arena but still awful bright.

 

Install it!!! Immediately!!! lol

Possibly the finest single player FPS ever conceived, IMO. Great gameplay, great level design, great storyline, great audio.

So it's no longer the prettiest game out there, but meh. It still blows Crysis out of the water overall.

 

I agree, that it is much better than Crysis. And it will give you much more hours of play as well.

 

I have played today Stalker to capture videos with MSAA . A big and awersome shock for my . The IA of this game is increible, better than any other game that I have played. As if the programmers had put to somebody within the exoeskeletor. Very difficult and hard gameplay - and hidden storyline - , hard begining for the gamer - the first mision and the first hours are a complete shock for all gamers - very brave design choices of the gameplay and storyline

In only 9 months the time revaluated the game and its brave proposal. For my maybe the best FPS or action game in PC since Deus Ex


STALKER PRIPYAT 720p . SEE IN FULLSCREEN
Oritxupolitena


STALKER 1080P AI A MISSION SECONDARY


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STALKER MSAA 2X DEFERRED RENDERING 1080p


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STALKER 1080p


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STALKER PRIPIAT MOTION BLUR 720p

STALKER PRIPYAT 720p Night

 

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1112763&postcount=73


http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1112763&postcount=73


STALKER MSAA 2X + Deferred rendering

 

The latest forceware has suport for the MSAA in Stalker and deferred shading , from the NV Control Panel


My drivers are the 169.25 , but found since the 169,xx. Simply is the AA of control panel , override any application seting .

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=105671

The perfomance drop is great - 30 % with MSAA 2x , and 50-60 % with MSAA 4X . But the MSAA 2X is usable at high resolution . The Vram usage maybe is a problem with 512 mb videocards , at high resolution and MSAA 4X or with some mods .

Very very nice update for the game, wiht MSAA 2x is playable at 1080p in one 8800 gtx

Maybe can will ofer some better MSAA in game by GSC - maybe in DX 10 ?

Some screens , MSAA 2x 1920 x 1080

Extend with one click after opening the link

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y117/jonelo/capturas 2/XR_3DA2008-01-0601-46-56-38.jpg


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y117/jonelo/capturas 2/XR_3DA2008-01-0509-22-24-03.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y117/jonelo/capturas 2/XR_3DA2008-01-0509-22-59-33.jpg


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y117/jonelo/capturas 2/XR_3DA2008-01-0509-22-25-19.jpg

 

Is it really MSAA or SSAA?
Can you make 3 screenshots (as TGA converted to PNG): no MSAA, 2xMSAA. 4xMSAA, but all three screenhots without AF.

 

The inner glowing border on the last image makes me suspect SSAA... I remember having that same 'artifact' back when we were fiddling with SSAA and TSAA on older Radeons.

Could do without the motion blur though...