Too many distractions

[rupertlittlebear]

Have decided that I like the game with higher graphics settings, but there are just too many distractions.

Getting rid of the cheerleaders on deck during the ship-to-ship was easy enough, but . . .

Try removing the swordfighters in the background of the boarding action.
The best I can get is solid black figures swordfighting.

Any ideas?

Tried importing a 256x256 black alpha, then saving the file.
Tried editing the "existing" alpha.

[Saranis]

what do you mean by "distractions"? I have no trouble just ignoring them. Do they lower your frame rate to an unplayable level?

[Niedzwiedz]

I like the distractions. It represents the fog of war. Sure, I get tagged a few times because some sailor falls out of the crows nest just as the enemy captain is about to strike and I don't see it, but in the long run I enjoy the extra eye candy.
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[bryce777]

Hmm, I must have it on low settings because I can't remember any sort of other pirates in my fight. I do have a rpetty good video card, though.

[rupertlittlebear]

Object detail slider. (min, crew, sails move)

Lots more options in the "config" file, found in the game saves folder, and other links.

[bryce777]

Hmm. I turned up the settings and the improvement is DRAMATIC.

The fight scene animations are something else, not to mention actually seeing the ships lose their masts.

No slowdowns, either.

So, anyone else not seeing this level of detail might want to try it - not sure why mine defaulted to such a low setting....

[rupertlittlebear]

Funny almost bug.
Diddled with the settings. Turned off/on isslowmachine.
The dueling swords alternately disappeared/turned black depending upon the mood of my machine.

Gotta get me a better gaming rig.

[DrBeast]

When I first started the game and saw the low settings the game had started on, I was disappointed. I thought "OK, this machine is too crappy to play Pirates!". However I did increase the resolution to 1024x768, then started to slowly increase the graphic details as I played. Merely 5 minutes after starting the game I had everything on max, and the game went smooth and sleek! After a tenday of extensive playing I've never noticed anything slowing down. The PC is a Pentium 4 2.4GHz (overclocked to 2.7GHz) with 512 MB RAM and ATI Radeon 9200SE 256 MB GPU. Thank God there are still developers out there who don't force you to upgrade a 1-year old computer to play their new super-dooper game! The Sims 2 crawls on this machine! I play that game with many graphic goodies turned off! So thank you Sid for not forcing us to upgrade!
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[bryce777]

[bryce777]

Oh, and for me sims 2 has no troubles. Not sure what could be going on for you - of course, i didn't fiddle with the graphics so maybe I am in super low setting mode.

[Greywolfe]

I too have not seen any of the things you mentioned. I will have to check my settings tonight. Damn and I have lodge tonight and I have to be there. Oh well...another late night so I can get my fix

Greywolfe of the Vineyards

[Trajanus]

Gah! The sails, they move! And the masts, they collapse! And my captain, he's not just insane and cheering to an empty ship when I win a duel, there's supposed to be pirates there!

I dunno why my machine defaulted so low, it seemed to handle the improvement fine. Just wish I'd noticed "Object detail" sooner

[headrock]

A pox on you all, ye scurvy lubbers!
If I crank up object detail it takes me about as much time to dance with the plain daughter as it does to find the lost city
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[watson42467]

What's the matter rupert, don't like your crew cheering you on?
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