Posted by shaun71 on Dec 18, 2010, 3:46pm

ok hi guys awile back stated a thread called laaaag and i was wonding how to remove shodows compleetely do u guys know how ? any other tips to reduce lag i would apretate my settings are all the down on the games im out of optins

Posted by omeganuepsilon on Dec 18, 2010, 3:55pm
REduce resolution I play on minimum currently and it still looks pretty good. Used to be terrible back in the day, now it's just more of a matter of how insanely crisp it can get. I'm actually impressed how well it looks on low res.

If that's not enough, you can reduce the number of zombies in missions.txt.

I can't be assed to actually tell you how to go about replacing that file(it's all over this forum), but I posted a modified one in WIP area with greatly reduced zombie amounts for most of the game(there's more towards the end, as I realized jsut last night when I finally finished).

Other than that, no known news on no shadows.

I toyed with the idea of editing the csv(Open office can open them, I imagine MS word can also) files in datafile.big, but am feeling ill today and again, can't be bothered with it.

Posted by omeganuepsilon on Dec 17, 2010, 12:45pm
I was wondering if anyone has gotten the game to run at custom resolutions, of if they're hardwired into the engine?

I'm currently playing at 800x600(still looks pretty amazing, oddly enough, and it's the only way I can get it to play smoothly), but on a widescreen monitor, and have to change the TV settings so it doesn't stretch side to side.

Ideally I would like to run 960 x 600.

I tried changing the .ini over in My Documents/games etc. Didn't work, but did screw up my game some, didn't have to change TV settings to 4:3 before...

how do you completely get rid of all shadows in dr2 if possible any one know??

Look, there's an .ini file in the savegames folder, rendersettings.ini. Here's the content:
// Render Settings
RenderWidth = 1280
RenderHeight = 720
VSync = true
Refresh = 60
MSAA = 0
Gamma = 1.1
COMBINED_BLUR = COMBINED_BLUR_DISABLED
ZOMBIE_COUNTS = ZOMBIE_COUNTS_TWOFOLD
SHADOW_QUALITY = SHADOW_QUALITY_LOW
TEXTURE_FILTERING = TF_TRILINEAR

I tried changing the SHADOW_QUALITY = SHADOW_QUIALITY_LOW to SHADOW_QUALITY = 0, but it didn't change anything.
Maybe anyone who knows a bit more about any of this could try it and tell what to change it for.

Oh-Hi!
I was wondering if anyone can make a mod to remove shadows in the game?
I ask this because I don't think zombies are my problem; whenever I minimise out of DR2 and then maximise back in, all my lag is gone... for a short while that is... I was thinking maybe someone could help me?
Best regards, Adejam.

When you maximize, as the game is faster for a while, are the shadows gone too?

No, but I assume removing shadows would help in the long run, rather than trying to find something about this mysterious minimise fix

You guys just need to upgrade your PC's. There's no magic cure when it comes to messing with the core graphics engine of the game... You can't alter the graphics past what the in-game menu lets you. It's a console port!

I have no money? It's easy for some...
Plus, there is a magic way of anti-lagging myself with this minimise trick, so it's not my card...

Have you tried Gamebooster? It gets me an extra 5 or so fps...

^-- This. Alot of people have complained about shadows, yet there doesn't seem to be a mod that well.. gets rid of shadows. I and a ton of other people who can't get a new graphics card would appreciate it

You guys just need to upgrade your PC's. There's no magic cure when it comes to messing with the core graphics engine of the game... You can't alter the graphics past what the in-game menu lets you. It's a console port!

That's BS, In oblivion and Fallout 3 you could remove even heads, and some guy redid all of the Oblivion textures. People could do all sorts of things, and even removing blur (Which wasn't an option in the PC version) was possible. The game wasn't even made for Windows 7, and was impossible to play normally, but was made possible by a simple edit of a file which made it so the game didn't crash after starting a new game.

There's a lot of PC games that can be modded to great extent, you listed two. Oblivion was ported to console, not vise versa like DR2. I'm familiar with Oblivion mods as I played with a lot of them, and as you mentioned someone redoing Oblivion textures, that's probably very possible in DR2 as people are already reskinning clothes and whatnot. But it's a VERY daunting and time-consuming task. DR2 hasn't been out very long, a month at best, and being a DIRECT CONSOLE PORT means modders have little to work with.

You know, a modder is just a person like you. Maybe you guys can come up with a "Remove Shadows" modification yourselves? If it's so easy to do... If not I suggest waiting for it to happen naturally, in the years to come of this great game being released

I always use gamebooster,
But meh, I'm not so picky about FPS now, my whole OS went kaboom and my pc didn't even realise it had an OS ¬_¬
Im working on my pc nows D:

Actually.. I just got off my butt and decided to look into it. in the shaders folder there were a few BIG files I opened them up and looked at them. deadrising-ss.big had two files. one was.. well.. I don't know what it was, but the other seems to be what runs the show.

not sure if I should post it here, put I found this.

FORCE_INCLUDE_SHADOW_TEXTURE  ENABLE_POINT_LIGHT_0  ENABLE_KEY_LIGHT  ENABLE_ATTENUATED_SHADOW  INTERNAL_ENABLE_SHADOW There were a few other lines but I don't think that has anything to do with it. This thing has weird symbols. Created a back up of deadrising-ss.big and messed around with it, noticing that some of these had _0s and _1s at the end. didn't work. of course, like I said I was just screwing around. I'm assuming you're a modder or you do something here (Look for mods) I don't know. what do you think I should do? should I take this elsewhere or what?

Gamebooster huh? Interesting. I should try that on a few games, see if it even works.

About the topic, and shadows
I believe it is possible to COMPLETELY disable Shadows in-game, by editing the stages .CSV files and turning all the shadows to 0.

Usually disabling shadows in a game will greatly increase FPS, but I suppose it also depends on the game's graphical engine.

I am sure one of these options may solve this problem. Instructions atop the page. Mod:Debug_Mode#Options_available

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29307184/no_enviroments.zip

Americana Casino
Arena Backstage
Atlantica Casino
Food Barn
Palisades Mall
Royal Flush
South Plaza
Yucatan Casino

fortune exterior empty

data\models\environment\americana_casino

and

data\models\environment\royal_flush

etc.

Arena stadium

Replace files from:

data\models\environment\arena_stadium

http://www.mediafire.com/?vyowos4o6jsb9js

No bleachers (different mod for items):

[spoiler][/spoiler]

To further speed up the game, see also the posting and attached missions.txt file which has:

No survivors,
No zombies,
No psychopaths
No missions,
No cases.

From verm on http://dead-rising.wikia.com :

Dead Rising 2 v1.0 + 21 Trainer found here: http://m0006.gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_dead_rising_2.shtml

turn it on , use the option Extermination Mode ( All zombies will die )

But their bodies are still there and you have to wait until their disappear.

Thanks to omeganuepsilon:

Decreasing Zombies - Mod created

Removes all zombies:

The debug mode removes all zombies:

High rollers option on main debug screen - removes all inside zombies.

X_FORTUNE EXTERIOR under levels - removes all outside zombies.

From a stupid forum which does not allow you to read unless you register (I saw it on Google cache) (modified and clarified) All of these changes are in the missions.txt file linked to above:

Question:

Which file would I change the zombie spawn rates?

Answer:

In the datafile.big folder.

There is a missions.txt file.

In this missions.txt file is several entries for every day for each zome called zombiefactory.

[spoiler]
There are indicators called amount0, amount1, etc up to 5, though not every zone has up to 5.You can change all these numbers outright and even adjust the density around the spawn point.

In my mod I used a script to increase all these values by 50% of the original. Doing it by hand will take forever unless you do a bulk replace to make them absurd. (the missions.txt file is 1668 Microsoft Word pages, there are 2,963 amount entries)

Keep in mind, past a certain level the zombies clusterfuck and you will find yourself clipping through the zombies and other weird occurrences.

I found 50% more is about limit and even then on the later days I get weird occurrences.

Update


I modified the missions.txt in datafile.big. I changed ALL of the amount entries to 0 so for example:

amount1 = "5"

became

amount0 = "0"

Interesting result:

Missions

There are no missions at all.

I pull up my watch and map and there are no missions.

Start time

I used the debugger mode to start at the Lost mission, and instead of starting during the day, I started early in the morning. I checked my watch and it was 4:52 am. So I started at 4:00 am.

Performance

My computer was even slower than before, I could actually see the water slowly going down the fortune park grotto.

Number of zombies

The number of zombies was less, but not completely gone. There were only 5 zombies in Royal Flush Plaza near the door to Fortune Park. There were many more in Fortune Park, but still less.

Unpack data/datafile.big with gibbed's

Backup americana casino.txt

Place this downloaded americana casino.txt file is data/datafile.big

Repack datafile.big with gibbed's

Rename the repacked file to datafile.big

Start the game.