Zaro said:
The attitude was unnecessary, all Vilhjalmr stated was that he wasn't going to run HDR.
And suggesting you should spend time creating a non-HDR set of textures so people with ancient computers can 'enhance' the graphics for a game they can already barely run.
Most people can run the textures, but running HDR is significantly more demanding. There will probably be quite a few who will run the textures without hdr, which is why I'd like it to look good without hdr. Yes, it takes longer, but it's a better mod if it's accessible to more people.
Yeah, and if you can't run Dx9 at all, it's unlikely you can get much out of shadows etc either. It just boggles me that someone who has to already turn stuff down to make the game work would be complaining about 'enhancing' the graphics, since they can't fully utilise the existing stuff.
Some brief checking suggests cards have had Dx9 support since the 5xxxx series, and support of Dx9c (which I believe M&B requires for Dx9 features) since the 6xxxx series. Shadows aside I was able to run M&B at full everything in 12x10 with a mid-range 6600GT, and people with cards four or more years old complaining their hardware isn't up to the task and projects should be scaled back in ambition disgusts me.
I was trying to balance to get good with hdr and without, but it's not possible. The only way non-hdr will look decent is with darker, highly contrasted textures. If you adjust textures and only have HDR running, you'll end up with good textures for HDR and horrible textures without hdr (too bland).
Yeah you discussed this earlier in the thread, which is what I was referring to. This is why I was curious on how much work is involved in creating a non-HDR set; if it's an insignificant effort (something that can be scripted etc) there's no reason not to, but if it requires actual effort you'd have to decide if it was worth it - which comes back to how much of the M&B playerbase are using ancient crapboxes. I don't think you got any reply to your question regarding people wanting a non-HDR version due to hardware limits or simple preference - I know many people strongly dislike bloom effects in many games.
There are many laptops that are more powerful that desktops.
And they cost three times as much. Regardless, a tiny keyboard + trackpad or **** + sword choppy game = hilarious, no matter how much of a GPU you drop in.
It's even MORE hilarious if laptop users are complaining about hardware demands, when they decided to pay a massive premium for gaming laptops already. A 260 is like $250 bucks or something; that's less than 20% of a gaming laptop.