Couple Graphics Related Qs

[IntelHydralisk]

Haven't played Warband in years and just started a new game (new to Floris).

1. Polished Landscapes - from the description, it's included in Floris. It doesn't seem to look the same as the PL that I used to play (a few years ago). Just to do a sanity check, I booted up PL again and did some battles to compare. The textures and tree meshes looked better in PL. Is there something I'm missing or am I going insane?

2. The dust kicked up by the horses. When there are many mounted units it lags a lot. My computer is no slouch either... i7 3770k + Radeon 7970. I get 120 fps (cap) and then when a large mounted battle happens, it starts crawling. Again, I did a sanity check and booted up a different mod. The dust is there but just a much smaller scale. Is there any way to tone it down? I don't want to turn off particles completely (I rather like the cloud of blood and smoke etc.).

 

[Duh]

1. Floris is a custom setup, much of the mod is us tweaking and learning, so some things turned out better and some things turned out worse (though graphics are always subjective).

2. The installer offers a dust option iirc. The faq also lists a way to get rid of the lag (exchanges the dust files). You can also just turn off particle effects, but thats suboptimal, since it removes blood as well.

 

[IntelHydralisk]

Cool, thanks. It's clearly better than native but I was uneasy since it didn't look like the PL I had installed so I wasn't sure if I had to do anything else.