mcmike1489 on 6/6/2020 at 00:54
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Does turning on "editor_disable_gdi","new_texpal_thumb_hw", and "edit_screen_depth 32" in dromed.cfg help?
Try experimenting, it depends. The game could behave in a strange way or could improve the visual and performance.
Nameless Voice on 6/6/2020 at 02:00
I think you misunderstand. I'm suggesting that you try that to see if it helps your crash problems.
The editor crashes with HD mods because it runs out of memory when you load too many high-res textures.
I believe the reason for this is because it can't use the DXT compressed textures when it's running in software rendering, and so has to decompress them for use in the editor.
This is mentioned in the modder's notes.
What I don't know if is if forcing the editor into hardware mode can work around this and allow it to use those textures. The documentation implies not, but it might be worth trying.
mcmike1489 on 6/6/2020 at 02:09
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
I think you misunderstand. I'm suggesting that you try that to see if it helps your crash problems.
The editor crashes with HD mods because it runs out of memory when you load too many high-res textures.
I believe the reason for this is because it can't use the DXT compressed textures when it's running in software rendering, and so has to decompress them for use in the editor.
This is mentioned in the modder's notes.
What I don't know if is if forcing the editor into hardware mode can work around this and allow it to use those textures. The documentation implies not, but it might be worth trying.
I see, ok. Yeah, maybe that is one way to fix the crashing problem with loading the HD/NecroAge texture packs (separately of course) Dromed can't handle the stress of loading high resolution textures to render them all. It's like overheating your computer to make it run to the maximum performance limit of your GPU and CPU, but in a program way of it.
ZylonBane on 6/6/2020 at 02:58
Quote Posted by mcmike1489
It's like overheating your computer to make it run to the maximum performance limit of your GPU and CPU, but in a program way of it.
I have no words.
mcmike1489 on 6/6/2020 at 04:36
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
I have no words.
Great, congratulations!
