Comments - HercTNT

this appears to have fixed all rendering issues. ty

ground textures in bar rostock wild area completely missing. all paths are white. Multiple reloads did not fix issue.

after lowering visual quality to as far as it will go this eventually worked. took 3 or for trys. LFO really needs the 64bit exe that other mods are using. some maps are just more intense than others with graphics and can cause lockups. i'm not complaining, the game looks amazing. the details are incredible. but sometimes they can cause issues.

Unfortunately i found a critical error. if you were to draw a line in the dark valley map cutting it in half, you can't walk over that line without the game hard locking. no matter how much i reduce visual quality to save memory the game locks. LFO has run amazing up until this point. No crash log is created so i cannot provide one.

i'm using the default settings with dx10 renderer. I have discovered that most scopes do not work so well. a few work fine like the pso-1 scope. but others like the acog have missing pieces as well as the recticule disappear when zooming in. i would say half the scopes are effected. my video drivers are up to date and the distant tree rendering and scop rendering are my only issues.

Best looking most stable version yet. I say this alot, but it's true. I'm able to play for hours with no lockups or black screens. Thank you acs. Only two things to point out. with grafik udpate acog scopes do not render the eyepiece and look strange. Distant trees render a black box around them with striped lines. These are the only issues i have found in an otherwise well built mod.

if possible could you give an update on the research journal for petrenko. it no longer seems to be in the place it has always been yet the quest still exists to recover it from the opening of the old lab x18. it's the only oddity i have found. everything else for me atleast works fantastic. Thank you.

google is your friend. do a search for lost alpha tool kits and you will find what you seek.

I'm running a fresh install and new game and i cannot crouch past the wood ladder. even so, if you say it's not there i would be curious to know where it has gone.

I have the same question as another stalker. I can't recover the document for petrenko at the old lab x18 entrance as i cannot crouch low enough to get to it. Assuming it's in the same place as before. Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated.

trying to upgrade exoskeleton to reinforced frame results in hard lockup. this is the exoskeleton purchased from freedom base special items. Is this possible to fix?

Patch to fix strelok psy protection does not work. Once you remove his psy protection, strelok simply stays where he is and fires his gun. game just runs and nothing happens.

I have the exact same issue. I can only ever knock down his psy shield to roughly 2% but never lower. If I die and have to reload the shield goes blank and strelok becomes invincible.

it's perfectly stable. while testing i played through it 7 times in a month and a half. outside of the random fix, the standard gameplay ran fine. what problem are you having?

what bodies cause crash when you loot them? if it's in redforest it's a known issue.

lower view distance to half. It changes little in the game and improves speed. lower grass density to 75%. reduce quality of ssao and shadows. Also, lowering texture detail does not seem to effect graphics in game but speeds things up. most importantly not install optional texture pack. if you did remove it. it requires alot of power and can cause crashes due to memory loss. hopefully this helps.

do you have any other version of stalker? did you have clear sky on before with other mods? did you do a complete reinstall removing all information on clear sky from your computer. you must delete registry references as well as secondary references in you my documents folder. if you do not, conflicts can arise. past that, i have no idea. i wish i could help more.

what version of clear sky are you using? Disc or digital copy? were did you install it? double check that you installed clear sky clean with no past references. follow mod install order and patch order. let me know how it goes.

yes, you are correct. I looked up most the artifacts but missed that one. Like i said, i think most are similar with the possibilty of slight changes. Acs will have to weigh in on if he plans to add more or make more changes in the future.

with the exception of an intel 6700k my system is identical to yours and runs the game perfect on dx10. Loading the game is very slow I will admit. With the exception of lost Alpha that has specific multi threaded optimizations, most high quality mods are slow loading. Its a limitation of the game engine. If you want help, lets discuss your settings as opposed to your system. First of all, what version of clearsky did you install? disc or digital content? Did you do a clean install, meaning, were their old versions of stalker or previous versions of clear sky on you system? If so, you must remove them and remove all reference to them before installing LFO. After installing clear sky, you must then install LFO mod, patches 1-4, then any extras. I don't recommend the ultra hd texture pack. I find it to be to much of a memory hog and causes all kinds of problems. LFO looks and runs great without it. After that, look at your settings. Lower the texture detail slider down by one or two clicks. Amazingly lowering this setting does not effect in game detail at all. Lower view distance to nearly half. It also has little effect on in game detail. Reducing these settings with dramatically improve stability and performance without effecting visuals. Original stalkers including most stalker mods are slow loading, especially with extra content. Not much can be done here.

Acs will need to confirm this but I believe the artifacts are unchanged from clear sky. Their might be some slight changes, but I have not seen them myself.

While their was a bug that caused menu's to be corrupted, that one slight problem has long been fixed. Outside of that, as a tester, the one thing that always worked right with this mod is it's renderer. DX10 looks incredible and is the most stable stalker mod I have ever tested. The screen effects may not be to your liking, but that does not make them bad. They were put their to increase realism and difficulty. Don't complain if you are not able to handle it. If anything, most things are to easy to kill. Shotguns kill most anything at close range in one shot. Rifles kill most anything with a single shot to the head. If it's help your wanting, you might try asking in a better way. If you don't like it and just want to complain, their are plenty of other mods you can try. We don't need you here.

are you using multiple gpu's such as crossfire or Sli? if so try disabling it. it does not work well with stalker that i have seen. also, do you have more than one version of clear sky on your pc? if so that could cause many issues.

wpn_no_includet is just a leftover from testing. Acs removed most of them, probably missed a few. It does not effect the game.

upgraded exo does not respond this way. This was something addressed in the beta. unless it regressed since the beta exo should work fine.

Cheeki made a good point. I should have mentioned i'm using the gog version of clear sky that comes prepatched and tested to run on all modern operating systems. It's the version I personally recommend. Thank you Cheeki, I should have said something sooner.

For those of you having problems, please consider the following. Make sure any previous installations of clear sky and the LFO mod are completely removed. Uninstalling the Clear Sky is not enough. You must delete the CS directory and the config folder created under your User directory in windows. Use a program like CCleaner to remove references to CS from your registry as well. Reboot your computer after doing this. Install CS fresh then run it once before installing any mod files. Exit CS and Installed the mod in order. LFO part 1, then part 2, then the patch, then textures and reshade files. Your hardware matters. Your system has to be up to the task. Older hardware will struggle or not work at all. Make sure you run a clean system. To many programs or apps running in the background eating up memory will cause problems.

As a tester, I played completely through LFO twice with minor issues. Major crashes are not likely mod related. It's possible some of you may find an issue we missed. Overall though problems are likely related to improper installation, low resource systems, or to much memory clutter.

ACS and his team worked very hard to bring what I consider to be the best looking stalker mod ever to a reality. We hope you all enjoy it and will do our best to help if you have any issues. My personal thanks to ACS for allowing me to help test LFO. I also want to thank the other testers for their hard work in making LFO so much fun!

agreed on CoC. while i enjoyed it, you nailed the description dead on.

I concur with both of them. i have the 1.3 update and the same things happen to me. fuels cans can be used twice and toolkits reload.