[postal2mac] Tweaking the .ini

[Jason Harris]

Cesar

I find that giving that much ram allocation to the engine cache really 
chokes the game (mac side anyway).  I find that 256-512mb makes for a 
smoother experience.  The VARSize does make a difference when running 
with high textures.  One question for Ryan, will the next build support 
lightmap compression?  I noticed that the cvar in the .ini is set to 
false just like AA.

-Jason


On 23 May 2004, at 20:13, Cesar Barcenas wrote:

> Postal 2 is base on Unreal Engines.
> You can always tweak and modify
> your ini files.
>
> Look in your /Home/Library/Application Support/Postal 2/System/
>
> You can modify both user and postal2 ini files.  For custom
> display resolution go to the following:
>
> [SDLDrv.SDLClient]
>
> And change the 2 number for full screen:
>
> FullscreenViewportX=1600
> FullscreenViewportY=1024
>
> The above is for a 22" Apple cinema display.
>
> Also if you haven't done so, search for the line:
>
> VARSize=128
>
> The number represents the amount of vram your
> video card has.  By default this is set
> to 32, so if you have more than that
> you will need to change it.
>
> Another tweak that I do, but maybe Ryan can
> tell me more about it, since I have heard
> that changing it does nothing to the game.
>
> [Engine.GameEngine]
> CacheSizeMegs=1024
>
> The number should be 3/4 of real ram you
> have.  So if you have 512, you should set
> it to 384, and so on.
>
> Cesar
>
>
>> From: hotblack <hotblack at sietchtabr.plus.com>
>> Reply-To: "postal2mac at icculus.org" <postal2mac at icculus.org>
>> Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 19:39:29 +0100
>> To: "postal2mac at icculus.org" <postal2mac at icculus.org>
>> Subject: Re: [postal2mac] First impressions
>>
>>
>> On 23 May 2004, at 19:22, Ted Stalcup wrote:
>>
>>>>> Radeon 7000 PCI, generic PC flashed with the latest Mac ROM.
>>>>
>>>> There's your problem. Graphical errors often crop up when using
>>>> flashed-from-PC or overclocked cards.
>>>>
>>>> There may be something that Ryan can tweak or fix, but I normally
>>>> using flashed cards is a no-no in terms of support from anyone for
>>>> anything, your taking your life into your own hands ;)
>>>
>>> Actually...turning down textures from high to medium does the same
>>> thing on my bone stock Aibook with its Radeon 9600m, still get no
>>> texture maps at anything other than high quality - Ted
>>
>> Ah, better throw it into bugzilla then - https://bugzilla.icculus.org/
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way to force Postal to a particular display?
>> (Other than setting it as your main display) I've got a Radeon PCI as 
>> a
>> secondary PCI that I could test this problem on.
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>
>
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