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AnKor's Shaders

I put cfs3pc2.zip, compositetexturebudgets.xml, MeshBuilderBidets.xml, and precompiledtexturebudgets.xml in the Terrains folder. Nothing in the Terrains_Korea folder.
 
Cheers mate, I broke my Korea install and had to go back to the original files to bring it back.
Must of failed the install process somewhere, managed to do 11 installs without error just the DPC Korea failed, thought I'd ask as I saw you had installed it without issue.
Edit - No idea what I did first time but second go around its all up and running.
 
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Just a note about installing into multi theatre installs (Rising Sun).
After completing the install into the active game theatre, you will need to copy the "MeshBuilderBudgets.xml", "compositetexturebudgets.xml" and the "precompiledtexturebudgets.xml" from the active terrains folder into each of the terrains folders for the different theatres otherwise the changes wont work and your game may crash.
ETO doesnt have that problem as it only uses one terrains folder for each of the theatres.
 
65olschool said:
Just a note about installing into multi theatre installs (Rising Sun).
After completing the install into the active game theatre, you will need to copy the "MeshBuilderBudgets.xml", "compositetexturebudgets.xml" and the "precompiledtexturebudgets.xml" from the active terrains folder into each of the terrains folders for the different theatres otherwise the changes wont work and your game may crash.
ETO doesnt have that problem as it only uses one terrains folder for each of the theatres.
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Will try that this weekend ! Just maybe the answer i was looking for ! Having issues re installing it right now. Many thanks for the head's up !
 
I was just searching an install (ETO) and found a compositescenerybudgets.xml and a compositetexturebudgets.xml in my assets folder, should these be deleted or are they ignored because the new ones from the shaders package are in the terrains folder?
 
CFS3 will find them both and use one or the other unpredictably. Look at both versions and decide which ones you prefer (one may be more taxing on your system than the other), then make that your default and delete the others.

MajorDensity at the largest RingDim in the compositesceneybudgets is the biggest factor for the load on your system.
 
Ok now Im confused, I have also found duplicate files inside the terrdata.zip file in the terrains folder
compositetexturebudgets.xml
MeshBuilderBudgets.xml
precompiledtexturebudgets.xml
Are they ignored because they are inside the zip file?
 
I'm trying to rebuild my installs, so I've just added the latest shaders pack - and it crashes. Straight back to the desktop. The loading screen comes on correctly, but just when it should move to the actual game screen, down it goes. I've read it carefully and followed the instructions, but to no avail. Any ideas?
 
That sounds like a missing location, aircraft weapons reference, or missing sound file. Try setting ShowUIWorld="false" in game.xml and see if it finishes loading.

Also, the shaders create their own universal version number reference value that never changes. That may differ from what you have in the configoverrides.xml so perhaps run that again. Make sure it's set to your default screen resolution as well.
 
MajorMagee said:
That sounds like a missing location, aircraft weapons reference, or missing sound file. Try setting ShowUIWorld="false" in game.xml and see if it finishes loading.

Also, the shaders create their own universal version number reference value that never changes. That may differ from what you have in the configoverrides.xml so perhaps run that again. Make sure it's set to your default screen resolution as well.
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The only change made was the shaders - otherwise working aircraft on a working field, etc.

Done both already. Configoverrides wass adjusted to take into account the new settings, and the screen resolution was native anyway.

Meanwhile though, Rene has sent me his basic install, and there, it works. Problem apparently over. Thanks anyway!
 
And it continues. The install Rene sent me works well, but whichever version of Ankor's shaders I use with other installs, they all send me straight back to the desktop instead of to the airfield UI screen.

Here's one of the dump logs:

0.00: Start - DLL Version Feb 15 2025
0.30: D3DWrapper::GetAdapterDisplayMode - 1920, 1080, 60, 22
0.30: D3DWrapper::GetAdapterDisplayMode - 1920, 1080, 60, 22
0.30: D3DWrapper::CreateDevice - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (Driver Version: 30.0.14.7212)
0.30: D3DWrapper::CreateDevice - Hardware Vertex Processing
0.30: D3DWrapper::CreateDevice - Adapter: 0, Type: 1, Flags: 0x42
0.30: D3DWrapper::CreateDevice - Windowed: 0, Width: 1920, Height: 1080, Refresh: 0, Format: 22, Multisampling: 4
0.30: D3DWrapper::CreateDevice - AutoDepthStencil: 1 Format: 75
0.30: D3DWrapper::CreateDevice - SwapEffect: 1, PresentationInterval: -2147483648, BackBufferCount: 1
0.30: D3DWrapper::CreateDevice - D3D9Ex is enabled.
0.46: FakeDevice::FakeDevice - Available Texture Memory 1687 MB
0.59: create_minidump - Unhandled Exception 0xC0000005 at EIP=0x100100F2 (dll base is 0x5A650000)

I've tried ealier versions, which worked well in my earlier installs before I lost them, and they do the same.
 
Here are the next few steps on my system after where your's stopped.

What version of CFS3.exe are you running? I know the one that came with Battle of Leyte Gulf wouldn't run on my computer, and I had to replace it with one from another install, even though it showed the same version number.

1.07: D3DWrapper::CreateDevice - D3D9Ex is enabled.
1.24: FakeDevice::FakeDevice - Available Texture Memory 4095 MB
1.24: FakeDevice::FakeDevice - cfs3.exe version: 3.1.0.30203
1.24: FakeDevice::FakeDevice - Patching external FOV: 30 (0.523598)
1.24: FakeDevice::FakeDevice - Patching visibility culling.
1.24: EffectBase::CheckShaderCache
1.24: EffectBase::GetGameDirName - CFS3 Battle of Leyte Gulf
1.24: VirtualCockpit::EnableEnhancements - Patching cockpit view.
1.24: VirtualCockpit::EnableEnhancements - Zoom Settings: 0.800000 1.249999 10.000000
1.24: VirtualCockpit::EnableEnhancements - Mouse Look Speed: 0.000000
1.24: LightArray::ApplyPatch - Patching maximum dynamic light count.
1.24: DrawRecorder:: DrawRecorder - Starting worker threads.
1.24: WorkerThread::WorkerThread - Number of Processors: 16
1.30: ModelBuffer::Init - SSE4.1 is available
1.30: ModelBuffer::CreateBuffers - Capacity = 1200000
1.30: ModelBuffer::Init - Available Texture Memory 4095 MB
1.30: CloudBuffer::Init - Cloud Render Distance: 160 km (10), Shadow Distance: 75 km
1.30: CloudBuffer::Init - Cloud Pattern: Modified
1.30: Models::OnInit - Shadow Map Size: 2048, Filter: 1
1.30: Models::OnInit - Available Texture Memory 4095 MB
1.30: DrawRecorder::Init - Scenery Shadow Map Size: 8192
1.30: DrawRecorder::Init - Terrain Shadow Map Size: 2048
1.30: DrawRecorder::Init - Cloud Shadow Map Size: 2048
1.30: DrawRecorder::Init - Available Texture Memory 4095 MB
1.30: DrawRecorder::StartCompileShaders
1.30: EnumFiles::Run - Started
1.31: CompileShaders - Starting.
1.31: Skybox::LoadDefines - Solid Skybox: 0.000000 0.031373 0.176471
1.31: SeaWater::LoadDefines - Sea: ModerateBreeze
1.31: CompileShaders - Finished.
 
That's most likely an incompatible CFS3 version. You can right click cfs3.exe in the file explorer to see which one you have

There's only one thing that happens between texture memory report and cfs3 version report: my dll overwrites some config options to make them compatible with shaders (turns off dual pass render, etc).
It will surely crash with the wrong cfs3.exe because the dll will overwrite wrong parts of game's memory.
Not sure what kind of brain fart made me put this code before the version check and not after it like everything else that involves memory patching.
 
AnKor said:
That's most likely an incompatible CFS3 version. You can right click cfs3.exe in the file explorer to see which one you have

There's only one thing that happens between texture memory report and cfs3 version report: my dll overwrites some config options to make them compatible with shaders (turns off dual pass render, etc).
It will surely crash with the wrong cfs3.exe because the dll will overwrite wrong parts of game's memory.
Not sure what kind of brain fart made me put this code before the version check and not after it like everything else that involves memory patching.
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That was so easy! You are absolutely right. I'd downloaded the Patch Which Shall Not Be Mentioned from another site, and it turns out it was a 3.0 version, not 3.1. So as my best mate had sent me a full install - which worked - I could copy his over, and Bob's your uncle. Beautiful.

Thank you, AnKor - for finding the answer, and for providing this excellent mod in the first place. Getting it to work was taking priority over building my new installs.
 
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