Profile of chronophile

Hey there. I'm sure you're all looking forward to another player complaining about performance issues! So I've been playing on a Dell Inspiron laptop since early in the year and had pretty good FPS/performance on medium settings. However, I put the game down around march. After loading it up again in mid-summer, I suddenly was unable to start a match without crashing on the map load screen. Campaing, 1v1 skirmish, even performance test bugsplatted. Followed all the advice and settings tweaks, no dice. So I waited until the 64bit version was announced and the good news is, the main menus run great and I can get a map to load, however, the framerate from the moment the battle starts is extremely low. Like MAYBE a single frame per second. It's unplayable!

I updated my Nvidia drivers, disabled mods, changed my battery settings to high performance, disabled vsync, anti-alias, lowered to minimum settings, did the replay folder disable thing, reinstalled, tried a different HDD, and verified cash. No improvement! The only thing that made a tiny bit of difference was starting in windowed mode and lowering the resolution to 50%, which eeked out maybe another frame or 2, but still extremely low. I was able to get much help on steam or Reddit forums, so hoping someone around here might have a better idea.

Here are my specs:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
System Model Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU 0798
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7300HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz, 2501 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. 1.12.1, 6/19/2020
SMBIOS Version 3.0
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer Dell Inc.
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 12.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 11.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 4.75 GB
Total Virtual Memory 14.8 GB
Available Virtual Memory 4.10 GB

Page File Space 2.93 GB
Virtualization-based security Not enabled
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes


Any help is much appreciated!
Thanks

It looks like the ability is no longer on the riflemen, but it can be restored. Just add the ability to Riflemen SBPS and adjust the requirements of the ability.

The require squad upgrade (not in the any) is refering to a Riflemen Upgrade from an event from Ardennes Assault and not having it active.

One item from the any is referencing the commander ability in multiplayer. This makes it so say an ally drop a 1919 and another USF player picks it up. This player can NOT use the ability if they do not have the commander active as well. If you want this ability non doctrinal, delete this.

The other one in the any references the Mechanized commander from Ardennes Assault, who has access to 1919s. This makes a scripted 1919 Riflemen does not have the ability unless it is the mechanized commander. If you want this ability non doctrinal, delete this as well. This is why usually Ostheer and Soviets have separate single player and MP, multiplayer. Theater uses both... Hence why some things are totally imbalanced to near impossibility now.

the requirements determine weather something is can be selected or shown.
example: Ostheer's Battlephase 1 allows grenadiers to upgrade with a LMG 42
some upgrades hide if you select different upgrade such as flamers and minesweepers.
An observe hiding is USF Buildings. You may notice it looks like an officer but in actuality it is an upgrade. Upon completion the is an reinforcement action to summon the office. Once the upgrade is complete it has a requirement action for itself.
is_present: FALSE Meaning you do not have it. Alternatively you could set it to true and the requirement inside of a not.
reason: display so once it does become present (true) this upgrade is no longer displayed

The same officer squad this has a requirement of player upgrade as well.
is_present: TRUE
reason: usage and display so once it does become researched the will display and able to be used
if you want it displayed but not usable, set the reason to usage


required any list: think this as a or statement. For example: in order for Soviets T3, they require one of T2 or T1. All means both.

required squad upgrade (SBPS upgrade), entity upgrade (EBPS), player upgrade (when an upgrade in the UPGRADE tab's owner_type is set to player). For example, conscripts molotov upgrade.


Sorry if this not exactly coherent but the gist of is that the ability or upgrade must on the squad/entity. This will allows them to use the ability. Then, you use requirement to only enable the ability later on or to disable it earlier/later on.

Hmm, I'll have to tinker around a bit. Could I just copy the "Hit the dirt" ability and change some of the params? Also, something much simpler. What do I need to tweak to bring back suppression to the m1919 lmg. I have no idea what the original supression/supressed variables were on it before it was patched out. Were they the same as the 50 cal? And is there a bool or ability i need to activate to make it a weapon that can suppress?

thanks again!

The cost of a squad is the total sum of all entities. Pathfinders have 4 soldiers, 4 x 60 = 240. The call-in ability has its own cost and ignores the cost of entities.

Oh. I just noticed that the m1919 used to have a suppression ability and a defensive stance ability. Is there a variable that can restore those functionalities ?

Thanks!

The current spawn ability is: abilities\aef\modal_ability\dispatch_ability\pathfinders_dispatch

• Empty the list in action_list/start_target_actions
  
• Set 'initial_recharge': to 'false'
  

Then edit the pathfinder himself: sbps\races\aef\soldiers\pathfinder_squad\pathfinder_squad_mp

• Add the same 'required_player_upgrade' from the ability to 'requirement_ext'.
  

And the final step is to add the squad to the hq: ebps\races\aef\buildings\base_building\rifle_command_mp

• Add the pathfinder squad in spawner_ext/spawn_items. Right mouseclick > add > spawn_item.
  

Ok. Almost got everything working. One thing I'm having trouble finding is how to change the unit cost (MP)? It seems to default to 240 MP for the 2-3 spot on the UI (same as mortar team above it). The only thing I could find was in ebps/attributes/races/aef/soldiers/pathfinders/pathfinder_recon_mp and then under cost_ext. But in that spot it says man power 60. Which doesn't make sense?

Welcome to the forum!

All buidlings are located in the category tab 'ebps'. The M1919 LMG weapon rack is: ebps\races\aef\buildings\weapon_racks\aef_weapon_rack_m1919_lmg

It currently has the requirement to select a specific commander. This requirement is located in slotitem_ext\pickup_requirements\2. required_any_in_list\requirements\1. required_player_upgrade.

The upgrade name is the passive of the commander. This can be changed to the weapon rack upgrade from hq: 'upgrade\aef\research\weapon_rack_upgrade_mp'.

The cost is located in slotitem_ext\unlimited_option\item_cost.

Now that I think of it, what do you think would be a good cost to balance out the m1919? The other rack weapons are 60, but the lmg out classes the BAR by a wide margin. So maybe 90?