Well i manged to install the mod i have noticed anyway grasphic glitches as soon as i switched graphic options as suggested in the readme.
My specs:
AMD 3500+
X800 XT
2GB RAM

LogicSequence - This is totally beautiful.

I was impressed when I was going thorugh your files, the images looked amazing - I use several other mods and merge them all into one folder so I can have more fun.

Then I started a new game, and wow. The stars, the Nebulea, the Planets.... Wow. Totally amazing. I think I need new pants, lol


Marioflag:
You were sure to restart DA right?
I'm not too familiar with ATI X series, (Had a 9700AIW till this year, lol), but given that there is currently X1900's out along with Athlon 64's (and X2's), I would guess that your computer might be a little under powered. Try lowering the anitasailing values and star density.

If the glitches increase over time (IE they get bigger and cover more of the screen), turn down as many of the graphic options you can, exit the game, and turn off your rig to let it cool.

I had no issues on my A64 3200 / x850Pro / 1GB RAM system.

Hmmm. ok. Lets make sure it didn't install to the Dread Lords mod folder. Have you checked TotalGaming/GC2/Mods to make sure it isn't there? And previously, you were sure to check Totalgaming/GC2/Dark Avatar/mods correct? Remember, you must have Dark Avatar installed for the mod to work, the mod is not for Dread Lords.

Do you have GC2 installed to the default dir or a custom one (it shouldn't matter either way)? Try this: delete (or rename) the file called prefs.ini in the My Documents/My Games/GC2 Dark Avatar folder, this will restore all of your settings to default. Then start the game, check use mods in settings, and go into the selction window and hit the default BUTTON. Restart DA and THEN go back and see if you can select the High Res mod from the list.

Thanks everyone for the compliments!



What kind of glitches are you talking about Marioflag? Anything specific?

i'm planning on doing the same thing. is it simply a copy & paste job?

As long as the other mods don't make changes to any of the same XML files as the HRG mod. If they do, then you'll actually have to edit the file and merge the two together, making sure that they don't conflict, that's not as simple as cut and paste, because you should go through it entry by entry to make sure you keep all the relevant data. But if you do that, there shouldn't be any problems.

Logic Sequence probably my graphic corruption was due to overheating because now i'm not able to reproduce it, i'm noticing that with the mod my audio is stuttering a lot more than before but it's already known that it is due to anti-aliasing (which i have maxed at 6x)
and also in this case it should happen because your mod needs greater graphic requirements, so all my problems should be resolved by Stardock they are not due to incompatibility with your mod.
BTW you have done a really great work I hope Stardock will implemement your mod as a graphic option in the next patch!
Thank you

A neccessity too. The mod makes changes to 2 XML files that as of the current build of DA, aren't replacable via the mods folder (this is a bug of course). So the installer has to replace those files in the actual game directory. Don't worry tho, the installer checks for the previous versions of those files before it changes them, and saves those default versions as .bak backup files.

So if you don't want to use the mod any more, you can delete the xml files the installer put in, and delete the .bak extension of the backups and the original files are restored (it's all in the readme). The files are ...Dark Avatar/data/startypes.xml and ...Dark Avatar/data/english/raceconfig.xml. The latter is simply a bug correction in the file, so keeping it no matter what wouldn't hurt (unitl SD fixes it of course), the former is what makes the stars give off different colored light.

Try lowering you AA a little, that will put less stress on your graphics card.

thanks Logic for all the hard work you did

The mod can now be found easily by just going to the following page and clicking the link > http://www.thegalacticcore.com/

Great job, Logic! Those planets are gorgeous!

I prefer the orginal background stars, though. Yours are very... um... festive?
How could I change that?

Go into the mod folder and open the file for the High Res Graphic Mod. Inside open the folder 'GFX' and unless i am a total dunce you just need to remove the folder called 'Space'. Or if its just the stars that get you, not the nebula, just open the 'Space' folder and remove the files 'Star0' to 'Star3'.

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Thanks!
I only removed the red and blue stars.