it depends on how messy/clean the programmer(s) coding the game.
One thing I noticed in FO3 is that, they use the "resizing" function a lot to use the same model mimic different items, so a room full of "small" stuffs may have a huge polygon count. And compare with the "empty" Mojave, downtown DC has way more objects.........
I imagine a lot of this is FO3's inability to handle multiple cores - for me it runs about as well as skyrim (which I have to use that neat automatic resolution switching addon thing to play) thanks to a relatively mediocre dual CPU being hyperthreaded to 4 sub-2ghz cores and HP not providing any means to disable this. Between that and things like NVAC and NVSR it runs at least as well (though it did take a tonne of tweaking to make that the case). Personally I prefer the Mojave (cowboys are neat ok) but yeah if anyone I knew was looking at playing FO3 I'd direct them to TTW right off the bat, and wish I had been myself (I heard about it but was discouraged by the Alpha tag, though that may have been before the 2.1 update which was what I started with).
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it depends on how messy/clean the programmer(s) coding the game.
One thing I noticed in FO3 is that, they use the "resizing" function a lot to use the same model mimic different items, so a room full of "small" stuffs may have a huge polygon count. And compare with the "empty" Mojave, downtown DC has way more objects.........
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I wonder if that might be something to look at an addon for when TTW is finally out of alpha. TTW has helped a lot but I definitely still feel like DC is a lot more resource intensive than it should be when I'm playing.
That said, to make an uneducated guess, using different models would demand more from the CPU/RAM, right? In that case, if your bottleneck is one of those instead of your GPU, something like that would only make it worse, no?
Making new models to replace resized original models is pretty much a no-go. It would take a lot of time to find out where the resized models are in game, removing them, then adding new ones in their exact places.
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I've never been able to get Fallout 3 stable enough to play, so TTW is turning out to be really great for me. I tend to mess with mods more than play the games, but I have completed FNV a few times now. Agree that NVAC and NVSR are great plugins, and now I know of PCB thanks to this thread. I think I will try to port that to NV since Drithius says it could be done better. Maybe that will stop crashing for me when I go in and out of AWOP's underground as this seems to be the only time NV ever crashes for me anymore.
