Disabling Snow/Rain client side?

[Legacy_Sojourner_]

                Hello!

I hope this is the correct forum for this question. If not, I apoligize!

My question is: 

Is there a way for me to disable rain and snow effects client side? I play in an online community and the loading of areas that have snow or rain is dramatically slow - I would like to get rid of it.

Thanks in advance!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Mdarkbyte]

               In my opinion this isn't able to do at client side. Wheater effects only rely on serverside.Does it cause a lag if you play in these areas too, or is it only slow loading of areas ?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Sojourner_]

               Thank you for the reply!

It causes lag when I play in the areas as well.

EDIT: Is it otherwise maybe possible, if there would be an override for it, to sort of circumvent the rain and snow effects with a client side override? And if possible, would that actually help?
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Sojourner_, 16 mai 2011 - 07:40 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Mdarkbyte]

               I'm not aware of such an override you desire. One more question, did you notice the same lag/sloweliness if playing in an singleplayer game for yourself alone? And if your problem resides on your graphic card, perhaps the NWN general forum and/or the technical help forum are a better place to ask for a solution.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Sojourner_]

               Not tried single player. And I suspect that it's simply "too much" for the graphic's card (it's become worse since I got a new (bigger) monitor a year ago) and that's why I figured if I could disable it I could put off buying a new graphic's card '>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Mdarkbyte]

               Sounds odd, did you ever try another graphic driver (or perhaps you changed to a new one with the new monitor) ? It may help to take a look into your driver settings too, sometimes minor changes help a lot.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Sojourner_]

               Never changed driver - as far as I am aware the only change has been the monitor. I would not know how to positively influence the driver settings with respect to this problem though '>

Are there files somewhere in my NWN folder that represent the snow and rain? If so, I guess simply removing them will cause me to error out each time it rains or snows?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Mdarkbyte]

               Snow and rain effects are set by the builder in toolset during creating an area  and in my opinion they are a hardcoded piece of the game itself. Only the builder can remove those effects from an area. But I'm curios how a new monitor can affect a graphic card likt this to display those kind of lag.You should give the peeps in the technical forum a try...via scripting etc. there's no solution for your problems.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Sojourner_]

               Will do that, thank you!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Rubies]

               I just whipped this together rather quickly, which means I'm afraid I wasn't able to test it. If they're noticably reducing your FPS, you can try putting these two files in the Override folder.

http://dl.dropbox.co...79/rainsnow.zip
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Rubies, 16 mai 2011 - 03:14 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Mdarkbyte]

               wooooh!  Great, hope it helps '>
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Mdarkbyte, 16 mai 2011 - 03:54 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Sojourner_]

               '> '> '>

It works!!! At least for the rain! Haven't been able to try snow yet! Will post here when I did, might take a while though, snow is not as common as rain '>