![]() ![]() Most of the instructions I've been able to find were confusing, contradictory, or both, and it's not really my area of expertise.īut the textures did look pretty good with just the shader from BDS and no other tweaks, parallax or no parallax. But I'm probably not setting up parallax correctly. I only ever got the grey shimmer effect when there was a mod conflict ( ELFX + a city replacer + 2020, and usually ELFX was the problem) or the one time I accidentally updated Better Dynamic Snow. Yeah, Pfuscher mentions only having parallax on some of the files and not others. ![]() And use TexGen/ DynDOLOD 3 to get them to work together. You can most easily find them by clicking on the "Requirements" drop-down and looking for them in the "Mods requiring." list.Īnd as always with mods adding meshes and textures, you will have to decide which mods/ look takes preference. Thankfully, there are a lot of parallaxed versions of major texture mods on Nexus, that are also included in STEP 2.0. So getting a useable Parallaxed Skyrim AE will take a bit of work. Or hunt down the "offending" meshes and manually remove the parallax abilities of those meshes with nifskope. You will have to shop around to find other parallax replacers to make sure everything is covered. So you will find a lot of missing textures (white/ grey shimmering ones). In my experience Skyrim 2020 by Pfuscher does NOT provide parallax to all meshes/ textures. Or attempted playthrough, since I keep adding things. Having said that, I recently decided to try-out parallax textures and meshes in my current playthrough. So you should only add it AFTER you made sure the STEP setup as intended works without problems. Since parallax isn't a part of the STEP Mandates, using it is a personal choice. I would recommend testing 2020 as a potential base layer for the next version of the guide, but with the assumption that it will be a time consuming process. The areas where I tend to run into conflicts that aren't automatically solved by default load order is some city replacers and JK's Skyrim. So far they seem to be playing well enough together but it's a lot of surface area to look at. I'm troubleshooting my first pass through the Step guide but wasn't willing to do without 2020. (I'm closer to "minimum" than "recommended" specs relative to the guide, so I'll probably downgrade to the 4k). On the down side, it takes up a lot of disk space, and depending on whether you load the 2k, 4k, or 8k version, can be a resource hog. It definitely keeps to a vanilla-plus aesthetic but in a photo-realistic way. Skyrim 2020 Parallax by Pfuscher at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Mods and Community () Skyrim 2020 is a sprawling mass of meshes and textures, still under rapid evolution, but it makes for a very high-quality base layer that makes many other landscape, city, and clutter mods redundant. ![]()
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![]() ![]() At native 4K, it’s safe to turn off MSAA entirely. If you’re using a 1080p display, we still recommend MSAA 2x (assuming you can achieve the average frame rate you want). MSAA is demanding because it works, especially at lower resolutions. We still averaged 70 fps with MSAA 2x enabled - a single frame difference versus turning MSAA off - and a respectable 66 fps with MSAA 4x. We gained back 8 fps simply by turning MSAA off, but unlike a lot of other settings, you don’t have to resort to turning down the quality all the way. Out of all the forms of anti-aliasing, MSAA is usually the most demanding across titles, and GTA V is no different. There’s quite a large difference with MSAA, which isn’t surprising. There isn’t a measurable difference in performance, though. As a light form of anti-aliasing, you can leave FXAA turned off if you want. Based on our testing, FXAA has little to no performance penalty and doesn’t impact visuals much. Shortly behind grass quality is anti-aliasing, or in particular, MSAA. Because of that, we still recommend turning down grass quality, even if that means giving up some grass when you get into the mountains. In the city portions of Los Santos, you won’t notice much of a difference, however. At Normal, GTA V doesn’t render nearly as much foliage, rather opting for flat grass textures broken up by the occasional bush. There is a pretty significant difference between those settings and Ultra, though. We recommend leaving this setting at either Normal or High for the best results. After rounding, we noted the same average frame rate at both settings: 63 fps. We didn’t note a difference between Very High and Ultra, though. Even bumping the grass quality down to High had a significant performance benefit, giving us an extra six frames on average. Grass qualityīased on our testing, grass quality has the biggest impact on performance in GTA V. Between Ultra and Normal, we saw a 12 frames per second improvement on average. Not all PC components are built equally, either, so your mileage may vary. If you’re using one of the best CPUs for gaming, for example, you’ll end up with a higher frame rate overall. Take into account the differences between each setting, not the frame rate itself. The best graphics settings for GTA Vīefore diving in, it’s important to set up our benchmarks. To get you started as fast as possible, the settings below are ranked based on their importance, with grass quality impacting performance most. ![]() We turned every setting up as high as possible to get a baseline - either Very High or Ultra, with FXAA and MSAA 8x. When testing MSAA, for example, that was the only setting we changed.įor testing, we used a RTX 2080 and Ryzen 7 2700X - both at stock frequencies - paired with 32GB of RAM (you don’t need that much, as you can read in our guide to RAM capacity). In the charts below, the number refers to the difference in performance when the corresponding setting alone changed. We also tested each setting independently. We took those averages and averaged them again to get a single number for each of the graphical settings. GTA V’s benchmark has five scenes, each of which produces a frame average. 1080p is, by far, the most common resolution for PC games. We tested each of GTA V‘s graphical settings at 1080p using the internal benchmark. How we tested the best graphics settings for GTA V ![]() ![]() ![]() Outdoorsman combined convenience, off-road capability and trailer towing hardware in one package with a name that resonated among its intended users. The Outdoorsman took all of the features most useful to hunters, fishermen, campers and boaters, and packaged them into one model. In addition, the Ram 1500 Outdoorsman joined the lineup as a new trim that was designed for outdoor enthusiasts. 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Ram Truck is celebrating a decade of innovation since emerging as a standalone brand in October 2009. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually, the giant Dexter is reduced to only a head, which rolls after Dexter. While little Dexter climbs around the giant trying to escape, the evil Dexter becomes so possessed with killing his quarry that he starts shooting his own fingers off. The adventure unfolds across space stations and alien worlds, some quite conventional for Reagan Era sci-fi while others that are a little more 'Through the Looking Glass,' such as a showdown with an evil giant Dexter. Dexter must chase Borf across space, both on foot and in his ship, the Star Pac. Borf hits Ace, turning him into the teenager Dexter, and absconds with Kimberly. His weapon of choice is the Infanto Ray, a laser cannon that reduces its targets to children. Like any sci-fi villain worth his salt, Borf is intent on enslaving humankind. At the start of the game, Ace and his girlfriend Kimberly, are attacked by the evil Commander Borf. What It Was All About The titular Space Ace is Dexter and, according to the game's attract mode, he is the "defender of justice, truth, and planet Earth." Dexter is suave and possessed of the kind of ego we seem to like in rock stars, but not necessarily in our friends. Commander Borf: The blue-skinned maniac wants to take over earth, forcing it into submission with his Infanto ray.Kimmy's been kidnapped by Borf and his alien minions. Kimberly: Essentially, she's the redheaded version of Daphne, the damsel-in-distress from Dragon's Lair.But when struck by the Infanto Ray, we see that he was just a regular geeky teen like anybody that was playing the game. Dexter/Ace: Defender of earth, Dexter is a musclebound lug with a breezy ego.And in doing so, I started to see that Space Ace is, in many ways, a superior game.Īce and Kimberly are ambushed by Borf. The new 1080p transfer is incredible.) I ended up staying awake until 3AM to beat the game. But yesterday, I sat down with the Blu Ray edition of the game, published by Digital Leisure. I fell in love with the game in 1983, begged for quarters in order to play it, and have bought it on multiple formats over the years, such as the Sega CD and DVD. And it has a full soundtrack instead of audio flourishes, which helps create a more cinematic experience. There is a three-act structure to the game. ![]() Dragon's Lair was a series of vignettes that you had to survive, loosely tied together as exploring Singe's castle. While it would be easy to write off Space Ace as "Dragon's Lair in space" - as I purposefully did in the title of the article - a few minutes with the game reveals developer Cinematronics's expanded vision. Space Ace was the follow-up to the incredibly successful Dragon's Lair, the interactive cartoon that swept through arcades in 1983 and introduced America to Dirk the Daring. noticeably.Game: Space Ace Platform(s): Arcade, PC, Blu Ray, DVD, Amiga, 3DO, Sega CD, SNES, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Jaguar CD, CD-i Release Date: 1984 Favorite Line: "Struggle with Dexter to regain his manhood." Favorite Moments: Rocket skates sequence, fighting with giant evil Dexter, and motorbike race. Although Space Ace II comes on 12(!) low density 5 1/4″ discs, most scenes are shortened. The result is a cut version due to space restraints. Space Ace II is ported to the PC from the original arcade Laserdisc version. Luckily, you’re allowed to save your progress at four fixed points. Timing is crucial you will need to press keys in the exact second. So you’re basically trying to keep the strip running. If your decision is wrong, the cartoon will end with a death animation, and Dexter will lose one of his three lives. Each of the 27 seconds-long scenes requires one to three keystrokes. You never control Dexter directly, you just choose an appropriate direction. You have to avoid traps and enemies by pressing the right key at the right time: cursor keys for movements, Insert key to shoot. Space Ace II is a essentially a cartoon strip in which our hero will encounter numerous hazards. Thus empowered, he has to defeat Borf’s minions. In critical situations, the meek Dexter can transform into his mighty alter ego Space Ace. Play Space Ace II: Borf’s Revenge online! Space Ace II: Borf’s Revenge game description Another Laserdisc conversion of one of Don Bluth’s cartoons: Space Ace II: Borf’s Revenge continues the saga of young cadet Dexter, who tries to free his love Kimberly from the clutches of the evil nemesis Borf. ![]() |