Wasteland 512 Textures Reloaded

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The Far Harbor DLC retexture pack is available now.

The updated pack now includes Decals, Effects, Gore and Shared Texture categories. Additionally, glow maps, environment masks, spatial normal maps, and haze maps are included.

Each new retexture pack represents each vanilla texture pack. The retexture packs are now organized in other ways with the aim of using these retextures to repack vanilla files in order to save quite a bit of HDD space in the future.

These new packages are loose files, so no complex methods are involved.

DLC, Automatron and Wasteland Workshop retexture packs are also available now.

content

Most vanilla textures are optimized and scaled to 512 pixels for improved performance. The optimized and resized texture categories are:

actor.

ammunition.

architecture.

armor.

blood.

clothing.

Small animals.

Guo Bo.

interior.

landscape.

Props.

Setdressing

Sky.

trap

vehicle.

water.

arms.

Instead play at low settings or use and try a few other people's ini files. I prefer to leave some settings like Texture Quality, Lighting, Godrays, Lens Flares and DoF at High Quality settings. So I downgraded the shadows to 512, along with the textures I already mentioned, to improve performance without sacrificing too much. Personally, it works for me and I thought I could share this which might help someone who has trouble running this game on the highest settings.

detail

Construction deals with airports, buildings, bankers, capsules, cities, sheds and warehouses. Interior design deals with buildings, caves, high-tech and industrial facilities, research institutes. Submarines and vaults. Landscape hanldes: cliffs, grass, ground, plants, roads, rocks, trees and water (some). Props for disposal of trash and some furniture. The sky deals with clouds, moon and sun. Vehicles can handle cars, motorcycles, planes, trains and vertical planets. The impact of water on lakes and rivers and water elsewhere. Weapons, melee and ranged weapons.

screenshot

Uploaded screenshots are images converted to JPG format at 90% quality to achieve the desired upload size. A raw-quality screenshot can be viewed via this IMGUR link, which shows:

Texture: Super.

Lighting: High.

Godsray: Medium.

Depth of field: Standard.

SSOA: Disabled.

Anisotropy: x8.

Anti-aliasing: FXAA.

Lens Flare: Active.

Wetress: active.

Motion Blur: Disabled.

Rain Occlusion: Disabled.

Shadow: 512px and medium distance.

SweetFX 1.51: LumaSharpen and Curves.

Adjustment

Recently, member timmieNL asked about my ini adjustments. Too many lines to post here. So, my personal INI adjustments can be viewed here.

suggestion

In addition to these retextures, I recommend using the CleanMem software along with Game Booster v3.4 or 3.5 beta (not the new version that has another name now). You can also customize the list of programs and services to turn off using Game Booster's Tweak feature. Use CleanMem to optimize memory consumption and clean cache. Maybe flushing DNS helps get better performance over Steam connections (at least I flush DNS for mmorpgs and Steam and other online services). Set the "Shadow" to 1024 px or 512 px.

It may also help to temporarily disable antivirus before running the game client. Use defragmentation software such as Ultra Defrag to defragment the hard drive. Regarding defragmentation, Hiren's BootCD 15.2 may be a good option to defragment your hard drive without installing an operating system. It is possible that the hard drive must be set to IDE via the BIOS in order to be detected by Hiren's BootCD 15.2.

Before the defragmentation process begins, it is a good idea to perform a hard drive cleanup and delete the virtual memory file to force the operating system to create a new, less fragmented virtual memory file. Performance will improve if you create the virtual memory file in another SATA or SSD drive. For those with 8Gb (like me) or more of RAM, it is possible to create a small 512Mb virtual drive to redirect the TEMP files, but this may be an …