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On the rare chance anyone is playing this anymore I thought i'd share this information.I own the retail version also, there's a bit of a difference between the 2. The steam version is using more files which are exposed in the data directory and a few of them have nicer detail, however there's a lot of problems with quite a few them.
The retail version relies on the files inside one large pak file. The steam version also has a large pak file, but will use the file from the data folder first if it finds one.I sought to find bad files and remove them, in some instances making the game less pretty but worth it to correct problems.The game plays fine now. There have been no problems installing it on my system - win7 x64.There are a lot of broken files in this game, mostly models but also some animations. With a bit of work I've been able to clear up 90% of the problems and the game is no longer crashing anymore, I can play as much as I like.
I've modified the lod (level of detail) and can see the people, buildings and objects at a much greater distance. This has an added bonus: sometimes in the game the different lod levels look weird, almost like a building is not the same building. Forcing everything to use the high detail first level lod at all distances fixes this problem. I guess it lowers the performance, but I have a new pc and its fine for me. Sometimes the long shadows from buildings are bugged, they twitch and disappear-reappear. I found it good to just disable those shadows by using the games configuration and lowering the detail level by 1 notch. By forcing anti-aliasing for the game it actually looks very nice.
I have replaced the sky and some of the textures with much higher quality versions. Anyone interested with a quick and dirty fix for some of the more obvious problems with this game try deleting the MODELS and ANIMS folders. You will lose some detail but most of the problems will go.
Although, I went through a process of finding individual files that were bad and removing them selectively, it took a very long time however I achieved a good result.Some parts of the game still have issues, and I doubt I will be doing anything further to it to fix it but compared to the initial install things are much much better. '.
I've modified the lod 'disable those shadows'forcing anti-aliasing for the game'Thanks for the advice, but it's clearly not proposed on the launcher. If I go on 'Configuration', I'll only have the resolution, the graphic card, and the details, and nothing more. If we have to change it in the games folders, it's pretty obvious to tell people how to do it, it's not like if, they spent all their days modifying games folders -^.Pretty sure that 3/4 of the people who read this, didn't get the solution because they don't know how to do it.It's not just by saying: hey guys I did it.It's cool to say 'why' also.But 'how' is the most important part.:/Anyway, thanks.
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