FE2/Win10 - Special Effects Issue

[Mike Dora]

Hello All,

 

Having recovered control last week of my PC from Win10's invidious "Creator Update", I've been trying to get FE2 working fully properly under the regular Win10.

 

Previously while away from home for a while, I had got FE2 working really nicely on my Win7 laptop, with all of the additions, updates, tweaks and fine-tuning adopted/adapted from years of tinkering with my old FE1 configuration. When I got back I thought, perhaps simplistically, that all I would have to do is copy everything over to the desktop, press "go", and er, just go.

 

Not quite so simple. Of course. However I've now got everything running nicely ​except​ for the special effects. Like many of us, I have quite a few of these in the Effects folder, for things like AircraftEngineDamageEffect, AircraftEngineFireEffect, AircraftFuelFireEffect, AircraftSmokeEffect, BalloonFireEffect and so on.

 

I have tried including the EffectShaderNames (effectLightLevel.fx, effectFire.fx) in the special effect files, but with inconsistent effect. The funny thing is that while one of these now works - the BalloonFireEffect shows the descending parachute sprite - most don't - I'm not seeing any engine-damage smoke, no fuel fires, no flamers, in fact no aircraft fires or smoke at all!

 

I'm aware from previous threads that under Win10, the special effects files and the ParticleSystem.ini file in the Flight folder seem to have a peculiar relationship. However the effects that I modified inside the ParticleSystem.ini file are​ working (I have long disabled the wholly unrealistic engine exhaust effects, WW1 aircraft didn't pour out smoke like steam trains), alongside at least one of the special effects, the afore-mentioned BalloonFireEffect. It's this lack of consistency that is frustrating me so much.

 

 

So, any advice please?

 

Thanks

 

Mike

[+VonS]

Hi Mike,

 

The only things I can think of that might be of help to toggle are the following two settings in the options.ini file:

 

UseAdvancedShaders=

ForceDX9=

 

As per VonOben, the best settings for these vary by operating system...hope it helps.

 

Happy flying,

Von S