Those new item textures offer a huge improvement. I have two folders, turned off my texture degradation setting and tried both versions – original and your reworked. The original files cause a 30-45 second delay when opening a chest to see the item box display. With your new files the box displays near immediately.

P.S. Do you also have lag when looting corpses? Because I have it too, and it can be super annoying…

Yes. When I first got here, that was one of the first things I mentioned (in the bugs thread I think). I had to resort to the texture degradation setting. It’s those texture files.

And your machine specs show faster/more powerful than mine.

P.S. Do you also have lag when looting corpses? Because I have it too, and it can be super annoying…

Yes. When I first got here, that was one of the first things I mentioned (in the bugs thread I think). I had to resort to the texture degradation setting. It’s those texture files.

Ack…if you’re going to run any of the Test versions, make a new folder ERASTest and ERASTestDX9 and put everything in there so you don’t wipe out the original .exe/module files so that if you run into any problems, you can still run the original if you’d like.

If you want to load SAVE games for testing, copy them into those Test folders so you…[Read more]

Seriously? WTF is this about? http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/age-of-pirates-ii-piratesahoy-edition.16966/page-7#post-539660

Sorry, but the original game already working on DX9 basis.
DX8 is displayed, because errors in the codes.

Buncha tools.

Also, I noticed many new items, from which some of them seem to be large files, because the shop menu sometimes lags when I open it. The stock ones newer lagged for me, and I can see that the new ones from the MOD seem to be causing the lag when exploring shop items

I had this problem too. Store, trader and chest-opening would lag horribly.…[Read more]

Well, for what it’s worth, my home machine is very slow on DX8 too, so given an already terrible frame-rate in 8, I only see another 10% degradation in 9 because I was already so low to begin with, LOL

But it may also be that the in-game fps number may not be all that accurate because I didn’t trace that all the way through to see how they…[Read more]

I actually laughed a little at the suggestions because some of them remind me of AC IV Black Flag…I think perhaps they were inspired by the same, LOL. Notably, encountering/rescuing shipwrecked survivors on the sea, random floating goods upon the sea for recovery, sizable boarding battles.

The only thing I would like to change is adding more crew in boardings, to make it more massive.

I believe that the higher difficulty options actually do add more enemies/crew to boarding battles, along with a higher degree of enemy durability/skill. This may be a good option to look into, even at lower difficulty levels. Depending on ship crew…[Read more]

Yes, any quest can be done by any character.

There is a post at the top of one of these threads that describes what ERAS consists of. If I remember correctly, it is AoP COAS, with much of GOF 1.1 mod, then a bunch of modification to the available ships to make them more accurate within the era of game-time. There were a bunch of historical…[Read more]

I liked the idea of being able to kill some time and it’s super easy, so I did it. It’s available in all my patch and test files: https://mega.nz/#F!WtMDgRxK!hbeUg86kGLlQAqvWRNwTqg

Patches to original game

AOP2.Patch.zip
GOF1.2.Patch.zip
ERAS2.Patch.zip

DX8 testing for new source compile
AoPTest.zip
GOF1.2Test.zip
ERAS2Test.zip

DX9 testing…[Read more]

OK, never mind. I just traced the source and found that I also need to enable ondebugkeys in start.ini, then I can use the * key to see the FPS.

I have uploaded the newer DX9, with the stars fix. Also, I found that hic.dat and stars.dat in RESOURCE are hardcoded paths in the Programs/weather .c code, so I added them to the .zip files as well so…[Read more]

First, I’m glad they are both working well enough for you to try them.

Second, how do you measure FPS? I have tried enabling show_fps in start.ini and it shows me nothing.

Unrelated, I just noticed the stars are messed up in DX9. I found I inadvertently commented out the proper line to apply the vertex shader when I converted the code. I have…[Read more]

Why convert?

Last I saw, they are trying to upgrade to DirectX9, but can’t get everything to work:
http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/age-of-pirates-ii-piratesahoy-edition.16966/page-6#post-533623

We have a working DX9 version: https://mega.nz/#F!WtMDgRxK!hbeUg86kGLlQAqvWRNwTqg

ERAS2TestDX9.zip

They are trying to resolve shader declarations,…[Read more]

Why convert?

Last I saw, they are trying to upgrade to DirectX9, but can’t get everything to work:
http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/age-of-pirates-ii-piratesahoy-edition.16966/page-6#post-533623

We have a working DX9 version: https://mega.nz/#F!WtMDgRxK!hbeUg86kGLlQAqvWRNwTqg

ERAS2TestDX9.zip

They are trying to resolve shader declarations,…[Read more]

Why convert?

Last I saw, they are trying to upgrade to DirectX9, but can’t get everything to work:
http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/age-of-pirates-ii-piratesahoy-edition.16966/page-6#post-533623

We have a working DX9 version: https://mega.nz/#F!WtMDgRxK!hbeUg86kGLlQAqvWRNwTqg

ERAS2TestDX9.zip

They are trying to resolve shader declarations,…[Read more]

All my versions are available to try. I made a few tweaks to the DX8 version when I found a DX9 problem with missing ship track2 numbers. When missing, there were no defaults and the width would be some random, yet massive number that would cause the texture for the track wake to span the entire viewport. DX8 would sometimes cause what looked…[Read more]

All my version are available to try. I made a few tweaks to the DX8 version when I found a DX9 problem with missing ship track2 numbers. When missing, there were no defaults and the width would be some random, yet massive number that would cause the texture for the track wake to span the entire viewport. DX8 would sometimes cause what looked…[Read more]

Pics of DX9: https://mega.nz/#!aoEwADrR!c-eW5ZHZSz9GdJ4JRKB86vrifgJ-qqrFjf18kzWy0rU

About freakin’ time I got it right! LOL

That is really sharp. Nice job.