MISERY Captions Thread - MISERY mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Hi Guys!

I used to use MISERY a while back, and I really loved the atmosphere and functionality of the mod. I was trying out some different mod setups as MISERY was fun, but also heavily taxing on my computer. A feature that I really loved in MISERY was the captions, but in almost every mod they've decided to use the *gulp* amazing English voice acting in the vanilla game. I REALLY loved the fact that the MISERY mod had Russian dialogue but English subtitles, and I was wondering if there was any way to use the captions by themselves while using another mod? I appreciate any advice you guys have!

Are there no captions in the mod you are in? There is no choice of language in their installer? I have a bunch of optimization tips and performance tweaks in my profile comments for Misery. I am afraid I don't know how to inject the Russian language/English subtitles into another mod. Someone else may chime in though.

What is your hardware setup if you don't mind my asking? CPU core speed, Memory, type of hard drive, GPU.

Sadly no, it's just stuck on english. It's the Remake mod on ModDB. I currently have 2 770's SLI'd and I have a i5 4670k CPU. The main problem was stuttering every two or three minutes. It was kinda weird, and overall made a really awesome experience kind of sluggish.

SSD or Hard Drive? Running HDAO would enable the GPU's to do a little more math and with that black CPU you should be able to get to the low 4GHz easy. Limiting at 60 FPS would probably help some too. Nothing beats a quick drive.

Man, I wish I had someone like you to teach me more about all this technical stuff. I probably shouldn't say this (because who knows who might be listening), but.....*whispers* I'm a ex-member of the peasant console rebellion. plz don't inform the PC Secret Police.

My only console was an Atari 2600. Funny thing is about 12 years into my military career my parents were moving and packed it with some stuff from my room. I got to unpacking some stuff and found the complete working system and 4-5 games which were almost the size of 8-Track cartridges or a deck of cards. I tossed it in a dumpster in Texas and went back for another load to dump and it was already gone LOL. I probably could have got more than my parents paid for it originally by selling it on Ebay.

Anyone can PM me anytime for hardware help, it's my area of expertise. The standard SATA hard drive is realistically a bottleneck on any modern processor. Fortunately fairly fast Solid State Drives are now available for half what I paid for my first 4Mb RAM Upgrade in the early 90's. A mediocre SSD will get your Windows Experience Index from 5.4 or 5.9 for the drive to the mid 7's. Cloning your windows install over to one is a cinch and doesn't even require reactivating windows. I did three laptops in 3 hours. They only get expensive if you are a data hog and want to keep a ton of stuff. You can always keep your music collection on the old hard drive and use it as a backup drive.

So, in your experience, do you think my PC is strong enough to run Misery? And also, what settings would be best optimized for it?

Yes. SLI may not help as much as with some games on better engines, I think it makes more of a difference if you are running on a UHD 4K monitor or multi-monitor setup. The stutter that occurs is helped considerably using an SSD. There are ways to virtually eliminate it, but they can have consequences in the game like important NPC's being at higher risk of being killed off before you get to their missions. I have several articles in my profile comments on how to identify the best settings for your setup. If you follow the procedures, you can quickly find the sweet spot for your hardware combination. I suggest if the stutter/lag isn't too bad sticking with the default 300 meter alife switch_distance. It's been a while since I played on 2.1.1, I've been beta testing and looking for tweaks to maximize performance with the new features.

While I recommend DX11 with SDAO at the low level, you can try the other two levels too and see what works best for you. It causes no harm to experiment. I was shocked to find HDAO worked more efficiently with my Nvidia card since HDAO is optimized for AMD (so is the game originally as it wa AMD branded) but that was for hardware from 8 years ago. Frankly if smooth, quicker loading game play is more important than gorgeous sunrise/sunsets plain old static lighting loads much better on a standard hard drive (smaller files) and has a much lighter load on the system. Bloodsuckers are easier to see with HDAO.

Alright, so I decided that this was all just a bit too difficult, so I decided to re-install Misery. I wanted to know, though, is there any way to change Degtyarev's voice to English? I like having everyone else's voice in Russian, but I actually liked it much better when the main character speaks English, I don't know why. Anyways, just thought that I should ask. Thanks!

Did you choose English language during install of mod?

Hey guys, have been busy with work and holidays. Finally back.

I am using 650 Alife range, object_update is at 1, however I am also using Jasper's tweaked mutant relation, with additional tweak in Alife.ltx. Which is has not yet been confirmed.

Most of you guys are gamer so if your rig is within in the last 3 to 4 years you are more than capable to run the game smoothly. The stutter and lag I have encountered is like Jasper said, mostly to do with game loading contents in and out of Alife range, hard drive speed etc.

For a game from 2009 COP has serious amount of data compared to many other games, and loosely put together so give the fans more room for mods and all. So if you follow the instruction about adjusting few numbers in the ltx file, your game will be smooth, well smooth enough actually.

Edited by: DesertEagleV