A.R.E.A. for Potato PCs 2.0 addon

Description

A huge collection of compressed textures, tweaks, fixes & tips to improve performance in potato computers.

Notes & tips

- This addon will decrease graphics quality to bring a better performance but we made our best to make a perfect balance.
- This addon was made only for Static Lightning render type, using this addon in a higher render can lead to unwanted issues.
- Presets are totally optional but highly recommended if you want to optimize your A.R.E.A. at the max capacity.
- Presets folders haves an info text file inside, read them to see what they are about.
- Presets with [!!!] in their name means that using them can lead to bad working of the mod, unwanted issues or a highly ugly graphic quality. USE THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK!!.
- If you can't see anomalies with this addon: Remove -nodistort from your bat launcher.

- Lowering your screen resolution will extremely increase your performance, specially if you are using integrated graphics card
- Grass is the 1st enemy of the performance, is a great memory killer so try to mantain the Detail density or Distance not so high or just disable the grass using presets.
- Playing with no sounds can give you an FPS boost (Not the best way to play but if you can stand that then it's ok)

How to install

1. Drag and drop all the content inside the addon rar
2. Open JSGME and install 'ARFPP2 - Addon Core (1024x)' / 'ARFPP2 - Addon Core (512x)'

--- What 1024x and 512x means? ---
1024 core option has all textures downscaled to a 1024x1024 resolution
meanwhile 512 core option has the same textures but downscaled to a 512x512 resolution.

Only choose one!!

OPTIONAL:
3) Adds the optional presets what do you want to get the maximun performance.

Changelog

[2.0 - Final Release]
NOTE: Addon was made again from scratch in this version.

[+ Additions]
+Completely reworked files structure
This brings:
- Added possibility to install with mod managers
- Total addon size greatly reduced
- Best compatibility with other addons
- Performance improvements

+All textures has been revamped and tweaked properly
+Added optional compressed main textures in 512x512 for extremely weak PCs
+New presets:
- Disable Gun Smoke
- Disable Lightmaps
- Compressed Grass (512x512)

[- Removals]
- Removed 'No GPU' preset

[1.2]
+Added a new preset: No GPU
+Added info files with metadata to presets.
+Fixed pixelated textures.
+Fixed pixelated grass in 'Optimized Grass' preset.
+Fixed Jupiter's white LODs in 'No Lods' preset.
*Compressed ground textures.
*Compressed weapons textures.

[1.1]
*Compressed material textures
*Added three custom presets:
+No Lods (Deletes the LODs)
+No Grass (Deletes the grass from maps)
+Optimized Grass (Installs low resolution grass in 1024x1024)