Comments - mark.de.wet

Seems no-one is watching this MOD anymore, I have asked a question a week ago and no reply. Is the developer/creator even still active with this MOD?

Hi All, So here is my observation after completing the game with this No-VR mod. Firstly, very well done to the developers of this mod, it made the game VERY playable, with a few glitches here and there but nothing serious. It is obviously a work in progress and so far it functions extremely well. However, having said that, I was most disappointed in the game itself For the following reasons (and I am not sure if the mod has anything to do with these issues):
1: The weapon sounds are horrendous, they sound weak and not at all like a weapon should sound.
2: There are only 2 upgrades per weapon available, not 3 (SMG) or 4 (pistol and shotgun) as per the VR version.
3: I at no time was able to find a way to use the grenade launcher option of the shotgun, there simply was no key bind or anything that I could find to make it work. Yes, I know it is bound to the middle mouse button, but when I click the middle mouse button, nothing happens.
4: No inventory key bind, that I could find anyway.
5: Preferences option in menu was never available, it kept saying "These options are only available in the Pause Menu during an active game".

Can anyone please help me, I have disabled the earthquake doomsday device, spoken to Voronin, received the message about a note and met the Guide at the church. But now my PDA is empty, no new missions so how do I carry on with the game?

Good day can anyone advise whether the latest patch improves on the speed of the game? I simply could not play Lost Alpha originally because of extreme lag.

While I do understand that this is a free mod, done by amazing people in their spare time, not being able to play it at all leaves me no choice but to remove it. It lags so badly on my PC that it is just impossible to play. It started off ok, there was decent performance but after my first save when I went back in, it lagged so badly it took all of 5 minutes to get out of Sid's Bunker!!! I deleted my user.ltx and all was good again, but for some reason as soon as it recreates it, lagging starts once again. I have run the Call Of Pripyat benchmarker as suggested by another member but the settings in the benchmarker seem to not in any way match up with the settings in Lost Alpha. I have not been able to make it out of Cordon so for me the game is really not playable. A pity really because it looked so promising. Just as an aside, this same PC played Priboi Story with not a lag or a glitch in sight. So I am really not sure what the issue is with Lost Alpha. If anyone can give me any insight into improving gameplay I would be most thankful.

@the_OGS the thing is it ran Priboi Story with out a problem, granted on low settings and as I mentioned previously it ran the original Lost alpha, before the update. So the only thing I can think of is that some graphics options have been improved/modified with the update thus making it run slower.

In the additional info part there is the following line:

2. switch to r2 render, which also uses dx9.5, with many dx10 features, so you get sunshafts and others, but at least no such glitches.

Can you please explain to this 53 year-old noob how you switch between the various renders? I would like to get this game running with my woefully inadequate GeForce 210 card and the vanilla installation ran smoothly but with the V1.30013 patch it runs with terrible lag, no matter what my advanced settings are on.
This is a new, clean install of Lost Alpha, with just the V1.30013 patch applied no other mods whatsoever.
Any assistance would be most appreciated.

Good day,
Unfortunately, I simply cannot get this mod to work. I have done a clean install of SHoC, installed 1.0006 patch, have copied over your gamedata and bin files, applied your translation and fix but in the log files I keep getting The following error:
FATAL ERROR

[error]Expression:wave&&wave->length()
[error]Function:CSoundRender_Source::LoadWave
[error]File: E:\stalker\sources
\trunk\xrSound
\SoundRender_Source_loader.cpp
[error]Line:65
[error]Description:Can't open wave file:
[error]Arguments:c:\program files (x86)
\thq\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\sounds
\material\actor\step
\t_water3.ogg

stack trace:

I am using the retail version, not the Steam version.
Any advice whatsoever please?

Thanking you.