🔨base-gamma-support

[north turret]

Shieet

Wym

[high cloud]

i have a jellyfish on my belt !

-4% psy res

[carmine wyvern]

remove it, wait until the emission is over and re-equip it

[high cloud]

okkk

thx friends

[carmine wyvern]

alternatively use a Anabiotic to skip the Emission

[north turret]

Man, if I died on invistus run from such shit

I'd go nuts

[terse hawk]

honestly youd be a mad man to run invictus as a newbie

truly the roguelite madlad

[compact coral]

check #📢announcements there was an update that may solve your problem, also dont forget to delete the shader_cache folder afterwards

!shader

[raw raft]

To clean your "Shader Cache", don't use the option in the Anomaly launcher.
Go in this folder: Anomaly\appdata, you'll find a folder called shaders_cache, delete this folder and launch the game normally from MO2, using your preferred DX.

[quaint tide]

ah nice

[north turret]

Finished the game on normal mode already

[exotic hemlock]

you cant have him, hes already mine

[north turret]

Ofc survivalist and hardest diff

So I get around

[high cloud]

i play on hardest but yeah i dont master evry features yet

so no ironman

[exotic hemlock]

-4% is enough to get you killed??

[north turret]

Ironman is one thing but Invictus is just...

[terse hawk]

yeah ironman is a whole nother experience though

[high cloud]

i suppose

what is invictus ?

[north turret]

4th invictus run so far

[terse hawk]

it's super fun because most people are addicted to f9

[exotic hemlock]

ultra challenge run

[north turret]

This time im taking things slowly

[high cloud]

u can't run ?

[exotic hemlock]

you get 2 deaths, hardest difficulties, and i thin kyou have to complete all of the storylines

[terse hawk]

nope its doing ironman and completing the storyline

[high cloud]

isnt that an ironman then ?

[north turret]

Running while invictus is not advisable tbh

[exotic hemlock]

its a little bit extra i beleive.

[north turret]

It's extra

[high cloud]

i'm a runner

[north turret]

Cuz on Ironman u can have 4 lives

And wish granter

[high cloud]

ahhhh yeah ok

[exotic hemlock]

Ngl invictus seems really hard to do especially with what i like to call "Stalker bullshit"

Like loading into an area and instantly dying because mutants were there.

[north turret]

I'm save scum otherwise I'd tear my hair off

[high cloud]

i only used to play 1 lives and 1 day life granter

[exotic hemlock]

honestly agree, not to mention some bugs can kill you

[north turret]

And some people are doing melee invictus lmao

[exotic hemlock]

Yeah invictus you only get 2.

[north turret]

Fucking madlads

[exotic hemlock]

EVer.

[high cloud]

hehe ok ok

[north turret]

But it's fun

You really appreciate good drops

[exotic hemlock]

sounds like a fast way to shortant your irl lifespan

[north turret]

My second stash had advanced tools

[high cloud]

update ? o_O

[north turret]

Fucking godsent

[terse hawk]

yeah devil is out of commission because his psy resist is too low for melee invictus

[north turret]

Idk how you even do melee invictus

[high cloud]

how to i update please ?

[north turret]

Controllers eat u alive

Gl getting close to several stalkers without becoming shredded chease

Or the fu king psydogs, chimeras and snorks

[terse hawk]

oh no that's for MO2 not gamma itself

[exotic hemlock]

right like i wonder if its a like a full stealth disguise run

[terse hawk]

gamma uses MO2, its an app for many games

[high cloud]

ohh ok ok nice

[terse hawk]

so yea you dont really need to update it

[high cloud]

yup

going, back to the zone

cya thx

[north turret]

Pseudo giants don't care about disguise xd

[exotic hemlock]

I assume you also pack light as fuck

so you can run

very far away

[north turret]

Idk, bloodsuckers don't tend to stay close to you unless they wanna suck you dry

Or imagine a pack of dogs

If more than two lunge at you

They slow you and gg

[exotic hemlock]

the slow on melee is so baddddd

[rugged folio]

Hey guys, is it normal that when you are progressed in the game you get increasingly lower fps? When i start a new game i get stable fps in the exact same location where i normally stutter

[exotic hemlock]

Yes, actually. from waht ive heard.

Something about keeping track of all the squads and weapons and such

i believe theres a debug command for wiping all the active squads that'll help a lot.... but it'll also fail certian quests since the target or giver no longer exist iirc.

[high cloud]

does the loot proposed by the merchants evolve ?

petrenko at rostok doesnt even sell 5.45 ammo

[terse hawk]

yeah you need goodwill with the faction, level up the merchant supply level

[high cloud]

Hmmm that’s what I thought

[terse hawk]

you should check out #│📚manual a lot of the basics are covered there

[high cloud]

Oh cool thx

[terse hawk]

yeah you can use ctrl + f and search keywords to make things easier

[high cloud]

ok i'm at 457 for duty soon first palier

[willow hawk]

!update

[raw raft]

In order to update your G.A.M.M.A. installation, YOU DON'T NEED TO DELETE ANYTHING, please AVOID in deleting something WITHOUT A GOOD REASON or at least ASK FIRST.

1. Open the installer with admin rights and make sure you have the newest version, which is 3.7. You can get it here if you don't have it: #📢announcements message
2. Click Update G.A.M.M.A. data, wait for it to say "done"
3. Choose between "Full G.A.M.M.A. installation" OR "Only install G.A.M.M.A. Addons". Before you ask, NO, YOU DON'T NEED TO CLICK THEM BOTH. ONLY ONE. AND NO YOU WON'T DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING AGAIN. If you're missing something in your mod list, you will, of course.

It really depends on WHAT DO YOU NEED and WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. So, if you don't know the difference, learn it here: #╭📖faq message
This is because MOST OF THE TIME, NOT ALWAYS, "Only install G.A.M.M.A. Addons" is what you need to do, but it really depends. You can click on "Full G.A.M.M.A. installation" if you haven't updated for a long time OR if you're missing mods.

Always keep an eye out on #📢announcements because Grok (the author of G.A.M.M.A.) will ALWAYS announce in #📢announcements if you need to do a "Full G.A.M.M.A. installation", because you don't need to do it every day.

[urban totem]

I got a stash from Fanatic for doing a mission for him and he gave me a stash for completing it but I can't see it on the map.

Also how do I remove anomalies from containers

[steady cave]

Hello, is there a way to save your mod/game settings so when there is an update I dont have to go through the same process everytime?

[steady cave]

I think there is an option on the mod settings with the probability and you can lower it to 0

let me see if I can found it so I can point it out

[terse hawk]

think he means the llmc

[terse hawk]

in that case just right click on the llmc > open

also the stash is just somewhere on the map

[urban totem]

What do they look like

[terse hawk]

a circle with a triforce in it

it can be white or green

[steady cave]

Isnt this the option?

[terse hawk]

i suggest you do many missions to populate a map with a bunch of loot then run that map to make it easier

[terse hawk]

theres a command in #🤖bot-commands for that dont remember which one just search for "save"

[steady cave]

I'll look for it thanks

MMh I looked in the botcommands and doesnt seem to have one for this

[terse hawk]

found it

!backup

[raw raft]

"Why does every update completely reset my keybinds/my settings/my mods/my stuff in general?"
G.A.M.M.A. has a default mod list to make sure everyone has the same things, everything goes back to default when you update or you do a complete installation, it's normal.
You can backup your keybinds and mod settings following this guide: #╭📖faq message

[steady cave]

Ah

Thanks

[rocky urchin]

What are the current recommended values for those ? Is it still what is said in #📢announcements
r2_gloss_factor
r2_gloss_min

[north turret]

what mod deals with the merlot animation remakes and stuff like that

[candid wing]

How to know if I'm bleeding? I got attacked by cats and used a medkit and yardulin

But my health is still going down

After using a bandage, my health stopped going down

But I did not see any bleeding indicator in bottom left hud

[willow hawk]

there's the red corners

there's an addon to add beelding symbol, in the bottom left, I'll maybe add it

[candid wing]

Thanks!

You mean the blinking red corners on every side of the screen? Like the hurt/irradiated animation?

[split plume]

So about looting guns off of dead enemies.. is it possible to find one in GOOD condition? Talking like maybe one part of the gun is yellow condition, and the overall gun cleanliness is above 60. Or maybe even everything green. Is it possible but very rare or just not possible at all?

[willow hawk]

Not possible

[compact coral]

you will find some weapons with 1 or 2 parts in green condition but is not always

i suggest keeping those in case you want to use it because it will be easier to fix once you get the toolkit to do so

if you aint gonna use the weapon then field strip > part that you want to use and throw away the rest

i just got a package and it says in the messages that i got a reinforced ballistic insert but i dont see it in my inventory

any idea on what might have happened with it?

i thought it might have been that it bugged when opening it out but i reloaded a save that i did before opening the package and the item mentioned in the hidden loot message is always missing in my inventory

[willow hawk]

I'm not sure about the code for this hidden loot thing

[north turret]

best faction for ironman?

[raven sparrow]

Its pretty common for extra loot to not appear. Especially things that no longer exist, like "old" upgrade kits. Sometimes you find them in stashes aswell but at least then they often convert to the newer type of upgrade kit

@north turret Ecologist? They have the least enemies

[north turret]

ok

[raven sparrow]

You have a pretty short route to rostok if you want to resettle there right away

[willow hawk]

eco

but it's not fun imo

[raven sparrow]

Does it make any difference what branch I choose for Hip? Barman quest or freedom quest.

After updating the game with full install I have a red X on mod 252 tooltips ion corner, is this normal? I have 332 active mods.

[compact coral]

monolith

[limber crane]

GAMMA is taking insanely long to download, am I doing something wrong and is there anyway to speed it up?

[willow hawk]

Close the installer, launch it again, pick a different mirror based on your location

also make sure to add the whole installer and folders to your antivirus and firewall exception

[limber crane]

Thanks, do I have to delete the stuff already downloaded before restarting?

[brisk zinc]

It's very, very rare but you can find a gun with everything green

[compact coral]

no need to

[limber crane]

Thanks

[north turret]

just change the drop settings in mcm

only works for guns tho

[brisk zinc]

It works for armors as well but it's only about the drop rate

Not the condition

AFAIK

[split plume]

oh nah im not gonna change the drop rates i was just curious tbh

[north turret]

where don’t find armor drop condition tho

do*

[brisk zinc]

MCM settings

Outfit drops, should be

[north turret]

i that doesn’t work

[brisk zinc]

It works for me though

[north turret]

someone said it was something that isn’t in mcm

[split plume]

also does anyone know what disabling core 0 for performance actually does

[brisk zinc]

It should make the game stutter less and avoid the game to use a specific core

[brisk zinc]

It's in MCM but it doesn't work like you think

The outfit drop rate is affected by your rank

Which is probably affected by another mod

Meaning that, the higher your rank, the more stuff you can find on enemies (this is how it should work)

Example, if you're a Legend and you kill an exodude, the drop should be basically 100% there, you'll find his armor

This, of course, if you crank everything to 100

And I know it works because in my save I'm a Legend and I find almost everything I can see on the stalkers I kill

It's not even OP because the stuff you find is still in shit condition and if you don't have the stuff to repair it, it's useless

And by the time you become a Legend, you already have everything you need

I find it more immersive

Weapons are literally the last problem because you can find them everywhere

[mortal mist]

Can anyone help, i have no idea but my fps is very low, when i played yesterday everything was fine but now everything is glossy+fps low

[north turret]

is it possible to tweak condition?

[brisk zinc]

It's probably a mod but I don't know what mod exactly because I don't touch that stuff, I like GAMMA the way it is

[north turret]

ok

[willow hawk]

update > only install addons > delete shaders cache folder > launch the game
set
gloss_min to 1
gloss_factor to 10

using the in game console

[empty sundial]

So I got a mission, find lost signal ( 159 hz ) in truck cemetary. I legit ran all across it and no luck finding them

How close do I have to be?

[willow hawk]

Use your RF Receiver ?

[mortal mist]

Ok i did update but question is the fps low cuz of the gloss?

[empty sundial]

I do, but it doesent show the ping sound I ran all across the Cemetary for quite a while

[mortal mist]

Lost signal quest is where u have to find bodies? If yes get the mod enabled where it shows dead bodies on the map/minimap they are blue dots

[empty sundial]

Thank you, is it default installed so i can just enable it?

Yeah it is that one I have to find a missing Merc squad in the truck cemetary.

[mortal mist]

U go to mo2 and its disabled normaly i think and enable it if u cant find it download it on moddb

[willow hawk]

or simply get a PDA2.0

[mortal mist]

But u need rep+cash

If u dont have both then u get the mod or u wait up and get the pda

[steady cave]

Is there a tier list for weapons?

[mortal mist]

Well theres types of diffrent types of weapons that use diffrent ammo, idk if there is a tier list but it depends most prob on ammo i think

[lime ibex]

How does the exo battery system work? Is there a handy bot command for that?

[graceful iron]

drag a power supply unit (PSU) into the exoskeleton and then drag military battery packs into the exoskeleton to power it up

higher PSU tiers mean better efficiency and more power storage

[lime ibex]

Oh so not in the backpack slot?

[graceful iron]

no

[mortal mist]

Im guessing its like power armour in fallout 4-76 so u could sprint and have all power of it

[lime ibex]

Alright

Can you only buy military batteries, or find them?

[mortal mist]

U can buy them i saw it at a trader

[graceful iron]

buy or loot them from exoskeleton stalkers

[lime ibex]

And there's no other way? No crafting?

[graceful iron]

you need the sprinting upgrade to actually sprint, the power only allows you to move at a normal speed

[graceful iron]

no

[mortal mist]

I know

[lime ibex]

They werent lying when they said maintaining an exo would be a money sink

Thanks tho

Wait one more question - is it true that the resistances of exos are about the same as radsuits?

If yes, why would you use an exoskeleton?

[terse hawk]

exos are a minor improvement to most radsuits but arent a big jump unlike nosorog exos

so theyre good if youre comfortable with the purchase

but i never got an exo and waited til nosos

and you can craft psus that have special abilities like longer battery, damage reduction boosts, or speed boost

[split plume]

is there a way to move containers that are already placed down from the furniture mod

[terse hawk]

yuh double click take all

[north turret]

what mod has the remastered item animations?

like medkits stims food etc

[sleek tinsel]

why does my game looks like this sometimes?

[keen cedar]

you're standing in a radiation patch

[graceful iron]

food, drugs and drinks animations or fdda for short

[graceful iron]

radiation patches cause that effect

[terse sun]

oh damn, didn't know that groks ballistics were disabled for a couple of days now

so that's why I was destroying monoliths so easy 😄

and why I mostly took no damage with my freedom exosuit against monoliths

[graceful iron]

wait what?

groks ballistics werent disabled

[terse sun]

well grok just said so in his announcement 😄

or maybe he meant something else, but he's talking about vanilla ballistics

[graceful iron]

oh, i didnt see that

[fiery blade]

Hi. I asked: Quick question: are we supposed to install/enable that separate Shaders_cumulative_pack with all of these latest updates or should we delete it?
Grok answered: remove it and keep only the 'for GAMMA' one
I ask: which 'for GAMMA one' do you mean?

[radiant stirrup]

I swear I saw a gun and amour list somewhere, anyone know where that is?
also Is this:
#╟🔫loadouts message
still the most up-to-date 'best' list for guns?

[quaint iris]

is there a difference in performance from dx 11 to dx 10?

[radiant stirrup]

I get slightly better performance in 11 vs 10, but that's just anecdotal

[compact birch]

briggs, the lists in the channel #│📚manual ???

[radiant stirrup]

thanks, yeah that's one, not sure How i missed it considering its the second post haha

[floral harness]

Guys my game looks a bit muddy like this. How can I fix this?

[compact birch]

also, best guns is a bit subjective, i sorta disagree with grok on a couple picks, for me I like efficiency and versatility. that means accuracy, ability to shoot rifle grenades, etc

[prime prawn]

Is there an animation for looting bodies i can enable?

[graceful iron]

if you have already updated recently(which should have fixed the issue), try changing the gloss factor using the console

[graceful iron]

yes, but its not recommended

!busyhands

[raw raft]

DO NOT ENABLE any of the disabled animations. These are the root cause of multiple animation loops that can break the game, to the point where you have to delete the save.
This bug is called "busy hands", an animation loop that prevents the player from interacting with the action keys, except for movement.

If you are still unsure whether you have it or not, try to do any of the following: interact with objects or people, use a weapon, open your inventory, drink/eat/sleep and so on.
The only possible way to, maybe, remove it completely is to disable any extra activated animation that was previously disabled. You will also have to go back to a previous save where you are 100% sure that you don't have busy hands.

Animations that bring busy hands:

• Opening/closing backpack
• Skinning of mutants
• Disassembling objects with Left-Alt pressed
• Picking up objects

[radiant stirrup]

good point, not like i have the freedom to pick the best sounding gun on the list and easily find it anyhow haha

[graceful iron]

if you still want to enable them, you will find them in the mcm > fdda in game. but please dont ask for support on the vanilla channels if you run into any issues

[floral harness]

Thank you

[compact birch]

for instance, I swear by nimbles HK mk23 socom. For whatever reason I am able to do more with it against mutants esp than any other pistol, even ones with more capacity or tactical jazz. I also am a fan of the melee stuff in general.

[small isle]

Hey guys, do you know how much money does Sidorovich ask you for Scar's info? And do I need to give him the money and the info or the money or the info

[radiant stirrup]

I only see the USP on the list by HK, whats the pistol called in game?

[compact birch]

HK mk 23

[radiant stirrup]

hmm, not on the list

[graceful iron]

you need 20k and to do a few specific missions for him

[small isle]

oh ok thanks, I was confuse because I gave him the info from the military but couldn't go on with the scar's part

[quaint iris]

btw is there any addon which enables so that my companions can also quiick travel to locations with me?

[pure crescent]

Does freedom sell 5.56 ammo?

[small isle]

In the gamma keybinding it says that "J" is for companions teleport, maybe that works for u @quaint iris

[quaint iris]

ty but that only seems to work for tping them when they are already close, I mean if I do a longer tp

[sonic ether]

I still have this issue as well, even after a full clean install and latest update, no changes to modlist or anything. cleared shader-cache and changed gloss factor/min without any change.

[compact birch]

at like 3 supply or something, i think, have to get rep up with them quite a bit

[pure crescent]

Alright thanks I was making sure before moving over there

[junior lava]

Hello i'm running into the Same issues after redoing multiple FULL GAMMA installations i always end up having red squares on the newly added addons and yes my stalker anomaly is on 1.5.2 (i ran it as admin too)

[golden elm]

Is the night vision supposed to be this dark?

[pure crescent]

Try pressing the night vision key

Should make it brighter or darker

[golden elm]

I did increase the brightness, it's still dark like that

[pure crescent]

Might be a bug idk all I have to do is press the night vision key a few times to make it brighter

[graceful iron]

which addon exactly has the red X ? did you try running the game ?

[golden elm]

Welp, maximum NV brightness and I guess... the sky is more brighter, lul

[graceful iron]

gloss factor in the console

[pure crescent]

Hmm try turning down brightness down a bit

[graceful iron]

try closing the game and deleting shaders cache

!shader

[raw raft]

To clean your "Shader Cache", don't use the option in the Anomaly launcher.
Go in this folder: Anomaly\appdata, you'll find a folder called shaders_cache, delete this folder and launch the game normally from MO2, using your preferred DX.

[sonic ether]

Tried that cat and saved/reloaded the save. still the problem persist.

[graceful iron]

did you delete the shaders cache?

[junior lava]

Hi i ended up reinstalling it and it removed the red x but the game still crashes on launch

[graceful iron]

post the crash log

!crash

[raw raft]

Send your crash log where it was asked, it's inside your Anomaly folder, this is the complete path: Anomaly/appdata/logs. Send the file called xray_yournamehere.txt, you just need to drag and drop the file here, Discord will handle it for you.
Make sure you're not using any extra mods.

[golden elm]

I did, but it didn't help

[junior lava]

FATAL ERROR

[error]Expression : <no expression>
[error]Function : CInifile::Load::<lambda_3825c94a055ba8c00128a7b281b7aba5>::()::<lambda_3d4a39a1d3dc54b79c825d008d7a2fb1>::operator ()
[error]File : Xr_ini.cpp
[error]Line : 352
[error]Description : fatal error
[error]Arguments : Duplicate section 'anm_base_hud' wasn't marked as an override. Override section by prefixing it with '!' (![anm_base_hud]) or give it a unique name. Check this file and its DLTX mods: e:/sa2\gamedata\configs\system.ltx, mod file items_qm_knifes.ltx

stack trace:

[graceful iron]

did you use a clean anomaly folder for installing gamma ? did you update to 1.5.2 ? can you please screenshot the anomaly folder ?

[junior lava]

Yes i separated them like the guide told me too and updated STALKER ANOMALY to 1.5.2

[sonic ether]

yep.

[hasty lantern]

Was that mod showing total weight for each inventory item added to modpack? I swear i saw something about it in announcements but i can't find it

[graceful iron]

no, it was in #🤖new-anomaly-mods-on-moddb

[hasty lantern]

yeah, i saw that, just thought i saw it mentioned in announcements. oh well

[graceful iron]

not as far as i know, no

[pure crescent]

Does anyone know a good all around pistol for stakers and mutants

[north turret]

Usp tactical

U can get it at start

Hydroshock bullets do wonders against mutanta

Decent vs stalkers

[radiant stirrup]

the usp tac is 9x19

[pure crescent]

I got a golden d eagle but I seem to be unable to change its ammo type

[radiant stirrup]

don't get me wrong, best 9x19 but not .45, better for ap rounds against stalkers

[versed tusk]

FNX or Straya

[north turret]

Oh my bad

[graceful iron]

when did you update anomaly to 1.5.2 ? are you sure you followed the instructions correctly ?

you didnt mod this anomaly folder before ?

[junior lava]

Yes cleared the gamedata folder and did clean reinstall

I'm gonna try to reinstall it again now i will keep you updated thanks for helping 👍

[urban totem]

https://i.imgur.com/ZPi2kat.png

These are my specs, I'm getting bad frame drops for some reason.

I followed advice in #old-framerate-optimisation and I still get stuttering issues.

No matter what quality I play on, game seems to stutter.

[terse sun]

are they really frame drops or is it just stutter?

[urban totem]

Both

[terse sun]

there are lots of ways how to fix stuttering issue, and some of the fixes represent quite bizarre issues they fix

[urban totem]

Framerate drops below 30 at some points before going back up to 60.

[lilac crest]

hello

[terse sun]

that may very well be the cpus fault

[lilac crest]

how do i know what the hud symbols at the bottom left means?

im dying of something but i dont know what

[pure crescent]

Screen shot please

[lilac crest]

dont know how to screenshot only 1 screen

[versed tusk]

hunger, thirst, sleep

[pure crescent]

Your hungry and thirsty you will take damage if you don't eat and drink

[versed tusk]

i'd thought those are pretty self-explanatory

[lilac crest]

ah i see. so even if its low i will take dmg. I though it was only if it was on 0

can i get water or must i buy it?

[pure crescent]

Nope as soon as it pops up

[lilac crest]

ait ait thanks

[pure crescent]

You have to buy or loot it

Also all sleep does is makes your vision burry

[lilac crest]

weird how im sleepy as i just slept 16 hrs. With sleeping pills though

and what does the lung symbol mean?

[gloomy fog]

A lot of healing items and food will have in their description "increases sleepiness". Using too many healing items or eating a lot of food will make you tired a lot faster.

[versed tusk]

its a brain - and means psy protection

[gloomy fog]

The last symbol is a brain with a shield behind it, means you took something that's boosting your psy protection.

[terse sun]

so just as a quick view of what you can do, follow these steps:

1. Use process hacker or lasso tool to disable cpu0 under affinity bar (read more about it in gamma manuals)

2. try disabling avx support which does in fact accumulate to certain stuttering scenarios

3. disable shaders and SSAO (to get a stable framerate, you can start enabling back later to find the sweetspot)

4. Lower grass density until you feel comfortable

5. Sun shadows bring a lot of fps hit so experiment with that too

6. There is no need really for both AA and the other aliasing (forgot the name - edit: now I recalled, SMAA), pick one or choose nothing, if you play at native resolution, you won't feel much of a difference anyways)

7. You could try to improve your CPU single core performance by disabling hyperthreading under bios - in my case this helps a ton

8. Limit your max FPS, sometimes the game stutters because of heavy spikes between frames and the stuttering is actually occurring because of it - if you have a 60hz monitor, set frame limiter (!not vsync!, disable that) to 58 or 60

9. Set actor shadows to 0.5, this brings some FPS back

10. Set shadow map from 2048 to 1536 under gamma launcher

11. disable mask overlay, about a 10fps drop just because of that feature

12. Update GPU drivers to latest available

13. Under power management settings under control panel, prefer maximum performance

14. Have as little background apps running as possible, just in case

that's essentially what you can do before you need to degrade in DX version or start disabling gamma mods, but given your rig specs, you are well within the range to enjoy gamma in full bloom, just need to tinker a bit

and mind you, tinkering with this can net you serious FPS gains and fixing stutter, so it's actually very rewarding to find out what settings are best for your spec

oh and another thing, there is this "enable this if you experience stuttering" mod under the gamma modpack in MO2 so try that as well

[lilac crest]

that stuttering thing helped alot for me

is check ammo broken btw?

[terse sun]

if you follow these steps you should get practically almost completely rid of stuttering

[shadow sapphire]

What do you mean?

[lilac crest]

the mod check ammo. its unchecked. Is it like tarkov check ammo?

[versed tusk]

it's only to be used alongside MAGS

[lilac crest]

Mags buyable at traders mod?

[void maple]

i would like to have the game not stutter without sacrificing too much in visuals

[versed tusk]

we all wish that

[void maple]

lol

[versed tusk]

no, mags redux

[terse sun]

follow the steps I wrote above, reduce visuals till where you're comfortable with, tbh it's not about the visuals if you have a good GPU, it's basically the CPU thing you need to sort out

[lilac crest]

ah cool

[void maple]

how do i use process hacker?

[lilac crest]

how do i inspect weapon? felt like i did it once on random

[terse sun]

@shadow sapphire, what's the "!" code again for cpu0 😄

damn my memory sucks

!core

[raw raft]

How to disable Core 0: #╭📖faq message

[terse sun]

ah there you go

[terse sun]

!core

[raw raft]

How to disable Core 0: #╭📖faq message

[terse sun]

basically disabling cpu0 and hyperthreading alone will do major things for stuttering, as will apparentlyl imiting your FPS, which makes sense, so that where the FPS is enough, the CPU offloads itself from communicating with the GPU and rather focuses on other tasks at hand

and try disabling avx support, see what it does for you

[urban totem]

Trying this first before I do all those steps. Thanks

[terse sun]

try it and see. Also, my steps aren't really in order so feel free to mix it up, there is no really significance in doing these things in order. If anything, then first update GPU drivers to the latest version, rest is completely ad libero 🙂

[subtle moon]

man, freaking ropes is such a crafting bottleneck, is there no way to craft ropes?

[junior lava]

@graceful iron ended up trying on a different session and everything works like a charm somehow 👍 thanks again

[urban totem]

Enabling that option in MO2 seemed to completely fix my issue 🤣 turned ReShade back on and it runs great 👍

[terse sun]

there you go, enjoy!

[terse hawk]

what is that for? dont remember using ropes. and no theres no way, you could buy them or disassemble the white double ropes

[subtle moon]

they are for the upgrade kits

[terse sun]

ah perhaps yeah... I never used ropes myself but I have a million metric tons of them in my stash lol

[terse hawk]

ahh yeah uhh you usually find those in stashes enough

never had to craft them on my own

[subtle moon]

hoard your ropes newbies, hehe

[terse hawk]

industrial grease on the otherhand

[subtle moon]

that too

[terse sun]

I'm mainly underwhelmed with plastic jars, hard to make meds constantly

[terse hawk]

blue stoves?

[void maple]

i couldnt find hyperthreading in my bios

[terse sun]

blue stoves give jars?

nice

didn't know that

I was hoarding them in my stash forever lol

[terse hawk]

nvm mb i thought you said plastic film lol

[terse sun]

ah aalright 😄

[terse hawk]

yeah dunno about plastic jars... except industrial grease

[empty sundial]

Also I know I shouldnt ask this but... I have a badly damaged piece of armour and I can't figure out how to fix it. It says i need a heavy armor repair kit but it's only for 50% and more. This one is like 8%

[subtle moon]

read up on the crafting in either #│📚manual or your ingame PDA

basically you need to replace the parts

[north turret]

Does it matter damage wise if I give a companion a broken wep or one fully repaired?

[terse sun]

in my gamma they can somehow shoot with those weapons even if I give them a completely stripped gun, those sons of beaches (sunny beach) seem to carry a full kit of gun parts and hoard them for themselves, bastards

[north turret]

Yeah, thought so

Cuz I never saw their wep jam

[void maple]

does anyone know how to keep your cursor from going off screen

[shadow sapphire]

Actually it does matter. Thats why they reload so often XD

[shadow sapphire]

Windowed mode?

[void maple]

nope fullscreen brother

[shadow sapphire]

Multiple displays?

And if not, then explain I guess what you mean by cursor is off screen

[supple basalt]

Hi is there a way to disable the NVG shader ?

Gen 2 NVG is worse than without it at night

[shadow sapphire]

What does your gen2 look like?

[void maple]

my apologies i fixed it

[shadow sapphire]

No need to apologize! Glad its fixed!

[terse sun]

running cursor happens with multiple displays, easy fix is if it happens, just alt+tab the game out and back in, fixes immediately

[supple basalt]

like so

:

[supple basalt]

Is this normal for it to be so grainy ?

[shadow sapphire]

Have you adjusted the gain? And not that bad tbh.

[supple basalt]

i haven't changed the nvg shader sliders

i've tried messing a bit with them min maxing stuff but did not see any visible changes

except for light sources becoming clearer

[shadow sapphire]

I mean tapping N

There are 5 gain settings per nvg

[supple basalt]

yes those pictures are with all with different NVG brightness levels

[shadow sapphire]

Ok that isnt right

!version

[raw raft]

Go to your \GAMMA RC3\.Grok's Modpack Installer folder, open version.txt and write the number you can see.

[shadow sapphire]

For reference. This is gen 2 at different times at night

[supple basalt]

624

[shadow sapphire]

AH. Thats why. You are on a version that had bugged NVG. You need to do this: Run Installer as Admin -> Update GAMMA Data -> Full GAMMA Install

!full

[raw raft]

A Full Install does NOT remove saves, nor does it mean you are redownloading everything. A full install will simply check every mod in the pack, and any that need to be updated will be updated.

[supple basalt]

ahh i see!

i just did full install 2 days ago

Thanks! Hopefully it'll be fixed after!

i'll tell you the results!

[shadow sapphire]

Yeah theres been a lot of stuff happening with the shaders, and it broke NVGs for an update XD

We are on version 630 right now

[supple basalt]

Should i update add ons or anything else after full install is complete ?

[north turret]

Good to know

[shadow sapphire]

Nope just the steps I sent

[supple basalt]

👍

[supple basalt]

Much better now!

[shadow sapphire]

I'm glad it's fixed!

[split plume]

when should one launch with "delete shader cache"

i just did a complete graphics driver reinstall and i feel like i should reset shader cache but idk if that has anything to do with it

[graceful iron]

!shader

[raw raft]

To clean your "Shader Cache", don't use the option in the Anomaly launcher.
Go in this folder: Anomaly\appdata, you'll find a folder called shaders_cache, delete this folder and launch the game normally from MO2, using your preferred DX.

[graceful iron]

deleting shaders is usually something you want to do after changing any visual or shader related settings or addons

shouldnt cause any issues even if you delete it everytime you close the game

[split plume]

oh i have been using it thru the launcher. did this not do anything the whole time?

[graceful iron]

yes, it only deletes the vanilla anomaly cache

[split plume]

gotcha

[subtle moon]

what changes in the zone at night?

[buoyant stump]

gets dark, more dangerous mutants

[exotic hemlock]

And obviously it becomes harder to see you- as well as other stalkers in the zone will turn thier headlamps on

[graceful iron]

night mutants spawn around the player

[subtle moon]

so do new mutants spawn at night and then despawn at morning?

ah i see

[graceful iron]

yes

[lyric steeple]

well thats horrifying..

[subtle moon]

dont suppose you can turn the night mutant spawn off?

[exotic hemlock]

Define "around the player" i cleared out rf during the day, stuck around till nightfall and didn't see any mutants till i went to jupiter

[graceful iron]

they have some sort of radius where they can spawn around the player but only in their smart terrains

it should be every 45 game minutes

[exotic hemlock]

Must have been accidentally perfectly moving around far enough away from spawns then, huh

[graceful iron]

but knowing red forest, they either ran into anomalies or get killed by stalkers

[exotic hemlock]

Your probably right about that

[north turret]

What's the name of the wep in the video? https://youtu.be/TXELWoSzZ6U

[graceful iron]

it looks like an AK74 variant but cant really tell without the inventory icon

could also be an AK74u

[north turret]

Damn, he has no recoil lol

Scope is ugly af tho

[graceful iron]

OKP-7

[north turret]

What ammo does it use?

[graceful iron]

if its an AK74, then it uses 5.45x39

[burnt kraken]

I know that it's probably rng but can someone tell me is there a best place or something where I can find expert tools? I found almost 100 stashes already and got about 20 basic and about 12 advanced and I'm already starting to go crazy.

[north turret]

North of Rf

RF including

[burnt kraken]

Kk, will try to search there. ^^

[willow hawk]

Radar has the highest chance iirc

[grim hawk]

@graceful iron I just think it's a downgrade from vanilla amomawy, not quite an issue i guess, maybe i'll get used to them

[graceful iron]

wait, you are talking about the icons ?

[grim hawk]

yeah

also, are there bandages in this game? Or only tourniquets?

[lyric steeple]

omg i love the icons, helps to know what they are used for!

[brisk zinc]

🍿

[lyric steeple]

bandages are the rolls in the left picture

the ones with the blood drops??

[grim hawk]

Oh, right

[lyric steeple]

🙂

[graceful iron]

i absolutely have no idea if this will work, but try disabling these

[grim hawk]

What am I supposed to do with this, sir?

[graceful iron]

mo2 > find the addons and uncheck

use the search bar

[grim hawk]

Nice, thanky

Looks like it didn't, unless I had to do something else besides just unchecking the mod names in MO2, like saving changes or something

[north turret]

should be just unchecking the box and restarting your game

[turbid gull]

Anyway of ensuring that the busy hands glitch wont happen?

[north turret]

do not enable any of the FDDA animations that are disabled by default

do not enable any extra animations
do not spam animations

[turbid gull]

Alright, thank you

[rain hound]

šo, this is what i should be seeing now is
10.00000 (current) [0.001, 10.000]
0.20000 (current) [0.001, 1.000]
for r2_gloss_factor 10 and
r2_gloss_min 1.0 respectively, yes

[grim hawk]

still nothing

is there a chance to find items in an unmarked stash? Random loot

Like in vanilla

[graceful iron]

currently there isnt, you have to find stash locations from quest rewards or dead bodies. you can tweak the item drops in stashes in the mcm for zcp

as for the icons, i am not sure. looking at the modlist there are a few icon addons that probably have the same files from the gamma icons like the ones in fixes

[versed tusk]

[grim hawk]

What's so funny, mate?

[versed tusk]

just reading up on the stuff i missed

[subtle moon]

my heart icon is blinking in the inventory screen, blinking white, kinda looks like a good thing, but what does it mean?

[terse sun]

hp is regenerating

[subtle moon]

ah yeah that makes sense, i have some regen on my armor

[shadow sapphire]

Ok I am back, any questions that didnt get answered? Sorry was working on something

[boreal jewel]

I asked yesterday but didn't get much of a reply - any way to console force Hip to become a companion? Her quest seems broken for me at the snork hand stage (had 23 in my inventory and I can still only say Bye or Peace to her).

[grim hawk]

Do I need a shovel to pick dirt from an anomaly?

[graceful iron]

dirt? unless you are talking about the ecologists artefact hunters missions and their "shiny dirt", there is no dirt to pick

its just a name used for artefacts

[grim hawk]

Thanky

[shadow sapphire]

You need to find the task ID and do this

!task

[raw raft]

Having problems with a certain task? #╭📖faq message

[subtle moon]

think i found a bug, when shift moving a lot of regular artifacts in containers and perk artifacts to my workbench it deletes a lot of the perk artifacts

[boreal jewel]

Any hints on where in the game ltx files I should start looking?

[terse sun]

is there any actual difference between swamp thing and shakal? stat-wise, they are exactly the same

[graceful iron]

its only the ammo used and the scope

[terse sun]

oh that's important, swamp thing is 5.56?

[graceful iron]

yes

[terse sun]

nice, might try it out

[exotic hemlock]

highhhly reccomend it. Im using it in my current run and it feels nice to use

tho as far as ive seen ive had to craft all of my ammo myself

I also like that you can zoom in and out of the sight like binoculars

[shadow sapphire]

look for task manager the stuff in the escape, and its not an ltx, you need the script

[grim hawk]

The powder can doesn't work here either, does it?

[shadow sapphire]

What do you mean doesnt work?

[grim hawk]

I shoot it and it doesn't expolde

[shadow sapphire]

Yeah. Its not an explosive in anomaly XD Its a crafting material to make IEDs, or you can break it down for gun powder

[lyric steeple]

i had figured it was a cheap grenade

[shadow sapphire]

Nah, just a crafting mat

Would be cool though

[buoyant stump]

does the swamp thing spawn on stalkers?

[shadow sapphire]

I wonder.... Hmmm (I am not going to do it now) but like a crafting recipe of that and some duct tape and rope or string to make it into an improvised grenade, downside is heavy af and random fuse XD

[shadow sapphire]

Let me check not sure off top of my head.

[versed tusk]

on CS if at all

i never kill them so no idea

[shadow sapphire]

No, it does not. But you can buy the kit

[buoyant stump]

i see, thanks

im a merc and actually hate the swamp ill pass on it for this playthrough i think

[rich mortar]

Hello. Yesterday very early I updated the modpack and today I am realizing that the enemies do not attack me, no enemy faction attacks me, not even the mutants, even if I stand in front of them.

Yesterday I did a lot of night missions and I thought they weren't looking at me, but today when doing day missions it was very evident that the AI ​​ignores me

[solid spire]

I followed the steps for backing up your mod organizer settings, updated and they are all reset. I followed the guide word for word, so what can I do to prevent this?

[brisk zinc]

Are you sure you're following the guide?

I'm sure the guide works, because I wrote the guide and because I still have my stuff intact

[solid spire]

I mean... 99%..

[lyric steeple]

my stuff works 🙂

[sturdy stone]

It has worked for me so I can vouch, but it sucks that you had the settings reset man

[brisk zinc]

It's simple to follow it

1. Rename the mod
2. Update GAMMA
3. Disable the old mod
4. Enable your new mod

[sturdy stone]

Can be a minor annoyance to a total headache... but since you're in the VANILLA channel, I'm assuming that you had a Vanilla modlist

[brisk zinc]

If you launch GAMMA BEFORE UPDATING, it's your fault

[solid spire]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-nonono-no-no-no-not-now-gif-19185122

[brisk zinc]

I mean seriously the guide is for a backup because you're going to update

Not because you want to play with it

If you want to play... don't touch the mod

[sturdy stone]

This is the second time in like three days this has happened

[brisk zinc]

[brisk zinc]

I know

[sturdy stone]

at least that I've seen

[brisk zinc]

And I can't really make the guides more spoonfed

It's already spoonfeeding as it is

[normal python]

Why by default are all loot boxes unticked in ZPC? Is it intended so you have to craft everything?

[sturdy stone]

I didn't mean to sound like I was pointing it out to you, I assume you knew

[brisk zinc]

The last thing I can do is literally do it myself in their computers with TeamViewer

[sturdy stone]

Falco plz play game for me

[brisk zinc]

And I almost did that

[lyric steeple]

wait, this is an option?!

[brisk zinc]

No

[lyric steeple]

lol

[brisk zinc]

And it never will

But I've helped people with the VC thing

[sturdy stone]

God can you imagine the headache

[versed tusk]

4,99€ a month for private TeamV sessions

[brisk zinc]

Because some stuff isn't used in GAMMA, leave that stuff disabled + what cat said

[lyric steeple]

a month?!

[sturdy stone]

People would be blaming you for their own PC problems and legal issues and shit

[graceful iron]

because it can spawn some balance breaking items and things that will make the progression pointless

[versed tusk]

"can you also do my taxes?"

[brisk zinc]

A classic

[normal python]

Ah okay, is it safe to enable the mags redux compatibility?

[graceful iron]

i am not sure, but i think it basically adds more mags to loot in stashes and from npcs

[solid spire]

Oh sorry, the only thing I've changed is Agressor reshade and the stutter one, I figured that was close enough to vanilla... not a hassle to turn back on but I WAS curious if the backup would even work

[graceful iron]

if you are using mags redux, sure i guess

[sturdy stone]

Just playin!

[sturdy stone]

I can confirm it does work, however if you have issues you might want to use the #🔨modded-gamma-support channel

[brisk zinc]

The backup work if you do what I told you to do

[valid axle]

Hi! I followed the FAQ steps to optimize framerate, which consisted in turning off the shaders but now my nightvision looks considerably different. Is there a way to keep that cool nightvision that GAMMA vanilla has?

[burnt kraken]

Ty, had to wipe out whole monolith camp but got it from last and most stupid stash.

[brisk zinc]

Yes, don't follow #old-framerate-optimisation

[valid axle]

No?

[brisk zinc]

Eh no

The guide disable some stuff from that mod

So it's either the good NVG or dem good FPS

And no, you can't follow the guide without disabling something from the NVG mod

[valid axle]

T_T let it be dem gud FPS then, for my potato pc cant handle it

Thanks mr. Stalker

[digital falcon]

how do i attach a suppressor to the PMM? does it need to have a threaded barrel or something?

[ruby crystal]

why does this happen? it looks like this only when theres storm.

cant change gloss factor btw, its fixed to 6

[sturdy stone]

Check the weapon details and see if there's an upgrade option for a silencer. Otherwise it will show you which (if any) silencers it's compatible with

[ruby crystal]

when lightning strikes everything returns to normal for a second

[subtle moon]

it must be a shader thing, have you messed with it at all?

[ruby crystal]

ive disabled dynamic tonemapping in mo2

ill try to delete shader cache

[fresh plover]

how i do i do this? "Right click Beef's NVG addon and tick the following: Beef's NVG and that's it (untick all other options)." I dont see the options its talking about

[mortal mist]

How could u its one of the best (very sharp, pretty small ) i hit heads with this like its nothing

comfortable

[terse sun]

you need to change gloss factor via console

[ruby crystal]

Doesn't do anything

Only r2_gloss_min changes something but that's not it

[drowsy talon]

Does anyone know how to spawn in the device in "Last Dawn: Seize The Device?" I beat the assault squad but couldn't find the drop

[cosmic quarry]

Hey guys!
So the install section suggests getting the gunsticks and broomsticks mod for Gamma, does this mod still work for Anomaly 1.5.2?
Also, I see that the Aggressor Reshade Mod is downloaded, but not activated, is it recommended to activate it?

[terse sun]

yes and no

[sturdy stone]

BaS is already part of Gamma, and no to Aggressor

[graceful iron]

boomsticks and sharpsticks is a part of gamma. the recommendation to download it is to speed up the installation before you installed gamma, nothing else

[sturdy stone]

iirc the section refers to you downloading it separate

[cosmic quarry]

Thanks!
Also, are there any fixes for the games textures turning grey/white?
I was able to temporarily fix it, but it has reappeared upon changing regions

[solid spire]

Man, this update has really gotten me all over the place.. how do I remove this gray circle in the corner of my screen? (bottom right)

[graceful iron]

in the mcm > stealth there should be a stealth icon option

[solid spire]

Cool, thanks. Honestly I feel like all of the mcm settings have been changed or something. Never had to deal with this before

[graceful iron]

did you press defaults or something in the settings ?

[inland dragon]

What is a good way to up the brightness of the game? Upping the Gamma didn't seem to do much.

[graceful iron]

you can tweak the dynamic tonemap in the mcm or disable it in mo2 and then you will be able to tweak the basic lighting settings

if you are having a blackscreen issue or everything being too dark, follow the instructions for solving the blackscreen

!blackscreen

[raw raft]

Follow this: #╭📖faq message

[inland dragon]

No black screen just the game being too dark for my liking. Is there any option in the reshade for vibrancy?

[graceful iron]

i have no idea about reshade options, but you can press home and check

[tacit ravine]

I'm playing as a Renegade and I don't really wanna have a base set up in the bandits camp cause I don't go to dark valley too often

anyone know a place I can throw down a portable workbench, a few chest and call it home "safe" from the others?

wait, might be putting this in the wrong chat?

[graceful iron]

its fine

i cant recall many places where a renegade would be safe except in truck cemetery, jupiter or dark valley

dont use multiple channels for the same question or issue

[empty sundial]

Is there a way to spawn normal Zombified stalkers instead of the Zombies?

[buoyant stump]

if I update today from before the shaders change and copy my user.ltx do I have to manually insert some value in the file/console?

for gloss/shader stuff or whatever

[tacit ravine]

Soooo White trees?

Yeah idk what's going on now

[shadow sapphire]

Hmmmm. I dont know if you need to insert or just change it -_- Try it and Ill help you fix if needed

[shadow sapphire]

!version

[raw raft]

Go to your \GAMMA RC3\.Grok's Modpack Installer folder, open version.txt and write the number you can see.

[buoyant stump]

alright, what value would i be looking for to check?

[dapper matrix]

Wait I think I know the answer!

[tacit ravine]

630

[dapper matrix]

Ok I just checked it. So, what you did (as did I) is change the gloss factor in the settings menu. It incriments in 0.5 and the default is much smaller.

[tacit ravine]

also this

It's getting worse as I play

[dapper matrix]

So, to fix, go to your user.ltx and change the setting "r2_gloss_factor" to 0.001

[shadow sapphire]

r2_gloss_factor and r2_gloss_min

[shadow sapphire]

What is your gloss factor?

[dapper matrix]

Right, mine is r2_gloss_min 0.3

[solid spire]

I'm having this issue too, I put it in the bugs chat but I don't think anyone saw 😅

[shadow sapphire]

I just replied to you lol

[solid spire]

Haha

The timing!

[shadow sapphire]

@solid spire Just stay here and I can do all 3 at once

[solid spire]

Sounds good

[buoyant stump]

and what are the values that grok set as of the latest update?

[tacit ravine]

Reminder where that stuff is found? I know

[shadow sapphire]

Let me pull them, one second

[tacit ravine]

user.ltx?

[buoyant stump]

no worries

[buoyant stump]

yea

[dapper matrix]

Default is r2_gloss_factor 0.001 and r2_gloss_min 0.3 for me. I haven't touched them.

[tacit ravine]

r2_gloss_factor 1.
r2_gloss_min 0.12

.>

1. btw

that period

is there

[shadow sapphire]

All of you r2_gloss_factor 10 r2_gloss_min 1

[warped ginkgo]

always used
r2_gloss_factor 0.001
r2_gloss_min 0.6

[buoyant stump]

hmmm

confusing

[shadow sapphire]

Yeah Grok did a thing, and for some reason its not behaving how I expect

So first is put them at default, see what is still broken

[tacit ravine]

intersting all of us had different numbers

[solid spire]

I am already at that

[tacit ravine]

also 1**.** instead of 1.0 is odd

[dapper matrix]

Mine might have been from original 1.5.1 release actually but it works well.

[shadow sapphire]

Ok, send me your modlist please I want to make sure the new shader stuff is running

[solid spire]

Sure

[shadow sapphire]

If it works, keep it, basically at the end of the day, @warped ginkgo correct me please if wrong, shaders wont be a one size fits all

[tacit ravine]

ok this is my new outside

[solid spire]

Mine is very very nearly vanilla, the only shaders change is probably Agressor ReShade but I've tried the game without it and the issue persists

[dapper matrix]

😦

[tacit ravine]

Inside oddly is not affected at all it has remained normal looking this whole time

[solid spire]

Same!

It's only outside that actually changes

[warped ginkgo]

honestly no idea, i update every once in a while

this is how i have the shaders addon

probably tell people to reinstall sss, then delete shader cache

[shadow sapphire]

FYI you have 0 MCM settings running lol. Not your issue here though. Also warfare patch, thats dangerous XD. But you will need to start adjusting those numbers for what looks good with your shaders and settings.

[dapper matrix]

Hey I followed the frame optimization helper threat but I am still getting stuttering and my gpu is getting hot (which I mean its stalker so it could be any number of things). Any words of wisedom on which addons or settings are the absolute worst performance killers?

Ryzen 5800x & RTX3070 (I feel like my pc should be doing better shrug)

[tacit ravine]

3000 series runs hot usually by default

[shadow sapphire]

Ok, yours. save and quit, clear shader cache (delete the folder, not the installer) Reload and check

[tacit ravine]

heard

[shadow sapphire]

!stutter

[raw raft]

1. Update G.A.M.M.A. to the latest version (open the installer with admin rights, click on Update G.A.M.M.A. data and then Full G.A.M.M.A. installation)
2. Bring your modlist back to default (type !default in #🤖bot-commands)
3. Turn on the "Turn this on if you stutter" mod in your MO2 (you can found the mod under the G.A.M.M.A. Fixes separator)
4. If you have a NVIDIA GPU, you can enable Triple Buffering in NVIDIA control panel
5. Open Anomaly Launcher via MO2 and tick Prefetch sounds

Still a WIP because I need to add something else

[shadow sapphire]

Follow that command, and also dont use AVX

[shadow sapphire]

Your status?

[solid spire]

Lol I wasn't playing WITH warfare but I want to use it next playthrough. Also agressor is off right now as I was testing to see if it changes anything and it doesn't seem to. So do I just play around with my gloss factor settings and all?

[buoyant stump]

I'm currently busy with IRL stuff, will let you know once I get to it in a couple minutes 👍

[tacit ravine]

Confirming it's the shaders cache in the anomaly appdata yea?

[shadow sapphire]

Yeah. The hard part about shaders and SSS and stuff, is depending on your graphics settings and your mods and stuff it will change how the settings work for you. Its kinda a play around and see what does what.

[shadow sapphire]

Yes

[dapper matrix]

Damn this is a well put together discord. Ok thanks I'll try these

[shadow sapphire]

dont forget the turn off avx part.

[dapper matrix]

Isnt that a feature that improves performance for newer cpus?

[solid spire]

I don't think it works very well

[tacit ravine]

Sliiiiiighty better?

Honestly Playable for me

[shadow sapphire]

Heh. I really need to make this a command. No. It improves performance over all. It works great in games where you are stressing the GPU. But that isnt anomaly, effectively what avx does is it allows the CPU to handle some directx calculations. This is amazing in games where you have this giant multi core cpu multitasking away, and your gpu is screaming for help. BUT in stalker, you only get the 1 cpu core to use. Adding more load to that worsens the bottle neck. If you had like a 970 yeah it would help alot, but you have GPU room to spare, and probably a CPU that is thermal throttling.

[shadow sapphire]

It is better, honestly at this point its just kinda adjust the settings, or other graphics settings and save and reload, if you dont notice a change save exit clear cache and reload.

[tacit ravine]

"I need to make a command for this" is probably the most said thing in the mod team lets be honest

[dapper matrix]

Ahh that makes sense. Good to know for the future.

[tacit ravine]

Aight! Yeah Ima mess with it Honestly starting to wonder if I'm GPU bottle necked though cause Going much high than default is instant 40fps

3080 ti with i7-9700

[shadow sapphire]

Also check it at different times, I know some of the weathers right now around transition times are causing bright ground like that so might try seeing how it changes during the night.

[shadow sapphire]

Nope Its still your CPU XD I guarentee. Shaders are very CPU intensive usually.

[tacit ravine]

haha was waiting for am5 2 years ago

didn't expect it to be so late

next year next year

[warped ginkgo]

honestly i dont think even new cpu gen are going to help with stalker xd

[shadow sapphire]

Also reflections in this are very well done, and are MASSIVE frame killers.

[solid spire]

This is what I'm looking like so far. But the lower I put my values, the more fps I lose..

[tacit ravine]

true

[shadow sapphire]

Nah, the problem is core speeds keep going down individually because multitasking is better. Sadly one day these games will probably be unplayable.

[warped ginkgo]

in gloss commands?

[shadow sapphire]

Save exit clear cache and check.

[warped ginkgo]

weird, it shouldn't affect fps at all

[solid spire]

Been doing that

[shadow sapphire]

Hmmmmm

Whats your hardware again?

[solid spire]

This wouldn't be the first time my installer hates me, could be that?

[solid spire]

rtx3060, i7 core, 16gb ram

[shadow sapphire]

Your modlist looked ok. Question, when you launch do you see the SSR + puddles or whatever?

[solid spire]

I'm not well versed in hardware but I think those are the important ones

[solid spire]

Honestly, no idea what that is. Any examples I can look at?

[solid spire]

I do yeah

[shadow sapphire]

ok

When was the last full install?

[solid spire]

Maybe two days ago? Three at most

Just around whenever the latest full install update came around

[shadow sapphire]

Do me a favor if you dont mind. Do the full install. I did it today and it fixed some of my shader stuff. Then before using your custom mod list, launch and see how it looks.

[solid spire]

Can do

Should take only 15 minutes

Gonna watch the newest RoP episode while waiting.. will you still be available to help in an hour or so?

I can always pause it ofc, but just curious

[shadow sapphire]

Yeah

Ill be around for awhile yet

[solid spire]

Nevermind, I guess it's not out.... haha, update is done though. Will test for you

Haha... I load into a black screen in my save

This is on default settings though, I figured it's best to test on that first, will go to my personal ones and then try again

[shadow sapphire]

Wait

Clear cache first lol

[solid spire]

LOL

Smart me

I've done it every single time except for now

[shadow sapphire]

Yeah it sneaks on me sometimes too

[solid spire]

Completely vanilla modlist

Also default gloss settings because user.ltx got reset

[shadow sapphire]

default for gamma should be the 10 and 1

Set those before changing list. I want to see if the list is the performance thing, I know its not the shiny ground thing

[solid spire]

For some reason it's 6 and 0.2

[buoyant stump]

@shadow sapphire if i turn on "support for AVX cpu in the anomaly launcher does that mean im running in AXV mode automatically" ?

[shadow sapphire]

Not if you pick the non avx from mo2. If you start the game from launcher then yes it will be avx

[buoyant stump]

alright, and anomaly launcher should only be used for debug correct?

[shadow sapphire]

Correct

[buoyant stump]

thank

about to test shaders

[solid spire]

After changing gloss settings to 10 and 1

Still completely vanilla list

[shadow sapphire]

Did the FPS plummet?

[shadow sapphire]

go down to 1 and .12 btw

[solid spire]

No

[shadow sapphire]

Ok, so the FPS is probably some weird thing with one of the other mods. I would start manually setting list back to default, and would advise leaving warfare patch off and see if turning one of the defaults off, or turning another mod on makes the FPS difference. But I would just start dropping the gloss settings and see what looks good on your setup

[solid spire]

1 and .12

[shadow sapphire]

Honestly I am unsure, your ground looks the same in every shot. I see it changing the other stuff, but not the ground...

[solid spire]

Ground was definitely different here

What do I drop my gloss settings down to now?

0.5 and .6? 0.5 and .24? Not sure where to go from here

[shadow sapphire]

Oh it did get better

My bad I think I looked at same one twice XD

[solid spire]

Lol dw

[shadow sapphire]

do .75 and .001

[solid spire]

kk

.75 and 0.01, agressor is on this time--no fps loss. will try without

[shadow sapphire]

Try lautas - r2_gloss_factor 0.001
r2_gloss_min 0.6

[buoyant stump]

@shadow sapphire game looks good, a bit different and slightly darker but i dig it

frames are bad here on merc base but they always were so i'll have to test somewhere better

[shadow sapphire]

Excellent.

[buoyant stump]

also realized that i think i ran AVX on all this time lol

[solid spire]

with agressor on or no?

[shadow sapphire]

Whichever since agressor wasnt the FPS loss

[solid spire]

I'll go with it on for now

[shadow sapphire]

The point of default was to make it so you can figure out why the fps loss was happening, because that part made literally no sense XD

[solid spire]

Yeah that was trippy

But agressor isn't affecting it so should be fine to test with it

0.001 and 0.6

[buoyant stump]

hmm the ground is looking a bit too glossy and reflective, what would you guys recommend to set for the value?

[shadow sapphire]

How low can you go on gloss_min

[shadow sapphire]

What is ingame time?

[buoyant stump]

9:30 am

dont think its rain puddles

[shadow sapphire]

ahhh

You are at the 10 1 right now?

[solid spire]

Dunno the max. I can try significantly lower though

[buoyant stump]

correct

changed directly in user ltx

[shadow sapphire]

Start dropping maybe try like 8 .5

[buoyant stump]

ok can i drop it from in game

[shadow sapphire]

in the console it will say the max if you do it that way or if @buoyant stump is kind enough to tell us XD

[buoyant stump]

lol hang on

[solid spire]

0.001

I can try it

[buoyant stump]

max gloss_min value is indeed 1

[solid spire]

🤔

Max is 1000 and minimum is 0.001 for me

[buoyant stump]

@shadow sapphire i dont see a visible change even dropping it to 1 ;V

[shadow sapphire]

Drop it down not up lol

[shadow sapphire]

You saved and reloaded and cached after the change I assume/

[buoyant stump]

i dropped down the regular gloss factor

[solid spire]

In the process of

[buoyant stump]

should i do the gloss_min then

[shadow sapphire]

I wouldnt go straight to min, but start taking it down yeah.

Gloss factor is basically how shiny, gloss min is the minimum amount of shiny. Basically balance the two until it looks good

[buoyant stump]

im messing with those 2 but the reflection on the concrete isnt changing, weird

ill try to make small video real quick

[shadow sapphire]

So you have to save and reload after change. If that doesnt work then save reload and clear cache. Sometimes the shaders dont show the change no Idea why...

[shadow sapphire]

Can you change maps real quick

[buoyant stump]

alright ill give it a shot clearing the cache before testing again then

[solid spire]

Small hike but I can indeed

[shadow sapphire]

Im almost feeling like its maybe the rain but debug weather change wouldnt help sadle.

[solid spire]

I'm thinking it's the rain too, honestly, this all started after the rain came in, and lightning restored the textures back to normal briefly

But it would suck having to deal with white trees and textures every single time it rains

[exotic hemlock]

Anyone know what the EAX and "Dynamic music" options in the sound tab in the options menu do?

[buoyant stump]

ok tried it again, no luck

just to make sure, these arent puddles right?

the light reflection on the concrete

[solid spire]

I can't see it, honestly

[buoyant stump]

ill record

[solid spire]

Wild territory

No rain, but I also can't see a change

[buoyant stump]

here

[shadow sapphire]

Honestly @solid spire I dont know any other tips. Youll just have to play with it I dont know much about shaders

[solid spire]

Well, I appreciate the help nonetheless

I definitely couldn't have gone this far alone

It's not that bad, I'll play around a little but I can live with it

[shadow sapphire]

Oh weird, the side to side I saw it. Huh. Its almost like its wet. I... I also dont know for yours. Im sorry

[buoyant stump]

its all good, thanks for the help. ill just pretend the streets are some old bowling alley lol

[vagrant star]

when you are disguised you are friendly to the allies of the faction you are disguised as right? ex: if i disguise as ecologist i will become friendly to army?

[buoyant stump]

yes that's correct

that's why ecologist suit is good

[solid spire]

Yes but there are multiple factors that can change how effective your disguise actually is

For example if you're wearing a suit that is very torn up, it won't take long for them to figure out your true faction

[solid spire]

This is what I'm looking like right now. Thanks for the tips and all! This is very playable :D

[shadow sapphire]

Awesome! I am super glad I could help some!

I am gonna go relax for a bit, after pushing some of my work over to grok for inclusion! I hope yall have a good time!

[buoyant stump]

have a good one bro, u always give some big help

[solid spire]

For sure

See you around

[compact coral]

what are your gloss values?

did it solve the white trees when raining?

[solid spire]

Yup!

I'm at 0.3 and 0.1 right now. Working pretty well

Unrelated, but how am I supposed to get the anomalous study for this spot?

Standing in the area it wants me to is just literally standing in toxic gas

Never mind, just had to chug two medkits

[compact coral]

perhaps you need to get an aritfact instead of inhalating toxic fumes kek

nvm then

[brisk zinc]

Damn those reflections on them gloves

This stuff is good

[vagrant star]

I just opened a marked stash and there is nothing in it wtf

[solid spire]

That’s happened to me in vanilla but never in gamma, if you put something in and take it out it marks the stash as seen

I’d recommend quick saving and quick loading though because that rerolls stash contents (at least in vanilla) so it’s worth a try

Oh but load BEFORE you’ve opened the stash

[buoyant stump]

in gamma it doesn't reroll stashes, only the amount of items you get, ammo for example

the items are always the same though

[prime prawn]

why does my character portrait keep changing from what i picked?

[buoyant stump]

the armor you're using determines that in game

[prime prawn]

oh okay thanks

[buoyant stump]

being a merc is there any reason to go to barkeep for quests?

i know the find strelok part that involves him gets replaced with aslan

[untold bane]

Is there an MCM config file I can copy and backup so that I don't have to retweak any of the settings every time I update GAMMA?

[shadow sapphire]

!backup

[raw raft]

"Why does every update completely reset my keybinds/my settings/my mods/my stuff in general?"
G.A.M.M.A. has a default mod list to make sure everyone has the same things, everything goes back to default when you update or you do a complete installation, it's normal.
You can backup your keybinds and mod settings following this guide: #╭📖faq message

[shadow sapphire]

I don't think so...

[buoyant stump]

good, i have a contract to hit a guy in rostok

everyone there about to get some hands

[untold bane]

Thanks bruv

[vagrant star]

What's the penalty for not sleeping?

[shadow sapphire]

Reduced stamina and carry weight and probably some other stuff

[vagrant star]

So the point of stuff like energy drinks or caffeine pills isn't to raise the sleep bar, but to counteract the debuffs from sleeping?

[split plume]

do companions just carry infinite healing items or do i need to give them some now and then

[sturdy stone]

There is an option to disable the switching, I think it’s in UI settings but not sure

[prime prawn]

Thanks i dont mind it i just didnt realise what was happening at first

[north turret]

does doing missions at night making you less detectable? having a really hard time with radar/red forest

going through about 500 rounds in 5-10 minutes

[sturdy stone]

Yeah but expect that in those zones

[shadow sapphire]

Doing things at night is very very risky

[sturdy stone]

V normal. Big big big difficulty jump there

RF at night is very spooky

[north turret]

yea i feel like i need a gruntier weapon which i have but can't repair without expert tool kit which requires me to go there 😂

[sturdy stone]

Oof

[north turret]

maybe a shotgun?

[shadow sapphire]

What are you using for mutants?

[sturdy stone]

Stay strong you’ll get there

[north turret]

im using a tactical aks74u with HP rounds

[nimble geyser]

anyone savvy with any of this that can help me ascertain why I'm getting crashes

[sturdy stone]

Love that gun

[nimble geyser]

or at least point me in the direction of the right place because i don't think this is it

[shadow sapphire]

!crash

[raw raft]

Send your crash log where it was asked, it's inside your Anomaly folder, this is the complete path: Anomaly/appdata/logs. Send the file called xray_yournamehere.txt, you just need to drag and drop the file here, Discord will handle it for you.
Make sure you're not using any extra mods.

[shadow sapphire]

Drop log

[nimble geyser]

groovy

[sturdy stone]

Are you struggling more with mutants or stalkers

[north turret]

mutants, feel like im stuck doing quests in the south

[sturdy stone]

I prefer to hunt stalkers at night but mutants at day

[nimble geyser]

@shadow sapphire

[north turret]

maybe i need some nades?

[sturdy stone]

RF and radar is really about RNG too, just keep chipping away and grinding quests to get stashes

You’ll get there

[shadow sapphire]

Maybe try red forest during the day if struggling with mutants

[shadow sapphire]

!152

[raw raft]

In order to update your Anomaly 1.5.1 to 1.5.2, follow this:

1. Download the 1.5.2 update: https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/downloads/stalker-anomaly-151-to-152
2. Extract the update into the root of your Anomaly folder
3. Overwrite everything when asked to do so
4. Open the installer with admin rights
5. Click on Update G.A.M.M.A. data -> Full G.A.M.M.A. Installation

[nimble geyser]

I had no issues with the install and it doesn't crash on launch. Just crashes when i try to create a new game

[north turret]

yea i have tried done some quests bought heaps of ammo come back and same struggle

[nimble geyser]

huh no shit

thought I did that

[shadow sapphire]

Is it specific mutants or just how many? Do you have a supressor

[shadow sapphire]

Sometimes it can mess up, but the log says your running 1.5.1

[north turret]

yes i have suppressor its pseudogiants and other pseudo types as soon as im in rf theres about 3 adn they just ruin me by the time i reach monolith im out of rounds

[sturdy stone]

Sometimes the tools are in the first stash you open too, just keep at it and you’ll get it

Oh yeah man if you see giants

It’s almost not worth it

[shadow sapphire]

Are you coming from north or south?

[sturdy stone]

Unless you have grenades

[north turret]

coming from army warehouses so from south

[shadow sapphire]

So you enter the map and then you head into the forest?

[north turret]

yea as im trying to disable brain scorcher

[sturdy stone]

I usually come from aw and head to the bridge first, stay on road and let the spawns in the forest thin each other out before I go in from the bridge entrance

[shadow sapphire]

Ha thats what I was just about to say XD

[sturdy stone]

By that time half the stuff is dead

[north turret]

so come in from dead city side?

[sturdy stone]

Yes

[shadow sapphire]

Plus the mono at bridge usually has a master or sometimes legend and you can get some good loots

[north turret]

that will lead me straight to my objective

y didnt i think of that 😂

thank you

[sturdy stone]

Don’t beeline the scorcher imo, your real goal is the tools and upgrades

[shadow sapphire]

No worries. But yeah I usually take out mono at bridge by then most mutants got killed and I wipe out the mono by aw entrance and then just get what I need and leave

[north turret]

sweet

[shadow sapphire]

Just uh don't walk into the northwest corner of the thick forest.

And definitely don't do what I did and start a firefight with mono at the warehouse from the bridge forest entrance....

[sturdy stone]

Do quests to get some stashes and when you get bored go do that loop and before you know it you’ll be swimming in gear

[north turret]

sweet

yea i've been smashing quests in south maximal goodwill

[shadow sapphire]

That's the ticket honestly

[sturdy stone]

You’re really just hoping to get stash rewards in RF and radar so just do quick and easy ones imo.

[north turret]

ok sweet thank you

[sturdy stone]

GLHF

[azure hinge]

new to gamma and gamma type mods using this healing system

how do I restore my limb health? I know to tourniquet the stuff but how do I actually heal a limb, it just makes the hp for the limb available but I can't heal properly. am I doing it wrong?

[carmine wyvern]

#🤖bot-commands message

[azure hinge]

ty

i see the video

[carmine wyvern]

in short

Medkit -> Bandage -> Ibuprofen or Yadulin

[azure hinge]

yeah im using a medkit but it isnt actually healing the bar

just my health

[carmine wyvern]

medkits give temporary HP

so do bandages

if you got the yellow bars shown you have to use Yadulin/Ibuprofens in the next couple seconds to convert the temporary into permanent ones

altenatively you can go to a medic and let him heal you for 1850

[azure hinge]

i understand now

I watched the video

thank ya

[carmine wyvern]

[azure hinge]

pretty much all im struggling with was healing

[nimble geyser]

alright @shadow sapphire did what you said

here goes

Nope

[shadow sapphire]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly version 1.5.1

[shadow sapphire]

Send a picture of your anomaly folder