Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.157.141.144-20151014073724

I've restarted to play this game for the 3rd time, never really having finished it before.

My first crack at it was a disaster because I never went on the forums to find out how to correct quest/game bugs and such. I only started using console commands to correct issues on my 2nd crack at the game about a year later.

The difference between now and then is that now with my 3rd crack, I'm actually playing it on a less powerful computer than my first 2 attempts. Alot less powerful. I never really was much of a gamer, but I'm starting to really feel the pain from my motherboard frying on my last laptop. My present machine is so bad I can't even run the 3 High Res texture mods. My machine simply can't handle them. I've had to resort to downloading different types of programs to help speed up my machine for gaming.

With my 2nd try at using optimization programs, it really isn't so bad now. I still haven't tried loading the 3 High Res packs. Normal playing has much improved and my game only really starts lagging when I get to dungeoun areas with a lot of flames/torches/running water/falls, etc. I've used the tree culling console command (with a difference I wasn't able to notice). I also installed a mod which reduces smog/fog/smoke/dust effects, etc.

To make a too long story short, the only thing that is still causing me problems is when I'm forced to go through water/swimming. On my last laptop, going through water gave me no problems. I was able to see clearly through it, fight slaughterfish, catch samon, collect barnacles, open underwater chests, etc. But now however, I can't see anything that is underwater. It's a murky opaque sludge and I'm completely blind going through it. I was quickly forced to get myself a water breathing amulet, otherwise I was drowning too often.

I know that without giving machine specifics, ram, etc, I can only get a general answer. However, is there a super knowlegable tech god out there that knows of a simple fix to this, ie modifying some values in the preference/Ini files ? 