Replacing laggy menu movies with good ones!

Jump back to quoted post13 Jan 2017, 00:51 AMCyanara

For the sake of my curiosity, can I ask your exact CPU, video card and motherboard models? Also, how much RAM do you have?

WebM Project VP8 Decoder (Deprecated API) v0.9.7-p1 WebM Project VP8 Decoder 

Jump back to quoted post13 Jan 2017, 02:15 AMferwiner

I guess it's a compatibility issue, possibly some configurations run videos without acceleration. Maybe it's as simple as NVIDIA/AMD difference?

Jump back to quoted post13 Jan 2017, 12:31 PMwuff

Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K
Motherboard: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VII HERO
Graphics: GIGABYTE GTX 1080
Memory: 32GB Corsair Pro Black

Jump back to quoted post13 Jan 2017, 13:20 PMJanne252

I tried encoding a 1-frame video @60fps WebM VP8 a while ago and I still got the annoying fps drops. I've had the videos disabled for a while now, perhaps I should give it another try.

I even notified Relic and asked if they could update COH2's internal WebM player to VP9. RelicCOH2.exe contains a hint that the internal version is still VP8;

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WebM Project VP8 Decoder (Deprecated API) v0.9.7-p1 WebM Project VP8 Decoder 

Jump back to quoted post13 Jan 2017, 14:55 PMFino

While this seems fun and all,won't it make so that people have to redownload the game with each update because of file integrity?

Jump back to quoted post13 Jan 2017, 14:55 PMFino

While this seems fun and all,won't it make so that people have to redownload the game with each update because of file integrity?

Jump back to quoted post14 Jan 2017, 00:25 AMZombiFrancis

I've actually found this to be the case I think. I used to delete the videos outright and every time CoH2 patched it appeared to completely download the game and replace the installation.

Jump back to quoted post14 Jan 2017, 00:45 AMCyanara

Ok, that sounds like you have/had a much more serious problem on your hands. It definitely should only ever replace individual files that don't match the server versions. Anything else would be throwing money down the toilet on Valve's part.

The more likely issue for other people here is that the videos/lua files would get re-downloaded if deleted. It still shouldn't happen unless you verify your game cache in Steam, but it is possible.

If it does happen then I'd recommend using unique filenames on the custom videos so that they don't replace the originals. That way Steam ignores them (it doesn't see or care about extra files) and is happy that the originals are still there. Then copy the relevant customised lua files somewhere safe and simply paste them back in after the patch. It'd be about a 10 second job.

Jump back to quoted post12 Jan 2017, 09:33 AMCyanara

Pics should be fine, as long as you can find a way to convert them into WebM videos first. In fact, if you can make them fade into each other, it would probably look very nice.

Unless a patch changes the videos, or you verify your game cache in Steam, the changes will be stable.