I found him in the dark using the light from the helo , er letting my flash light go dead ,[thinking CS] ,couldn't see any bodies to loot lol
V5 of the community fixes. http://www.mediafire.com/download/az9annu19i0ab3d/S3r1ous+S.T.A.L.K.E.R.+-+Lost+Alpha+Mods+v5.rar
Community fixes are almost as big as the whole game sofar lol. keeping my 1.3 install too many fixes and mods to keep track of everything, just reinstall if the patch comes out and fixes the sutff that fixed and breaks new stuff. Been using the fort pistol form the bridge and the weapons mods crashes the game fyi shell error when you try to wield it and ctd. removed it can wield it normally wo crashing only one i have found sofar. ak 47 seems bugged also looking for a model shell that is missing when you try to fire it. One last go missed a file for particles in the mod and boom caused all the problems hopefully all back to normal.
Use the console ingame and type this : r2_tonemap_middlegray 0.5 You can also tweak these values to lower the suns brightness. These are Lost Alphas default settings. Lowering the first value drops the overall brightness of the sun. r2_sun_lumscale 1.2 r2_sun_lumscale_amb 0.25 r2_sun_lumscale_hemi 0.75
Long-time STALKER fan here... Great to finally be playing this game! The graphics look very impressive, too bad grass shadows are still botched in both HBAO (drawn right in front of player) and HDAO (missing), as in Call of Pripyat. Still, the lack of a working vsync is a big deal for me. I can force vsync on externally, and the framerate is capped at 60fps, but the tearing is still there. Has anyone found a fix for getting vsync to work properly in LA?
Grass shadows do have limited range, but thats not something glaring obvious, at least not to me + I have it off :nerd: Vsync has always been royal pain with STALKER series. Even more so with AMD than NV. Imagine my surprise now that Vsync (triple buffered) is working out-of-the-box in Lost Alpha on my R9 290. (BTW so does supersampling - ingame 2xMSAA(DX10.1) + CCC enhance Supersampling is very usable) I did not even mess with vsync, just left it at default LA settings (vsync unchecked, 60 Hz checked) 90% of time I've spent messing with color brightness, contrast etc. :bang: :bang: r2_sun_luminance_* r2_tonemap_* (r2_ls_bloom_*)
that's not forcing vsync. thats vsync not working (let alone triple buff), and just having framecap tried D3Doverrider yet, nvinspector?
Poor choice of words there, but that's what I ment. Yep, I always use D3DOverrider for triple buffered vsync, and it works in all my other games, including previous STALKER games. I've also tried forcing vsync on with Nvidia Control Panel, but no go. Argh, tearing is so immersion breaking. I was hoping there was some obscure setting that could enable vsync for me in LA, since it works for some people - and not for others...
try removing any overlays if you have them, AB, steam, fraps, and any custom dlls (injection). you don't have anything custom going on in the background (Windows Desktop Manager is working?) STALKER vsync has always been weird for me, it either just works, or sometimes works, or I have to force it with D3Doverrider, or I can force it just sometimes... royal pain. you're not alone, i've heard people with Geforce cards complaining about LA vsync.
Ehrm, finally figured it out. Was getting a bit nervous there... I had enabled "Disable desktop composition" for the exe-file, and that was causing vsync to not work in Lost Alpha. I've done this in other games without affecting vsync, so didn't think of it at first. Oh well.. Now I can really start enjoying Lost Alpha. Thanks for the help.
Hi all, i'm a bigtime stalker fan, got all of there games and also got the lost alpha one. Works pretty nice if it does not crash. However, i seem to have encounterd a game breaking bug: I need to steal a jacket from a drunken bandit, when i kill him, he does not have the jacket on him, if i speak to him, he says 'my mommy told me not to speak to strangers..' so anybody an idea howto solve this?
You are not supposed to kill him. You have to search east of the bandit area for a bandit jacket and put it on to speak to the drunken bandit.
