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If you haven't noticed any performance changes since the past update, you may turn away from this post. Update 0.8.2 switched off texture streaming due to allegedly being the cause of performance drops. However, after this specific update, I started having noticeable stutters, a drop in average fps, sound blackouts and an overall drop in quality of performance. Colour me shocked In case the reader is in the same situation, scared and confused, here is the step by step solution I found (tldr: manually turn texture streaming back on): Open your World_of_Warships_Eu file find the res folder and open it open engine_config.xml in notepad or whatever in the very first few lines of code, find <enableTextureStreaming> and set that value back to true This will solve your sudden drop in performance since the past update. Thanks a lot WG, by the way /s However, since you are already here, you might want to apply the following tweaks to further boost performance, if you haven't already: raise or lower your FPS cap under <maxFrameRate> (60 or 144 depending on your monitor) set <cacheEffects> to true slightly lower down, find <streamCacheSizeKB> and set that value to 8192 if your ram is 8GB or higher, haven't tested higher values yet scroll down some more and set <enforcePreloads> to true You will have to repeat this during every update, since it will always be "corrected" back to default. The launcher's repair system also sees any changes as corrupted or broken code.

I'll explain this from the very beginning. Since a particular patch, unlike all other nations, german battleship HE penetration is calculated by 1/4 of the shell's caliber (other nations' value is 1/6 of the shell's caliber). With this we can calculate the penetration for GK's low-caliber secondaries of 128mm. 128/4=32 IFHE brings this up by 30%, so our end value is 41.6mm, rounded up to 42mm. Now here comes the conundrum. 95% of ships follow this tendency: their armour is either lower or equal to 32mm or higher than 42mm. One of the exceptions is Monty with her 38mm deck. Meaning, you rarely meet ships with 33-42mm plating. Doesn't this make IFHE for GK's secondaries absolutely useless, or am I mistaken (which happens quite often with these kinds of things). Replies/opinions will be appreciated.

I'm thinking of getting the target aquisition modification for my Bismarck IF it gives a bonus to hydro ship/torpedo spotting range. Would be a shame to waste 2 mill on something useless.

I've played wows for quite some time, and have always had an eye on these 'clan battles'. I have looked around the clan recruitment page, however I don't meet these requirements: No TeamSpeak (just Discord, active daily) Max tier ships are tier VIII (North Carolina and Amagi) Can't really go through this "testing w/ a recruiter" thing due to end of high school exams and studying in general I am a tier V-VIII BB and CV main, will be 16 next month, so if you find me suitable for your clan while taking the above cons into account, please contact me below. Time zone: UTC +3 this isn't important, but I adore secondaries My account stats should be in a separate image that I attached, but not sure how this forum works yet...

I have decided that your clan will be the most suitable for me, but the discord link has expired :l

I will look into it once my clan join cooldown is over. Thank you.

My least favorite maps are New Dawn and Fault line. Idk why I hate them, maybe cos they are just too dull, or I play them too often