Skitkjell Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 (edited) Hey everyone! I have a question. I'm in dire need of the Optimizer Texture program. And right now, for some ungodly reason after years of existence, it's being reviewed by a moderator (!?). God knows how long it will be unavailable. If anyone can e-mail it to me I'd be overjoyed! Thanks in advance! ^^ give me a yell and I'll provide my e-mail. :) Edited April 15, 2016 by Skitkjell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NexusComa Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Optimizing textures is something I'd rather do manually as there are so many ways to do it. Use Gimp (free, will need the .dss plugin) or Photoshop.Very easy stuff and you can choose the level. Also, simply turning down your settings is much easier. http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/46074/? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skitkjell Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 Cheers! I'll give it a whirl ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corwin1971 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 I've used this one in the past, and it's still available: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/13529/? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skitkjell Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 Looks exactly like what I need, buddy! Cheers :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NexusComa Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 "Optimizing textures" is a very loose term ... as this type of "optimizing" isn't what I'd consider optimal.From a data point of view, rearrange or rewrite (data, software, etc.) to improve efficiency of retrieval or processing, it would be considered optimized. From a design and looks point of view, make the best or most effective use of, it would be considered forever corrupted (as in ALL your graphic files). Chances are what you gain for this "optimizing" wasn't really the problem in the 1st place and could have been matched easily by lowering the settings a bitNow all your graphic files have had the life striped out of them and are in need of replacing :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NexusComa Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Well I guess there's always that 138mb white dress texture that seems a bit ridiculous ... :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skitkjell Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 "Optimizing textures" is a very loose term ... as this type of "optimizing" isn't what I'd consider optimal.From a data point of view, rearrange or rewrite (data, software, etc.) to improve efficiency of retrieval or processing, it would be considered optimized. From a design and looks point of view, make the best or most effective use of, it would be considered forever corrupted (as in ALL your graphic files). Chances are what you gain for this "optimizing" wasn't really the problem in the 1st place and could have been matched easily by lowering the settings a bitNow all your graphic files have had the life striped out of them and are in need of replacing :sad: All I knew was that the program I used to use for optimizing fresh installed mod textures was named Optimizer Textures on Nexus. That's all I had to go on :D but your tip seems a bit more intricate. Used it pretty much for all Bethesda-games. And it worked pretty well. I usually knocked off a couple of hundred MB from my VRAM usage, which always helps. Without any hits on visual quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NexusComa Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 "Without any hits on visual quality." ... impossible, as in this case "Optimizing" is merely lowering the resolution ... 2mgs isn't enough to run Skyrim even if all textures were optimized. 4mgs is more then enough to run Skyrim without having to worry about optimizing. So ... no need to "optimize". Just my opinion take it or leave it. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corwin1971 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 (edited) No, optimizing textures is not the same as lowering the resolution of those textures. It's changing the compression format (thus the gain in VRAM). At the time, I used it because I only had 512Mb (!) of VRAM. That said, a LOT of mod authors warn against using these compression programs because they already possess the knowledge to optimize their textures as much as is useful, and if you brute force them to be smaller, the quality will suffer. If you're not already using them, I HIGHLY recommend Gamwich's two "Bethesda Performance Texture" replacers to achieve much the same thing with a more thoughtful application. They replace a lot of textures that texture mods often don't touch (like clothes and animals) with textures files that are usually a) smaller and b) better looking. If you get a video card with 2GB+ of VRAM (like I finally did) and use 2K textures or smaller, the need for such a program will be nil. Edited April 16, 2016 by Corwin1971 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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