Combat Mission Black Sea

Combat Mission Black Sea

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imporve FPS & Scale UP the UI in 8K
By randomhan
-----BEFORE YOU TRY THIS OUT------

This only applies to you if you have horsepower to spare in your GPU

no notebooks / ancient PC unable to run doom eternal in full glory.
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basically this games can only utilize 32bit ram & like one or two cores of CPU. Its prehistoric.
However....VRAM? & GPU no limits.
BUT, they put a limiter on this in order to protect your PC from blowing up.

So naturally, the game 'thinks' your beefy monstrosity NASA Spec PC (in like 04 standards)
just can't handle the intense operation of allocating 4-5GB of graphics RAM

To cut to the case,
before trying this out
- vsync: off
- 3D model quality: fast -> uses CPU
- 3D model texture: Best -> VRAM is not the bottle neck
- Shaders : OFF -> uses CPU, if you miss the shaders just use Reshade.

-VERY IMPORTANT!: turn off in-game shadows / shaders with: ALT + W . the game engine can't handle shadow rendering.
-> seems to use CPU for shadows.

now for the fun part:
(1) find or make a "dispaly size.txt" file in your steam\steamapps\common\Combat Mission Black Sea folder

(2) open it, put in some crazy value like: " 7680 4320 144 " (8k) or " 4096 2160 144 "(4k)
- 3 numerical value separated by space bar : horizontal screen resolution (space) vertical screen resolution (space) refresh rate

(4) if your graphics card can run modern AAA titles just go nuts with 7680 4320 60
- NEVER-EVER lower your screen resolution b/c the UI shrinking. It's counter- intuitive but you gotta increase the resolution!

(5) by some black wizardry, the game is forced to load all the textures, and doesn't ♥♥♥♥♥ out on allocating more v-ram

(6) ???

(7) = more FPS/ Much better graphics

My computer with Ryzen 7 5800X, 32GB RAM, Radeon TX 6700XT was running like 15-30 FPS before.
Choppy as Hell.

with this optimization? While running in 8K(!) now the FPS never goes below 45. with like 30 visual enhancement mods.
won't lie: Stil a bit of stuttering exists while in pre-deployment phase and zooming through the battlefield.

BUT consider this: amazing 8K graphics compared to Un-optimized settings + much better FPS

one drawback: it takes like 10min to start a battle. but hey ho, willing to make a sacrifice.


Hope this helps!
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26 Comments
TheBigBadWolf 27 Dec, 2024 @ 1:01am 
I have out of memory issue
Kołchoźnik 15 Jan, 2024 @ 3:51pm 
I set 240HZ Now after couple of years of Hiatus. I can play my fav game. I have monster PC but I could never get more than 30fps Now It's 75HZ for My screen it can drop of course engine is bad. But it's like 5% of whole game. Time for Modding. I tried hundreds of different things with no results. But this works. Maps load around 10 seconds on my SSD. Thank you so much sir. God Bless You!
mister.hister 25 Jun, 2023 @ 6:08am 
With fast I am still getting 20% less then from fastest. I am accussing you guys of thinking the changed file is causing thr improved framerate while in ernest it is the ingame 3D model setting set to So low that is causing the framerate boost. Am I in the wrong and it just doesn't work for me for some reason?
randomhan  [author] 24 Jun, 2023 @ 8:21pm 
you don't have to go down to fastest. fast will suffice. weird it doesn't work for you though.
mister.hister 24 Jun, 2023 @ 3:00pm 
I tested this - for me the FPS improvement does not come from the mentioned trick but by simply 3D models setting set to fastest. I see no difference in FPS by changing the "display size" file as suggested - it looks exactly the same and frames are identical too to the non modded display size file. Suprised how many of you fell for this one.
Horse in the Parking Lot 🗣 23 Jun, 2023 @ 2:48am 
you sir lie at the for front of niche video game bullshit, and I thank you immeasurably for making large maps fucking playable. This guide makes me a little less salty that cyberpunk runs better and more consistently than any game in the combat mission series.
AstroCat 30 Mar, 2023 @ 6:35am 
Yeah I was playing around with it last night a little, it does help. Got reShade installed for CM as well. The whole thing will definitely take some serious tweaking to get "right". Playing CM shouldn't be this hard with high end hardware in 2023! It's crazy. :(
randomhan  [author] 30 Mar, 2023 @ 5:14am 
FYI: you can do this without disabling shadows, but the change won't be as dramatic.
AstroCat 29 Mar, 2023 @ 6:06pm 
Game needs shadows, but this helps a bit.
ApplesinDuck 19 Dec, 2022 @ 8:10pm 
You're a god among men good sir