yeaa! releasing the alpha test version of this XL size map called "The Valley"


Map Version: V0.27 (Aplha release)


NOTE: This is an Alpha release version of the map! you may encounter bugs and crashes! please save your game often and report back any bugs and/or crashes.
Please try to give as many information to the bug/crash as possible, for example include the ingame-day when crash happens.


screenshot:

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Download link: Download-1 (Mirror)

please report any map-related bugs you may find!!

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Readme:


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Map: The_Valley
by: 1869_Flame

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Http://www.1869clan.tk // Http://www.aqua-page.nl

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--> DO NOT MODIFY THIS MAP WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE CREATOR! <--

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INSTALLATION:

1) unpack the .zip (when you read this .txt file, you probably aready did)
2) put the .shmap file into your .\Documents\Stronghold 3\Maps\ Folder
3) Run SH3 and select the user-made-maps option to play the map

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Known bugs:

- Invasions not always working proper. sometimes some soldiers stay behind, not attacking.
- Game laggs. this is mostly at the start of the map when all enemy estates are still alive. (it seems FF needs to do some real changes in code to get thes lag down)
- Terrain does not give any advantage for ranged troops. This is a SH3 known problem (12-11-2011)



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to be honest,

for myself the map ended up unplayable laggy thanx to the great programming of the game.
i got a Geforce N580 GTX that is, one of the latest Geforce models.
it should be able to play the game without any lag.

so its seems, its really the game itself that can not handle this map.
lets hope some patch will be able to make it playable.

i hope other players done have these kind of problems with this map ?

So I downloaded and tried it (great map btw) and I experienced a lot of lag like you said. I also noticed that about 50% of the map is filled with some light plain grass.....stuff and its kinda annoying. Now I don't if it is something you've added or a bug, but please check it out.


Anyways awesome map and keep it up, we want more maps from you.....maybe Helms Deep

KillzownedDK wrote:

QUOTE:
So I downloaded and tried it (great map btw) and I experienced a lot of lag like you said. I also noticed that about 50% of the map is filled with some light plain grass.....stuff and its kinda annoying. Now I don't if it is something you've added or a bug, but please check it out.


Anyways awesome map and keep it up, we want more maps from you.....maybe Helms Deep :D

well as soon as FF finds a way to get rid of the lag :/

the video car that i have is a 400 euro card, and aprox 6 months old.
so its the game that lags, not the users computer.

also i will try to get rid of some of the grass for the next version of the map.
i might have overdone it a bit with the grass

comon FF fix the lagging please!

Very nice map.....this one makes it worth playing SH3 for me

1869_Flame wrote:

QUOTE:
KillzownedDK wrote:

QUOTE:
So I downloaded and tried it (great map btw) and I experienced a lot of lag like you said. I also noticed that about 50% of the map is filled with some light plain grass.....stuff and its kinda annoying. Now I don't if it is something you've added or a bug, but please check it out.


Anyways awesome map and keep it up, we want more maps from you.....maybe Helms Deep :D

well as soon as FF finds a way to get rid of the lag :/

the video car that i have is a 400 euro card, and aprox 6 months old.
so its the game that lags, not the users computer.

also i will try to get rid of some of the grass for the next version of the map.
i might have overdone it a bit with the grass :p

comon FF fix the lagging please!

so, for the lagging on the map i did some tests now,
you might want to check out This topic

to copy and paste it here:
well,
I finished my user-made-map and i experienced a lot of lag.
Because i have a Geforce N580 GTX (aprox 6 months old 400 euro card) i found it insane that it has lag. graphics aren't that high in SH3 so i started testing.

This is the result.
Firefly, you really need to take a look at this and see what you can do.
it seems like the video card is barely used by stronghold 3, causing the lagging (and i guess this is what most users experience).

please contact me (trough admin/e-mail) in case you also like to have Dxdiag or more system specs.


image:

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Hey Flame, I don't know if this will work, but maybe try testing your map without a bunch of grass and trees?

I heard someone say on the forums that having a bunch of trees causes maps to lag hard. I removed a bunch of needless trees on my map, and the map did not lag anymore. Maybe, and this is just a guess, a bunch of grass and shrubs does the same thing? Perhaps try lowering the amount of shrubs/grass/trees on your map and see if it fixes the lag.

I'm not expecting this to work, but it might, and it's just a suggestion. Btw I finally finished playing one of my own user created maps without the game crashing once! That was a first.

Oh and I must say your map looks awesome, and very well done. Kudos to you man, I hope you can get it playable.

dont really like to lower the trees, a lot of them are not there for recourses but just for the eyecandy.

the grass i'll try to lower some more, and see if that will make some difference.

but as posted in the technical section, it seems that my videocard is not really used by stronghold 3, and i think this same issue is there for more users.
i hope FF can do something about it


EDIT:
have removed all vegetation and tested it again.
still a sh*tload of lag.
its really in the game itself, where FF needs to do the fixing.

Hmm well it was worth a shot.

Ya that is interesting about the game not using the vid card much, I don't know anything about that though.

deleted my own comment because I found out its not a bug in the map. but somthing wrong with my game