Post by The Great One on Dec 18, 2008 22:16:27 GMT
Turtleneck (a.k.a. Tortollo McManeck) presents:
MPMA - MPire Mall Arenas (Stadium & Hall) V2
MPMA - MPire Mall Arenas (Stadium & Hall) V2
The MPMA is a 3D arena mod pack for the Wrestling MPire 2008 series. This pack is meant to project more of an exciting, stylized atmosphere (based on the MMW league) into the Wrestling MPire 2008 series games.
- Changes the entire appearance of the stadium and hall.
- Adds a 3D front row crowd with 26 different signs.
- Adds a camera crew and security guards around the arena.
- Adds a more detailed, higher poly ring and lighting setup.
- Changes the entire appearance of both backstage areas. In addition, the hall and stadium have different textures for each backstage area.
- V2 fixes bugs that were present in V1, and a V2 low quality arena pack is now available. It uses a 2D crowd for the front rows instead of the 3D crowd. Expect a huge performance increase, but a drop in visual quality (depends on how well you tolerate 2D crowds).
TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL THE MPMA:
Click the name of an item below to download it.
V2 Patch: If you already have V1, then you only need to download this and extract it to your WM08 directory, overwriting everything.
V2 Full Version: Extract the RAR archive to your Wrestling MPire 2008 folder. It is essential that you overwrite all files.
V2 Low Quality: You must have the MPMA installed before you download and extract this. If you do, download this and extract it to your WM08 directory.
CAUTION:
- Backup your original Wrestling MPire 2008 folder before installing.
- This mod doesn't change the appearance of all default MDickie federations.
- Only the first federation (Federation Online) is changed. They will be updated in a later release.
- Certain MDickie textures in the arena will be overwritten with blanks to reduce loading time.
- Unlike the 2D crowders, the 3D crowders cannot be disabled. If you have the low quality patch, the front row crowd can be disabled.
- Though V2 addresses all known bugs, more may exist.
SCREENSHOTS (Thanks to Hammer):
PERFORMANCE ISSUES:
If WM'08 struggles to run or crashes often with MAVs, there are a few ways to improve performance on your machine without having to buy anything extra.
1.) Update your video card drivers to the latest version. A lot of people don't realize that if they have a pre-built computer, the video drivers aren't always up to date. If you are unsure what video card you have, then go to Start... Run... and enter "dxdiag". Go to the Display tab and look for the name of your video card. If it's an ATI card, ATI drivers can be found here. if it's an NVIDIA card, the NVIDIA drivers will be here. Otherwise, Google search the name of your video card with the words "driver download", and find an up-to-date download link for your drivers.
2.) The MDickie games have never been optimized that well. If you make a simple adjustment to your Virtual Memory settings in Windows XP/Vista, then the game should run better.
For Windows XP: 1. Go to Start > Control Panel. 2. At the Control Panel, go to System > Advanced. 3. Click Settings in the “Performance” Section. 4. Under the Performance Options, go to "Advanced". 5. Select the "Custom Size" option. Set both the Initial and Maximum pagefile sizes to 2560MB each. Click the "Set" button then reboot. | For Windows Vista: 1. Open System by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking System. 2. In the left pane, click Advanced system settings. Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. 3. On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings. There will be another advanced tab. 4. Click the Advanced tab. Under Virtual memory, click Change. 5. Clear the "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" check box. 6. Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change. 7. Click Custom size. Change both the Initial and Maximum pagefile sizes to 2560MB each. Click the "Set" button then reboot. |
3.) Do you have a bunch of extra processes running in the background? It just isn't a good idea to run an MDickie game + FRAPS with AIM, Winamp, Limewire, and an anti-virus scanner at the same time.
4.) If all else fails, you may be better off downloading the Low Quality patch below. While the 3D crowd (the main source of CPU strain) is removed and replaced with a 2D crowd, everything else remains high quality.
SPECIAL THANKS:
Hammer: Additional crowd textures, testing
Trav E. Fresh: Additional crowd textures & signs
The Great One: Additional textures, testing
The Real Big Pete: MMW reference textures
Mikey Truth: SPW reference textures
Hipnosis: TMT logo, critiques
tomthedude: T-Neck sign, critiques
TT Teessider: TT Teessider sign
High Flying Dwarf: Concept feedback
Sero: Additional feedback
Mat Dickie: Wrestling MPire 2008 series creator
