First Person Weapon Models and Strelok AK Texture

Hey stalkers, 

Been running into these graphical issues with my latest playthrough. Most AK and AK like models are misaligned with the hover hand issue when sprinting and the texture for Strelok's AK is messed up.

I'm running DX 9 on Maximum settings currently but have tried a variation of lowering and increasing settings along with DX 9 - 11. I have made sure to change line 513 on the modder's script as well. I did not touch the texture file at all.

Please let me know if I missed anything to include and thank you. 

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AKs have had the 'floating hand' issue for as long as I can remember, but it is certainly more noticeable with Strelok's weapon.

The textures on Strelok's AK aren't the best, but they look acceptable in my game - to my eyes anyway . (I usually use DX11 Extended, but I checked in DX9 and it looks the same to me.)

I am not an expert in what the various graphics settings do, but in my Modders Script line 513 is in the DX11 Extended section. If you are using a different DX setting, I think you would need to change sun_near in the relevant section further down. Personally (again possibly due to my ageing eyes) I can't see any difference when changing sun_near, so I leave it at the default value.

I saw a bunch of threads about it and they all seem to be at a dead end  .  Does yours look like the above or close to the picture in the inventory? The last time I played was back in 2016 so I wanted to make sure my game wasn't messed up. Thank you for taking the time to reply.

Your pictures are a bit dark to see clearly, but this is what I see in my game so you can compare.

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Gotcha. Good to know I didn't mess up anything installing. Thank you for the clarification!

pchester wrote:

AKs have had the 'floating hand' issue for as long as I can remember, but it is certainly more noticeable with Strelok's weapon.

The textures on Strelok's AK aren't the best, but they look acceptable in my game - to my eyes anyway . (I usually use DX11 Extended, but I checked in DX9 and it looks the same to me.)

I am not an expert in what the various graphics settings do, but in my Modders Script line 513 is in the DX11 Extended section. If you are using a different DX setting, I think you would need to change sun_near in the relevant section further down. Personally (again possibly due to my ageing eyes) I can't see any difference when changing sun_near, so I leave it at the default value.

Hi pchester & ataberk222, Stalkersoup in my opinion is quite RAM hungry. It needs a good graphics card, preferably one that is in sync with Players' monitors. I imagine, since I haven't got on the new 4080 ti Nvidia graphics cards, that they would offer a very stable image; I have the version below that matches itself to monitors, and this has good GPU RAM whereas Stalkersoup being a 32bit game is if I recall correctly limited in the use of CPU RAM, if under Nvidia settings players set their spare RAM to graphics appearance instead, then that can improve viewing. I cannot recall, the last time I played, problems with Strelok's AK as it being in sync with the monitor, made all graphics stable and improved, except wiith the latest antitank gun. It was more of a problem years ago. There are also programs that close down unnecessary Windows 11 programs to give images more stability. Asus have 2 on their site, the earliest, I found best.. Some of the latest firearms are very finely modded. I hope this helps. Regards TrueB

Yeah bro you're gonna come across a bunch of scuffed weapons like that. But hey it's Soup, you're not gonna like every ingredient.

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Your pictures are a bit dark to see clearly, but this is what I see in my game so you can compare.

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Btw Chester, is Arena avaialble now? or does still crash?

Reconboi wrote:

Btw Chester, is Arena avaialble now? or does still crash?

I don't think it crashes, but you will probably get stuck after reaching a certain point - instead of letting you out after winning a fight, it puts you back into the empty arena room and you are stuck there. Last time I tried (about 6 months ago?) it was doing this, and we haven't had a patch since so I assume that it is still the case. 

You can complete all of the fights by ESC+F2 teleporting out of the arena (e.g. to 'BAR') if it starts misbehaving, then return to Arnie to collect your gear or to start the next round. But you won't get his final dialogue or be named Arena Champion. Also I don't think the mutant fights are working currently.

My game crashed everytime i talked to arnie, I couldn't fight one fight.

Reconboi wrote:

My game crashed everytime i talked to arnie, I couldn't fight one fight.

I haven't had my game crash there, but the arena missions are obviously bugged.

Check the last few lines of your log file for a possible error message. The log file is STALKERSOUP\_appdata_\logs\xray_<yourname>.log

The arena isn't important to the main story, so if it isn't working I suggest that you just ignore Arnie's fights until it is patched.

NB: It does help if you can ask Arnie about "stories heard in the Bar", as this can lead to finding some 'treasure' later on. However, I wouldn't worry too much if you can't, as the treasure often isn't there!

The moment i talk to arnie i crash. I searched this problem and turns out that the Arena was disabled in the latest patch.

I swear this is case, i don't know what version you're using but mine crashes the moment i interact with Arnie.

No need to swear I believe you - I often have game issues that nobody else seems to see; or, more usually, other players report problems that I can't reproduce. I can definitely talk to Arnie in the latest patch, though, and I can start the arena fights, I just can't finish them .

I wasn't aware - or, more likely, I have forgotten - that the arena had been disabled, but it would explain the current state of things.

Ok. So can i simply update my current soup? or i have to redownload it entirley?

If you run the updater program (UpdateSS.exe in your main STALKERSOUP folder) it will either update your game to the latest version or it will tell you if you already have the latest version installed. You can also check your game version on the game's main menu screen - it should say Version: 1, Release: 1, Revision: 0019, Micro rev: 5.

What about my saves?any bugs i should lookout for?

Save games from recent versions should still work, but there might be problems if you have been playing a very old version of the game. 

Plenty of bugs unfortunately, some of which are "game-breakers" unless you know the workarounds. The walkthrough [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] has an appendix listing the bugs and workarounds that I know of.

Much thanks .

Hi Reconboi

For the record, and to help others here, what version of the game - with the Arena fault - have you been playing, please?

I went to the luancher's help and about the app, it says version: 1.0.0.1.

And ingame it says, GSC 1.0006, version 1 release 1, revision 0019

Reconboi wrote:

I went to the luancher's help and about the app, it says version: 1.0.0.1.

And ingame it says, GSC 1.0006, version 1 release 1, revision 0019

Hi Reconboi

You've been playing a version from several years ago, and you've missed 5 updates, so no wonder that you're having different problems to everyone else...!

The latest version of the game is
GSC[1.0006] {Version: 1 Release: 1 Revision: 0019} Mini rev: 5 

Please follow the Installation Guide [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] as the update is a little unusual and requires additional files. It can't be done solely using the Updater

Once you've finally got it working, your old savegame should still work 

However, the latest version contains a major text and storyline overhaul, so you may want to start a new game, to find out what you've missed...

Good hunting, Stalker...

Well shit.

Thanks i guess.