Solving the low FPS Issue on the MW5 Mission Start: vonBiomes 21 with an important fix!

The last weeks have been a dive into details, blueprints and test runs. Thanks to the outstanding help of the beta testers on the vonMods Discord, a huge issue has finally been identified and solved. If you had lower performance of vonBiomes when starting a MW5 mission, here is the fix!

Download:

OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvPmUYHEcNJx-R9c_tgQvq_o_gDK?e=ju1noO

(I am on mobile internet at the moment, so OneDrive only, but I can update the post with a mega download later:)

This problem did bug many players: the initial FPS of a mission was lower than it should and after a mission restart, everything was getting back to normal. The cause was a left-over camera from the contract negotiation screen, the one looking at the solar system in the background.

In the new version, that camera gets removed as soon as you drop into a mission, and by that, Mechwarrior 5's performance levels are back to normal.

It was a difficult-to-find thing, and it took many iterations, builds, tests to finally get to the core of the problem. Big shout-out again to the beta testers on Discord (https://discord.gg/eaTa8zGbRf) and on the new vonHQ.com Forum for the patience in going through mod test builds and reporting back results!

With the slow mission start issue fixed now, it is finally time to get back to creating new things. I am excited and relieved that now vonBiomes runs smooth for everyone (hopefully) as expected.

Further adjustments, improvements, and changes are also in the new package, like many optimizations, the random background cloud textures are back and more texture and object upgrades. In its total, the path of getting to identifying the issue also resulted in making everything else a little more fine-tuned, helping players with mid to lower-end PCs.

As before, this release also includes the new work in progress biome “Agricultural Fields” as your early access goodie ;)

In other news:

We got a new website for the Mods, Mechs and Battletech! Check out https://www.vonHQ.com, the new homepage of all the "vonMods" and Mechwarrior stuff. It already features information, a performance guide, FAQs — and a community forum for having a communication line for everyone not using Discord. Be invited to register a user account already if you like;)

Thank you very much for your patience and your support!

All the best,
Jonathan