Stellaris Performance Mod – DDS Potato Edition

ONLY USE ONE TYPE OF DDS TWEAK, POTATO OR STANDARD, LINK BELOW

-For Stellaris 3.4.*

-this mod is almost similar with the DDS Tweak, the only difference is that this mod has been done using 5 passes. Meaning, a 2048px texture is converted to 64px, hense the "potato edition"
-Every dds file EXCEPT the file on the, SYSTEM_MAP and UI Folder has been modified by ONLY 2 pass. (This is to ensure you can still see the game abit better, 2 passes is the same as standard DDS tweak version)
-Portraits NO LONGER INCLUDED on the modified dds.

Example: A DDS is 2048×2048 is converted into 1024×1024 (1st pass) then reconverted again to 512×512 (2st pass), then 256×256 (3rd pass) then 128×128 (4th pass) and finally converted to 64×64 (5th pass).
For the Portraits: They are only converted with 1 pass. (if 2048px, converted to 1024px)

-Vanilla = 7.34GB. That’s 7.34 Gigabytes of pure DDS files, no models included, just pure texture files.
-This Mod = 14.6MB That’s only 14.6Megabytes of pure DDS files, The visual will take a MASSIVE hit BUT textures will be easier to be loaded and unload by the game engine as well as the cpu/gpu and ram, giving you more fps and/or more threads to load other nessasary proccesses like lategame pop jobs and such.
-YES, the reason why its 100+ mb difference from the previous version of the mod is because of the Portraits file, starting on v5 of this mod, Portraits will no longer be covered.

-all dlc covered including Aquatic and Overlord

-Any mod is compatible to this, this include mods like Human Variants, Remastered Human Portraits and such

-This mod load order does not matter. BUT if you want to make the mods above compatible, LOAD THEM AFTER this MOD.

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