Well, is it? Does it really give 10%n increase of FPS or CDTs?

All it gave me was a black LOD. Not sure why. 3 different ATI cards and it did the same on all of them. Who knows? Would be nice if it worked.

I can swear by Black Dragon's trees, loy tri ploy grass, water tweaks. But I am not sure I would use this without a good word from experienced player.

Can someone confirm it is good for the game?

A link to a working download would be nice. Google fails me in finding anything other than the Fileplanet link, and they spam too much crap if you let the cookies in.

I don't have any problems that you're describing with Filefront. But here's an alternate download location:


http://hotfile.com/dl/61367999/99a8486/rpgblackdragons_ati3.0shader_dv_ev.zip.html

Unfortunately this isn't the latest version of the shader (latest being v1.2) as it was only available on RPG's own modsite. 1.2 fixed an issue with hair disappearing when more than 2 lightsources were illuminating them. I tried to find an alternate dl location for 1.2 but have only found the 1.0 or 1.1 version Personally I wouldn't use any other than the latest (unavailable) shader.

http://www.filefront.com/7324943/RPG-Blackdragons-ATI3.0-Shader/ but readme states no version. It states more than 10% FPS boost though.

Any chance for 1.2 version download link?

Well this one is too old, too. I still remember the release date as I was the one who asked for v1.2 per PM: Oct 2xth 2008. So obviously any file added prior to that is an older version.