Only low/medium texture as option?

[Deckard]

In GRAW PC demo, in the advanced settings my only options for texture quality are low/medium. No high setting. Im running an AMD 64 3200+ and a X700 Pro. Is there something I can do to get high quality available?

[MONOLITH]

High settings only appear with vid cards that have 512 ram. You can go into the the data/settings folder and open the renderer_settings.xml with notepad and change the texture settings that way, but probably at a loss of performance. I have a X800, and at 1280 x 1040, I find the mediums to be just fine. You can selectively choose only certain textures to make high, like I changed only the character texture so my teammates look a bit better, but I left buildings and such alone (medium). I found that setting the ground texture to high actually gave me corrupted images.

[Deckard]

Thanks Mono. I figured thats what I would have to do. Kinda silly making that only as an option for 512 cards. I doubt that many people have them. Oh well, time to do some tweaking.

[sithdemon]

it's been this way since doom3, and with a good majority of games out now. And if you try to force your card to run those high textures you'll see why the option isn't suppose to be there for you, IE your frames will be next to nil, if your lucky enough and your comp dosen't crash. I still have a 256 card, and honestly the textures I get in most games are fine, helps that I can blast things like lighting and shadows. Also consider that a high end system now probably have SLI or crossfire, so they might have a good gig of videocard memory.

It is expensive to get those high settings, as it's always been, thats why I've never aimed for it. Medium settings have generally always been fine, especially when you don't want to spend every cent on hardware just for gaming.

[MONOLITH]

I set the ground texture to high on my 256 X800 Pro, and it gave me a checkerboard ground, all white and black squares.

[baff]

You're not missing much.

see for yourself on the first link in the text of this article  "Graw_textures.gif"



http://www.tweakguides.com/GRAW_2.html

[TaLoN]

im running all on high by editing the xml, but im pretty sure my xeon 3.6 is picking up the slack that the 7800 cant, not to mention the 3 gigs of ram.  But of course the system isnt mine, it belongs to work.

[sithdemon]

shouldn't it be able to run it on all high even without the xml edits?