Complete Lack of Ultra Mode options
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GPU,
Posted on: 2010-04-28 11:21 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I heard this from a few players on broadcast in cap too, it seems your not the only one. As well as this tailors are broken, pretty much the main two things in i17 other than the new mission arcs are bugged already.
What a great use of test server lol.
lemme guess. You are using Intel Integrated Graphics?>
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I think this was traced back to a driver bug with Intel. You'd need to bug their engineers about this problem as well.
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Originally Posted by Ian the Inferno
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But I wanna know why it just down the graphic settings I used to have.
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Because those graphic settings really don't exist anymore. |
Originally Posted by Ian the Inferno
But I wanna know why it just down the graphic settings I used to have.
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Building Ultra-Mode also allowed the developers to clean up certain messy hacks in the older engine and make appropriate OpenGL API calls. E.G. Water Effects are now fixed on ATi cards.
Intel cards have also been one of the biggest kludges in the engine. Keep in mind, Intel doesn't actually make a GPU. They make Graphics Accelerators. In almost all of the shipping Intel graphics chips the central processor is used to accelerate graphics functions that are/were handled on the GPU by ATi, Nvidia, XGI (and their parent SiS / Trident), S3-Via, Matrox, and even going back far enough, 3DFX.
Unfortunately, if you are using an Intel card, you are pretty much stuck on either waiting for the developers to re-kludge the engines, or for somebody on the Intel Windows Driver Development side to fix the Intel drivers.
For this issue, you are going to be better off going and talking to Intel. Not the CoH devs.
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Might it not be better to spend a bit on a value-priced video card and completely disable the on-board graphics? Granted, you're not going to boost up into Ultra-mode territory on the cheap, but the end result should be as good or better than pre-i17? Maybe?
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Originally Posted by je_saist
For this issue, you are going to be better off going and talking to Intel. Not the CoH devs.
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I would think that should be a completely valid option as well, unless the user just has an AGP slot (though I think you can still get cards for it, they appear to be getting more and more scarce).
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Originally Posted by Tyrrano
Might it not be better to spend a bit on a value-priced video card and completely disable the on-board graphics? Granted, you're not going to boost up into Ultra-mode territory on the cheap, but the end result should be as good or better than pre-i17? Maybe?
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I wanted to say this... buuut...|
Originally Posted by Tyrrano
Might it not be better to spend a bit on a value-priced video card and completely disable the on-board graphics? Granted, you're not going to boost up into Ultra-mode territory on the cheap, but the end result should be as good or better than pre-i17? Maybe?
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we have lots of users on notebooks and Emachine-type systems where there is no expansion slot available, and no other options. For these users, getting a new graphics card may not be an option.
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What Intel chipset are you using?|
Originally Posted by Ian the Inferno
With the installment of issue 17 and it's ultra mode graphics, I can no longer have the game look as it did before the release. In fact it looks worse graphically and I can no longer get it back to what it was set to. I have provided as screencap to explain why I cannot set the graphics any higher than the settings they were forced to at the release of issue 17.
http://img101.imageshack.us/i/thisis...okslikewh.png/ Any assistance and/or explanation would be greatly appreciated |
Some users with integrated intel chipsets currently experience a degrade in the shader quality settings allowed. This should be resolved in a future patch.
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I get that - and I can sympathize. I used to play on my wife's computer, which barely functioned on the minimum settings. But the majority of marginal systems out there could probably get a minimal upgrade on the cheap.
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Originally Posted by je_saist
I wanted to say this... buuut...
we have lots of users on notebooks and Emachine-type systems where there is no expansion slot available, and no other options. For these users, getting a new graphics card may not be an option. |
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GPU, do you have a prevision? Because I've been 'whining' about this issue since April 18 or so when I tested i17. I use a GMA950, I can't replace it, it's in a Mac Mini (no I don't use the mac client, I use the winxp client because the mac one runs badly on my machine since it's emulated and not native like the WoW one).|
Originally Posted by GPU
What Intel chipset are you using?
Some users with integrated intel chipsets currently experience a degrade in the shader quality settings allowed. This should be resolved in a future patch. |
Comparison between i16 and i17 (screenies on my second post in the thread):
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=218214
With the installment of issue 17 and it's ultra mode graphics, I can no longer have the game look as it did before the release. In fact it looks worse graphically and I can no longer get it back to what it was set to. I have provided as screencap to explain why I cannot set the graphics any higher than the settings they were forced to at the release of issue 17.
http://img101.imageshack.us/i/thisis...okslikewh.png/
Any assistance and/or explanation would be greatly appreciated