Unable to lower graphical settings?

[Trinnity]

I was reading another post before and apparently this is intentional? Unfortunately my PC is quite old and I can only run PR with a smooth framerate when all settings are on low. No matter if I set the launcher to low video settings or if I even change my .con profile settings to low and make that read only the game always launches with everything enabled in high quality.

Is this a bug or is this an intentional attempt to make the game more equal?

If it is the second option, unfortunately I'm going to have to stop playing

[Mineral]

It's intentional I'm afraid. The difference was too high between settings. it changed the way people played the game if they were on lower settings. Usually a simple memory upgrade and a bit fancier GPU make a great deal of performance boost. 1.0 is really worth a small investment IMO. But obviously that's not my decision . I hope you find a way to play!

[Heavy Death]

There should be a change, its not fixed to high, but it is a bit better than on low afaik, to prevent lowering graphics to see less undergrowth and such, thus "exploiting."

[Rudd]

Some settings are low, some are set to a minimum of medium, view distance cannot be changed iirc. Are you unable to change any?

[Trinnity]

Some settings are low, some are set to a minimum of medium, view distance cannot be changed iirc. Are you unable to change any?

Well in the launcher everything is shown to be low but they are obviously being changed. Draw distance I am fine with, it's always been maxed for me. Things like shadows and effect quality seemed to be boosted up which really gets me set back. Also textures (not sure which exact settings you guys want to keep to keep this consistency between players)

[__GRAF__[HH]]

And I on the contrary, are not able to increase the setting "Texture Quality". What is the problem and how to solve it?

[Moszeusz6Pl]

I thing your graphic card just don't have enough memory, to play with high res textures.

[piepieonline]

Nah, Mos, that's not it.
GRAF, this is because you are running a 32 bit operating system without the setting to allow more memory. It's done to prevent crashes on loading.

EDIT: That setting? Here:
https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-pr-bf2-support/106709-32bit-xp-vista-7-fix-memory-errors-allow-applications-use-2gb-ram.html

Thanks, Arab.

[Arab]

For a temporary solution that I read from in-game, setting the Video.con file to 'read-only' makes the settings low.

It's located on 'My Documents' -> 'Project Reality' -> 'Profiles' -> 0001 (1st number for first player on account)

Or you could associate .con files with notepad, then edit the Video.con file and change settings where you got:

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 3
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 3
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 3
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 3
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 3
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 3
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 2
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 3
VideoSettings.setResolution 1920x1080@60Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing Off
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 2

In this configuration, the graphics quality is set to 'High'.

1 is Low
2 is Medium
3 is High

All you have to change are these ones:

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 1
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 1
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 1
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 1
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 1
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 1
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 1
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 1
VideoSettings.setResolution 1920x1080@60Hz (Add your resolution on that line)
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing Off
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 2

Haven't tested this out, but you can make a backup of video.con, then copy this code and paste it into the video.con file. Don't know if the menu will be upset by the change.

Hope it helps!

[__GRAF__[HH]]

This method is a variation of the parameters does not work, check.

[__GRAF__[HH]]

Nah, Mos, that's not it.
GRAF, this is because you are running a 32 bit operating system without the setting to allow more memory. It's done to prevent crashes on loading.

Tell me please. This will solve the problem in future updates or decision only permutation of the operating system?

My options:

System Information
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Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1.2600)
Language: Russian (Russia)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P35C-S3
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz (Physical: 2, Logical:
2)
Memory: 4,00 GB
DIMM Modules: A0: 2,00 GB @ 400 MHz
A2: 2,00 GB @ 400 MHz
Page File: -1609084928,00 B
.NET Framework: 4.0

Display Information
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Display Device(s): SyncMaster BX2035/BX2035G (Digital) on NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
Display Mode(s): 1600 x 900 (32 bit) @ 60 Hz
Driver Version: 6.14.13.1090 (310.90)
Display Memory: 1024,00 MB
Multisampling: 2, 4, 8
DPI: 96 (100%)

[Arab]

;1909400']Tell me please. This will solve the problem in future updates or decision only permutation of the operating system?

My options:

Here's the sticky:

https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-pr-bf2-support/106709-32bit-xp-vista-7-fix-memory-errors-allow-applications-use-2gb-ram.html

[__GRAF__[HH]]

Thank you for your help in solving the problem. Tper everything works.

[Trinnity]

For a temporary solution that I read from in-game, setting the Video.con file to 'read-only' makes the settings low.

It's located on 'My Documents' -> 'Project Reality' -> 'Profiles' -> 0001 (1st number for first player on account)

Or you could associate .con files with notepad, then edit the Video.con file and change settings where you got:

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 3
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 3
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 3
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 3
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 3
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 3
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 2
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 3
VideoSettings.setResolution 1920x1080@60Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing Off
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 2

In this configuration, the graphics quality is set to 'High'.

1 is Low
2 is Medium
3 is High

All you have to change are these ones:

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 1
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 1
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 1
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 1
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 1
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 1
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 1
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 1
VideoSettings.setResolution 1920x1080@60Hz (Add your resolution on that line)
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing Off
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 2

Haven't tested this out, but you can make a backup of video.con, then copy this code and paste it into the video.con file. Don't know if the menu will be upset by the change.

Hope it helps!

Like I said bro I've tried this, even set all my profiles to read only and have all options at 1 and the game still launched with all settings at high. I'm baffled.

[Trinnity]

So theres no workaround for the forcement of high graphics? Even for the beta at least? I can't upgrade atm cause of tight money. This could be the end of my PR days...

[DarkSyphonex]

I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and I've no problem with turning everything to low. The only difference in mine is the texture and effects options, which I have purposely set to medium.

Try deleting your cache and profile manually in the documents folder and setting all your options again, but optimize your shaders for the first time in a PR game and not a vanilla BF2 game.

[Necrodude]

My settings are on high but on game I think the textures and something else show on medium and/or low. I have tried everything that you guys said here but nothing worked.

I got 64bit windows 7 machine with enough power to run everything on high. Please help

[Necrodude]

Nobody to share a light on this??

[Daniel]

Issue fixed, as seen in this thread:

https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-pr ... spond.html