Forcing Ultra settings. Help please.

[Whackeygrunt]

Hello,

If anyone remembers back in the Beta it was possible to force Ultra settings on textures and effects fidelity (for example) by locating the games configuration.lua, opening it up in wordpad/notepad and changing the value next to textures from a 2 to a 3 (or maybe 4 I don't remember) and this would force Ultra settings on an XP based machine for DOW2.

Now I've got the full game and tried to do the same thing and even though I save my changes the game refuses to bump the settings up to ultra. I currently have something on ultra and all the rest of the settings are on high. The game looks amazing but I know I could run everything that can be on ultra, on ultra. I did it in the Beta with a fantastic framerate and never caused anyone any lag due to my settings. My PC can more than run this game on max and I think XP is my only limiting factor. However I refuse to "upgrade" to Vista, I'm waiting until Windows 7 is on the market.

So... Has anyone managed to force Ultra settings? if so please explain to me how I can do this.

Thank you very much :banana:

[Rhedd]

Add " -disable32bitcheck" to the very end of your DoWII shortcut, then you can pick Ultra settings in the in-game menu.

I'm starting to think this needs to be stickied. ^_^

[Akranadas]

Moving to Tech Assistance

[Whackeygrunt]

With Commas???

[Stormsong]

No, no commas.

[Whackeygrunt]

It hasn't worked. I tried it with and without commas and a space. How many spaces do I need?

Please post an example.

[black_ranger]

Try adding a space before -disable32bitcheck. And the patch notes says " Added a “-yam” command line switch to allow 32bit users to run with Ultra textures" so you could try that :P

[Whackeygrunt]

Damn, I got it tow work but when I went to apply it the game crashed and I was prompted to send Relic a crash report.

Odd that apprently my PC can;t run the game with Ultra settings when it could do it just fine in the Beta. WTH could they have changed since then that has outdone my PC...?

[Kapp'n]

Can you post a Dxdiag (http://forums.relicnews.com/showpost.php?p=3385096&postcount=2) please, this will tell us what we need to know.

[Whackeygrunt]

Update: I got it to work. Runs fine on Ultra. God knows what the crash was all about...

Thanks all.

Note. I sent the error report to Relic. Hopefully if it's a bug that slipped past QA and Beta then they can sort it.

[Richdog]

It beggars belief why Relic chose to cripple the graphics on 32-bit machines... what on earth were they thinking? Mind you, that's a quesiton that could be asked about DOW2 in general I guess. I'm going to try this fix.

[AlienHack]

mine crashed when i first run this command but then it worked fine :-S

i found another way to do this ,like in the betta, go to the settings file change texture detail and effects fide3lity to 3 save BUT then right click on the file and make it read only so that the game cannot change back the settings to 2 (as it does) automaticaly. this way you have ultra settings :-)