WARNING. Read this before you proceed:
The following describes how to activate very graphics-intensive settings. This will make the game look better, but it means a big performance hit.
Unless you have a very high-end system with loads of texture memory
you should not attempt to do this.
Please be advised that this will cause most systems to lag horribly, and
this lag will translate into every multiplayer game you play, meaning that if your PC can't hack it you will piss off a lot of people online.
Do this at your own risk and for heaven's sake try it out in skirmish before hopping online and spoiling people's fun.
<END DISCLAIMER>
Here's a step-by-step guide of how to do this.
If you don't have a shortcut to DoW on your desktop start here
(1)Navigate to your Dawn of War folder. You can do this by opening explorer (windows key + e) and then going to the folder where you installed it (default folder is C:\Programs\THQ\Dawn of War).
(2)Find a file called "w40k.exe" (the .exe part may not be displayed depending on your settings).
(3) Left-click on it
once and hold that click. Hold down ctrl and shift while dragging the file to your desktop. Release the leftclick.
(4) You now have a shortcut to DoW on your desktop. It should have the DoW logo and one of those little white shortcut arrows in the lower left corner.
If you already have a shortcut to DoW start here
(5) Right-click on your shortcut. A menu will pop up, select "properties".
(6) A new window will appear. Find the box that is labelled "target".
(7) It should already say something like "C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War\w40k.exe". Add -forcehighpoly
after that line. If there are quotation marks present make sure to add it outside of those marks.
(8) Done.
The fullres_teamcolour=1 line is added to the local.ini file.
Here's how to do that:
(1) Open Explorer.
(2) Navigate to your DoW folder (default is C:\Programs\THQ\Dawn of War)
(3) Find a file called local.ini. It might just display as local without the .ini part depending on your settings.
(4) Right-click on it. Select "open with" from the menu, and then find "editor" or "notepad" in the list of suggested programs. Click open.
(5) You will now get an editor window that shows the content of your local.ini file. It should look something like this:
Code:
[]
cameradetail=1
dynamiclights=3
event_detail_level=2
fullres_teamcolour=1
...
Check if there is already a line that reads "fullres_teamcolour=0". If that is the case, replace the 0 with a 1. Otherwise, add the line "fullres_teamcolour=1" at the bottom of that file.
(6) Save and exit the editor.
NB1: note the (correct) British/Canadian spelling of "colour"
NB2: note the position of the quotation marks: -forcehighpoly goes OUTSIDE the quotes.
Originally Posted by Moe
