something weird...

[ConscriptVirus]

earlier today with medium textures/geometry and everything is normal, but then i decide to turn down the settings and then i join a server with mastuur city and u kno the dome on the mosque, usually it would be bland and just orangish, but when this time, it was shiny..whats wrong
Here are some pics
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[poisonsoul]

Re: something weird...

Hmm, odd.

That's on a lower setting, too.

You would think that the two images were in the wrong order.

My question is why'd the view distance change from worse to better.

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: something weird...

oh i just played around with the settings ..but i doubt it would matter

[D_Twice]

Re: something weird...

i like it shiny

[rombaft]

Re: something weird...

with me everything is on highest and the drome is shiny to.

about the screens, they look horible

[Syx]

Re: something weird...

It's obvious the view distance and shader effects are turned up.

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: something weird...

how do i turn off shader effects?

[x0pht]

Re: something weird...

because ur lightening is set to high. or maybe it says "low" in ur options, but somehow when the game re-optimize the performance, it may incorrectly sees the lightening option is "high", even if u set it as "low". i dont know what causes that. i believe it's a bug. it can be solved by either making the game optimize again or just simply re-joining the server.

[iamsoinsane]

Re: something weird...

alot of vid cards(software side) automaticly adjust your settings depending on what you change or the settings you already have. So chances are, it adjusted/tweaked the textures automaticly when you changed what you changed.... saw that you dropped a couple of settings, which alowed it to raise the quality of another setting that wouldnt impede performance.

But hey, what do i know

[comhallen]

Re: something weird...

Hell if it looks better don't ask questions just keep it

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: something weird...

well does anyone kno how to turn it on/off in case i reinstall and stuff

[iewgnem]

Re: something weird...

You have to remember

SHINY <> GOOD GRAPHICS

Just because something looks shiny and flashy, dosnt imply its "better".

The material itself might be supposdly non-reflective, if you turn down the material-processing function it might turn shiny but its not what was intended.

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: something weird...

sry iewgnem i didnt understand that, where is the material processing function...
well heres what i did and i got it back to normal:
i used rivatuner to force 1.4 pixel shaders
deleted the cache files so the game will re optimize shaders
and then i joined my own server and voila back to normal...
the plus side is that i got a boose of like 5 fps or so...or maybe im crazy
can bf2 run at more than 1.4 shaders