Graphic settings Noob Help - What settings?

[VaeliusNoctu]

Many are graphic settings it in this game and I confess I have no idea what the best quality and ensuring the best performance.

Therefore, the request can someone explain briefly what settings improve the quality and what the performance / power?

I click on list all settings:



Resolution: Actually, clearly, the higher the better quality and less performance.
Texture resolution: Also easy to understand the configuration options are self explanatory.
Lightmap block size: from small to large, but which setting provides the best quality?
Anisotropic Filtering: clear, more equal better Qualiät.
Full cost: a little power.
Texture compression?
Show FPS: no impact.
Texturdetailierungsgrad?
Isometric: I never quite understood how and whether the effect only in the Geoscape.
Shadd GLSL?
Real-time lighting costs: power, illuminating textures.
Weather has cost: performance.
Vertex Buffer?
Multisampling buffer?
Swap interval:?

Gamma impact: None.
Contrast impact: None.
Brightness impact: None.
Lightmap size: what is it?

stretch picture to 4:3 ratio impacts: No?
Enable post-processing shader effects: Cool effects, cost performance.

EDIT:

GLSL shaders leads me to the earth is transparent.

[Mattn]

this board is english only - except in the translation boards - and i don't think this is translation related.

[DiDiT]

Graphic setting options are numerous it in this game and I confess that I know do not have what the Best quality and best performance ensure that.

Therefore, please can someone briefly explain what settings the quality and what the performance / power increase?

I list all settings to:


Resolution: Actually, clearly, the higher the better quality and less performance.
texture resolution: Also easy to understand the configuration options are self explanatory.
lightmap Block size: from small to large, but which setting provides the best quality?
Anisotropic Filtering: clear, more but better Qualiät.
fullscreen: costs a little performance.
texture compression?
Show FPS: no impact.
Texturdetailierungsgrad?
Isometric: I never quite understood how the effect that, and if only in the Geoscape.
GLSL Shadd?
real-time lighting costs: power and lights textures.
Weather effects cost: performance.
Vertex Buffer?
multi-sampling buffer?
swap interval:?

Gamma No impact.
Contrast: No impact.
Brightness: No impact.
lightmap size: what is it?

image stretch to 4:3 ratio: No impact?
Enable post-processing shader effects: Cool effects, the performance cost.

EDIT:

GLSL shaders leads me to the earth is transparent.

Hmm... VaeliusNoctu, Bearing in mind the limitations of Google translate's ability to translate between German and English, I can just about gather that you are either asking for or are providing a detailed explanation of each of the graphical settings and their effects in-game, am I right?

[VaeliusNoctu]

loooool i do this seconds bevor you.
See below I edited with google too.^^

[Duke]

Admittably I can only explain some of those settings. For the others, I'd like to see some explanation too.

@bayo:
The menu system supports mouseover/tooltips in the HUD. Could we have tooltips in the option menu too (if we had the text for those tooltips) ?

[VaeliusNoctu]

@Duke
Thanks for help.^^

[bayo]

@bayo:
The menu system supports mouseover/tooltips in the HUD. Could we have tooltips in the option menu too (if we had the text for those tooltips) ?

Yes. If somebody provide the text.

[Duke]

Great

So could you please provide an example for *one* of those parameters so we can make VaeliusNoctu add each and every explanation that is provided to those tooltips ?

[VaeliusNoctu]

Oh nooooooo
The end is near, the DAY OF THE TENTAKEL comes over us.^^
Yes, i think this topic helps some others too. I was surely not alone with my Problem.^^

[bayo]

Code: [Select]

Index: base/ufos/ui/options.ufo
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--- base/ufos/ui/options.ufo (revision 29862)
+++ base/ufos/ui/options.ufo (working copy)
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@
  string "_Texture Lod:"
  pos "85 315"
  size "240 20"
+ tooltip "_Use textures from Diablo II: Lord of Destruction"
  }
  checkbox lod
  {


[BTAxis]

"Play the game in CGA palette".

[MCR]

We should also agree & find a consensus which resolutions the game should support, add important missing resolutions & make a advanced graphics option menu with the possibility to customize all the details there & I am also for mouseover tooltips everywhere...

See here (feature request additional graphic options):
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2975351&group_id=157793&atid=805245

Here (patch for additional resolutions):
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3000123&group_id=157793&atid=805244

btw., I also like the idea of vector-graphics or ultra high-resolution downscaled, instead of low resolution upscaled for the GUI & HUD...

[BTAxis]

The resolutions list should be populated by asking the graphics driver what resolutions are available, like all games do.

[MCR]

What about the resolutions in window mode, which can differ from those available in the graphics driver ?

[BTAxis]

I shouldn't think anyone would ever want to go lower than what their driver supports in fullscreen. And even if they do, they can always manually override the resolution with a command-line parameter.