Graphic settings Noob Help - What settings?

[MCR]

Sorry, BTAxis, that is a stupid argument, really...

If my monitor has a native resolution of 1920x1080 & my gfx-card is not very speedy, I maybe want to play the game in 1024x768 upscaled to have a fluid gameplay & acceptable framerates...

Also I cannot really understand why so many important resolutions like 1920x1080 are missing @ the moment, while strange uncommon resolutions are supported ?!

[MCR]

Not everyone owns a GTX-280

[BTAxis]

I own a GTX-280, and it does 640x480. What's your point? Make sense, please.

[MCR]

Sorry, read your argument again & I must admit I misunderstood your point first, so if someone here could code this 'asking the graphic cards driver which resolutions it supports'-thing, I am for that also...

Sorry for the misunderstanding here again

Nevertheless in the meantime (until someone codes something better) we should imho update our list with the most common resolutions which are missing @ the moment...

[bayo]

Remember you can anyway custom to screen resolution you want http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/Manual/Screen
That's not the same as providing a big resolution list which will be often useless.

[MCR]

Maybe you should tell the average computer-user that. We could also delete all of the resolutions in our menu if those are useless in your opinion, because you can adjust that in the console also...
Afaik many of those options in the graphic menu are cvars which we can also set in the console, maybe we should delete all of those options too ?

[geever]

Maybe you should tell the average computer-user that. We could also delete all of the resolutions in our menu if those are useless in your opinion, because you can adjust that in the console also...
Afaik many of those options in the graphic menu are cvars which we can also set in the console, maybe we should delete all of those options too ?

stop trolling please.

-geever

[Mattn]

as bayo said already - sdl can query the available resolutions - those should be shown. and of course custom resolutions via cvar.

[MCR]

@Mattn: Works like it should in first tests...

I agree that this is the best & most elegant solution for the resolutions.

[MCR]

Maybe someone could also prepare a patch for the mouseover information to the video-settings.
I could help, but I also do not know how to precisely describe & explain all of the functions there...

Just to not forget about VaeliusNoctu's problems...

[VaeliusNoctu]

Thanks MCR.^^

[Duke]

VaeliusNoctu,
do you know how to provide a patch ?

Imho it would be a good idea if you applied your knowledge about the params you know in the way bayo described.
In a second step, make a list of the params you don't know.

When can then collect the missing knowledge here.
I assume there is no *one* person who knows it all

[VaeliusNoctu]

Ok No Problem and thanks:

Lightmap block size: from small to large, but which setting provides the best quality?
Texture compression?
Texturdetailierungsgrad?
Isometric: I never quite understood how and whether the effect only in the Geoscape.
Shadd GLSL?
Vertex Buffer?
Multisampling buffer?
Swap interval:?

Lightmap size: what is it?

[MCR]

You will get your mouseover tooltips today ! 

[Mattn]

please also add an option to disable flares - they might eat a lot of fps, too