Ultra high graphic settings

[PureBlueFlames]

Ultra high graphic settings

This is from a BattleField2-news.de posting, anyone want to give it a try and post an image comparation? I am at work...

In C:\My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\Profiles\0001 (path and profile number may vary depend on installation and accounts)

edit the file named video.con with notepad, change the settings to:

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 4
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 4
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 3
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 4
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 4
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 4
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 4
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 4
VideoSettings.setResolution 1024x768@85Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing Off
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 3

[reaver]

If I tried it, my video card would blow up. :laugh: I'm interested in how it looks though.

[||Animal||]

I might give this a go. I think my card can handle it! Though, if it looks even better than it does now, I'll be amazed!

[Brosser]

I'm not finding the 0002 file...?

Edit: Ok, this is found in my documents, not in the other directory.

And it really doesn't seem to do much besides make the game jerk around when turning.

[Ownthink]

Uhh, there is no "0002" profile in mine, and I went into my profile name and the settings that were there began with game.xxxx instead of videosettings.xxxx

Should I just Copy and Paste what you put into my profile?


EDIT: For me it was in C:\My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\Profiles\0001

and the settings all were in the same format that you posted...

going to try it now!

[Ownthink]

Didn't notice any visual difference, except it stuttered some. It could just be my comp, but I just did the Turn Off Fast Writes and set AGP Aperture size to 256MB and that cleared up stutters for me on other detail settings.....

Oh, and the numbers you posted were off on the lighting and VideoOptionScheme.... it's a numerical system, so all settings to UltraHigh would be to set all options to a value of 4...

http://img267.echo.cx/img267/1568/bf2ultrahighsettings0ln.th.jpg (http://img267.echo.cx/my.php?image=bf2ultrahighsettings0ln.jpg)

The game didn't look different at all... I'm guessing that this was a setting left out of the demo, but will MAYBE be in retail version....


-Ownthink

[TheBladeRoden]

I saw some differences, will post some nice screenies

[Darksniper75]

There are some differences and the good thing it even runs faster, LOL


Cheers

[-{DFA}-Brak710]

Well, I will be buying the Geforce 7800 GTX when it comes out, currently I have a 5950 Ultra right now what seems to out preform my friends 6800 ultra, so i never bought a 6800 U.

Anyways, anyone know if the graphics change much? Is it worth it? Is it a graphical change, or something like shaders or lighting effects?

[TheBladeRoden]

Grass and water
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2grassandwater.jpg

More detail on buildings and bumpmapped vehicles
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2t90bumpmap.jpg

Another bumpmapped vehicle
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2havocbumpmap.jpg

Higher res building textures though the lightmaps are still jaggy.
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2buildingdetail.jpg

Bumpmapped character models make more convincing cloth folds.
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2charactermodel.jpg

[PureBlueFlames]

Wow! definetely more poly counts and look at the chopper gun barrals and helmet of the MEC soidier. Grass looks very nice.

Any performance slow downs?

[hollowpoint367]

Well, I will be buying the Geforce 7800 GTX when it comes out, currently I have a 5950 Ultra right now what seems to out preform my friends 6800 ultra, so i never bought a 6800 U.

Anyways, anyone know if the graphics change much? Is it worth it? Is it a graphical change, or something like shaders or lighting effects?

that's kind of a mute point, don't you think? :rolleyes:

[imported_Chubz]

Those screens look nearly the same to me as what it does when you turn the settings to HIGH...... but maybe it's just me..... anyone else think it looks the same?

currently I have a 5950 Ultra right now what seems to out preform my friends 6800 ultra, so i never bought a 6800 U.

Ok, that's about enough out of you. Now pass the bong already!

[Porto]

HOLY CRAP! What vid card did you do that on? And did you do that 1280x1024 hack thing?

EDIT: Nevermind, the size of the screenshots are 1024x768... I wonder if it would look even better with the higher rez? Oh and like the other guy asked, was it still smooth?

[[H]CircuitBreaker8]

Well, I will be buying the Geforce 7800 GTX when it comes out, currently I have a 5950 Ultra right now what seems to out preform my friends 6800 ultra, so i never bought a 6800 U.

Anyways, anyone know if the graphics change much? Is it worth it? Is it a graphical change, or something like shaders or lighting effects?

Lmfao! Did you just say your 5950 outperforms your friends 6800 Ultra?! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[||Animal||]

Looks the same as mine on high to me...I don't think that they included the ultra high settings in the demo...I'm running the X850 XT PE. The screenies look great but, as I said, that's how it's been looking in game...

[Toker]

I dont see really much diffrence..i have all my settings on high in the game and AA/AF maxed on my card and heres what i get with a 6800gt

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/Toker/2060cf51.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/Toker/6a718ca3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/Toker/77231ec3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/Toker/d34455e6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/Toker/screen000.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/Toker/82cfa057.jpg

[exocet]

Holy shiz it's DCTT TOKER! Hey buuuddy!

[Ownthink]

Those screens look nearly the same to me as what it does when you turn the settings to HIGH...... but maybe it's just me..... anyone else think it looks the same?



Ok, that's about enough out of you. Now pass the bong already!
Yes, it looks entirely the same. I am guessing those people who said stuff about bumpmapping and clothing are either blind or high, because there is no difference.

[Darksniper75]

There is a difference!

[Ownthink]

Well.... I guess it's time for me to admit I was wrong....

I just played and there IS a bumpmapping difference for sure because I noticed it on the Medic player model for sure, and it did look better than average...

[TheBladeRoden]

No, I must say PWNT and then you can admit defeat.

[[BFN]Walmart Security]

so will the 256MB cards be able to handle this? :P

[KB-smoker]

This is from a BattleField2-news.de posting, anyone want to give it a try and post an image comparation? I am at work...

In C:\My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\Profiles\0001 (path and profile number may vary depend on installation and accounts)

edit the file named video.con with notepad, change the settings to:

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 4
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 4
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 3
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 4
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 4
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 4
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 4
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 4
VideoSettings.setResolution 1024x768@85Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing Off
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 3

Why stop at 4 when u can go higher????

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 5
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 5
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 5
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 5
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 5
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 5
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 5
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 5
VideoSettings.setResolution 1024x768@60Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing 4Samples
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 3

Works fine for me guess i will try higher....

[imported_VooDoo]

look the same to me..

[KB-smoker]

look the same to me..
Yeah i dont think it changes anything...got mine at

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 7
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 7
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 7
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 7
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 7
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 7
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 7
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 7
VideoSettings.setResolution 1024x768@60Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing 4Samples
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 7

[X-ander]

It could just be my comp, but I just did the Turn Off Fast Writes and set AGP Aperture size to 256MB and that cleared up stutters for me on other detail settings.....






Hi, could you explian these to me a little bit more??

Thanks.

I have a 6800 on ASUS A8v motherboard

[Fenrisgod]

Yeah i dont think it changes anything...got mine at

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 7
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 7
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 7
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 7
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 7
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 7
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 7
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 7
VideoSettings.setResolution 1024x768@60Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing 4Samples
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 7

be careful, you Card may blow up with these settings...

[Essau]

There probably won't be a difference above 4, since it still says Ultra High. I am not even sure if Ultra High is different from High.

[KB-smoker]

be careful, you Card may blow up with these settings...
PLease my card still have about 60-100 fps...... ;)

[Battlefresh]

Walmart Security']so will the 256MB cards be able to handle this? :P

I sure hope so, I'm gonna try this as soon as I get a chance. Oh, and what's up Walmart? It's me..Mr.Fresh, friend of Crassius]420[. Guess as long as they keep making Battlefield games we'll keep running into each other.

[1Bravo]

There are some differences and the good thing it even runs faster, LOL


Cheers


Yeah, I just don't get it... I tried it out and actually I get more FPS around 20 more than High :|: and a little more picture quality.. this is odd but good :D

[bigbrain28]

I hope to GOD they fix the shadow map size in the retail version. The cast shadows look like a$s. I have a ATI 9800 XT 256, and everything maxed. The game plays fine, and looks ok, but the texture maps, poly count and shadow maps are a bit lacking. This is not HL2, or even FarCry level, but I understand the need to take it down a nacho for playability. And I don't know what you guys are smokin, but 1280x1024 was on my list from the get go... I still think the jaggies are comin to get me in my sleep tho. Its the mystery LAG that bothers me.

[Eddy01741]

Do you guys think i could even run the settings on medium on my ATI Radeon 9200? I'm thinking about getting a new graphic card though. I'm thinking about EVGA Nvidia 6600GT, with 500mhz core clock speed, and 1000mhz memory speed. It costs 149.99. WHat ya guys think about that, it seems like a pretty good deal. Oh yeah, how much did that beastly X850XT cost?

[xTc]

Resolution at 1280 x 1024 ... not much of a difference from high... very little difference..

http://img246.echo.cx/img246/9076/screen0001pl.jpg

http://img246.echo.cx/img246/6526/screen0010eb.jpg

http://img246.echo.cx/img246/9922/screen0022eb.jpg

http://img246.echo.cx/img246/6885/screen0033on.jpg

:D :D

[imported_<GN>John]

Yea ive noticed on some of those pictures the shadows look like crap..... Now was the official bf2 trailer rendered? The one where the chinese dude slaps the fly on his face....or was it real gameplay? Because the shadows and such were alot better in that trailer....

[Russx]

It's harder to tell the difference from just a screen shot. I made the changes and it does look better apart from the shadows that look worse.

No noticeable slowdown either.

[Russx]

WOW This is amazing.........I just ran FRAPS and getting an extra 6 fps with ultrahigh settings and using 2x AA.

Before I was only using high and no AA.

Weird but cool.

[deathBOB]

Maybe there is a bug with High... Something that shoudl be getting optimised is not or something like that...

[BOBSONATOR025]

Those screens look nearly the same to me as what it does when you turn the settings to HIGH...... but maybe it's just me..... anyone else think it looks the same?



Ok, that's about enough out of you. Now pass the bong already!


LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Russx]

Actually I forgot I ran TuneXP beforehand before trying UltraHigh.

So not more performance but TuneXP did give an extra 15 FPS

[SlayerPL]

Everything fine and i did gain around 6-7 fps after chcanging to ultra high settings but the main point for me posting right now is that i want to ask you guys how the hell can you even loook at the monitor with such low refresh rate ? !! 60 hz ,85.... everything below 100 hutrts my eyes badly ,i could understand it if all of you had some medival hardware but looking at the settings you use in game makes me think that you can afford on some decent monitor either it's crt or lcd . my 19" iiyama easely handles 1024x768 at 140 hz . 60hz is a suicide for your eyes seriously .... even 85 is to low .

[Armstrong]

ok i got a stupid question i guess! :D im not very good with pc's! but what does the option in bf2 video setting : Anti anlaising ( dont think i spelled it rigth lol ) do? does it improve ur graphics?

[discowatermelon]

im so gelous of u guys i dont have 6600 gt or 6600 (not sure wat im gonna get) or my p4 2.8 ghz and 512 ddr and ive been hanging out for my bf2 fix

will these get me to hight settings

[dommafia]

ok i got a stupid question i guess! :D im not very good with pc's! but what does the option in bf2 video setting : Anti anlaising ( dont think i spelled it rigth lol ) do? does it improve ur graphics?

anti aliasing is the option to make the *jaggies* (edges of objects look like steps instead of straight lines) smoother. the higher the anti-aliasing the smoother it's supposed to look. This will drop your game drop in performance if you dont have a top of the line system though.

and to the people complaining about the shadows being jaggie even with aa on, it's not a game issue, it's an ati driver issue. Some nvidia drivers have it too, but the game comes with nvida beta drivers that fix the issue. No ati fix yet.

[mark2582]

Well, I will be buying the Geforce 7800 GTX when it comes out, currently I have a 5950 Ultra right now what seems to out preform my friends 6800 ultra, so i never bought a 6800 U.

Anyways, anyone know if the graphics change much? Is it worth it? Is it a graphical change, or something like shaders or lighting effects?
Wow. Are you retarded?

[Bobcat]

ok i got a stupid question i guess! :D im not very good with pc's! but what does the option in bf2 video setting : Anti anlaising ( dont think i spelled it rigth lol ) do? does it improve ur graphics?
Visual representation:
http://www.the-bobcat.dk/pics/aliasing_vs_anti-aliasing.gif

[n00b1]

It basically blends the background and foreground textures/colours of anything such as an edge where there are elements less than one pixel thick, taking multiple samples from both foreground and background (which is what 2x,4x,6x etc. refers to).

This is multisample anti-aliasing, the most common method for current GPUs.

[BOBSONATOR025]

Visual representation:
http://www.the-bobcat.dk/pics/aliasing_vs_anti-aliasing.gif

good example!

[Nitemare]

can i change to ultra high with an eVGA 6800 GT?

[imported_<GN>John]

can i change to ultra high with an eVGA 6800 GT?

You better cause im getting a PNY 6800GT today or tomorrow...

[Floruro]

I found setting the dynamiclighting and dynamicshadows to 4 from 3 decreased performance abit, but leaving the others at 4 made no difference, just looks great.
(x800 XT PE)
These are my settings now:

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 4
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 4
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 3
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 3
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 3
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 4
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 4
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 4
VideoSettings.setResolution 1280x960@75Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing 6Samples
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 3

[n00b1]

I discovered the same.

[tewky]

Wow. There is a HUGE difference. I just hope my new comp can get those settings...

3500+
1 GB OCZ PC3200
6800GT
Audigy 2 ZS

*prays to the computer gods*

[hollowpoint367]

Well, I can run exactly what Floruro posted with the same computer Lewky, but with

VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 2

It doesn't want to go high without a 15fps drop :(

http://img27.echo.cx/img27/3535/screen0139rq.png

http://img27.echo.cx/img27/6374/screen0100rv.jpg

http://img27.echo.cx/img27/2176/screen0186eq.jpg

[Mavrik347]

Grass and water
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2grassandwater.jpg

More detail on buildings and bumpmapped vehicles
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2t90bumpmap.jpg

Another bumpmapped vehicle
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2havocbumpmap.jpg

Higher res building textures though the lightmaps are still jaggy.
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2buildingdetail.jpg

Bumpmapped character models make more convincing cloth folds.
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2charactermodel.jpg

HOLY $H!T!!!!! I HAVE JUST BEEN 0WNED! JESUS YOU GRAPHICS ARE INCREDIBLE! WHAT CARD YOU GOT!? Mine are all on lowest exept texture and geomotry wich are on Medium!
Mine has all distorted adges your are.... are... are like renders!

I had to reply to that... so I registered lol

[deceiver]

Grass and water
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2grassandwater.jpg

More detail on buildings and bumpmapped vehicles
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2t90bumpmap.jpg

Another bumpmapped vehicle
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2havocbumpmap.jpg

Higher res building textures though the lightmaps are still jaggy.
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2buildingdetail.jpg

Bumpmapped character models make more convincing cloth folds.
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/bf2charactermodel.jpg

Ok well I saw your "Ultra-High screenies" and I raise them with "High" screenies...which seem to be the same!

These screenies were taken with all High Settings and 4xAA

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/2583/screen0259vn.th.jpg (http://img203.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0259vn.jpg)
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/817/screen0265sn.th.jpg (http://img203.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0265sn.jpg)
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/4205/screen0270kd.th.jpg (http://img203.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0270kd.jpg)
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/2300/screen0124wl.th.jpg (http://img300.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0124wl.jpg)

[seevip]

What about the rivits in the chopper?

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

it looks the same... i love listening to all the popel like !!! omfg ur graphics are amazing!!! o god!!! it looks teh same on high :rolleyes:

[NoSoup4You]

Actually I see a difference. Slight, but there is a difference. Also he is running a geforce card, and you are running an ATI card, so there might be a difference for him, not for you?

[seevip]

Im setting it , they said gain in FPS im going hard. If its not true about improvement, dont tell me i dont want ot hear it, I want to htink im getting higher quality while i get extra FPS

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

im running an ati card?? AM i on crazy pills?? this place has turned into total noob heaven i cant beleive it, i must be dreaming ill wake up and this will all be over what has happened to this forum!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: im going to send an email to EA asking if there is a BUg in these settings things that make it look SO much better ill find out. :)

[Dustmuffins]

notice the difference between the havoc tires on high and ultra high settings

[busta]

Rendered on an Nvidia Geforce 7800GTX

Settings:

1280x960
Ultra High
8x Transparency SSAA
AA Gamma Correct
16x AF


http://busta.nbfl.net/BF2/BF2_1.jpg

http://busta.nbfl.net/BF2/BF2_2.jpg

http://busta.nbfl.net/BF2/BF2_3.jpg

http://busta.nbfl.net/BF2/BF2_4.jpg

http://busta.nbfl.net/BF2/BF2_5.jpg

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

funny mine looks exactly the same as yours and i saved a bunch of money!

[busta]

Yeah, but you don't get the same performance as I do running those settings.

[Stealthstorm]

Bf2 can't look better, indeed more peformance :)

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

can you tell the difference between 100 fps and 60?

[lIq]

Well, I will be buying the Geforce 7800 GTX when it comes out, currently I have a 5950 Ultra right now what seems to out preform my friends 6800 ultra, so i never bought a 6800 U.

Anyways, anyone know if the graphics change much? Is it worth it? Is it a graphical change, or something like shaders or lighting effects?


your friends CPU is bottlenecking his 6800 Ultra... thats the only way your card would even compare. Try at least using a higher res and some AA with the 5950 and watch it cry.

I know this as fact since I went from a 5900 card to a 6800GT. Even when Im running overclocked at 3400+ Im still choking this 6800.

[SL4Y3R]

damn..... my card would set a nuclear chain reaction on that!

Nvidia Geforce FX5700 128 Meg

[cptunabonger]

Cannot get this to work in the full version. Boots me to desktop whenever I mod the file. Is it restricted?

[Nitemare]

No, it works...your computer probly can't handle it. Why do people post problems with their system but never post the specs. Useless.

As for Ultra High, this is the first time I've seen this thread since I got my new computer about 2 weeks ago. I run 1024x768@75hz, ALL Ultra High, 4x AA, 16x AF and get around 50 constantly, occasional drop to low 30's but still no lag. 2 GB's of RAM really helps.

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

do you fools not get it??? ultra high does nuthing at all god dmanit !!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh :mad:

[cptunabonger]

Oh my system should be able to handle it and much more. I am running 130FPS per video card

Pentium D 830
Asus P5ND2 SLI
2 gigs Corsair PC6400 800mhz
2 Western Digital 74 gig raptors RAID 0
2 Nvidia 7800GTX in SLI
680 watt PSU

I am running 16AA and 16AF through open GL with the Nvidia control panel but cant get battlefield to show the settings

[jmuduke]

I'm gonna call BS on you there new poster. First of all I don't even think there's an option to turn on 16xAA as far as I know 8X is ths max so far. And secondly, you're new to the forums and you're boasting a rig that'd cost well over 2 grand. Post a screenie of your rig and I'll believe you, but you're probly some 14yr old living with your parents who wants to brag about a rig you don't even have.

[cptunabonger]

I'm gonna call BS on you there new poster. First of all I don't even think there's an option to turn on 16xAA as far as I know 8X is ths max so far. And secondly, you're new to the forums and you're boasting a rig that'd cost well over 2 grand. Post a screenie of your rig and I'll believe you, but you're probly some 14yr old living with your parents who wants to brag about a rig you don't even have.


Actually the rig cost me almost 4 grand how do I post a picture I got lots I'll even take screenshots of my reciepts. And yes in the Nvidia cotrol panel with SLI enabled you can set 16AA and 16AF.

[Nitemare]

I'm a 15 year old living with my parents, and if I had a digital camera I would take a pic of my system. If you don't believe me about my specs, I can take a SS of Everest stating all of my hardware.

[cptunabonger]

I'm a 15 year old living with my parents, and if I had a digital camera I would take a pic of my system. If you don't believe me about my specs, I can take a SS of Everest stating all of my hardware.

I am not 15 I am 29 with 2 kids and make well over a 100k a year. I drive a BMW 540 and have a pretty decent house. I did not come in here to get in an argument I came to get advice. I am not sure how to post the picture but you give me some email addresses Ill send you all the pictures and other **** you want including the ZIPZOOMFLY reciept which has my name and address on it.

Come over and check out the rig.

[cptunabonger]

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[Sniper_13]

source engien kills BF2 even with ultra high

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

can you post reciept of your bwm and stuff i dont belive you nah im just playing. yes on 78 series tehres 16xaa thats cool give me a pic of bf2 in actiaon i wanna see this ****. sounds freakin awesome.

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

oh and please dont say you think ultra high does anything casue if you do ima knife your tires on ur bimmer

[cptunabonger]

oh and please dont say you think ultra high does anything casue if you do ima knife your tires on ur bimmer

That was the whole point of this is that I cannot get the Ultra High settings. It does look pretty good I am trying to make the pictures smaller size now because it wont let me upload them.

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

there should be 2 copys of the pic one is a bitmap or somethnig the other is a jpeg use the jpeg. the ultra high settings are enabled by editing the video file in my documents but it does ntihng at all....

[cptunabonger]

I uploaded them to MSN. Check under documents also.

http://www.msnusers.com/NewRig

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

can you use imageshack.us please i cant go onto msn i ahte that ****.

[swaZy™]

do you fools not get it??? ultra high does nuthing at all god dmanit !!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh :mad:


why do you care about what other people do with thier own computers ??? ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Drifter]

enough with these "Ultra High" pics... yall are making my Fx5500 look bad :cry: anyway to get mine to look like that? maybe even just medium lol

[scott123]

I set everything to Ultra High. I guess :confused: it looks a little better. My FPS stayed the same. Guess the 7800 GTX is awsome :D

[xolinlevh]

grr i hate you all!!! your damn nice computers makin mine look liek crap...wait it is crap...nm! well im upgradin soon, hope i can set mine to high atleast :P 7800 GTX! and new mobo..cpu...teh works *drooools*

[BryanG]

Ok Ultra HIgh does nothing. Here is my arguement: I've done this is the full game. When you change video settings you get a message saying shaders are being optimized and that this will happen each time you change video settings. When I switced to Ultra High there was no optimizing, it just loaded up like normal.

Plus I couldn't see a dif with my eyes..

[Big2firzX]

I can go higher but at least i can make myself happy by having a 6X AA on while playing...
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/7229/screen0028xx.th.jpg (http://img366.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0028xx.jpg)
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/6008/screen0017mo.th.jpg (http://img366.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0017mo.jpg)
Thanks to ImageShack for Free Image Hosting (http://imageshack.us)

[Calibre]

Oh my system should be able to handle it and much more. I am running 130FPS per video card

Pentium D 830
Asus P5ND2 SLI
2 gigs Corsair PC6400 800mhz
2 Western Digital 74 gig raptors RAID 0
2 Nvidia 7800GTX in SLI
680 watt PSU

I am running 16AA and 16AF through open GL with the Nvidia control panel but cant get battlefield to show the settings

It won't show the settings until you open the video.con file with notepad and change the 3's to 4's - see start of thread again.. Nice rig man. I was gonna build a new rig this winter but I reckon i'll just buy an xbox360 instead, i mean jeeeeez what a spec for 200 quid..

[cptunabonger]

http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/8503/hpim02514xy.th.jpg (http://img379.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hpim02514xy.jpg)http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/537/hpim02603fl.th.jpg (http://img385.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hpim02603fl.jpg)http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/1580/hpim02504jk.th.jpg (http://img385.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hpim02504jk.jpg)http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/1733/screen0080ns.th.jpg (http://img381.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0080ns.jpg)

never used image shack hope this works

[KryCek.x]

nice screens dude, dont think my 6800 GT will cope :(

[Sniper_13]

nice fking setup man. even a labtop wow.

[Sir. S.A.S]

nice screens dude, dont think my 6800 GT will cope

It will my other desktop does and it looks sweet!!!

[Keystr0ke]

jmuduke, can you say "owned" ???? lol that is hilarious. go sit in your tower.


anyway, i'm getting the same error with the boot to desktop after the file is modded.

Win XP MCE
Athlon 64 3500+ San Diego
1 gig samsung value ram
shizzy hdds (200gb maxtor, 160gb WD)
6800GT 256 PCI-E
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
19" FujiPlus Flat Panel 12ms

[BryanG]

I had problems like that when I edited the resolution in the video.con. Did you do that?

[Keystr0ke]

yeah but get this. i pwned this error in the balls. all you have to do is make sure not to edit the

VideoSettings.setResolution

leave it how it is and i didn't change the anti aliasing either. also left my lighting on medium. but i think the resolution is what was making our penises flaccid. anywho, this should add some rigidity to your schlong.

[Keystr0ke]

also i'd like to point out that the guy who is saying "the shaders aren't being optimized, and i'm a little pansy" is only half wrong. the shaders don't get optimized because you make the changes before you boot up bf2. when you change settings IN GAME you have to get optimized before the match. but in this case, the changes were recognized at startup, but like i said, you had your statement halfway correct, pansy.

[Valorum]

I would imagine that you have clear the cache thing to get the properly optimized shaders etc...?

[Valorum]

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/1733/screen0080ns.th.jpg (http://img381.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0080ns.jpg)
So you have this kick-*** rig and your game video looks like this? That pic shows the game is not doing any AA. See the stair-stepping along the rotor blades etc? AA would smooth those out. So you have some tweaking to do!

[Shamus]

I would imagine that you have clear the cache thing to get the properly optimized shaders etc...?Yes, sometimes the old or current cache just isn't quite right. To delete it can only bring improvement by allowing the game to reconfigure itself. This is especially true if you have made numerious changes to your settings.

[Valorum]

Yes, sometimes the old or current cache just isn't quite right. To delete it can only bring improvement by allowing the game to reconfigure itself. This is especially true if you have made numerious changes to your settings.
Exactly, which means that some of the guys here talking about how it looks better in UltraHigh may just be imagining things and should try this.

[SerbSniper1]

A QUOTE:

Video.con
VideoSettings.setResolution 1280x960@75Hz

This setting controls your current resolution in Battlefield 2. The format is Width x Height@Refresh Rate. If you cannot start up BF2 and change the resolution from within the game, try altering it here to help you startup the game. In particular when you want to launch BF2 for the first time and the game just crashes back to desktop (See Troubleshooting Tips section), you can change the resolution from its default of 800x600@60Hz to one your monitor supports. Note however that certain resolutions (such as 1280x1024) are unsupported and entering them here will not work - see the Command Line section further below.



VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 4

VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 4

VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 4

VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 4

VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 4

VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 4

VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 4

VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 4



All of the above settings can be adjusted from within the in-game Video settings. However the highest they can be set to is High from within the game (a value of 3). By setting them each to 4 in Video.con (as shown above), you will have them displayed as 'Videosettings_Ultrahigh' in the in-game Video settings screen, and some people believe this increases the graphics quality to Ultrahigh levels. I didn't see any impact from this change, but if you want the absolute best quality in BF2 give it a try.


READ THE WHOLE THING HERE: http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html

[cptunabonger]

So you have this kick-*** rig and your game video looks like this? That pic shows the game is not doing any AA. See the stair-stepping along the rotor blades etc? AA would smooth those out. So you have some tweaking to do!

Well see the problem is that this screenshot was only a 200kb jpeg. If you see the full 1 meg screen print I did on the msn link under documents its a whole different story.

Check out the screenshot1.doc file at this link

http://www.msnusers.com/NewRig/documents.msnw?&pps=k

[Valorum]

That link takes me to the MSN homepage, so i can't see any other screenshot unfortunately. The screenshot you posted here (and that i replied to) does not suggest to me that it's the scaling down of the image that's showing that stair-stepping pattern. But it could be i suppose. Yet i suspect it's more likely that you don't notice the stair=stepping as much in the higher resolution, simply because the pixels are smaller...?

[cptunabonger]

Thats very strange it took me to the home page also. I had to click on the link a second time. Unfortunately I cannot find any other way to upload since its a word document that is 1 meg

[Cicchetti]

lol i did it it was runnin fine but i just didnt see much of a diffrence

[Valorum]

Well, i can't get to it it seems :( oh well, as long as you are happy with your picture, that's the important part. I'm sure it looks awesome, considering the specs of your rig :)

[BryanG]

also i'd like to point out that the guy who is saying "the shaders aren't being optimized, and i'm a little pansy" is only half wrong. the shaders don't get optimized because you make the changes before you boot up bf2. when you change settings IN GAME you have to get optimized before the match. but in this case, the changes were recognized at startup, but like i said, you had your statement halfway correct, pansy.

Keep acting like a *****. It does nothing.

[sarge1991]

can my nvidia geforce 6600 gt agp card handle that because i dont want to fry my card.....

[Keystr0ke]

Keep acting like a *****. It does nothing.
you know, you're right. whoever that pansy was has the RIGHT to be a pansy. i should be more tolerant. thank you for the enlightenment.:)

[SerbSniper1]

Don't waste your time its only a change that shows up on your profile there is no difference in game play. Read tweakguide: http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_7.html

[ConscriptVirus]

the grass still looks pretty bad

[Jedi_Joe]

TheBladeRoden what type of graphics card do you have...?, and how much was it because i need a new graphics card...im lucky bf2 doesent go slow on low, thats how bad it is

[Prince]

So you have this kick-*** rig and your game video looks like this? That pic shows the game is not doing any AA. See the stair-stepping along the rotor blades etc? AA would smooth those out. So you have some tweaking to do!

You loose image quality if you save your image as JPEG.

[GreatWhiteShark]

This is from a BattleField2-news.de posting, anyone want to give it a try and post an image comparation? I am at work...

In C:\My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\Profiles\0001 (path and profile number may vary depend on installation and accounts)

edit the file named video.con with notepad, change the settings to:

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 4
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 4
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 3
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 4
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 4
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 4
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 4
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 4
VideoSettings.setResolution 1024x768@85Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing Off
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 3

Interesting!

Only do this at your own risk & if you know what you are doing plz.

FYI the 001 or 002 file is your player profile information saved, your in game settings from key bindings, sound settings, vid sets, all options etc, 001 is one player tag say "BILLYBOB" and 002 is player tag "BOTBUT" in your account.
You can excess these 001 files, by choosing a program to open them chose "notepad" and cut and paste , but save the original content and revert back when problems.

Only do this at your own risk & if you know what you are doing plz.

[Valorum]

You loose image quality if you save your image as JPEG.
Yes, but that looks different, and is not what you see here. Apparently you know that JPEG compression is not lossless, but you're clueless as to what exactly it does.

JPEG compression makes pictures look "blotchy", with color smearing and less-clear boundaries between colors. Stairstepping and jaggies are actually very clear boundaries between colors. And they are not usually a result of JPEG compression.

Now, it could be that the artifacts in his picture are a result of scaling, and him not knowing how to properly scale an image.

If that's the case though, the picture is no longer an accurate representation of what the video quality looks like on his system.

[imported_Chubz]

Ultra High quality mode is no different than the High quality mode.

[DrunkenPirate]

Ultra High quality mode is no different than the High quality mode.
That may be true, however if those that believe they are getting image enhancements want to do these tweaks then people like $GMONEY$ should let them without all the flames.

[Destroyer]

this came up earlier, it doesnt change a thing

[SerbSniper1]

You noobs are fooling yourselves. My pictures are just the same with a 6800 ULTRA on 1600x1200 and AA, AF on application controlled, settings on high, VC on High quality. There is NO DOCUMENTED PROOF changing to this ultra high setting will make any difference. ASK EA they il tell you that. ALSO going to a higher SETTING will NEVER RAISE your FPS.:rolleyes:

[cptunabonger]

How do you scale an image?

[rumple9]

6800 gt

absolutely no change after this tweak

[TVR_Fan]

If anyone wants a challenge run both the 128 bot mod and run it in Ultra high aswell.

[Cekken]

I'd say the easiest way to get ultra high graphics settings is 2 sli 7800 GXT's, 4 gigs of corsair and a nice FX-57 cpu. =p

[Snake101]

I'd say the easiest way to get ultra high graphics settings is 2 sli 7800 GXT's, 4 gigs of corsair and a nice FX-57 cpu. =p
And it's for the rich too :D

[Kraven]

4 gigs overkill :p but im workin on another 7800gtx for my lonely one.

[Cicchetti]

Yeah i did ultrahigh didnt really change much so i changed it back so it will run alittle better

[_Hazard_]

yeah, no change for me, hopefully they will implement it though for the future in a patch

[nocatix]

so, now some screens from me:

http://users.adelphia.net/~diablo1961/bf2/bf2_1.jpg
http://users.adelphia.net/~diablo1961/bf2/bf2_2.jpg
http://users.adelphia.net/~diablo1961/bf2/bf2_3.jpg
http://users.adelphia.net/~diablo1961/bf2/bf2_4.jpg
http://users.adelphia.net/~diablo1961/bf2/bf2_5.jpg
http://users.adelphia.net/~diablo1961/bf2/bf2_6.jpg


my sys:
dfi lanparty ut nf4 ultra-d
amd athlon 64 x2 3800+
2x512 mb ddr333 ram (dual channel mode)
nvidia geforce 7800 gt
windows xp pro
creative x-fi platinum
logitech z-680

my video.con:
VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 4
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 4
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 4
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 4
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 4
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 4
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 4
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 4
VideoSettings.setResolution 1280x1024@75Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing 4Samples
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 3


i've set the antialiasing via nvidia settings to 8xS, the anisotropic filtering to 16x and set transparency antialiasing to supersampling. the game runs with about 50fps at 1280x1024. i only experience some crazy lags for the first minute, then the game runs smoothly =)

do you know how you can improve the shadow quality? i once had changed a thing in my display config and the shadows were bada$$, but i can't seem to find the setting anymore... for the screenshots i deactivated the hud.

[Baseline]

I have a very similar setup to you nocatix.

DFI UT Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D
Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1MB L2 Cache
XFX 7800GT OC
2GB (1GBx2) OCZ Platinum DDR400 2-3-2-5
Creative X-Fi

Now, I've been running these supposed "Ultra-High" settings too that I set in my con file, and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference because I went from a rig that would only do medium at reasonable settings, to this new rig that I've been playing ultra-high on for a few days now. Since I can play it at ultra-high with no performance issues, I haven't bothered with High. I'm doing about 60-100 FPS depending on the situation, using 1280x1024, Ultra-High, 4x AA, textures in nvidia preferences set to highest quality, AA/AF set to application preference, Ultra-High audio (x-fi) which I don't think causes a performance hit. I was considering setting 16x AF and 8x5 AA in the nVidia settings, but it's been recommended to leave those at application preference unless you are playing older games that don't have in-game settings for those features. So, I'm going to stick with BF2's settings for those.

But, I really can't imagine the picture quality getting much better. Everything looks very crisp. The only thing is that sometimes I think at farther distances it gets blurrier, but that's to be expected, though it seems like moreso in BF2 it gets blurrier sooner at distances than it does in other games. Usually that's related to Anisotropic Filtering (to my knowledge), and from what I've heard the BF2 in-game settings will only give you 4x AF on the highest setting. Other than that, I thought it was kinda lame that things like tree branches and that look like flat pictures instead of 3-D looking when you are directly under them, but that's just the game, but detail wise they look fine

[joshuajames]

sweet pics and tips guys, tahnks for the info.

[openheimer]

I'd say the easiest way to get ultra high graphics settings is 2 sli 7800 GXT's, 4 gigs of corsair and a nice FX-57 cpu. =p


And??

[Akuma]

LOL.
ATI 9800XT 256. overclocked to 459 and 375 on memory.
I can play bf2 with everything on ultra high,and full across the board at 1280x1024.
AAx6.....AFx16 and get a whopping 6-12 FPs. (in single player)
Not to shabby for a card ready for the scrap yard.:D

Saving up for R520 when it hits the 24 pipe club:p

[NickFas]

i put all my settings on 99 and i just found myself in Iraq flying an MEC chopper with my amazing looking medic helmet

[Karl]

i put all my settings on 99 and i just found myself in Iraq flying an MEC chopper with my amazing looking medic helmet

LOL MATE!:laugh:

[imported_stuartg123]

It would be good if someone could post an image on ultra-high graphics and the same picture on low graphics, compare side by side.

Stuart

[:SFA:EV0]

those screens look like *** to anyone else??

[joshuajames]

why do you have to go in through all those files, why isn't the option available in the video settings in the game. also, why can i only play with 4x's aa, look at my sig for system specs.

[Karl]

HOLY CRAP! What vid card did you do that on? And did you do that 1280x1024 hack thing?

EDIT: Nevermind, the size of the screenshots are 1024x768... I wonder if it would look even better with the higher rez? Oh and like the other guy asked, was it still smooth?

WTF, 1280X 1024 hack ? Whats that about lol ?

[Karl]

I changed my settings to Ultra high and didnt noticea slight difference from High ? Can anyone post a screenshot From HIGH to ULTRA High so I can see what the fuss is about

[-GRimm-]

i put all my settings on 99 and i just found myself in Iraq flying an MEC chopper with my amazing looking medic helmet
LMAO! heres some pics on HIGH not ultra.
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/4188/screen0007uf.jpg
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/42/screen0028wc.jpg
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/8114/screen0038ky.jpg

[imported_CumFyKeyKeY]

the funny thing is people saying o man i got 90 frames and whatever other crap the thing is your eyes only pick up 80 frames so kinda point less to get a computer thats any better then that or brag about geting 100 frames lol

[Talus]

No threadsurrections, please :D