Tweaking Graphic settings?

[Stoferr]

Hi, i am running ETW on highest settings, with no framerate issues. Nevertheless im not quite happy with the graphics. The HDR effects is far too powerfull and unrealistic. Altså, even on Ultra, the grass spawn too close to the camera, and so do the 2d sprites on soldiers. Is there a way to tweak these settings? To let Grass and 2d sprites spawn a longer distance from the screen? And a way to turn down the HDR a little, without actually disabling it?

[Bloodzen]

To change how far the camera spawns from the grass I think you have to change your resolution.
If your running maxed out than im guessing you have 1440x900 (I think thats it) than I dont think thats the problem.Otherwise I think the shadermodel might have something to do with it,make sure its not on SM2.As for HDR you either have to turn it on or off,theirs no tweakign option for it as far as I know.
Hope that helps

[Thanatos]

Thread moved to Technical Help.

[just]

I only know the HDR part, which requires a bit of modding.
In main.pack go to fx\hdr_to_screen.fx, on line 443 it should say

	float4 bloom			= tex2D(high_pass_sampler2,v.tex - high_pass_texel_offset) * 0.5;

Adjust the 0.5 to something lower, that should lessen the HDR effect.
Then put the file back in the pack or put it in a mod pack if you want to be able to lessen it on demand.

[Stoferr]

Would you do me a favour, and create such a mod pack? I dont know how to do it myself unfortunately.

[Stoferr]

I finally tried myself, but it didnt seem to help. I editied the main.pack with the pack manager, and then saved the settings... But there was no difference at all.

[just]

The file is also in patch.pack, which takes precedence over main.pack, that's why your change didn't work.

Attached is a mod pack (use mod manager to enable it) and sample screenshots with default hdr (to compare) and reduced hdr.

[Stoferr]

Thanks man! +rep