Does the game look better starting it from the hi-rez exe?

[Achilleslastand]

In the steam folder as opposed to the icon that steam places on your desktop? Was going thru this post at the official forums and am quite curious. "it started with my irritation over the low res start Icon so i used the start Icon from where i installed the game, i then could start up as an administrator with that new Icon, and like a flash from a clear sky my grapic looks like the ones ca showing of!!! im a happy man!!!!!!! i realy hope it works for more than just me, cause it looked awfull even though i have a quite good gaming rig. but now the textures are unbelievebly crisp. the blurryness is gone.

Hope it helps someone, i know i sounds weird but its easy to test!!!" http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...-is-what-i-did? Not sure how this would/should work so please take it with a grain of salt.

[wulfgar610]

For me the difference was switching from shader model 5 in advanced graphics to 4.1. Prior to that it looked mushy.

[Turtle Kent]

interesting..

[Bohannan]

Can somebody explain it to me better please im having that issue(campaign map looks blurry) i know i have the hardware to push it on extreme. Im just not getting the crisp graphics. So sad cuz is breaking my immersion. Where is this icon? Do i copy it to my desktop and launch game from it?

[hellblazer]

Just go to your rome 2 dir and make a desktop shortcut to the actual rome2.exe.

[Bohannan]

Did not work for me. Still discolored unsharpened campaign map, what a bummer.

[Bohannan]

Can somebody somebody guide me since im a noob? Maybe I did it wrong.

[agent 47]

I would say there's no way this could be possible..i mean there's only one exe, every shortcut points to it.

At this point i wouldn't put it past CA to pull something like this off though.