"Fixing" idtech is easy

Post » Sat Apr 11, 2015 1:48 pm

i post here, for some reason i cant log in into WTNO forums

my suggetstion for all future idtech 5-6 games (even existed ones) is to have ingame settings which actually work to avoid technical problems

I saw the upcoming Wolfenstein: the old blood and I would like bring up some ideas

Make the ingame option scalable and user friendly/logical, all idtech 5 games suffers from bad preset option which is not seen ingame or cant be changed.
in RAGE we had little options thats true but the thing is, we could tweak the game through config file, and fixing the game 100%.In WTNO we cant.

this is what helps to fix idtech 5 games
(important setting which elinimates the pop-in issue 100%)
1. maxppf 8: in RAGE we could use maxppf 8 through config file, but not in WTNO, max is 16
this setting is very important and should be defaulted 8 on all idtech games( higher than 8 gives lower performance/stutter problem and texture pop-in issues)

2. Texture cache: make sure all future idtech games have the best textures at ingame options, in RAGE only 8k is there, but fortunately we can use 16k textures via config file
with this 2 simple setting i have no texture problems,no pop-ins in RAGE ( you can have stuttering problems only if your GPU is weak)

3.Texture quality:
-RAGE:texture detail: this feature is very flawed in RAGE but fortunately we can disable it.In WTNO it is on by default and cant be set off.
what it does? (it does use upsampling and sharpen technic to textures)
In WTNO it looks better a bit due game using better textures and shaders at close range, but still ugly and unnecessary. The textures looks blurry, looks like having weird "filmgrain"-like effect baked into textures.( at cost of cpu power?) RAGE looks way better when texture detail is off, everything is crisp and clean.We dont need blurry jpeg looking cheap textures.

4.usually post-process effects are merged bunch of effects in idtech 5, while it was not that annoying in RAGE, in WTNO they added film grain as well...also the setting called "additional quality settings" in WTNO is making it just worse: AF, shadow and lighting is merged....

pls make separated settings (film grain,DoF,motion blur,heat,bloom,hdr etc...)

if community members agree/disagree (lol) pls post a comment



thx for your time

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