Suggestion: HIGHEST graphical quality setting.

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

As it is, only your own avatar has full graphics quality, everyone else gets downsampled textures

As I am a great fan of good graphics, I'd love to have a HIGHEST graphics setting, in which everyone was shown with high-res textures.

AceSnyp3r

AceSnyp3r

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Work in Progress [WIP]

That would be cool, or have a setting for varying degrees of downsampling. Some of the coolness of the 15k armor sets most of all seems to disappear with the low-res textures...

Vilaptca

Vilaptca

Pre-Searing Vanquisher

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

It's only in town though that the quality gets downsampled, but I wouldn't mind having an option like this. Its not everyday that you get to group with someone with Fissure armor, but its almost guaranteed to find one person with Fissure at ToA, Granite Citadel or Marhans Grotto.

d4nowar

d4nowar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Mo/

That is a really good suggestion. Some of us with a decent graphics card want to put it to good use!

thestealthcow101

thestealthcow101

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

W/Mo

Yes, I agree. I've seen other people wearing the armor I have, and I keep thinking to myself "Why does that look so crappy, compared to mine?", and I guess this answers my question. Lots of us put a lot of money into highend machines, and we don't wanna let it go to waste!

theclam

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

But, I wouldn't be able to run at high settings, anymore. My pride would be ruined. Awful idea.

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

Sure you could run in HIGH settings. Just not our uber-leet HIGHEST setting!

GranDeWun

GranDeWun

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

I believe the downsampling happens on other people only when the number of people in town gets high. Which made the Grotto pretty funny when new armors came out...

Talesin Darkbriar

Talesin Darkbriar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

California - irrigated desert...

The Myrmidon

E/N

Agree with the OP~
My system will handle everything GW can throw at it and then some. Let us have some enhanced control over the settings; the "automagical" ones appear to use the lowest common denominator.

Not all of us are still running 800 Mhz pentiums with 16MB RAM.

Zaklex

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2005

San Jose, CA, USA

Remnants of Ascalon

I've never noticed this problem, but then I don't hang around Lions Arch all of the time. I've seen mulitple characters with the updated 15k armor in Marhan's and the graphics have not been "downsampled", try going to a little less crowded location.

Lampshade

Lampshade

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

USA

Xen of Onslaught

lol

My graphics card isnt even meant for Guild Wars.

stupid Intel Grapchis Controllers.

I hate being broke

Eder

Eder

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Agree with the OP. Would be a nice option. Would be even better if you could control mip-map distances directly. Got a budget system but don't wanna miss out on high res armors? Set it to use high-res only for people standing within two feet of the camera.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vilaptca
Its not everyday that you get to group with someone with Fissure armor, but its almost guaranteed to find one person with Fissure at ToA, Granite Citadel or Marhans Grotto.
So true. It's very frustrating to run into someone with a nice set of armor in town and not be able to drool over the guy's armor in the highest possible resolution.

Mugon M. Musashi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

France (Paris)

BUG

Mo/W

/signed

my graphic card is hungry