Improving graphics tweak

On the other forums I think there was a thread on how to tweak and improve the graphics (and possibly draw distance??) in DR.
I have tried to find this thread but I cannot find it.

You need to go (if you have retailed version of game [i guess, might be wrong though]) to Documents/My Games/OFDR/hardware settings.
Then, before you do anything to settings, it'd be wise to check "hardware_settings_restrictions" in data_win/system/ folder to checkout what is allowed to tweak in game. Then head back to Documents/......... and open with NotePad "hardware_settings_config" file to tweak it.
The best is to keep both windows open and check in realtime what you're tweaking.

Cheers

Its actually a simple thing to do, just follow these instructions :

copy the SYSTEM folder from DATA into DATA_WIN

open the hardware_settings_restrictions.xmls file and change the appropriate section to look like this :

Code:

   <ground_cover>
        <restrict_set name="tilesPerLOD" default="24">
            <allowed value="8" />
            <allowed value="24" />
            <allowed value="49" />
            <allowed value="81" />
            <allowed value="122" />
            <allowed value="256" />
        </restrict_set>
        <restrict_float_range name="lodScale" default="1.0" min="0.1" max="15.0" />
    </ground_cover>

then open the config file in My Documents\My Games\OFPDR\hardwaresettings\hardware_settings_con fig.xml

and change the appropriate area to look like this :

Code:


    <coverage tolerance="1.000000" />
    <ground_cover lodScale="15.00000" tilesPerLOD="8" />

there you go, grass is gone! Looks a little crap though.

also, you can go the opposite way and make grass super dense. The problem with this is that it seems the game has a max number of grass entities that game be in the game at any one time, so the more you lower the LOD, the more grass, but closer the grass will stop being drawn.

I find these settings are good for pretty far distance grass

Code:

    <coverage tolerance="0.000000" />
    <ground_cover lodScale="1.20000" tilesPerLOD="256" />

Enjoy

you just disable smaa and AA in the game and download fxaa and use that and you will see nice graphics less strain on cpu

whats that fxaa you are talking about? and where can we get it?

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/fxaa_post_process_injection_tool_download.html

http://www.erodov.com/forums/fxaa-tool-improve-game-graphics-nvidia-cards-awesome/48660.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ763n7zN38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDv5xU6O3J0



this should be enough to show you how this bad boy works

Testing this now - it seems to be an NVIDIA graphics mod and has been updated for Radeon (which is what I now use)

RadeonPro
http://www.radeonpro.info/en-US/

The articles on FXAA seem nice, whether it fills in the gaps of OFDR is another story.

I use fxaa it and works great