Star Trek Voyager tweak guide
Posted by Thomas McGuire on October 23, 2000 - Page 3/11

Graphics (Continued)

Texture Quality. Set this to 32 bit for best image quality & 16 bit for improved performance. Again, your video card must support 32-bit rendering. I’d highly recommend selecting 32-bit texture quality & using 16-bit colour depth for the best image quality/performance trade off.

Texture Filter. Trilinear will give the best image quality but take up a few MB’s of your graphics card memory. Elite Force uses a lot of textures; as such I’d recommend you set this to Bilinear. This will free up some video memory for all these textures. If you are using a 32MB+ plus graphics card you might be able to set this to Trilinear & enjoy the better image quality. Although even then some maps use over 32MB of texture memory.

See the r_textureMode "x" setting for more detailed information on settings available.

Simple Shaders. Setting this to On will lower the detail of some animated textures & transparencies. This will improve performance. Set it to Off for best visual quality.

Compressed Textures. Set this to Off to disable texture compression support (slower, but better visuals). This is for S3TC texture compression so if you have an S3 card, are using the 5.xx nVidia drivers or have a Voodoo 4 or 5 installed then you should set this to 1. Texture compression can vastly improve frame rates, although may cause some visual degradation in certain areas of the game.

Now select Video Additional & edit the options available here.

Brightness. Use this slider to set the brightness level in the game. I’d recommend checking the visual configs section for more accurate ways for changing brightness levels in the game.

Screen Size. Use this to select the screen size of the game, this is different to running full screen or windowed. Using a smaller screen size may improve performance, although will making viewing the game more difficult. I’d recommend leaving this set fully to the right, to run with maximum viewing area.

Cinematic Quality. Available options are High or Low quality for the videos in the game. Leave it set to High unless you are experiencing skipping/stuttering in video playback. Set it to Low if you are, this should result in smoother playback, although with less pleasing visual quality.

Anisotropic Filtering. When set to On image quality can be improved - elements of the scene will appear smoother when viewed at near edge angles. Your video card must support this however. Set it to Off to disable anisotropic filtering for improved performance, or if your video card doesn’t support it. If not supported it will automatically be disabled.

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