WOV/WOE Anti-Alias Option Switch

[Stwa]

Hi all,

 

Just recently I felt shame because I was still running on the last 2006 patch for WOV/WOE.

 

So I retried installing the September 08 patch.

 

I still have a older (but still capable) system, that uses a Radeon 9600 video card.

 

I thought I would post this, in case there are other losers like me still running this kind of system.

 

Anyway, once patched to 08 WOV/WOE would not use the anti-alias feature of the video card. It would using the 06 patches.

 

I could set the anti-alias methods using the ATI control panel, but pretty much all combinations would suck my box to its knees.

 

Eventually (I am slow), I found a switch for this in the options.ini in main game folder.

 

Open this file and find the following ...

 

[GraphicsOptions]

DisplayDeviceID=0

DisplayWidth=1360

DisplayHeight=768

DisplayDepth=32

AspectRatio=1.777778

LensFlare=0

DetailLevel=4

ObjectDetail=2

ObjectTexture=2

CockpitTexture=2

CockpitMirrors=0

CockpitReflection=0

EffectsDetail=1

TerrainDetail=1

TerrainTexture=2

HorizonDistance=1

GroundObjectDensity=1

WaterDetail=0

CloudsDetail=0

Shadow=0

AntiAliasing=4 <<+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

You can set this to switch to various values, and even if you make graphic changes in the game it won't affect this switch. Now you can set your video card back to application prefernece, which is what I prefer.

 

Here are the values I tried and the results.

 

0 = no effect, no anti-aliasing

1 = no effect, no anti-aliasing

2 = good anti-aliasing

4 = very good anti-aliasing

 

I am sure you guys probably figured this out a long time ago. I did search the topic first, and didn't find much.