[Guide] Increase texture quality

[SilverFire]

wow, thx man, +rep for u

[Valkyries]

Ok i realised i didn't have Catalyst Control Center installed at all.. So I downloaded it and my mipmaps were already on the "Quality" setting, which was the max setting. I might try ATI Tray Tools instead.

EDIT: Here's the screenshot on how to change it in CCC.




EDIT #2: Ok I got ATI Tray tools, installed and here's the screenies on how to change your LOD adjustment to -1 if you want to add it in your guide parrworg.





Hope this helps.

EDIT #3: Catalyst Control Center is FLIPPIN useless compared to ATI Tray Tools. ATI TT does everything CCC does, but more, and more compact. I strongly advise ATI TT over CCC.

Also my WoW wouldn't run when i had CCC installed. That's a pretty good reason for me not to use it ^^

[parrworg]

Thanks Valkyries, I'll add it to the guide

[Killarena]

Thanks for the trick even if I don't really see the difference on the 1st / 3th screen (But /love the water change )

[Pulxor]

Awesome ! .

[Pwnie]

spiffy job, now i just have to get it going on my comp and hope it doesn't kill my video card

[apezz]

Another way you can do this, or something similar (for Nvidia users).

1 ) Right click your desktop, and go down to Nvidia Control Panel, click it.

2 ) Click 'Manage 3D Settings' in the left tab.

3 ) Click the 'Program Settings' tab.

4 ) Select 'World of Warcraft' or 'wow.exe'

5 ) Start customising settings, I recommend turning stuff like AA and AF up, especially if you have a decent card.

6 ) Bask in the glorious graphics!

Hope it helped

[parrworg]

Anisotropic filtering can also be changed from the ingame video settings where it's called texture filtering. Also, those settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel do not include the LOD bias adjustment. Anti-aliasing does help with the flickering but alone it doesn't improve image quality at all since it just smoothes spiky edges. However, anisotropic filtering increases texture quality but it provides you with a rather big performance loss compared to this method. But if you have a really, really, good computer then I suppose that's fine.

[apezz]

[parrworg]

Yeah, that setting just allows the use of negative LOD bias but it doesn't set it to a negative value nor does it allow you to change it yourself.
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[Knaz]

Whouldnt this decrease your fps alot ?

[xdaysx98]

Haven't posted in a while but, yea, don't use -3. It flickers like a seizure. >_> Good find so +rep.

[Barfish88]

Excellent gonna try tonight, getting 9600GT tomorrow, throwing my shitty 7900GTX away

[parrworg]

Whouldnt this decrease your fps alot ?

I personally didn't notice any change in FPS at all.

[-Lex]

On my laptop i have a "Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family" Which isn't ATI or Nvidia, is there still any way to do this? +rep for the guide for sure