Texture quality automatically lowered?

[novatekk 0]

Hey all,

Really enjoying the Arma 3 beta for a while now but I recently noticed that sometimes my texture quality is automatically set from very high back to high.

I guess this has something to do with my videocard (Asus GTX560ti DCII) only having 1GB of memory which Arma 3 deems too little. The thing is, everything is running great even with texture quality set to very high.

My question is the following: is there anyway to prevent Arma 3 from automatically lowering the texture quality? Can I somehow force the game to always use a specific (in my case very high) texture setting?

Thanks in advance!

[tremanarch 6]

i guess you need a better vga with more vram. i also have the 560ti and it only has 1 gb

how should this work? you cant save more than 1 gb in 1gb vram?!

[jumpinghubert 49]

same problem with a 1250vram-card (GTX570), but not very often. Next I will try lowering anisotropic filtering quality in nvidia control panel (I let it stay on 16x).

[tonygrunt 10]

Hey all,

Really enjoying the Arma 3 beta for a while now but I recently noticed that sometimes my texture quality is automatically set from very high back to high.

I guess this has something to do with my videocard (Asus GTX560ti DCII) only having 1GB of memory which Arma 3 deems too little. The thing is, everything is running great even with texture quality set to very high.

My question is the following: is there anyway to prevent Arma 3 from automatically lowering the texture quality? Can I somehow force the game to always use a specific (in my case very high) texture setting?

Thanks in advance!

You could try lowering graphics settings that use video memory, not sure but those should be resolution, sampling (if over 100% not sure for below) and AA. This would give you more memory in expense of visual quality.

Wouldn't hurt to run a GPU monitoring program (MSI Afterburner) to monitor if your video ram is fully utilized.

[novatekk 0]

You could try lowering graphics settings that use video memory, not sure but those should be resolution, sampling (if over 100% not sure for below) and AA. This would give you more memory in expense of visual quality.

Wouldn't hurt to run a GPU monitoring program (MSI Afterburner) to monitor if your video ram is fully utilized.

Thanks for the suggestion. Sampling is already at 100%...so I'll try turning off AA and see if that helps.

I guess there really is no way to force very high quality textures then?

[thx1137 10]

Well. If your video card doesn't have the physical memory required for that setting I doubt there is much than can be done. That is an assumption mind you, that the cards memory is a limiting factor. Ideally the unavailable options would either be missing or be greyed out with a tooltip that said something like "Insufficient video memory" so it may be worth logging a ticket for it!

To reduce video memory you can set a lower video resolution (defeats the purpose of better graphics!) or if you you running Windows 7 or lower you can set video resolution to 16 bits. That won't reduce it by tons though as it is the detailed textures that are large.

[AttentionHorse 2]

Is there any way to disable the automatic lowering of texture quality? I changed it to Very High in the cfg file, but after few minutes it changes back to High. My fps is fine, so the game is overreacting a little. The quality difference between High and Very High is big, especially when you look at the ground, so this is making me crazy.