CoD "Extra" Texture settings

[Sepulture]

Ok guys, I'm currently playing Call of Duty in 1280x1024, 4xFSAA and 16xAA and have all my graphic settings all on the maximum except for the "General Textures" and "Character Textures" settings both on "High" instead of "Extra", which I guess is the maximum. When I have them on "Extra", the game just pauses randomly quite often but when I have them on "High", it's smooth sailing all the way, I figured this may be due to memory limitations but I'm on a Athlon Barton 3200+, 1gb of pc3200 ram and a Radeon9800pro 128mb, so it can't be a case of insufficient system memory. Anyone knows what's going on?

[SD-[Inc]]

I think the readme states that you should have 256MB on your video card in order to use the Extra setting. The pauses are likely swapping of textures out because of not enough memory.

[Sepulture]

Hmm I kinda had a hunch the 128mb of video memory would be the cause...I guess I'd have to live with it. Anyway thanks for the info!

[jonmcc33]

I have a 128MB Radeon 9700 Pro that runs CoD at 1024x768 with both EXTRA settings and it runs smooth as a baby's butt.

[wc326]

me too i have 9800 pro runs cod at 1600 x 1200 with everything to max or extra..

[silencerelite]

[optimummind]

It runs fine on my rig too at 1280x960.

[Jager]

Runs fine for me too. I've got all settings maxed like a mofo @ 1280x1024 with 2xAA 8xAF.

[Immortal LuD]

Originally posted by jonmcc33
I have a 128MB Radeon 9700 Pro that runs CoD at 1024x768 with both EXTRA settings and it runs smooth as a baby's butt.

Me too! Well except for the fact that I'm not using a Radeon 9700 Pro, but a 64MB Radeon 8500. Settings are maxed, and at 1024x768, the framerate is usually above 60fps.

[Sepulture]

I must be doing something wrong then.

Mine runs smoothly but when I set both of the General Textures and Character Textures to "Extra", BLAM. It starts pausing every few seconds.

[gramboh]

I have the same problem as you Supulture. I have a 128meg card and whenever I bump it up to Extra/Max settings on Character/texture etc detail it looks like it is dropping a frame every few seconds, like when you are looking around (panning with the mouse) it jerks every few seconds. This happens at 1024x768 or 1600x1200 with/withiout AA/AF on. Currently I am playing at high settings like you mentioned at 1600x1200 with vsync on at 75fps/75Hz and 4X AA 8X AF and it's very smooth, I can't tell much of a difference between the detail settings.

This is with Catalyst 3.7.

[Sepulture]

Hmm I see. I don't know why the above people can do "Extra" textures and still get a smooth framerate, it boggles my mind. I checked the readme file and indeed, like SD-[Inc] said, it says that cards with 128mb of video RAM are advised to use the "High" texture settings while 256mb cards can manage to handle the "Extra" texture settings.

[Immortal LuD]

Well are there any screenshots out there to prove that there's a different level of image quality between extra, and whatnot?

I doubt the textures are going to get any better than what they are now.

[vellox]

I'm curious as to whether the people who say they're playing at 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 @4xAA & 16xAF and it's smooth have played the first part of the Russian campaign. It seems that most of the people I've talked to have said (and me also) that the game just chokes on Stalingrad, and have to significantly tone down some of the goodies like AA or extra texture to be able to achieve a playable framerate. I'd be curious to see some screens of those of you who can play Stalingrad smoothly with the afformentioned settings.

[Audi2Honda]

Originally posted by vellox
I'm curious as to whether the people who say they're playing at 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 @4xAA & 16xAF and it's smooth have played the first part of the Russian campaign. It seems that most of the people I've talked to have said (and me also) that the game just chokes on Stalingrad, and have to significantly tone down some of the goodies like AA or extra texture to be able to achieve a playable framerate. I'd be curious to see some screens of those of you who can play Stalingrad smoothly with the afformentioned settings.

Yea that level is fairly brutal. I'm running 9800 pro speeds at 1024x768 and 4AA and 16AF. It's really smooth, but in a few spots I get a slowdown, and I'm running extra.

I just finished the russian levels and only got slowdowns 3 or so times, but with any less hardware I can see this level being slowdown. Nothing to worry about though

[Swune]

Re: CoD "Extra" Texture settings

Originally posted by Sepulture
Ok guys, I'm currently playing Call of Duty in 1280x1024, 4xFSAA and 16xAA and have all my graphic settings all on the maximum except for the "General Textures" and "Character Textures" settings both on "High" instead of "Extra", which I guess is the maximum. When I have them on "Extra", the game just pauses randomly quite often but when I have them on "High", it's smooth sailing all the way, I figured this may be due to memory limitations but I'm on a Athlon Barton 3200+, 1gb of pc3200 ram and a Radeon9800pro 128mb, so it can't be a case of insufficient system memory. Anyone knows what's going on?

the extra wouldnt have anything to do with your cpu/memory its all vid card. personality i cant see a diff with it extra/high or any proformance diff so i leave it extra, game would crash once in a while which is common it seems, disable fast write fixes it for me and also has nbo proformace diff on/off

on another note the game runs smoothe as silk ceot for a few parts (russian) even with all setting maxes at 1280x1024 with 6fsaa and 16x af. but run it at 1024x768 with 4fsaa and 4xaf just because other ogl games dont run as smoothe.

[NoTicket]

try setting your agp aperture to 256 or 512

[undernine]

it works fine on mine with the extra setting (see vid card below), but i only run the game at 1280x1024 with 2x AA and 4x AF. Stalingrad ran fine, although there was some slowdown....

[Weaser]

I get the same problem at 1024x768 with my Radeon 9500Pro 128MB. I fixed the stuttering by setting only the Character Texture detailt to high and leaving the general texture detail to extra. That seemed to solve it for me. Don't know why it runs good for others... funny thing is, I ran the demo in Extra no problems but was using 3.7 cats or maybe even 3.6 I'm using 3.9 cat right now.

[HEATLoE]

i can run everything on extra in the demo @ 1024x768x32 and it runs nice.

[jsamans]

I run at 1280x1024 with 4x AA and 4x AF with everything maxed out and had zero slowdowns in the Russian levels. My card is at 410/360.

[Star_Hunter]

I run at 1152x868 6xAA 16x AF High or Extra on everything and its smooth....9800 NP @ 400/340 :P

[jonmcc33]

Originally posted by Audi2Honda
Yea that level is fairly brutal. I'm running 9800 pro speeds at 1024x768 and 4AA and 16AF. It's really smooth, but in a few spots I get a slowdown, and I'm running extra.

I just finished the russian levels and only got slowdowns 3 or so times, but with any less hardware I can see this level being slowdown. Nothing to worry about though

I had no problems on the Russian levels with my system.

[IAmIronSam]

This game hardly looks pretty enough to use any more than 128mb of vRAM, it doesn't even have any pixel shaders. But if that's what it says in the readme, who am I to argue.

I haven't had any problems with my settings on Extra. Is it possible these crashes have to do with RAM? I've got 1gig.

[JohnnySkatoma]

Originally posted by Sepulture
I must be doing something wrong then.

Mine runs smoothly but when I set both of the General Textures and Character Textures to "Extra", BLAM. It starts pausing every few seconds.

Dont worry man, its not even that much of a diffrence. I have same problem game runs hella smooth soon as I put it on extra textures, it even crashes comp cause its so shitty dont worry you aint alone.

[jsamans]

Originally posted by IAmIronSam
This game hardly looks pretty enough to use any more than 128mb of vRAM, it doesn't even have any pixel shaders. But if that's what it says in the readme, who am I to argue.

I haven't had any problems with my settings on Extra. Is it possible these crashes have to do with RAM? I've got 1gig.

I was thinking it might be RAM too.

[jonmcc33]

I honestly don't think the Quake 3 engine, modified or not, could fill 128MB video memory.

[Sherv]

I do think that there is a difference in the graphics/texture quality between "high" & "max", although like many others here, I can't play at max as I only have a 128mb radeon.
(i will try some of the fixes posted)

[Pulsar]

Its not your system ram, I have 1gb and it stutters on my 9800 pro when I use extra settings. The people that say it doesnt stutter on their 128mb cards, have you guys tried to play thru the SP campaign? Cuz extra settings is fine in MP as there usually isnt as many people running around as there is in SP.

[jonmcc33]

I've played it all the way through in SP and play all the time in 32 person or larger MP servers on EXTRA settings without any problems at all.

[EMunEeE]

Call of Duty Demo - Dawnville Demo

Was at 1280x1024 w/ 2xAA/8xAF

Extra Texture Setting

It played perfectly fine for me.
Using fraps...the lowest FPS I got was 40fps...which I consider to be very playable

P.S. Ran on Radeon 9700 Pro & 2.4GHz P4

[EMunEeE]

Maybe the stutters come from going from the highest FPS to the lowest in a matter of seconds.

[gramboh]

I'll try bumping up apateur size. Honestly have no idea what it's at, I didn't change it after I put in my 9800 from my old GF2 GTS, whoops! What should I have AGP apateur at anyway? I have 1gig of physical RAM and a 128meg 9800 non pro overclocked.

Forgot to mention I was able to run max settings in the demo without the frame 'stutter' on the 3.7's as well. It's not from frame drops because I get the stutter even when I am panning against a blank wall and cg_drawfps is showing like 150+ fps.

[EMunEeE]

Yea this is a mind boggler. The only thing I can suggest is increasing your AGP aperture. My aperture was at 64MB and it ran smooth so that may not be the problem, but you can always try.

[Blue nose54]

I was getting slowdown, jutters and hardlocks with both the 3.8 & 3.9 cats no matter what settings I ran.

Put the 3.7 cats back on as others have suggested and never had any problems running nice and smooth with everything maxed out.

[Meusa]

maybe because 3.7's have the 16bit opengl bug?

[gramboh]

Bumped AGP apateur up to 256meg. I still get jerkyness with "extra" texture settings, but it's fine and smooth with "high" settings there and "maximum" for the model detail on the performance tax (the setting after high) at 1600x1200 vsync on 4x AA 8x AF. Oh well looks good enough.

[jonmcc33]

Originally posted by Meusa
maybe because 3.7's have the 16bit opengl bug?

I use the Cat 3.7 drivers and the game is in 32-bit. Stop spreading rumors please.

[Blue nose54]

Originally posted by jonmcc33
I use the Cat 3.7 drivers and the game is in 32-bit. Stop spreading rumors please.

I'm using cat 3.7 and the game runs fine, but the 16bit bug is there especially when you die or get that shellshock effect... the bug makes the screen look like your on a trip

[gramboh]

What is this 16bit bug? The game looks like it's 32bit colour and console reports it being 32, how can it switch to 16bit during shellshock?