Graphics Options Defaults

Last updated for Issue 21 on 26 February 2012.

In the Options Window, under the Graphics and Audio tab, the last two seeings in the first section (Graphics) are Advanced Graphics Settings (a toggle that can be Enabled/Disabled) and Graphics Quality (a slider with five options). If you choose one of these five options and then enable Advanced Graphics settings, you can change the settings associated with that set of "defaults". If you at any time disable Advanced Graphics Settings, you will be returned to the defaults for your selection on the Graphics Quality slider- any changes you have made will be lost if you Apply the settings. These are the settings associated with each of those default sets.

For explanations of each of these settings, see the Options Window page, in the "Graphics and Audio Options" section.

Note: As the settings listed under "Ultra Mode Options" are duplicated under "Advanced Graphics Settings", only the latter are listed. No settings other than those revealed by enabling Advanced Graphics Settings are listed, as they are not affected by the slider.

	Minimum	Performance	Recommended	Quality	Ultra
Suppress FX When Close	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled	Disabled	Disabled
AGEIA (TM)PhysX(TM) Support	Only relevant if you have specific hardware
Particle Physics Quality	None	None	Medium	High	High
World Texture Quality	Very Low	Low	Very High	Very High	Very High
World Detail	50%	80%	100%	100%	100%
Character Detail	30%	100%	100%	100%	100%
Max Particle Count	100	50000	50000	50000	50000
Vertical Sync	Disabled	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled
Mouse Cursors	Color	Color	Color	Color	Color
Environment Reflections	Disabled	Disabled	Disabled	Low Quality	High Quality
Use Geometry Buffers	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled
Anisotropic Filtering	Off	4x	4x	4x	4x
Texture Crispness	Crisp	Smooth	Smooth	Smooth	Smooth
Shader Quality	Lowest	Low (No World Bumpmaps)	High	N/A	N/A
Water Effects	N/A	N/A	Medium Quality	High Quality	Ultra Quality
Depth of Field Effects	Disabled	Disabled	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled
Bloom Effects	None	None	Regular	Regular	Regular
Bloom Amount	N/A	N/A	100%	100%	100%
Desaturation Effects	Disabled	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled
Advanced Shadow Settings	N/A	N/A	N/A	Disabled	Disabled
Shadow Quality	Disabled	Lowest	Lowest	Low	High
Advanced Occlusion Settings	Disabled	Disabled	Disabled	Disabled	Disabled
Ambient Occlusion	Off	Off	Off	High Performance	High Performance