Game won't let change graphics to classic in online mode.

[tw1]

Ya I can change graphics offline with the default controls with space bar. But when I am online, I am stuck with remaster graphics. Anyway to do this? Or you can't?

[Frank]

You cant

[tw1]

are you sure? cause that's the biggest screw up out of all the EA copies of C&C 95 and RA crashing constantly without modifying the files. Are you sure?

[Cat]

Unfortunately, we are stuck with the remastered graphics when playing online. The store page only tells us we can do it in solo play.

"Graphics Switching — Switch in real-time between legacy and remastered 4K graphics when in solo play."

[tw1]

there should've been a classic mode due to exact positioning of units and structures. Where the graphics are classic. This new stuff is really annoying. Even the FMVs with it's surplus in frame rates and unwanted resolution increases. Like.. even the interface.. The original game just nailed it. I don't know how Warcraft 3 was meant to be in the eyes of some. But I now truly feel their pain. I knew there were gonna be some problems with this, it had EA written all over it. Too bad EA didn't keep Westwood as westwood, cause EA is just... well if the campaign crashes more than 3 times... ya screw it.

[graystripe]

Originally posted by monstertank:

there should've been a classic mode due to exact positioning of units and structures. Where the graphics are classic. This new stuff is really annoying. Even the FMVs with it's surplus in frame rates and unwanted resolution increases. Like.. even the interface.. The original game just nailed it. I don't know how Warcraft 3 was meant to be in the eyes of some. But I now truly feel their pain. I knew there were gonna be some problems with this, it had EA written all over it. Too bad EA didn't keep Westwood as westwood, cause EA is just... well if the campaign crashes more than 3 times... ya screw it.

you are actually very highly inaccurate.

do you know that EA actually partner up with Petroglyph Games.

and a lot of people who are formerly from Westwood Studios actually form and founded Petroglyph Games.

these people who originally help to make C & C tiberium dawn, Red Alert 1, C & C 2 and Red Alert 2 help out EA to Revamp the "tiberium dawn and Red Alert 1 Remastered".

all in all, you OP can't pin all the blame and fault at EA at all.

especially since you don't even know exactly who are part of the development team for C & C Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert 1 Remastered at all.

[Nyerguds]

IIRC, the fact it doesn't work is because of synchronisation issues, since the graphics switch itself may need to load graphics that aren't loaded at that point, and this action could desynchronise games.

Originally posted by monstertank:

there should've been a classic mode due to exact positioning of units and structures. Where the graphics are classic. This new stuff is really annoying. Even the FMVs with it's surplus in frame rates and unwanted resolution increases. Like.. even the interface.. The original game just nailed it.

Then... just play the original game? It's free, you know

And as graystripe said, the devs who programmed this remaster were Petroglyph. Some of the key original Westwood programmers from back in the 90s were the lead developers on this project.

[Artuurs]

You dont want to change to the old ones anyway, trust me, its not the good graphics that were in C&C Gold, its somekind of ugly blend of DOS and maybe a very early first release that wasnt DOS, they did it on purpose to have you play only with the new graphics, which is this ''remasters'' only selling point, everything else was ruined, worsened compared to the original version.

[tw1]

Originally posted by graystripe:

Originally posted by monstertank:

there should've been a classic mode due to exact positioning of units and structures. Where the graphics are classic. This new stuff is really annoying. Even the FMVs with it's surplus in frame rates and unwanted resolution increases. Like.. even the interface.. The original game just nailed it. I don't know how Warcraft 3 was meant to be in the eyes of some. But I now truly feel their pain. I knew there were gonna be some problems with this, it had EA written all over it. Too bad EA didn't keep Westwood as westwood, cause EA is just... well if the campaign crashes more than 3 times... ya screw it.

you are actually very highly inaccurate.

do you know that EA actually partner up with Petroglyph Games.

and a lot of people who are formerly from Westwood Studios actually form and founded Petroglyph Games.

these people who originally help to make C & C tiberium dawn, Red Alert 1, C & C 2 and Red Alert 2 help out EA to Revamp the "tiberium dawn and Red Alert 1 Remastered".

all in all, you OP can't pin all the blame and fault at EA at all.

especially since you don't even know exactly who are part of the development team for C & C Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert 1 Remastered at all.

EA... hmm friends Dad worked at Westwood. He programmed Dune 2... Before iy came out on Sega Genesis.. You are telling me... I should respect EA when most people don't know the difference between MBps or mbps without using google?

[Neverbeing]

Originally posted by monstertank:

Originally posted by graystripe:

you are actually very highly inaccurate.

do you know that EA actually partner up with Petroglyph Games.

and a lot of people who are formerly from Westwood Studios actually form and founded Petroglyph Games.

these people who originally help to make C & C tiberium dawn, Red Alert 1, C & C 2 and Red Alert 2 help out EA to Revamp the "tiberium dawn and Red Alert 1 Remastered".

all in all, you OP can't pin all the blame and fault at EA at all.

especially since you don't even know exactly who are part of the development team for C & C Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert 1 Remastered at all.

EA... hmm friends Dad worked at Westwood. He programmed Dune 2... Before iy came out on Sega Genesis.. You are telling me... I should respect EA when most people don't know the difference between MBps or mbps without using google?

What on earth are you talking about?

None of what you just said has anything to do the fact that Petroglyph staff were heavily involved with the development of the remaster and that some of them were key devs in the development of the original games. It's simply not EA's fault that you can't switch views in online games - neither is it that big of a deal.

It sucks that a feature you'd like isn't there, but it is clearly detailed on the store page and as others have pointed out, you can easily play the originals both on and offline for free.

[tw1]

Originally posted by drewdann:

Originally posted by monstertank:

EA... hmm friends Dad worked at Westwood. He programmed Dune 2... Before iy came out on Sega Genesis.. You are telling me... I should respect EA when most people don't know the difference between MBps or mbps without using google?

What on earth are you talking about?

None of what you just said has anything to do the fact that Petroglyph staff were heavily involved with the development of the remaster and that some of them were key devs in the development of the original games. It's simply not EA's fault that you can't switch views in online games - neither is it that big of a deal.

It sucks that a feature you'd like isn't there, but it is clearly detailed on the store page and as others have pointed out, you can easily play the originals both on and offline for free.

If I have to download starcraft remaster again, already having the Warforged Warcraft 3.. I am pretty sure both games let you play both graphics online. How in the hell should I respect anything when EA puts their name on it? I mean.. battlefield sucks. Do you even know what you are talkin about? I mean I got the first decade, the 20th anniversary, the origin copy... I mean come on.. None of EA's involvement has resolved the crashing issue on all operating systems the stupid thing says it can operate on. 4k sucks. It's always gonna suck, until something surpasses progressive scan. I swear man. For god sakes the stupid file size is 30 gigabytes. and some of you think it's chump change, cause you think you a damn thing about computers.

[Nyerguds]

Originally posted by Artuurs:

You dont want to change to the old ones anyway, trust me, its not the good graphics that were in C&C Gold, its somekind of ugly blend of DOS and maybe a very early first release that wasnt DOS, they did it on purpose to have you play only with the new graphics, which is this ''remasters'' only selling point, everything else was ruined, worsened compared to the original version.

The in-game graphics never changed between the DOS and Win95 versions. Only the sidebar and the resolution:

https://i.imgur.com/5zIGMvA.png

[Neverbeing]

Originally posted by monstertank:

Originally posted by drewdann:

What on earth are you talking about?

None of what you just said has anything to do the fact that Petroglyph staff were heavily involved with the development of the remaster and that some of them were key devs in the development of the original games. It's simply not EA's fault that you can't switch views in online games - neither is it that big of a deal.

It sucks that a feature you'd like isn't there, but it is clearly detailed on the store page and as others have pointed out, you can easily play the originals both on and offline for free.

If I have to download starcraft remaster again, already having the Warforged Warcraft 3.. I am pretty sure both games let you play both graphics online. How in the hell should I respect anything when EA puts their name on it? I mean.. battlefield sucks. Do you even know what you are talkin about? I mean I got the first decade, the 20th anniversary, the origin copy... I mean come on.. None of EA's involvement has resolved the crashing issue on all operating systems the stupid thing says it can operate on. 4k sucks. It's always gonna suck, until something surpasses progressive scan. I swear man. For god sakes the stupid file size is 30 gigabytes. and some of you think it's chump change, cause you think you a damn thing about computers.

I didn't claim to know anything about computers specifically - because it's not related to what we're talking about. Neither is your friend's dad, neither is Battlefield and neither has which previous versions of C&C you have owned in the past.

For what it's worth, I'm not the biggest fan of EA and have owned most of the versions of C&C across various systems.

The simple fact is switching between graphics modes while online wasn't an advertised feature. Some remastered games might allow it, but this one doesn't. I frankly surprised that someone with a big brain like you missed that when you were readying the product description page...

[TaxOwlbear]

Originally posted by monstertank:

For god sakes the stupid file size is 30 gigabytes. and some of you think it's chump change, cause you think you a damn thing about computers.

Even laptops now frequently come with 500GB internal space. 30GB is chump change.

[tw1]

Originally posted by drewdann:

Originally posted by monstertank:

If I have to download starcraft remaster again, already having the Warforged Warcraft 3.. I am pretty sure both games let you play both graphics online. How in the hell should I respect anything when EA puts their name on it? I mean.. battlefield sucks. Do you even know what you are talkin about? I mean I got the first decade, the 20th anniversary, the origin copy... I mean come on.. None of EA's involvement has resolved the crashing issue on all operating systems the stupid thing says it can operate on. 4k sucks. It's always gonna suck, until something surpasses progressive scan. I swear man. For god sakes the stupid file size is 30 gigabytes. and some of you think it's chump change, cause you think you a damn thing about computers.

I didn't claim to know anything about computers specifically - because it's not related to what we're talking about. Neither is your friend's dad, neither is Battlefield and neither has which previous versions of C&C you have owned in the past.

For what it's worth, I'm not the biggest fan of EA and have owned most of the versions of C&C across various systems.

The simple fact is switching between graphics modes while online wasn't an advertised feature. Some remastered games might allow it, but this one doesn't. I frankly surprised that someone with a big brain like you missed that when you were readying the product description page...

stop trying to make yourself look righteous and not wrong. I visited westwood studio. I was there, because my childhood friends dad worked there. I got to alpha test Dune 2 for Sega, before it was in beta and ready for mass production. You have no idea what you are talking about. and the more you respond with nonsense, it's only your way of trying to create the illusion of trolling. Which I rather argue with you until I am convinced there is no way to reason with you as a civil person.

[tw1]

Originally posted by TaxOwlbear:

Originally posted by monstertank:

For god sakes the stupid file size is 30 gigabytes. and some of you think it's chump change, cause you think you a damn thing about computers.

Even laptops now frequently come with 500GB internal space. 30GB is chump change.

your response is highly unacceptable. stick to your blue ray 4k nonsense. Chump