[URGENT] Arbritary Texture Setting Limitations are too strict

[SquishyMuffin]

Issue: VRAM requirements are stupidly high and don't scale to your relative resolution. For example:

I'm running a 6GB 1660 Super, the card that's actually listed as 'recommended' by your team under system requirements. I understand if I was running 4K at MAX settings that the card simply does not have enough VRAM. But I'm not... I'm running at 1080p. At a MINIMUM, this should be able to run High textures. And besides that, you should let the player decide if it works or doesn't work for their setup... Not lock out the options completely.

What's really frustrating is upon initial boot, I was able to actually choose High. When I stupidly changed it to Medium to see if High working and the difference between the two, I wanted to go back, but now High and Ultra cannot be selected. And curiously enough, Ultra wasn't even visible. Clearly a bug that had favourable outcomes then.

[Drumfire]

same, Ultra Texture is not available, play on RTS 4080

[SquishyMuffin]

I've tried going into the sysconfig.lua file and manually changing the values but it doesn't seem to work. But in there you can see things such as lockout_minspec_gpu and lockout_lowspec_gpu etc ...

""lockout" settings will be disabled in the UI when the corresponding spec is detected."

There shouldn't be locking out of anything Relic. This is a PC game.

3GBs of Vram used on Medium at 1080p Max settings. Let me choose High godammit.

[SquishyMuffin]

Originally posted by Kemalist(mdx³):

game looks like trash and pretend we need 5 x 4090 for ultra, lol.
Barely looks better than coh2.

And you know what they claim is needed for Ultra? In this mobile looking game? 16GBs of Vram... Haha geez.

And the guy above with 4080 still can't access it. Joke.

[Krude]

What are you guys on about, 1060 6gb here playing on high textures, game runs fine and looks good enough.

COH2 ran like ♥♥♥♥ for me at times, was full of bugs thanks to how aggressively it was trying to be realistic and honestly wasn't that great of a game.

COH1 was a lot more fun. I feel like for COH3 they looked at what everyone wanted that wasn't superficial and tried to work on that rather than going for even more demanding stuff that would be ultimately a 5% increase in looks but you'd need to shell out a grand or two to be able to play it stable.

If you got good hardware and the games not running well then sure, that's something the devs should look into, but afaik this game was in the hands of the community for a while before release testing the living crap out of it. Seems to work well for most and I mean the huge majority.

[SquishyMuffin]

Originally posted by Plastic.Luv:

What are you guys on about, 1060 6gb here playing on high textures, game runs fine and looks good enough.

COH2 ran like ♥♥♥♥ for me at times, was full of bugs thanks to how aggressively it was trying to be realistic and honestly wasn't that great of a game.

COH1 was a lot more fun. I feel like for COH3 they looked at what everyone wanted that wasn't superficial and tried to work on that rather than going for even more demanding stuff that would be ultimately a 5% increase in looks but you'd need to shell out a grand or two to be able to play it stable.

If you got good hardware and the games not running well then sure, that's something the devs should look into, but afaik this game was in the hands of the community for a while before release testing the living crap out of it. Seems to work well for most and I mean the huge majority.

It runs fine, but that's because it's very conservative graphically. Like AOE4.

The issue is locking out graphics options / the settings being bugged.

[Armed_but_Blind]

This PC - Local Disk (C) - Users - (your user name) - Documents - My Games - Company of Heroes 3 - configuration_system

Line [28]
setting = "texturedetail",
variantUInt = 1

Change the 1 to a 0 to unlock ultra settings.

I have done this on my system 5800x 32gb ram 6700xt and running the benchmark averaged 130fps and it is noticeably better looking I have no idea why they locked this setting

Edit - also in the benchmark it only used 8gb vram max

[SquishyMuffin]

Originally posted by Armed_but_Blind:

This PC - Local Disk (C) - Users - (your user name) - Documents - My Games - Company of Heroes 3 - configuration_system

Line [28]
setting = "texturedetail",
variantUInt = 1

Change the 1 to a 0 to unlock ultra settings.

I have done this on my system 5800x 32gb ram 6700xt and running the benchmark averaged 130fps and it is noticeably better looking I have no idea why they locked this setting

Edit - also in the benchmark it only used 8gb vram max

Nice thank you for this. Got it to work. Uses 4.5GB Vram on High at 1080p. Ultra slowed everything down to a crawl but they are 4K textures, so makes sense.

[Tom Kat]

I'm on 6600xt & run ultra.

Default Medium put me at 90-110 fps.
Maxed put me at 130-170.
Beta AMD Driver causes occasional video freezes but i can fix it with AMD Overlay.

NVIDIA has been trash since 2004. AMD cards love to be pushed.

and 1660 is like.. 10 years old?

[Dimometer]

I have a 5800x, 32GB of ram and a 3080 10GB (resolution 2560x1440). Running on ultra settings it averages 151 fps and it does look better than high. I do not know why this option has been disabled - relic should explain themselves.

[Zapata]

Originally posted by Armed_but_Blind:

This PC - Local Disk (C) - Users - (your user name) - Documents - My Games - Company of Heroes 3 - configuration_system

Line [28]
setting = "texturedetail",
variantUInt = 1

Change the 1 to a 0 to unlock ultra settings.

I have done this on my system 5800x 32gb ram 6700xt and running the benchmark averaged 130fps and it is noticeably better looking I have no idea why they locked this setting

Edit - also in the benchmark it only used 8gb vram max

You're playing at 1440p, correct?