Graphics

[BunButts]

For some reason I cannot change the texture slider? is this a persistant problem for everyone else? Is there a fix?

[Shark Gamer]

I have the same issue. I've made a ticket but haven't gotten a response yet. My google-fu skills have turned up the possible issue that the game may simply not be compatible with post-vista OS's. In its current state it's half a game considering how bad it looks and I'll be trying to get a refund if there isn't a solution to it.

[BunButts]

Ah cheers for the info, I thought I could of forced the game to boost the graphics up by altering the config file in the options folder. I saw it was set at 0, I tried all numeraical values from 0-4 to see any changes, but all that happens is that it reverts back to 0. I made a thread on the ubisoft forums;however, the members there were less than helpful stating that "settlers 7" is a better game. I also made a ticket, but have yet to recieve a responese. Shame really, I do enjoy the mechanics of settlers 6 with the free flow movement and building.

[Shark Gamer]

Got a response from Steam support. First they mixed it up with S7 and when they finally got that I was talking about S6 they redirected me to Ubisoft who said that they don't support windows 7. I have no idea what's going on at this point but I'm not getting a refund apparently and the game is not working as intended. Serves me right for paying for ubisoft a game.

[NuclearComplex]

I know this is old, but i've got the same problem.
i can't find any way to get it working.
I've got Windows 8
Intel i5 3570k
8GB ram
AMD 6950 crossfire.

really can't play it with low res muddy textures...

[NuclearComplex]

just got it working.
I had to disable drossfire, and then i was able to change the texture quality.

The game probably can't read over 2GB's of VRAM and will think that there is under the minimum needed, so won't let you change the textures.
A similar thing happens in Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, except in that case the game will not let you use a resolution over 1280x1024.

Don't know if it'll work for you, but that was my solution.

[Ljósapaldr]

That's bad news, seeing as I'm sitting with a nvidia 680 with 4gb by itself.

Anyone have anything else that might help? I loved this game, the 7th was a huge dissappointment for me, a bit sad if I can't play it properly just after getting it on Steam :/

[johnkibble26]

is there a way to scale back the graphics

[Kaelon]

I can confirm that this is more or less as nuclearcomplex mentioned above. The Settlers: Rise of an Empire can only read up to 2 Gb in video, and even changing the Options configuration file to the highest setting for TextureResolution (which, btw, is 3) does not seem to actually generate the higher resolution textures.

I tested this on two separate computers -- one running Win 7, the other Win 8 -- the Win 8 machine had a GeForce 560 Ti with 1 Gb of VRAM, and the Win 7 machine had a GeForce 760 GTX with 4 Gb of VRAM -- and the Win 8 machine was constantly able to generate the slider options, and generate the right textures for this game.

There really needs to be some sort of work-around to "fool" the game into thinking you have 2 Gb of VRAM or less. The default textures are pretty poor, but the highest resolution textures are nice and sharp.

[Street_Fighter]

Does this mean I have to get a new (worse) graphic card just to play this game on full settings? Isn't there another way to "disable" 1 or 2 GB of VRAM?

[Lucas]

BUMPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

[ADRIEN manowarad WRP crossbowlov]

still no solution ? no way with regedit or something to "not allow" the game checking the video card VRAM ?

[Lucas]

I tried almost everything still can figure it out there must be a way !

[ADRIEN manowarad WRP crossbowlov]

havent found any :,(

[Sanny]

bump

[Lucas]

There has got to be something