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Posted by rival on Sun Sep 25th at 3:19pm 2005

i tried 'dxlevel 80' into the console but did not work. but my card trying to run at directx 9 is what it is. i have all my settings on low and it still looks like high texture detail plus high shader detail.


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Posted by Andrei on Sun Sep 25th at 4:16pm 2005

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i tried 'dxlevel 80' in the console


So have I. It doesn't seem to run from the console.

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Rival, go make steam.exe a shortcut and paste this after steam.exe under "target":

-console -applaunch 320 -dxlevel 80

That how I fixed it.




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Posted by Captain P on Sun Sep 25th at 5:58pm 2005

You can use the 'find' command in the console to, well, find console commands. The one that controls the directX level is something like mat_dxlevel or such, just do a find for dxlevel.

I'm still having some performance downs now and then though, I can't remember having them so badly before this update...



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Posted by Andrei on Sun Sep 25th at 6:25pm 2005

Oh, thanks for the hint! That "find" command will be most useful. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">




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Posted by Captain P on Sun Sep 25th at 7:52pm 2005

Heh, yeah, with the overload of commands these days... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

I used a similar command in FarCry to find a suitable cheat to get past one of the last levels. Disabling the AI was a nice one, not as standard as godmode or noclipping... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">



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Posted by Crono on Sun Sep 25th at 8:37pm 2005

Well, you can use 70, 80, 81, and 90. Meaning: DirectX 7, 8, 8.1, and 9 respectivley.

It suggested 8.0 to fix the errors caused by that new patch.

I also believe "dxlevel" is a launch option ... meaning, if you do it in game, chances are, you'd have to restart the game. But that's a guess.


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Posted by rs6 on Sun Sep 25th at 8:48pm 2005

yea if you right click on the game, in the my games menu and select properties then lauch options type -dxlevel xx This will stay forever

(xx being the level you want.)



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Posted by Dark Tree on Mon Sep 26th at 12:06am 2005

dxlevel 81 worked great. Thanks guys




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Posted by Underdog on Mon Sep 26th at 1:00am 2005

Having a nasty 5200 sure isn't helping your situation any. At this point, my gaming machine is in storage and I cannot even play HL2 ATM, but with this 56k I have now, I am not really in any hurry either.

Good luck with this issue. It would be curious to know if anyone not using a GeForce card is having this problem.




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Posted by Andrei on Mon Sep 26th at 1:39pm 2005

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Having a nasty 5200 sure isn't helping your situation any.


I'm thinking of buying a newer one if it's not too expensive. What would you recommend me?




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Posted by Crono on Mon Sep 26th at 5:04pm 2005

Something that's not equivalent to the MX series of cards.


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Posted by rival on Mon Sep 26th at 5:55pm 2005

ive decided that, for now, im going to just stick with the directx solution (by the way thanks everyone for your help)




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Posted by rival on Mon Sep 26th at 7:59pm 2005

let me correct myself. that didnt work either. looks like i am forced to get a new card. no css for a while now




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