I sure am glad you made a thread about the improved disc textures. I was so frothing at the mouth to play again that I honestly wouldn't have installed off of the discs if someone hadn't said just what you did. It's a very real change. I mean, the instant I loaded it up I knew you were right. I tweaked a bit of the settings and now my mind is blown completely.. it's not just the aa and af settings doing this, don't the colors seem sharper? The world's gamma seem more crisp, the buildings less dull and filled with every bit of detail you could imagine. The armor is specular and bump mapped on my simple cloth arms, you can see light reflecting off them in the moonlight. No edges to the characters or buildings whatsoever in terms of jaggedness. It is as if high texture resolution is all of a sudden there. I love the detail of this game and now, well now Im going to play it with renewed vigor and enthusiasm tenfold. It just looks so good, I always loved the art direction but now I can truly see how sharp and gorgeous it all is. Well found.

65% patching atm

just after installing from the discs,

i will be sure to post my impressions after it is done.

Originally posted by Balthaazar1

I sure am glad you made a thread about the improved disc textures. I was so frothing at the mouth to play again that I honestly wouldn't have installed off of the discs if someone hadn't said just what you did. It's a very real change. I mean, the instant I loaded it up I knew you were right. I tweaked a bit of the settings and now my mind is blown completely.. it's not just the aa and af settings doing this, don't the colors seem sharper? The world's gamma seem more crisp, the buildings less dull and filled with every bit of detail you could imagine. The armor is specular and bump mapped on my simple cloth arms, you can see light reflecting off them in the moonlight. No edges to the characters or buildings whatsoever in terms of jaggedness. It is as if high texture resolution is all of a sudden there. I love the detail of this game and now, well now Im going to play it with renewed vigor and enthusiasm tenfold. It just looks so good, I always loved the art direction but now I can truly see how sharp and gorgeous it all is. Well found.

 

Haha yeah ever since I noticed I have been looking around like... Wait a minute this all of a sudden looks way better.  There is just a comfortable feel to it where before at time it might have felt awkward to look at.  One thing I noticed is the water in certain light looks awesome.

 Oh man, not only does it look much smoother but i find the UI reacts a whole lot faster now also.

If the dvd version gives better graphics than a new beta client download+patched up then my frustration will return with a vengeance! I bought the dvd's, tried to install and the bloody thing kept giving errors, simply refusing to install even the first disc. So I was forced to download the beta and patch it up.

Great news!  Patching disks now and can't wait.  I was a little disappointed with the quality of the graphics in OB and this news really puts a sparkle back in my eye.  Thanks for the news, now I just gotta wait for another 34%

 Great info!!!!!! thanks a bunch!!

I too got the pre-order physical game, but never loaded it and used my beta files.

Originally posted by Fyendiar

If the dvd version gives better graphics than a new beta client download+patched up then my frustration will return with a vengeance! I bought the dvd's, tried to install and the bloody thing kept giving errors, simply refusing to install even the first disc. So I was forced to download the beta and patch it up.

An earlier post in this thread also mentioned clearing the cache as a resolution.  You may want to give that a whirl to improve your Beta client.  G/L

Cache could be important.  Something else I noticed is that before in Scenarios or in RvR with a good bit of people on screen I would start to stutter, or lose a couple frames and since I installed this I have not had it happen at all.  It seems like better graphics but at the same time more stable. 

It could just be that I installed while they had the 4 hour+ downtime though.  Hard to say really. 

Simple fix.  As stated earlier. Just delete the cache folder from the Warhammer beta folder. 

Deleted the cache, no difference. The graphics are nice, but not as sharp as the screenshots posted earlier, good enough though. Just still annoyed they shipped those stupid dvd's a lot of dvd-drives can't even read without getting errors. (european version btw).

Hmm maybe someone will make an .iso of the dvd's and upload them at some point.  Keep an eye on torrentz.com.  It isn't pirating because you would have to buy a key anyway.  If someone else doesn't do it maybe I will sometime.  I know a lot of friends in Europe are having us buy them the package and send the key over.  I bet .iso's will be floating around soon.

I'm going to install the full install soon. I will be taking screenshots of the game on low settings before and after, and documenting my FPS in exact situations for a fair comparison.

You know what else I noticed? Lighting is so much nicer now. I mean, the ocean, I went to Norden's Watch and instead of the usual deep blues, I saw the sunlight reflecting off it beautifully. The textures were less blurred, the light off plate was very specular. The guards standing in the night in robes even, had moonlight glinting off the leather of their spauldrons. It is an overall improvement all around. Also, yes, not one hiccup in RVR tonight or Scenarios, its more stable than ever. I've only crashed once in 6 hours.

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Oh and those who havnt done so yet, right click your system tray icon for your Nvidia controller and open the control panel, add War to your list of programs for it, and put Anti-Aliasing at 8xs and Anti-scopic Filtering at 16x. Save the changes and load up the best Warhammer of your life!

exactly my settings..it looks  wonderfull., only  complain are the ctd `'s in altdorf...(capitol)exept this,  the game is 100% stable, without any prob, never saw that at release..and i played near all of that sort.

I wish I would have done more comparisons from before to after.  It might just be that because it looks smoother I notice how much more immersive the environments are, but it just feels a lot better.

I'm installing to my secondary HD now. I'll leave the beta client installed and take screen shots from both clients to see if there is any difference on the visuals.

Anyone else planning to try this and also having plenty of HD space, alternate between the clients and post your results.

Ok.

For ME, no difference. I made sure the settings were the same. Loaded the same character and tried to match the zoom and camera angle. I took screen shots and loaded each pair into Paint Shop Pro, one as a layer on top of the other so I could toggle between them. No visual difference.

I looked at the game folders. Almost everything was the same size. The only difference with the Retail install was the inclusion of the opening theatrical cinematic and associated video file.

Now, first, I had been using the beta client downloaded for the Preview Weekend and used through Open Beta. It's possible that for some people with older clients, the asset files may not be identical.

Second, it's possible that some settings some where are not optimal in a beta install and doing the retail install could result in better visuals.

However, no, there are not any DVD only super high res textures like we saw with LotRO.

On the plus side for me, the fresh install on an underused, defragmented secondary internal HD does seem to lave lessened the hitching when the game loads new textures slightly. It also loads up a little quicker.

My beta folder is 9.46 GB, which includes the cache folder and a few screen shots. If yours is a lot smaller, your earlier beta client could possibly be "less complete" in some way.

Originally posted by Balthaazar1

It's no illusion. The textures are far far sharper than anything ive seen of the game thus far. Crisp, percise and detailed. I amped up my AA and AF as always and that with whatever they did to textures, is making this game more appealing by the instant..

 

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That's it! I will be rolling a witch elf alt today!

Ohw, and gratz on them bettur graffiks.