Cant use high settings DX 9

[Lord Errorprone]

Every time I try to set the graphics settings to anything better than low and restart the game it resets to low. This is on my laptop, I've tried this on my desktop which is a little more powerful, I can set them to high no problem.

My specs are:
Intel Pentium 2.13 Ghz Dual Core
4 Gb RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon 5470
Win 7 x64

 

[timtofly]

My Theory:

The original software was supposed to allow settings that "may" work for your particular "specs". Now with the patches it forces you to use only settings deemed "allowed". There are still hardware combinations that have not been fully tested it seems.

 

[The_J]

Is AA activated? If yes, did you try to change all the stuff with deactived AA?

 

[valfarablaze]

Change the settings within the DX9 file under the Civ folder and see if that goes through. If it doesn't, something it definitely defaulting the settings to what the game 'thinks' is ideal for you...

 

[Lord Errorprone]

You cant have AA in DX 9 mode. Yes I tried to change the ini and even set it to read only it still dosent work.

 

[The_J]

You cant have AA in DX 9 mode. Yes I tried to change the ini and even set it to read only it still dosent work.

You can override that via driver settings, but i guess if you knew that, you'd have mentioned it.

@.ini: did you check that it really got saved? Not that the UAC is preventing anything here.

 

[Lord Errorprone]

I know but it creates problems with the overlay. I have checked and UAC is turned off.

 

[The_J]

hhmm....are you running the game in windowed or in fullscreen mode?

 

[Lord Errorprone]

Fullscreen

 

[The_J]

hhmm....anything special about your monitor?
With the second last patch, they made some fixes for the display, because Civ has some problems with getting displayed on unusual output devices/unusual resolutions in fullscreen mode, so they forced windowed mode on these users.
I suspect now, that there's another unusual thing going on on your computer, where Civ has problems with the output, but hasn't been forced into windowed mode.

 

[Lord Errorprone]

Mabye. I'm using a laptop. I will try windowed mode