Some Settings Remain Unchanged

[BrandonKun]

Hello everyone!

I'm having a problem with the Graphic Settings in Civilzation V.

All of my settings are on High except for the following:

Terrain Tessellation

Terrain Shadow Quality

Shadow Quality

They all remain on Low no matter what I do. I've already gone into the GraphicSettingsDX9 configuration text file and tried to bump them up; still nothing. Also, my computer is capable of DirectX 11 quality, yet a GraphicSettingsDX11 config has yet to be created.

My Specs are as follow

Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 460
Processor: AMD Phenom X6 1075T Processor 3.0 GHz
RAM: 8 GB
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64 Bit - SP2
DirectX: DX11

I think that's all the necessary specs. If there's something else I forgot, let me know!

Any help would be much obliged!

 

[The_J]

Welcome to CFC .

Also, my computer is capable of DirectX 11 quality
[...]
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64 Bit - SP2

-> No, it isn't.
Vista runs maximum DX10, for DX11 you need Win7.

@problem: The self made 3D engine by firaxis is...a bit special.
One of the "special" things is, that if you set the leader graphics quality to high, it will require DX11, and if you don't have it that setting will automatically reset some other settings to quite a bit lower.
-> Changing the leader graphics settings to medium should increase the overall graphics quality of the game.

Sounds like nonsene, i know. You can read a small bit of background here.

 

[BrandonKun]

Welcome to CFC .



-> No, it isn't.
Vista runs maximum DX10, for DX11 you need Win7.

here.

Dxdiag you have LIED to me!

Thanks for this little tidbit of information; Now I REALLY need to work on getting Windows 7...

I'll try some troubleshooting and see if I can get some of the settings back up, thanks for the help!

 

[Soronery]

Vista runs DX11.