The Energon Pub

by **Robo-Chugster** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:22 am

as the title suggests, i have the PC version of the game and was wondering if any clever bods had worked out how to force the Hi Res stuff on if your computer isnt quite up to it (I have an XT850 SM2.0 card).

I know this sounds stupid, but i have Tomb Raider Legend and that by default would not run the Next Gen content on my machine, but someone found out how to force it on by accessing the dev part of the config window and it worked on my machine with out any probs and it looked good

by **Robo-Chugster** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:40 am

so no one has tried this yet?

by **Robo-Chugster** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 6:47 am

anyone?

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:27 pm

I guess we're the only ones with the PC version, friend.
I wasn't able to turn them one. What I tried was edittting the pcconfig.txt file (My Documents\Activision\Transformers) and changing the '0' values to 1s for the twos last fields. It didn't do anything.

I also read on the Gamespot forums that someone tried copying the Transformers_Hi.DAT file and and renaming it to Transformers_Lo.DAT (after moving the REAL Transformers_Lo.dat, of course). This resulted in his game crashing after the intro animation.

I haven't tried it, though.

by **Robo-Chugster** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:13 pm

1337W422102 wrote:
I also read on the Gamespot forums that someone tried copying the Transformers_Hi.DAT file and and renaming it to Transformers_Lo.DAT (after moving the REAL Transformers_Lo.dat, of course). This resulted in his game crashing after the intro animation.

I haven't tried it, though.

Actually that was me, under my non-TF forum alter-ego...

so no one has figured this out yet then?

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:30 pm

Robo-Chugster wrote:
1337W422102 wrote:
I also read on the Gamespot forums that someone tried copying the Transformers_Hi.DAT file and and renaming it to Transformers_Lo.DAT (after moving the REAL Transformers_Lo.dat, of course). This resulted in his game crashing after the intro animation.

I haven't tried it, though.

Actually that was me, under my non-TF forum alter-ego...

so no one has figured this out yet then?

I tried renaming the .DATs and I didn't succeed. I haven't been able to find anything that works.

by **Subsonika** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:27 pm

tbh i have no idea what u r talking about :oops:

by **Robo-Chugster** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:28 pm

Subsonika wrote:tbh i have no idea what u r talking about

umm...why did you reply then? not being nasty...just wondering

by **Subsonika** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:01 pm

Robo-Chugster wrote:
Subsonika wrote:tbh i have no idea what u r talking about

umm...why did you reply then? not being nasty...just wondering

it was a subtle way of saying "i too have the TF PC Game but do not know what you mean by forcing hi res stuff"

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:41 pm

Subsonika wrote:
Robo-Chugster wrote:
Subsonika wrote:tbh i have no idea what u r talking about

umm...why did you reply then? not being nasty...just wondering

it was a subtle way of saying "i too have the TF PC Game but do not know what you mean by forcing hi res stuff"

I take it you're either a) a console gamer by nature, b) able to have the High-Res assets on (you lucky punk!), or c) just assumed that modern 'next-gen' games would have low-res textures and graphics that don't look like those we expect/have seen in the screenshots.

by **Subsonika** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:43 pm

1337W422102 wrote:
Subsonika wrote:
Robo-Chugster wrote:
Subsonika wrote:tbh i have no idea what u r talking about

umm...why did you reply then? not being nasty...just wondering

it was a subtle way of saying "i too have the TF PC Game but do not know what you mean by forcing hi res stuff"

I take it you're either a) a console gamer by nature, b) able to have the High-Res assets on (you lucky punk!), or c) just assumed that modern 'next-gen' games would have low-res textures and graphics that don't look like those we expect/have seen in the screenshots.

ahhhh i do have a hi powered 3d graphic card...

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:48 pm

Subsonika wrote:
1337W422102 wrote:
Subsonika wrote:
Robo-Chugster wrote:
Subsonika wrote:tbh i have no idea what u r talking about

umm...why did you reply then? not being nasty...just wondering

it was a subtle way of saying "i too have the TF PC Game but do not know what you mean by forcing hi res stuff"

I take it you're either a) a console gamer by nature, b) able to have the High-Res assets on (you lucky punk!), or c) just assumed that modern 'next-gen' games would have low-res textures and graphics that don't look like those we expect/have seen in the screenshots.

ahhhh i do have a hi powered 3d graphic card...

That's the thing, so do I! Yet when I go into the game's options menu (I think it's the video settings option), the 'Enable Hi-Res Assets' option is off and greyed-out, so I cannot access it. In the .ini file, Hi-Res assets are also disabled, and enabling them in the file doesn't turn them on in the game. Robo seems to be having the same problem.

by **Subsonika** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:47 pm

i didn't even notice that before. but i just clicked on it and turned it on no problem. weird.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:26 pm

Subsonika wrote:i didn't even notice that before. but i just clicked on it and turned it on no problem. weird.

What video card are you using?

If you don't know, rightclick on 'My Computer,' click on the 'Hardware' tab, then on 'Device Manager,' then click on the + beside 'Display Adapters.'

I'm just annoyed because I'm using an ATI All-In-Wonder 9800, which I think should be enough. Half-Life 2 and F.E.A.R. look phenomenal on my system, and I strongly doubt that the Transformers game is more demanding than HL2 or FEAR.

by **Phenotype** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:10 am

1337W422102 wrote:That's the thing, so do I! Yet when I go into the game's options menu (I think it's the video settings option), the 'Enable Hi-Res Assets' option is off and greyed-out, so I cannot access it. In the .ini file, Hi-Res assets are also disabled, and enabling them in the file doesn't turn them on in the game. Robo seems to be having the same problem.

That's really bizaree, I don't even have a very good graphics card but it allows me to turn them on and off. In fact they were already turned on the first time I played the game and it was slower than **** so I turned them off and the game plays much faster now but the graphics don't really look any different. Strange huh?

by **Subsonika** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:09 pm

1337W422102 wrote:
Subsonika wrote:i didn't even notice that before. but i just clicked on it and turned it on no problem. weird.

What video card are you using?

If you don't know, rightclick on 'My Computer,' click on the 'Hardware' tab, then on 'Device Manager,' then click on the + beside 'Display Adapters.'

I'm just annoyed because I'm using an ATI All-In-Wonder 9800, which I think should be enough. Half-Life 2 and F.E.A.R. look phenomenal on my system, and I strongly doubt that the Transformers game is more demanding than HL2 or FEAR.

i have ATI X1600 - with hi res on the game lags a little so i keep it off anyway. i think the game is particularly greedy as my other newest title, CNC3 plays just fine with all graphics set highest.