D3 quality settings questions...

[ColonCowboy]

After the default scan it tells me that I have to run at medium quality, 640x480. So I leave it at medium quality set the res @ 1024 x 768 and put 4XAA on and it runs without a problem. After talking to a friend he tells me that he runs at high quality, 1280 x 1024 no AA, so I thought I'd give the high quality setting a run at 1024 with 4xAA. Runs like a dream, but there is a however.

All of the text on the screen, whether it be in the menu or on the PDA is blurry to the point where I can't read it. And not blurry like my video card is being stressed, blurry like they did it on purpose because I'm using a setting that doesn't coincide with the card that I have.

Anyone heard/know about this? Is there a work around because as soon at I set it back to medium quality again the text is legible.

[The Undertaker]

Try turning off AA.

[ColonCowboy]

No go, thanks though, good thought

[lothario]

Text is legible at 1024 w/ medium, but not 1024 w/ high? Or legible at 640 w/ medium, but not 1024 w/ high. If it's the second case:
Try checking your downsize settings in your doomconfig.cfg or creating an autoexec.cfg with these lines:
set image_downSizeBumpLimit "512"
set image_downSizeBump "1"
set image_downSize "1"
set image_downSizeLimit "512"
or it could be one of the text-related settings. Or i'm an idiot.

[ColonCowboy]

Legible @ 1024 medium but not at 1024 high. However the game is noticable better quality on high and still runs fine except the blurred text.

Thanks for the cvar's I'll try them when I get home.

-CC

[ColonCowboy]

GAH!!! This is driving me insane. Anytime I try and pick a setting higher than the recommended the text goes blurry, I set it back and it's clear. The bitch of the whole thing is that in the game the higher setting is clearly better but the text on anything, menus, PDA, terminals in the game, anywhere, is blurry. I've gone up and down the doom3.cfg file and I can't seem to find anything that lets me ignore what id thinks I should be running the game at.

cg_ignoreid'ssettings "1"

*sigh*