Advanced Video Settings

[MiRai]

First, I'd like to give a big thanks to Fef and his original thread which inspired all of this.

It seems a few people have been asking lately about dynamic window swapping macros or which console commands control which video settings. This is an almost complete guide that has been written up to break down and explain each console command for World of Warcraft's video settings. The guide was started somewhere around the beginning of May 2011 and has evolved into what it is today.

Enjoy...

http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde...Video_Settings


Updated for patch 5.0.4 Mists of Pandaria.

[luxlunae]

the wiki didn't include a low quality settings macro, this is mine:

/p LOW GRAPHICS
/console groundEffectDensity 16
/console groundEffectDist 1
/console horizonfarclip 1305
/console farclip 177
/console characterAmbient 1
/console smallcull 1
/console skycloudlod 1
/console detailDoodadAlpha 1
/console spellEffectLevel 9
/console projectedTextures 0
/console waterDetail 0
/console rippleDetail 1
/console reflectionMode 0

Being able to toggle the projected textures with your macro seems really important to me as you MUST have projected textures for a lot of things but it eats up frames if you have it turned on x5

and thanks so much for that article!

is spellEffectLevel an obsolete setting?

[MiRai]

/console characterAmbient 1
/console smallcull 1
/console detailDoodadAlpha 1
/console spellEffectLevel 9

As far as I know... these settings are obsolete with Cataclysm.

[Sam DeathWalker]

There is also some good infos here at least as to Nvidia GPU's, as to getting the best WoW performance from your video card.

http://samdeathwalker.com/forum/showthread.php?t=279

[drarkan]

How can you put this into ISBoxer so that when you focus on a window it gets the settings that are high, and the slaves are automatically set to minimal?

Oh and your site seems to be broken Sam DeathWalker

[MiRai]

How can you put this into ISBoxer so that when you focus on a window it gets the settings that are high, and the slaves are automatically set to minimal?

Oh and your site seems to be broken Sam DeathWalker

Each one of the slots in your character set contains this:




Make a Mapped Key with your desired video settings in it and tie it to that.

[Oatboat]

I'm assuming this will affect your swapping time pretty heavily depending on your system.

[MiRai]

I'm assuming this will affect your swapping time pretty heavily depending on your system.

Also, dependent on how many settings you change and by how much. I explain it slightly more in the actual
Wiki entry itself. The past week I had been refining my own setup and I've found very nice settings that work
well for me (at least so far) with almost no noticeable increased swapping lag.

[madmattco]

I discovered this awhile back but when switching to different screens, you can also have the slaves switch off their ui. that will also greatly increase fps on main screen if your computer has any trouble rendering say 5+ ui's

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I'm assuming this will affect your swapping time pretty heavily depending on your system.

It's less than you might think.