wow in-game graphic detail macros (helps performance)

[keyclone]

ok.. i thought i would put these here for others to reference.

basically... make 3 macros. detail-lo, detail-med, and detail-hi . the difference in quality is fairly massive.. but the cpu/ gpu savings between hi and lo detail is massive.

here you go:

/say detail: low
/console groundEffectDensity 16
/console groundEffectDist 1
/console horizonfarclip 1305
/console farclip 177
/console characterAmbient 1
/console smallcull 1
/console skycloudlod 1
/console detailDoodadAlpha 1

/say detail: medium
/console groundEffectDensity 136
/console groundEffectDist 70
/console horizonfarclip 3765
/console farclip 477
/console characterAmbient 1
/console smallcull 1
/console skycloudlod 2
/console detailDoodadAlpha 1

/say detail: high
/console farclip 777
/console horizonfarclip 6226
/console groundeffectdensity 256
/console groundeffectdist 140
/console smallcull 0
/console skycloudlod 3
/console characterambient 0
/console detailDoodadAlpha 100

edit: updated hi-detail .. thanks Maz

[crebble]

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[Diamndzngunz]

Awesome Ill take note of this.

[Maz]

You're missing detailDoodadAlpha from the high detail one. I think it needs to be 100.

[Atros]

Lol, the high-end one basically kills my machine...like the machine kept flickering and stuff. Thankfully, I launched keyclone in windowed mode and it was fine. :P

[Canasou]

Would the lower settings have an impact on mini-map points like tracking and find minerals and such?

[keyclone]

it shouldn't... these details are for rendering the virtual world... things like vegetation, mountains in the distance.. even a town (at lowest settings, cross roads didn't appear until i was real close).

by dropping the need to render those things, yes.. it drops the look of the game, but it will free up the cpu/gpu... allowing you to squeeze more fps out of it.

[Canasou]

thanks keyclone, look forward to trying it out

[Pent]

Is there any way to also set the other options from low to high or do they not effect performance much? (like specular lighting, texture resolution etc)

[keyclone]

there might be. do some research and if you find anything, drop it on this thread and i'll update the OP