standard low in-game settings

Hello i got a problem with almost all of my games. It;s not a great problem but well it kinda annoys me:

In allmost every game, that game "thinks" i got very bad hardware or so and turns all the in-game settings as low as possible. And then i got to set them to high again. I got: Nvidia Geforce 9600GT (videocard), Gygabite P35C-DS3R (motherboard), 4 GB intern memory, 3 Ghz intelcore to duo prossecor. I got Vista (32b)

I installed all the latest drivers of my hardware and all the patches for the games. The games do recognize my hardware, but still keep the graphics low.

Can some one help me with this?

is there someway to fix it? to let the games set it to high automaticalyVoicesofVictory

Yeah, get a better PC. That's the only way. It's going to see your mid ranged graphics card and always set your graphics to low to be on the safe side. There is no way to "force" it. Just change your settings yourself.

look it's not me being lazy it's just that it's kinda weird that games don't set the graph's at a rate which my pc can handle normally and instead turn them at the lowest possible. And while other pc's don't have that small issue i wanted to know if there was anything wrong. And well your idea about what is wrong with my pc isn't correct, because other machines with hardware that is not as good as mine don't have this problem. Look for games as prince of persia where you have to go to autorun and then click play and then go to settings and stuff it's harder to find, cause after the installation you never use the autorun. And well everytime an pop up of call of duty before you start with: "hey your pc isn't good enough for the graph's you set this game on, you want to change it back?" isn't lovely too. Look i just thought it was a simple fix or something in my control panel or something.VoicesofVictory

Honestly there is no way to "fix" it with your surrent hardware setup.

And shame on the mod who thought my previous post was trolling. That was sad.

Hello everyone,

I'm having the same problem with my new iMac 20' bought dec 2008. I'm trying to play Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and Spore, both from EA. When i set all my graohic settings to very high, the game save the settings, but use another when I play. Should have a solution for this...

Tks,

Just manually change the settings. In Crysis demo it put everything on high when my laptop struggled to maintain a constant 30 fps. I put shadows on medium and water on medium and voila! no more stutter. In Fallou 3, it was everything on low. I changed it to everything high/ultra and no slowdowns whatsoever.

Moral of the story: play around with settings and see which ones suit your pc best. Don't always rely on the default ones to get the best possible playable experience all the time.

The problem isn't that.

The graphics are not good as it was supposed to be, i played spore in the same computer using bootcamp with windows vista and the graphics were insanely higher and playing with Mac OS I manually change the graphics in-game and it still not good, as it seems, the MAC OS X is kind of controlling the graphic settings automatically for each application instead of letting the graphic video card do it.

I think that I explained my problem better now...

Sincerely,

The problem isn't that.

The graphics are not good as it was supposed to be, i played spore in the same computer using bootcamp with windows vista and the graphics were insanely higher and playing with Mac OS I manually change the graphics in-game and it still not good, as it seems, the MAC OS X is kind of controlling the graphic settings automatically for each application instead of letting the graphic video card do it.

I think that I explained my problem better now...

Sincerely,

st1ng3r3r

i just want to say that i did find a solution to the "problem" on my pc. I got a Nvidia videocard and with that a special configuation option of Nvidia. In that you section you can adjust in :3D Settings: Adjust image settings with preview. Then in the right screen click on use my preference emphasizing:

set the bar to quality and well. Problem solved. No CoD4 who keeps whining that you should play the game with lesser graphics or so. You simply decide it for all applicationat ones instead of letting your videocard deside it for you and keeps it on the safe side.