Extremely Low Texture Resolution In Orange Box Hammer

[Shrinker]

Hey there.

I am having the same problem as described here:
http://www.snarkpit.net/forums.php?forum=6&topic=7534

I am on Vista business 32bit, have a GeForce 7950 GX2 with 1 gig of ram, and 2 gigs of normal ram in the system. I launched EP2 and set all details to max, restarted hammer, and even tried that all with administrative permission, but no luck. Hammer still shows textures in ultra low detail.

Is there a way to force hammer to display textures in normal quality?

 

[Barnz]

It's a known bug.

 

[Shrinker]

A friend provided me with a more helpful solution now.

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Extract dxsupport.cfg to SourceSDK\bin\orangebox\bin\

Then open it and on entry 10 - 14 replace the picmip lines with..
"ConVar.mat_picmip" "-1"

Then save it and try again.

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thanks anyway

 

[Shrinker]

Oh, I can't edit my previous post anymore.

http://www.fpsbanana.com/threads/124592?13

Verified Solution:

1. Use GCFScape to open "Steam\SteamApps\base source engine 2.gcf" and locate bin\dxsupport.cfg

2. Extract that file to SourceSDK\bin\orangebox\bin\

3. edit the file and change the line
"ConVar.mat_picmip" "2"
to
"ConVar.mat_picmip" "-1"

done.