Dark Messiah (Might & Magic)

[CorCentral]

Is this normal? Playing at 1280x1024 on a 19" monitor for now. Hoping to jump to a 24" soon.

I have all the other settings maxed but after trying to switch the Graphics in the advanced menu to High, it always defaults back to *Med.

Here are the main components:

WinXP Pro
Intel Core2 Duo 6600
Intel P965LT
2048 MB of Mushkin HP2-6400 4-5-4-11 (#996533)
EVGA 8800gts (97.02 driver/It's the latest NON beta)
Western Digital Raptor 150 GB
Creative Labs X-Fi XtremeGamer Pro

 

[skace]

Doesn't sound right, but I can't confirm. I'm running 1680x1050 on a 7800gt.

 

[Mem]

I read Dark Messiah had some problems with high settings with some video cards, that's being fixed in the next patch I believe,could be why its defaulting to medium setting.

 

[IamDavid]

My 7600GS did the same thing until the latest patch.. Wasn't in the fix log so who knows why it was corrected?

 

[TheRyuu]

Happens to me/everyone, I'm not sure.
There's a fix at tweakguides.

Put this in the file:
mm_fxquality_level 2

That should force it to be high.
Got it from here:
http://www.tweakguides.com/DMOMM_8.html

 

[imported_Crusader]

At 1680x1050, I run 16xHQAA/16xAA/HQ/Supersampling transAA, and highest settings in-game. Its buttery smooth.

I havent had any strange visual issues.

 

[mc866]

Don't mean to raise an old thread from the dead but I have the same issues. The game will run when defaulted to medium settings but if I try and turn the eye candy up at all, 4XAA 4XAF it completely locks up on me and won't boot past the ubisoft page. I'm running at 1024 X 768 so I figured there shouldn't be any reason I couldn't run on max settings with the 8800GTS. The rest of my specs are listed below, I just updated to the latest forceware drivers. Also I'm running this from Steam so I assume it is the latest patched version but haven't verified that yet.

Any ideas?