Seeing Longer Distances In Games

[olds]

No one probably plays COD 4 (lots of smoke) anymore especially on a low gravity server but maybe this is a generic setting...

Are there some graphic or texture settings to see longer distances?

For example, in Crossfire, If someone is out of the map and near where the bridge comes back to the ground, I can't see them from inside the map.

Specs:
Windows 8
ASRock Z77 Pro3
3.40 i7-3770
GTX 660 Ti
16 GB RAM
Monitor, 60" plasma @ 1920 x 1080 (sit 10-12 feet away)

Settings: Video mode settings are lowered in game to read text in messages

No Scope - Not dial up friendly
Scope - Not dial up friendly

 

[mizzou]

might be hard-coded, since it's basically a console port and not the other way around.

 

[giantpandaman2]

Always turn off depth of field and motion blur if you want to see long distances or be able to assess things more quickly.

 

[Anarchist420]

probably an nvidia driver issue... it wouldnt surprise me if they are doing some kind of depth optimization because non-GK110s are super starved of bandwidth and because of all the performance increases with each new driver.

their image quality may be better than AMD's but it still sucks with older games, there was no reason to take away clamp negative lod bias and force trilinear. and i am sure there are some optimizations going on that are reducing image quality. i would also like some good SGSSAA bits for matrix path of neo and duke nukem forever.

 

[BrightCandle]

A higher resolution would help as well, more pixels covering the same FOV will get you more visibility.