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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whole bunch of games you could select texture quality on install back in the days when games came on CDs.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

On some games, like Fallout 4, the "HD" textures are free DLC. I don't know why we can't just do that for most games.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I also remember some games allowing you to choose compressed or uncompressed textures when they first started to be supported by new cards