

After this you need to enable all the settings showed here in bold text. Now from here you need to manually add spore GA on the program list. Under 3D settings, you click on "Manage 3D settings" and then on "program settings." What you need to do is to open the NVIDIA control panel by right-clicking on your desktop. Now im sure that there are other programs you can use in order to get the same effect, but this tutorial will cover NVIDIA for now. This enables anti-aliasing, enhanced mode, supersampling and more. Your game already looks much better then default now, but with the nvidia control panel you can go the extra mile by tweaking some settings. This optional step is only for those who have access to the NVIDIA control panel. You can of course put in whatever framerate you want, just remember that some UI animations might be a little more bouncy and flashy because of this. This is mostly for you FPS snobs, but i find the game more enjoyable this way. I recommend you only go with the 2048 version due to the fact that the higher version is entirely too unstable, and will just piss you off with constant crashes. Now what this does is that it fixes lighting and general shading, enables bump-mapping on creatures, fixes the muddy textures by increasing the resolution, makes shiny coats and paints actually shiny and fixes cells opacity, making them render with proper transparency.

This is great for taking better pictures or screenshots! Now this might impact performance for some, so install it and experiment with it before you go any further. This makes your game automatically look 50% better due to the fact that you can stand further away without having to worry about the models looking like crap. This mod Increases the games LOD field and keeps texture levels high by default, reducing or removing muddy textures. Use the spore modAPI easy installer to install the mod listed here for your game. The links above contain instructions on how to do what you need to do. The NVIDIA Control Panel (For NVIDIA users only.)įirstly if youre following this guide, you are probably already familiar with how to install mods, so i wont get into that. You can stop at any place in this guide if you feel like your game looks good enough for your liking, so experiment and test out what works for you! It is generally recommended that you have a somewhat good computer for all of these steps to work, but you are not required to follow ALL of them.

This new tutorial will help you make spores graphics really pop, and truly makes the game look like the way its supposed to look. I am here to show to all of you how you can upgrade and enhance spores graphics beyond the previous "shiny graphic fix" guide.
