World of Warcraft - Graphical Console Commands

Following on from my previous
video that demonstrated what
WoW looks like when you max
out the graphics settings, I've
decided to take another look
at those console commands in
more detail this time, showing
what they actually do in-game.

The commands covered in this video are:

/console farclip 777
/console horizonfarclip 2112
/console groundeffectdensity 256
/console groundeffectdist 140
/console smallcull 0
/console skycloudlod 3
/console characterambient

(You can paste the above straight into a macro)

Music is "The Source of Secrets" by Mike Oldfield.

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[Luky1Jay]

@whyt546 Blizzard already said they will never redo all the graphics in wow at once, instead they are going to slowly keep it up to date to suit what most consumers hardware can support (not the latest and greatest)

Blizzard can market this game at 90% of people with a computer, or the 10% who buy the latest hardware every 6 months.

[Navitron]

@natranr The lighting system changed in Wrath then again in Cata. Now as of patch 4.2.2 (14545) the lighting is the same as if characterambient was off.

[natranr]

@Navitron so that dumb ambient lighting always on now? or what?

[Navitron]

@dabois85

Also there are some settings that can be even further increased.

groundEffectDist can go up to 500

groundEffectFade can go up to 1277

objectFade 0 (has to be re-enabled every time you restart Wow)

These are about all you can do to improve the graphics via console commands as of patch 4.2.2 (14545)

[Navitron]

@dabois85

If your using these command from 2008 your actually lowering most of your setting if you have it already on ultra. Only 2 command are higher then ultra.

farclip 777 - ultra is 1250

horizonfarclip - no longer in game and is merged with farclip command

groundeffectdensity 256 - this is the only thing that's higher then ultra which is 128

groundeffectdist 140 - ultra is 260

smallcull - no longer in game

skycloudlod - still works

characterambient - no longer in game

[dabois85]

@Navitron Lols not ture.. if you have a decent system.. you will notice little FPS difference. and get major improvements. Like not even see the grass loading or fading in. come over a hill and it's all there.

1920X1080P

16X QFSAA All settings maxed in Config, Forced Ultra Settings for Ambient Occlusion

145Fps in StormWind

65 FPS in 5 man Dungeon During Combat.

[Frankthegb]

Lol sweetness at 1:07

the distance is 2112.

[TheEvanc002]

@Musiquelyrics958 Correction: Wow!

[Musiquelyrics958]

waw

[nightvacker]

dose this work for mac?

[firetarp]

@Luigibros6Extra Blizz would not ban you because its just changing some of the graphic settings, so you dont need to be scared.