{"id":10533,"date":"2011-03-08T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bioware-releases-official-hd-texture-pack-for-dragon-age-ii-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/10533-bioware-releases-official-hd-texture-pack-for-dragon-age-ii-pc","title":{"rendered":"BioWare releases official HD Texture Pack for Dragon Age II PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the launch of Dragon Age II on 11 March 2011, BioWare has released a high resolution texture pack for PC gamers who demand more than the &lsquo;adequate&rsquo; bog standard textures bundled with the retail version of the game. Console gamers may now look on with jealous rage simmering behind their tear shrouded eyes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a welcome move by BioWare and hopefully it sets a precedent. One of the pleasures of Dragon Age: Origins was to be found in modding the PC version of the game with community developed high-res textures.<\/p>\n<p>According to BioWare, the pack will provide high detail replacements for most textures in the game, and will be especially noticeable on the level art. Using high-resolution textures requires a graphics card with at least 1024MB video memory.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Most of the benefits from the Hi-resolution textures will only be seen if you are able to run the game in DirectX 11,&rdquo; said BioWare.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/social.bioware.com\/page\/da2-patches\" target=\"_self\" title=\"High Resolution Texture Pack for the PC version of Dragon Age II\">High Resolution Texture Pack for the PC version of Dragon Age II<\/a> can be grabbed from the BioWare website.<\/p>\n<p>The pack is 1.08GB large. Thankfully the BioWare server has resume support for those using download managers to obtain large files. With a copy of Dragon Age II installed, gamers need to follow these simple instructions to get the pack working working:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. Download the installer and run it.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. Run Dragon Age II.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. Open the Options menu.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; 4. Select Video options.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; 5. Check the &#8220;Hi-resolution textures&#8221; checkbox.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11539-BioWare-releases-HD-Texture-Pack-for-Dragon-Age-II-PC?\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Discuss the High Resolution Texture Pack for the PC version of Dragon Age II on the MyGaming forum\">Discuss the High Resolution Texture Pack for the PC version of Dragon Age II on the MyGaming forum<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BioWare knows that some PC gamers demand the best<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}