Thanks for quick reply, i will download MSI tonight!!!   Yes Ultra is greyed out, if the game has changed and requires more memory as you suggest would over clocking my GPU potentially allow me to select ultra?

No it won't. No overclokcing will do that. It will help with your frame rate but for the Ultra setting it won't matter. Even if the game does a system check to auto set the graphics I have found that overclocking never really makes it use higher settings and overclocking will not add more memory to your card. It takes something more substantial like another GPU or SLI to get the game to use higher settings with the auto check.

Try updating your DirectX and see if the game is running in Dx9 or Dx11. It may need to run in Dx11 for ultra.

EDIT: To explain a little more. When a setting it greyed out it doesn't mean your system isn't fast enough it means it isn't supported. The two main reasons I have seen for this is not enough vram on your GPU or you are not running the game in Dx11. Some games can run in ether Dx9 or Dx11 but you only get ultra in Dx11. There should be something ether with the launcher or in the settings to set it to Dx11 if thats the case.

Hi All,   I am totally green when it comes to computers, please can someone confirm for me the following.   I have an Alienware Area 51 2007 Desktop computer which I recently reset to factory condition using alien respawn (machine crashing, running slow). The machine now runs as it should and I have uploaded the latest graphics card drivers and have noticed when playing DOW 2 that i cannot select Ultra in the graphics settings.   I am sure that when I first purchased my system and played this game it run well in Ultra mode. Since I have used respawn and reset to factory settings do I need to overclock my graphics card/cpu or will these have been over clocked automatically when I respawned?       Please help, I am away from my computer at the moment and can post my system specs later if that helps.   If the Over clocking has already been done can I safely overclock my graphics card futher and if so what can my card go up to? I known I will need to provide specs for card and will do later today.       Cheers

Hello trigster

The CPU overclock is done in the BIOS. Alienrespawn can't change it unless you used software to overclock it. Sometimes a game will update and require something like more vram memory to set it to Ultra. I don't play that game but I would check to see if this happaned. If Ultra is greyed out then it will be something like that.

If your GPU was overclocked then it could have be done with software unless it was sold as an overclocked model ( EVGA SC = Superclock ) in which case it will still be overclocked. Get something like MSI Afterburner and overclock it yourself if it's not an overclocked model and you want to OC it. The GPU overclock will not prevent the Ultra setting.

Thanks for quick reply, i will download MSI tonight!!!

Yes Ultra is greyed out, if the game has changed and requires more memory as you suggest would over clocking my GPU potentially allow me to select ultra?

Thanks,

Interesting, I have not downloaded any direct x update since the respawn or for years for that matter!

This could be the kiddy. I will download d x 11 tonight!

I thought it would just update that when steam downloaded the latest patch for the game?

Thanks,   Interesting, I have not downloaded any direct x update since the respawn or for years for that matter!   This could be the kiddy. I will download d x 11 tonight!   I thought it would just update that when steam downloaded the latest patch for the game?

You don't download DirectX 11 instead it will be part of the Win7 OS. But it does need updates like anything else. Here is a link to update it. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details-b.aspx?id=35

Read this to help you understand it better: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/directx9xp.htm