
Two of us on RPS found that clicking the button didn't seem to do anything at first, but after a few minutes a new 10GB SOW update suddenly joined the Steam download queue. If it's not listed at all, head to this page in Steam and click 'download.' Then, er, wait. You can check whether it's postively, definitely installed or not by right clicking on SOW in your Steam library, clicking properties, then DLC, and seeing if 'Middle-earth: Shadow Of War High Resolution Texture Pack" is listed or not, and if it's got a little white tick and the word 'installed' to the right of the entry. (There is thus a very really chance that a lot of people have been thinking they are playing the best possible looking version of the game even though they are not - the placebo effect can affect us all). Your copy of Shadow Of War will offer the option for 'Ultra' textures whether it's installed or not, but if the pack isn't installed, Ultra will look exactly the same as High.

In any case, it's worth a check: the norm does seem to be that you have to go out and grab it. However, a couple of RPSers reported that it was installed, despite their not having consciously done anything to make it so. Join me as I investigate whether installing ten gig of 'Ultra' textures really makes a difference to your nemesising.įirst things first: unless you specifically installed the HD texture pack yourself, you probably don't have it on your PC.


As if 65 gigabytes of PC Middle-earth: Shadow Of War weren't enough, there's also an optional extra, free 10Gb download, comprising what's officially called a 'High Resolution Texture Pack.' In other words, it in theory makes the grime, squalor and butchered viscera of Mordor that little bit more grimy, squalid and visceral butchered viscera-y. You may well already know this, but going on the basis that most of the RPS team weren't aware of it, let's put the word out anew.
