The issue is the game was designed and built in a time when video cards had a small fraction of the onboard memory that they have now, so they can't just do this because the game was designed to use a certain amount of memory. That, and it would mean raising the system requirements which might cut some people off, as more disk space would be required and updates which add new gear or content with new graphics would take dramatically longer over playonline's antiquated update system.
The game already uses a lot of space with the low res textures it has right now. Bringing them up to an acceptable quality for modern machines might double the needed disk space (or more).
I'm not saying they shouldn't do it, because they should, but you should be aware that it would be a significant undertaking with challenges to overcome.
I though with the knowledge they have, they could make a program that put the game in HD and rework some graphics to match HD setting easely. And they could optimize all the stuff to take same space or just a little more. I'm not asking tons of Giga for 4K graphics lol just a little HD lol I was dreaming lol
Have you considered upgrading your graphics card or adding more RAM? I came back to the game three years ago and also didn't see much of a difference in graphics when I was playing on my PS2. I upgraded my RAM to the most that the OS (Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit) would recognize and upgraded my graphics card, and saw an improvement. The graphics card that I had gotten was a decent NVida card rated for PC gaming, which has its own onboard memory cache to help give sharper graphics.
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