demoncrat Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 I have the sneaky suspicion that when I use "high resolution textures" I'm actually getting low res textures. Can anyone confirm? Here's an example: http://tinypic.com/r/2ex7pc8/5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicSkimmr Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Hmm, what video card are you using. That's even worse than most people's. Example, this is my character (it doesn't look like this except in cut scenes where hi-res should be working, like your example) http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v62/VicSkimmr/?action=view¤t=6546212467_fb208df99d_b.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demoncrat Posted December 21, 2011 Author Share Posted December 21, 2011 (edited) Radeon HD 6850. It's a very good card. I have high res selected. I guess I can select low and see if it's the same when I log in again. Edited December 21, 2011 by demoncrat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randen Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 I frequently have to restart the game to get my graphic settings to change. It's been an issue for me since beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otanna Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Well interestingly enough for the curio in me. I just put everything to low......And i saw no difference..... I don't understand LOL Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WereMops Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 (edited) I have the sneaky suspicion that when I use "high resolution textures" I'm actually getting low res textures. Can anyone confirm? Here's an example: http://tinypic.com/r/2ex7pc8/5 Check catalyst control center if you have some settings set to performance under 3d game or whatever the category is, I accidently set my settings to that before and most textures in the game went totally bland, set them back to quality and the game looked beautiful again. EDIT: I think it was the mipmapping setting in particular that was the culprit Edited December 21, 2011 by WereMops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demoncrat Posted December 21, 2011 Author Share Posted December 21, 2011 Well interestingly enough for the curio in me. I just put everything to low......And i saw no difference..... I don't understand LOL Regards Could you try medium and see if it changes? I'm almost certain "High" and "Low" are the same, and it's a bug that Bioware needs to fix. So many small things are broken. Sloppy release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khondar Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Low is Low, Medium and High are both the same. Low is 1 in the .ini setting file, medium and high both goes to 0. There IS a difference between Low and High, but not that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaladin_ Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 I was reading on reddit that the "High" settings option doesn't change the texture settings, you actually need to select "Medium" first and apply that then you can change to high or leave at medium since all the sliders don't seem to change when you go from medium to high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demoncrat Posted December 21, 2011 Author Share Posted December 21, 2011 Check catalyst control center if you have some settings set to performance under 3d game or whatever the category is, accidently set my settings to that before and most textures in the game went totally bland, set them back to quality and the game looked beautiful again. Will do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otanna Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Well interestingly enough for the curio in me. I just put everything to low......And i saw no difference..... I don't understand LOL Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otanna Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Sorry double stupid post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Putok Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Well interestingly enough for the curio in me. I just put everything to low......And i saw no difference..... I don't understand LOL Regards I've noticed the same thing. I think there are some significant bugs with the graphics control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenger Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 for me there is no difference between high resolution and medium but low turns everything to low Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterCefalu Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 There are some other threads about this. It looks as though Medium textures are applied even on High settings. I know it's happening in my case. There was one user who took several screenshots and compared them on different settings. What's interesting is that cut-scenes actually use high res textures, and the character select screen will also use high-res textures. I personally believe that this is some really weird bug or an intentional workaround by Bioware to improve performance by reducing textures until they can optimize the game for better performance (since a lot of players have complained of framerate issues). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlixe Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 (edited) There are some other threads about this. It looks as though Medium textures are applied even on High settings. I know it's happening in my case. There was one user who took several screenshots and compared them on different settings. What's interesting is that cut-scenes actually use high res textures, and the character select screen will also use high-res textures. I personally believe that this is some really weird bug or an intentional workaround by Bioware to improve performance by reducing textures until they can optimize the game for better performance (since a lot of players have complained of framerate issues). Isn't that why you should turn down settings? kind of pointless to have a game where medium is the only playable setting just so everyone can use it without some flame tard crying because he doesn't have little Johnys awesome PC and its not fair! Edited December 23, 2011 by HomeSlixe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mombasa_Massala Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 What were the beta testers doing for the last god knows how long? Beta testing means just that "testing" and the textures still look junk, 2 million testers and they still aint sorted it out, after my 30 days are up I aint paying a penny until I get high res textures! No one can use the sad old "it's an MMO" excuse, this is 2011, Funcim can manage great graphics with age of conan and that only uses 2 cores and one gfx card, so sort your s++t out EA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypherix Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 There are some other threads about this. It looks as though Medium textures are applied even on High settings. I know it's happening in my case. There was one user who took several screenshots and compared them on different settings. What's interesting is that cut-scenes actually use high res textures, and the character select screen will also use high-res textures. I personally believe that this is some really weird bug or an intentional workaround by Bioware to improve performance by reducing textures until they can optimize the game for better performance (since a lot of players have complained of framerate issues). Yeah on high my characters armor looks awesome in conversations. As soon as they end they go back to being all messy and blurry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matheren Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 What were the beta testers doing for the last god knows how long? Beta testing means just that "testing" and the textures still look junk, 2 million testers and they still aint sorted it out, after my 30 days are up I aint paying a penny until I get high res textures! No one can use the sad old "it's an MMO" excuse, this is 2011, Funcim can manage great graphics with age of conan and that only uses 2 cores and one gfx card, so sort your s++t out EA! This has absolutely nothing to do with the testers. Poor graphics were a constant complaint in beta, and the lack of changes or "fixes" (still no AA? really?) is 100% on Bioware's heads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maaitz Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Hmm, what video card are you using. That's even worse than most people's. Example, this is my character (it doesn't look like this except in cut scenes where hi-res should be working, like your example) http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v62/VicSkimmr/?action=view¤t=6546212467_fb208df99d_b.jpg Wow, this looks amazing, what graphics card are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crassius Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 High seems to be medium quality, and low is low. Simply because when I change from medium to high, and the other way around, absolutely nothing happens. When I change from high to low and back, I get a black screen for a few seconds and then there is a noticeable difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brokentelevision Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 They removed the Dx11 settings before launch. I remember seeing that setting in beta greyed out. I play with dual GTX 560 ti's on max settings while running other stuff in background and get 80+ fps at all times. The game just looks like garbage really, the settings are good enough to be able to even say the engine is causing fps issues. FPS issues are because you have no setting to turn down spell detail, people with lower systems need that setting to turn down so they have less spell effects being generated because of other players. Things like lighting and fire and rocks all being thrown around causes massive lag, not graphics detail. I hate to say it, but Bioware needs to spend a good amount of time just messing around with WOW's graphic settings and seeing how that effects their game, because honestly they have a lot of settings to turn off and turn down and they figured out what settings cause people to lag out. Bioware have not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maaitz Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Well interestingly enough for the curio in me. I just put everything to low......And i saw no difference..... I don't understand LOL Regards Texture Anisotropy also affects graphics significantly. I was wondering why everything is so ugly, until I turned it to High. Texture quality is still poor, but lets hope BW improves it over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archifikoss Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 I have the sneaky suspicion that when I use "high resolution textures" I'm actually getting low res textures. Can anyone confirm? Here's an example: http://tinypic.com/r/2ex7pc8/5 I get some textures high, some low... Go figure. Anyway I think Bioware has acknowledged the issue and is working on a fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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