This game launched with its graphics in a broken state.

[Leggomy]

Kind of a moot argument since even Bioware admits the high textures are fubar at the moment. So if your stuff looks good it is because the med textures look good. Imagine once they fix the high quality textures how sweet it will look.

[GeneralDiomedes]

Here you go.

These are not anything special.

I was just moving from one place to the next, and I just grabbed the screens as I went along.

Unfortunately, despite grabbing them as full 5Mb BMPs, photobucket compressed them

 

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4/Mercfan/SWTOR%20-%20Fraps%20BMP/swtor2011-12-2820-01-01-11.jpg

 

Looks like mine (and most others with higher end rigs) .. still not hi-res though. Visually stunning? Mostly, but not quite there yet.

Edited December 28, 2011 by GeneralDiomedes

[carnac_fett]

My settings

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6048/settingslc.jpg

 

Here are my screenshots. Take note of the poor textures on most of the objects. I didn't force my anti-aliasing through my drivers for these screenshots, since Bioware has told me it may cause quality issues.

 

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/5462/ss1gp.jpg

 

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1808/ss2v.jpg

 

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4965/ss3px.jpg

 

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/2445/ss4wn.jpg

 

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/2183/ss5n.jpg

 

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/1513/ss7p.jpg

 

The next two screenshots show how the proper textures only load when I get right up next to them and stare at them in first-person.

 

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/4176/ss6we.jpg

(How it should look - http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/6869/ss6proper.jpg )

 

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/464/ss8r.jpg

( How it should look - http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/706/ss8proper.jpg )

 

When I switch to Low settings and then back to High/Medium, I can see the proper textures load for a split-second before they turn to mud.

 

I'm fairly certain the game uses a LOD (level of detail) system to decide at what distance to render the best possible model and texture for any given object. For instance, in some games, a distant vehicle might look blurry but once you're within a few yards of it, it loads the highest-quality version.

 

Except, in my case, the range for loading the best version of a given object is 0 inches. I have to be looking right at it in first-person view in order for the best version to load. Once I go back out to third-person and walk away, it reverts to its blurry form.

[Crohadan]

this game launched with a number of broken oor non-viable game mehanics and features. graphics is miniscule in comparrison to a junk crafting system where socail gear and com vendors betters it, a junk leveling system that charges the player for playing his toon, a terrible reward system credit wise...die twice at lvl 30 get a 5-8k repair bill.

[PenguinXI]

After looking at your pictures above carnac_fett I cannot say I have ever seen anything look so bad in this game yet. The game seems to display perfectly fine on my PC and its not the most up to date machine out there. There is something not working correctly for you but I have no idead whats letting you down.

 

You state you havent reformatted your PC yet and that may be the last step to fix the issue. Especially after installing several different driver versions.

[Durt]

Personally I love the visuals in TOR, it's what I would expect out of a modern version of KotOR, which has great visuals imo.

[DesleDarksyde]

My settings

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6048/settingslc.jpg

 

Here are my screenshots. Take note of the poor textures on most of the objects. I didn't force my anti-aliasing through my drivers for these screenshots, since Bioware has told me it may cause quality issues.

Damn!

Those do look very bad!

Seems like low res textures mixed in all over the place.

Try setting all your high settings to low, then apply. Then to medium and apply, and then to high and apply. To try to force the settings to affect.

 

FWIW, I took some better PNGs of conversation.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4/Mercfan/SWTOR%20-%20Fraps%20BMP/swtor2011-12-2821-21-53-20.png

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4/Mercfan/SWTOR%20-%20Fraps%20BMP/swtor2011-12-2821-20-23-40.png

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4/Mercfan/swtor2011-12-2821-20-01-33.png

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4/Mercfan/swtor2011-12-2821-19-45-15.png

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4/Mercfan/swtor2011-12-2821-19-41-58.png

Edited December 28, 2011 by DesleDarksyde

[Mysfit]

Mine were bad till I did the latest nvidia drivers now they are great.

[CyberData]

I don't think this issue is as much about the texture bug but more about bioware's lack of communication with their playerbase about the issue.

 

Is it something they're still working on? Do they consider this a priority bug to be fixed or is it on the back burner because they have more pressing concerns?

 

It's the not-knowing that's irritating. All I can do is be patient since it's launch and hope they get to it.

[Buzzing]

first of all, there's no ultra high settings

 

secondly, I think YOU need to calm the F down. This is an issue Bioware is aware of, you being a blind obnoxious fanboy isn't going to change that

 

I wasnt talking to you ;p

 

Besides...I am not the one freaking out about graphic settings. It's just a game.

[bantros]

The OP looks to be having some issues with textures for sure but I don't think it looks like that for many others nor myself.

 

That aside there is clearly a few issues with the graphics that should be worked out by now, they've been using this off the shelf engine for some years now. Missing AA and a High setting for textures is shocking. Even though overall the game looks pretty nice with forced AA (nothing special though) some of the clothing textures are absolutely dismal, especially on Body Type 4 and some world textures are not up to scratch either. Can't think of any reason not to have hi res textures for people who have enough VRAM to use them

[Awarain]

I agree with the OP. It's almost like... The game is disintergrating! High text setting never worked, but at least medium did, and even for me this has stopped. Some ground text are keeping the medium look, but a lot of the props are worse than low back in beta. The game engine that bioware put together for the game just isn't cut out for prime time yet. Bioware should do the right thing and replace the engine till it get's fix.

[QDMcGraw]

After looking at the screenshots of everyone posting here, mine look like the awesome ones, and I feel for the OP. That's what the game looked like on my 32 Bit machine running old video cards in SLI. I know games are built for specific brands of video cards but I've not heard of TOR doing that. The game looks and runs amazing on my 560 Ti.

[Sneakymcstab]

Some people are waaaaaaaaaaaay too defensive about this game.

 

OP; I wonder what's up, my game doesn't even look like that if I set it to low. I'm also using an Ati card.

 

Here's a comparison between high and low taken on Tatooine, not much difference between the two:

http://s1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa412/Digits83/swtor/?action=view&current=comparison.jpg

[GeneralDiomedes]

Missing AA and a High setting for textures is shocking

 

I think the reason is that in-game AA crashes ATI. I tried setting this in the .ini file and the client would crash every time when booting up. Take out the AA setting, and the game runs.

[RycheMykola]

Having a bug in the graphic with no change between medium and high resolution setting is not "completely broken".

 

If the graphics were "completely broken", the game would be unplayable.

[ghique]

 

I'm fairly certain the game uses a LOD (level of detail) system to decide at what distance to render the best possible model and texture for any given object. For instance, in some games, a distant vehicle might look blurry but once you're within a few yards of it, it loads the highest-quality version.

 

Except, in my case, the range for loading the best version of a given object is 0 inches. I have to be looking right at it in first-person view in order for the best version to load. Once I go back out to third-person and walk away, it reverts to its blurry form.

 

This. I suspect the issue is that the LOD system is buggy and needs to tweaked. It seems like the triggers to load higher-res textures are really short.

[Renwo]

I agree, the hi-res textures need to be fixed asap. They should look like in the character selection screen at all times if your rig can handle it. The shadows also need a look, they're very blocky at times.

[carnac_fett]

I just finished reformatting my computer. I'm redownloading TOR.

 

I'll let you all know if this helped at all. :]

[Ruser]

GRAPHICS ARE BROKEN GUYS

 

COME ON GUYS

 

THEY ARE BROKEN

 

TOTALLY BROKEN

 

 

:: millions log on and enjoy the game despite the ramblings::

[carnac_fett]

GRAPHICS ARE BROKEN GUYS

 

COME ON GUYS

 

THEY ARE BROKEN

 

TOTALLY BROKEN

 

 

:: millions log on and enjoy the game despite the ramblings::

 

More power to people who don't care about graphics!

 

Some of us just have an eye for detail and when a game looks awful, we don't like it.

 

It's just how I am. When something looks bad because something's wrong with it, and I know it can look ten times better, I get upset.

[weezdajuice]

There are plenty of glitches that I would expect from any given engine, but when I'm playing hutt ball and the ground flat out DISAPPEARS at certain camera angels, we have a major issue.

[Lundli]

Do trees look strange to anyone else?

 

I'm thinking it's some small issue because they look pretty bad. Everything else is great.

 

They are "Speedtrees" looks much the same in most recent games

[carnac_fett]

I am dismayed to report that after a 6-hour reformatting process (redownloading the game, antivirus software, Windows Update, etc.), the issue with my textures persists.

 

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/7097/24420466.jpg

 

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/9349/61883975.jpg

 

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/7974/12651929.jpg

 

Reporting for duty from the Blur Republic.

 

I am really quite out of options.

 

It seems I am just the odd one out. I wish I knew what the problem was. It might make me a superficial jerk, but I simply don't want to play when the game looks like this. I'm worried that since my case seems so rare, it will never get fixed. I really wanted to experience this game.

Edited December 29, 2011 by carnac_fett

[Ommm]

Yes, this game launched with graphics in a halfway upto completly broken state, i dont like it. Some glitches are okay. Nobody minds small things. It happens. The game is huge and worlds have been crafted with care(i would say most of it anyway), but when highres textures are completly missing from the game except in cinematics with highest settings enabled among other things and green lines go all over your screen, because of just one object, then it gets you questioning.

 

What else? Magic grass growing just a few meters from your feet and no sliders nor ini settings to enhance it. Like what they did with it so far, but imo it is still in an unfinnished state.

 

Not sure if it was wise to put it onto the market like that.

 

Usually this is what beta is for.

Edited December 29, 2011 by Ommm