Extreme blurriness --- anyone else has this issue?

[Sunbather]

I was very eager to finally play 1.0 but the game is very, very blurry, even unbearably so. Deactivating DLSS does nothing. One meter away from a clipboard and I can't even read the words anymore. Text in the tablet is bad as well.

I don't remember this game being so blurry. Maybe I have forgotten to turn something on/off? Can anybody help?

[twitch.tv/jplosada]

same here..

Unfortunately they changed the game engine.

Until earlier today, when I played the early access version, the graphics were beautiful, crystal clear, extremely detailed.

[Krude]

The game is using TAA, it's horrible, not sure what the devs were thinking, all this work to effectively downgrade the game.

there's even a whole subreddit dedicated to hating TAA. Most devs are now moving away from it, it's like bloom 2.0 where devs thought lots of bloom was a good idea, it was a phase in game dev.

that's why you get lots of blurriness, it's also why at higher AA options you get ghosting.

[Hairy Mouse]

Yeah. I thought the graphics looked bad. Felt like my resolution was set too low or DLSS was on performance. The game has a grainy, soft, sorta low res look to it. The contrast is messed up too, with everything looking kinda washed out, and blacks being more like milky grays. Plus, seems like some chromatic aberration on top of everything.

Seems like LoDs are worse now too. Signs and things with text drop to a pixellated low res look from not very far away.

[Sunbather]

Originally posted by twitch.tv/jplosada:

same here..

Unfortunately they changed the game engine.

Until earlier today, when I played the early access version, the graphics were beautiful, crystal clear, extremely detailed.

I must say though that the blurriness in the missions themselves is way less. Weirdly, the insane blurriness is restricted to the headquarters?

[Chubzdoomer]

Originally posted by Sunbather:

Originally posted by twitch.tv/jplosada:

same here..

Unfortunately they changed the game engine.

Until earlier today, when I played the early access version, the graphics were beautiful, crystal clear, extremely detailed.

I must say though that the blurriness in the missions themselves is way less. Weirdly, the insane blurriness is restricted to the headquarters?

Yep, I noticed that as well. The HQ is a blurfest. The missions themselves, not so much. Weird...

[Sunbather]

Originally posted by Krude:

The game is using TAA, it's horrible, not sure what the devs were thinking, all this work to effectively downgrade the game.

there's even a whole subreddit dedicated to hating TAA. Most devs are now moving away from it, it's like bloom 2.0 where devs thought lots of bloom was a good idea, it was a phase in game dev.

that's why you get lots of blurriness, it's also why at higher AA options you get ghosting.

Been using TAA in games for years and deem it much better than SMAA (too expensive) or FXAA. If you apply sharpness TAA is one of the better solution to combat aliasing. That being said, TAA does not play any role anyway for me because I am using DLSS which turns off TAA.

[Sunbather]

Originally posted by Hairy Mouse:

Yeah. I thought the graphics looked bad. Felt like my resolution was set too low or DLSS was on performance. The game has a grainy, soft, sorta low res look to it. The contrast is messed up too, with everything looking kinda washed out, and blacks being more like milky grays. Plus, seems like some chromatic aberration on top of everything.

Seems like LoDs are worse now too. Signs and things with text drop to a pixellated low res look from not very far away.

Fortunately, the blurriness is less in the actual missions for me. Almost like pre-1.0. But yeah, the LoD is strange. I have 12 gb of VRAM and yet some of the writings on a board only show up when I am like a step away from it. I think this is a result of the attempt to optimize the game too aggressively.

[Ahroovi]

As far as I've been aware, DLSS has TAA built in. So it's disabled because you can't manually set it.

[Sunbather]

Originally posted by Ahroovi:

As far as I've been aware, DLSS has TAA built in. So it's disabled because you can't manually set it.

Kind of but it's not the same. TAA does not utilize machine learning to boost the selection of frames and it also has no upsampling technique.

[Supreme Leader Kim Jong Don]

AMD Sharpening filter helps alot

[Green Hat]

TAA moment

[Sig]

Same issue but reducing post processing quality to medium fixed it and now things are crystal clear again. Above medium the screen has this grainy film effect and makes stuff like the tablet look like a vhs tape

[Ahroovi]

Originally posted by Sunbather:

Originally posted by Ahroovi:

As far as I've been aware, DLSS has TAA built in. So it's disabled because you can't manually set it.

Kind of but it's not the same. TAA does not utilize machine learning to boost the selection of frames and it also has no upsampling technique.

It's the same way that FSR (usually) has CAS applied to it. TAA doesn't use machine learning, I know that because I'm on a 10 series and TAA works. But TAA can be applied after all the other steps.

[IcyDec]

There's a guide from EA release that explained how to disable TAA, search SMAA in the guides. The game looks fine with no Anti Aliasing (and sharp)

[Sunbather]

Originally posted by Sig:

Same issue but reducing post processing quality to medium fixed it and now things are crystal clear again. Above medium the screen has this grainy film effect and makes stuff like the tablet look like a vhs tape

Agreed. I also just remembered that post processing has some blurriness offenders smuggled into it more often than not. Turning it to medium or even off helps a lot.