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Bandit Jan 31, 2022 @ 7:07am
Pixelated or grainy textures
So i started playing a little, and after reaching the village y noticed that ground textures and other textures like walls or trees have this little points in textures that look like they where pixelated. The VSR and film grain options are disabled like lots of people mention in other posts. Is there any way to correct this?
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animal_PLANET Jan 31, 2022 @ 12:28pm 
I believe from other thread this is due to film noise/grain. Turn it off.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1196590/discussions/1/3156453942262903116/
7igma957 Feb 8, 2022 @ 10:40am 
Originally posted by animal_PLANET:
I believe from other thread this is due to film noise/grain. Turn it off.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1196590/discussions/1/3156453942262903116/

NO! It's not the same! It's just horrible game effect!
mjhcsta Feb 8, 2022 @ 10:50am 
Originally posted by 7igma957:
Originally posted by animal_PLANET:
I believe from other thread this is due to film noise/grain. Turn it off.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1196590/discussions/1/3156453942262903116/

NO! It's not the same! It's just horrible game effect!

:lunar2019laughingpig:
Bandit Feb 8, 2022 @ 1:15pm 
I already mentioned that those two options (film grain, VSR) are disabled. I played the whole game like that, trying to ignore it. It still looks ugly sometimes, its more noticeable in exteriors. Other people also mentioned that its an engine thing that cant be solved,
I dont remember seeing it in re7 or in re2 tho.
Last edited by Bandit; Feb 8, 2022 @ 1:19pm
nomorevideos Feb 9, 2022 @ 1:26am 
Originally posted by Bandit:
I already mentioned that those two options (film grain, VSR) are disabled. I played the whole game like that, trying to ignore it. It still looks ugly sometimes, its more noticeable in exteriors. Other people also mentioned that its an engine thing that cant be solved,
I dont remember seeing it in re7 or in re2 tho.
It definitely is with hair and some other models, but in another thread that was posted about this issue, it's way worse than it should be. The guy even had pixelated shadows. No clue why some people's game looks like that.
Last edited by nomorevideos; Feb 9, 2022 @ 1:27am
animal_PLANET Feb 9, 2022 @ 3:58am 
Originally posted by Bandit:
I already mentioned that those two options (film grain, VSR) are disabled. I played the whole game like that, trying to ignore it. It still looks ugly sometimes, its more noticeable in exteriors. Other people also mentioned that its an engine thing that cant be solved,
I dont remember seeing it in re7 or in re2 tho.

What are your specs? Can you post a SS of the issue? If it was the engine the issue would be more broad and more people would have same issue.

It could be your display driver is outdated or display driver settings could be causing a conflict with the way the game looks. Update display driver and make sure driver 3D settings are defaulted.
nomorevideos Feb 9, 2022 @ 4:05am 
Originally posted by animal_PLANET:
Originally posted by Bandit:
I already mentioned that those two options (film grain, VSR) are disabled. I played the whole game like that, trying to ignore it. It still looks ugly sometimes, its more noticeable in exteriors. Other people also mentioned that its an engine thing that cant be solved,
I dont remember seeing it in re7 or in re2 tho.

What are your specs? Can you post a SS of the issue? If it was the engine the issue would be more broad and more people would have same issue.
He's talking about the hair and stuff ("engine issue"), which is an issue on any system and any version of the game. Hair just looks awful in these games and there's nothing you can do about it besides turning up render scale and using TAA.

People are not talking about it since most don't even notice it nor care. Feel free to post a screenshot of Mia in the very beginning when she's done reading the book. Unless you crank SS up by increasing render scale and use TAA in combination with it, it'll always look rather bad. Most games get hair wrong these days, since devs have no idea how to properly implement it and AA techniques likes SMAA are so outdated they can't deal with transparent textures, stuff like MSAA/SMAA can't really fix aliasing on textures. TAA is crap, same like FXAA.

The grainy shadows in some screenshots shouldn't really exist and are not a mass issue.
Last edited by nomorevideos; Feb 9, 2022 @ 4:07am
animal_PLANET Feb 9, 2022 @ 4:21am 
Originally posted by nomorevideos:
He's talking about the hair and stuff ("engine issue"),

I didnt see OP mention anything about hair? Just about walls, trees or ground textures.

I do happen to have this SS of Rose's hair and it doesnt look grainy. You can even see individual strands. I didnt take many SS of this game when it was installed but at least I had hair in one to illustrate its not an engine issue.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748020808
nomorevideos Feb 9, 2022 @ 4:23am 
Originally posted by animal_PLANET:
Originally posted by nomorevideos:
He's talking about the hair and stuff ("engine issue"),

I didnt see OP mention anything about hair? Just about walls, trees or ground textures.

I do happen to have this SS of Rose's hair and it doesnt look grainy. You can even see individual strands. I didnt take many SS of this game when it was installed but at least I had hair in one to illustrate its not an engine issue.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748020808


Originally posted by Bandit:
Other people also mentioned that its an engine thing that cant be solved
nomorevideos Feb 9, 2022 @ 4:25am 
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748024214
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748024626
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748025258

You can see hair in particular always looks bad, even at 4k with TAA. Downsampled to 1080p while playing you still have ugly artifacting on top of shimmering. At 4k native it would look worse, since on a 4k screen you'll have way more pixels to actually show how bad it looks, as can be seen by simply zooming into the image.

You can actually see the shadows artifacting too, just nowhere near as bad as in some screenshots like in that one thread the other day who posted 2 screenshots.

https://i.imgur.com/gKgdMex.png


"Your mods are breaking the GFX."

No.

"You're still on outdated drivers and some textures are missing, like the wall behind Mia, it's breaking the shadows and the hair."

No, happens in any RE Engine game with any setup, mods or drivers.
Last edited by nomorevideos; Feb 9, 2022 @ 4:30am
nomorevideos Feb 9, 2022 @ 4:34am 
Originally posted by animal_PLANET:
Originally posted by nomorevideos:
He's talking about the hair and stuff ("engine issue"),

I didnt see OP mention anything about hair? Just about walls, trees or ground textures.

I do happen to have this SS of Rose's hair and it doesnt look grainy. You can even see individual strands. I didnt take many SS of this game when it was installed but at least I had hair in one to illustrate its not an engine issue.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748020808
Ignore the line at the bottom, slipped. Either way, you can still see the grainy hair (you're in a dark spot, darkness obviously hides the grain + the hair and the skin are similar color-wise) and the grainy shadows. Post a screenshot of the scene with Mia if you have one.

https://i.imgur.com/RWCbmqK.png

If you can't see that you need some glasses, since it's obvious as day in the screenshot you've posted still, the shadows are anyway. The hair just blends into the skin and isn't a good example to show the issue or rather to prove there's none.
Instead of pretending there's no issue, you might just should accept that it is in fact an issue with the engine and it'll never be solved. Look at any non-compressed/heavily-compressed image/footage of RE2/3/7/8/REsis/VERSE/MH/DMC and you can see the issue. No one's talking about it/complaining since the majority of people don't care or don't even notice it.

Go to the screenshot hub and any image you'll see there will have bad hair rendering. The only time this is not true is if someone heavily AAed the image on top of sumplersampling it or it is straight-up manipulated. You can see with my 4k mesh max TAA screenshot from earlier that it's just how the engine renders hair. You can attempt to hide it, that's the best you can do.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2744598802
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2745195312
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2741079489
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2741387695

The only way to "fix" this issue is to either crank up scaling to an insane level i.e. 200% or even higher via DSR + scaling and downsampling it or to mod the hair and change parameters. I don't have a direct link, but a thread on REmodding has a post on it with how the hair can look different. It reduces the awful artifacting/grain by making each strands thicker.

Also needless to say, you need to look at these images in 100% resolution, not the thumbnail or "fit to window". You're on a 1440p screen so for the 4k screenshot of mine you need to actually open it in a browser and click it once so it zooms and the image is at 100% scale and not less than that.

I am not being aggressive btw, I am just showing you and other people how bad the engine really is in that regard. Feel free to disagree, but images don't lie. You can enable "save uncompressed copy" for Steam screenies and those .pngs will look the same. It's an issue with RE Engine and several other game engines, devs simply aren't good at implementing hair these days and usually fail hard at trying to make quality hair. CoD has it too, CoD also has some shadow LODs/etc issues in BO3/4 and the only modern game that I've played and remember having good hair is WWZ.

The only way you'd get good live footage of RE8 with no awful hair rendering is if you were to play at a higher resolution, use scaling/SS and maybe even use nvidia/AMD's new fancy tech that they come up with every now and then. Maybe there's a combination of settings and techniques to hide the hair artifacting, but again that would be "hiding" it and not "fixing" it.
Last edited by nomorevideos; Feb 9, 2022 @ 5:19am
animal_PLANET Feb 9, 2022 @ 5:16am 
Originally posted by nomorevideos:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748024214
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748024626
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748025258

You can see hair in particular always looks bad, even at 4k with TAA. Downsampled to 1080p while playing you still have ugly artifacting on top of shimmering. At 4k native it would look worse, since on a 4k screen you'll have way more pixels to actually show how bad it looks, as can be seen by simply zooming into the image.

You can actually see the shadows artifacting too, just nowhere near as bad as in some screenshots like in that one thread the other day who posted 2 screenshots.

https://i.imgur.com/gKgdMex.png

"Your mods are breaking the GFX."

No.

"You're still on outdated drivers and some textures are missing, like the wall behind Mia, it's breaking the shadows and the hair."

No, happens in any RE Engine game with any setup, mods or drivers.

LMFAO bro. Not sure why your game looks like that but its really funny. You can clearly see I do not have that issue.

Not sure what you are doing to alter the game but no way did I ever see Mia have that issue with her face. Classic.

The other SS you post are from other people and who knows what setting they are using. Plus, 3 of 4 SS is during a cutscene or animation.

The lycan hair for biting fingers does look bad, but thats at 1080 and who knows what settings are used. No game hair looks pristine anyway. If you or others are nitpicking that its pretty bad. But again, My SS show actual strands of hair which is pretty damn good and thats in game and not during an animation or cutscene.

Once I install Village again for DLC I will compare your SS to mine. Hilarious thoug! :steammocking:
nomorevideos Feb 9, 2022 @ 5:21am 
Originally posted by animal_PLANET:
Originally posted by nomorevideos:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748024214
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748024626
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2748025258

You can see hair in particular always looks bad, even at 4k with TAA. Downsampled to 1080p while playing you still have ugly artifacting on top of shimmering. At 4k native it would look worse, since on a 4k screen you'll have way more pixels to actually show how bad it looks, as can be seen by simply zooming into the image.

You can actually see the shadows artifacting too, just nowhere near as bad as in some screenshots like in that one thread the other day who posted 2 screenshots.

https://i.imgur.com/gKgdMex.png

"Your mods are breaking the GFX."

No.

"You're still on outdated drivers and some textures are missing, like the wall behind Mia, it's breaking the shadows and the hair."

No, happens in any RE Engine game with any setup, mods or drivers.

LMFAO bro. Not sure why your game looks like that but its really funny. You can clearly see I do not have that issue.
Except you have and your screenshot even shows it. Thanks for being in denial. I have nothing else to add.
animal_PLANET Feb 9, 2022 @ 5:32am 
Originally posted by nomorevideos:
Except you have and your screenshot even shows it. Thanks for being in denial. I have nothing else to add.

You lost me when you purposely make your game look like crap to make it seem like an actual issue.

The SS you posted does not happen in my game or other peoples videos that I have watched.

This is your SS! :steammocking:
https://imgur.com/SQKNRqx

Too funny!
nomorevideos Feb 9, 2022 @ 5:52am 
Originally posted by animal_PLANET:
Originally posted by nomorevideos:
Except you have and your screenshot even shows it. Thanks for being in denial. I have nothing else to add.

You lost me when you purposely make your game look like crap to make it seem like an actual issue.

The SS you posted does not happen in my game or other peoples videos that I have watched.

This is your SS! :steammocking:
https://imgur.com/SQKNRqx

Too funny!


Originally posted by nomorevideos:
"Your mods are breaking the GFX."

No.

"You're still on outdated drivers and some textures are missing, like the wall behind Mia, it's breaking the shadows and the hair."

No, happens in any RE Engine game with any setup, mods or drivers.

It's a 400% facial anim. mod that does not affect hair in any way. You're in denial.

https://imgur.com/a/IeFntr6

https://i.imgur.com/QHVOU7H.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FDTdidf.jpg

https://youtu.be/L4gJwO2M4nw

Want me to add the YouTube video of me uninstalling the mod, changing settings, taking the screenshots and then opening the screenshots up in Ps too? Or will you then proclaim "well, you're on a 'broken' driver though"? In which case I'd uninstall my current 431.XX drivers, update to 49X.XX and redo the entire thing, just for you to say "oh well, doesn't happen for me!". A joke, really. I hope OP got his answer and has seen how bad this engine is and how vehemently people will defend it and try to lie about things.

This is a pitiful attempt at gaslighting/trying to seem "right". I actually have nothing else to add for good now, since I do not argue with people who lie and try to gaslight others.
Last edited by nomorevideos; Feb 9, 2022 @ 6:33am
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