Pixelated

[Sgt_Bravic]

I'm using a 4K Sony TV and playing on a 3080TI 12700K computer. For some reason no matter what settings I use my game looks like I'm playing it at 480p zoomed in.

[Lana_Ray]

Are you playing without any upscaling? If i turned it off the game looked like it had a CRT TV filter on.

[Sgt_Bravic]

When I play without upscaling it looks pixelated. I tried DLSS Quality and everthing looks blurry.

[Apocryphox]

Try to turn down the sharpening.

[Maou]

Originally posted by Sgt_Bravic:

When I play without upscaling it looks pixelated. I tried DLSS Quality and everthing looks blurry.

Welcome to the Unreal 5 upscaling problem. This applies to most Unreal 5 games I have played.

[Lana_Ray]

It isn't sharpness. Sharpness actually helps a bit when upscaling is enabled. I can't seem to link the other thread about this. It's titled "weird graphics" I'm on mobile probably why it's giving me problems.

TL;DR can't find anyone with a fix and haven't been able to fix it myself.
No upscaling = crunched pixelated CRT TV visuals.
Upscaling on = vomit inducing blurry mess.

[Sgt_Bravic]

I never use upscaling for games. It always looks trash. I’d rather turn down the graphics. What I’m seeing appears to be zoomed in 480p resolution, no matter what setting I change. I even tried setting the resolution to something like 1440p and put it in window mode and it still looks bad!

[Prussian Wolf]

Originally posted by Lana_Ray:

It isn't sharpness. Sharpness actually helps a bit when upscaling is enabled. I can't seem to link the other thread about this. It's titled "weird graphics" I'm on mobile probably why it's giving me problems.

TL;DR can't find anyone with a fix and haven't been able to fix it myself.
No upscaling = crunched pixelated CRT TV visuals.
Upscaling on = vomit inducing blurry mess.

I suggested on the other thread to turn on upscaling and THEN up the sharpness, it looks pretty good to me now. I had the exact same problem before.

[idiot]

The game is made to have FSR/TAA on by default. The pixelation you're seeing is noise, and it's up to the upscaling to smooth out that noise into a nice-looking image. However, upscaling has the problem of making everything look blurry,and is notorious for introducing major ghosting as well. It's a lose-lose situation that is prevalent in UE5 games - you're just going to have to put up with it

[Lana_Ray]

Originally posted by Prussian Wolf:

Originally posted by Lana_Ray:

It isn't sharpness. Sharpness actually helps a bit when upscaling is enabled. I can't seem to link the other thread about this. It's titled "weird graphics" I'm on mobile probably why it's giving me problems.

TL;DR can't find anyone with a fix and haven't been able to fix it myself.
No upscaling = crunched pixelated CRT TV visuals.
Upscaling on = vomit inducing blurry mess.

I suggested on the other thread to turn on upscaling and THEN up the sharpness, it looks pretty good to me now. I had the exact same problem before.

It helps to mitigate the issue but doesn't remove it entirely. This game was specifically built with upscaling in mind. So the native base image looks like complete ass. Another theory I had is using Nvidia control panel to force some AA or visual adjustments while staying at native and last but not least doing some funky ♥♥♥♥ with reshade.

[Columbus]

Unreal Engine 5 sucks for this kind of stuff. There wouldn't need to be any "upscaling" if games were just optimized, and on good engines.

[Sgt_Bravic]

It’s a Sony Bravia which is a 4K OLED TV. My other games look beautiful on it, except this one. There is some glitch that is forcing a lower resolution and trying to output it to my screen size. Hopefully the developers can get back to me or release a patch to fix it.

[Lana_Ray]

Upscaling on vs off

https://imgur.com/a/stalker-with-without-upscaling-RLIonIR Just so it's clear what we're talking about and what I assume OP means. Again sharpness can mitigate the issue but not completely remove it. Last ditch effort is manually updating the DLSS it uses and hope its better.

[Sgt_Bravic]

That is exactly what I’m seeing!

[Alastres]

Do you have the game on windowed perhaps? I turned upscaling off one time and it looked really bad on 4K and it turned out I was running in windowed instead of fullscreen. The option is called "fullscreen [exclusive]" in display.

[Lord_Heimdall]

Same here in Native 4k it is so grainy. Turned down Sharpness to 0 but that does not affect that much. Got the game in Exclusive Fullscreen. It's really bad as DLSS and DLAA are really blurry especially when you look at barbed wire fences. Also truning on FG makes it even worse as there is some kind of flickering then while moving.