Lowres character textures in Director's Cut

[Nubblecakes]

So I picked up the Director's Cut a while back with the intention of replaying the game with all the fixes and "enhancements." I got the DC simply because it has Missing Link and was basically the same price at the time. I figured I might as well just go for the best value.

But after playing for a while, I noticed that character face and hair textures are insanely low resolution. Like DX8-level quality. It makes conversations painful to watch since the n aimations have always been a bit off in this game. But now characters' faces look like mud and lack any real definition, and their hair is just a garbled mess.

Is there a known fix for this? I can't seem to find any config files for this game anywhere to see if there's a possible hack I can do to get the game to render textures at the proper resolution. It seems like a mipmap bug of some sort (I recall the original Mass Effect having a similar issue with Garrus's face textures).

I'm pretty close to just reinstalling the original game instead so I can actually enjoy it. Call me picky, but I didn't pay for the Director's Cut to get an inferior experience.

[nachdruck]

I totaly understand you. I have the same problem.

[Gromuhl]

No, the Director's Cut is a mess:
- Worse textures (often stretched where it should be tiled, see Jensens apartment, hallways tiles etc)
- Worse tesselations with black dots/lines everywhere
- Original bugs that have been fixed in the original version

The only two nice thing are the integration with the missing link and the (barely) better boss battles, but other than that there are so many things that ruin the experience that I rather play the original.

[The Brain from Mercury]

Guys pls, make tickets with SE tech support if you haven't. It might get their attention, I mean that's the most direct way to contact the people that can help, and the only way that officially counts for them.

[Nubblecakes]

I doubt that Square are going to bother releasing a patch for this game, especially since they're making a sequel right now. They're known for leaving games behind like that.

That being said, I reinstalled the original version and to my great confusion, things like hair and faces are still terrible looking. However I think it did fix the issues with world textures acting strange, as well as the graphical artifacting that tesselation introduced in the DC.

This is very frustrating. Am I just remembering wrong when I say that the characters used to look way better than this?

[SynthZ]

that's part of the company way of work really, it's a single player, they released it, its over, its in the closet, anyway, it's not that big of a deal, I play the game smoothly and I'm hyped as hell for the sequel D:

[Ghanimá]

I starting to think me buy the original collection, was better choice, seeing people are saying the "improved" textures are actual worse and the game is even buggy, thought i got to admit haveing reworked boss and freeier use of augments would be nice

[The Brain from Mercury]

Originally posted by Nubblecakes:

I doubt that Square are going to bother releasing a patch for this game, especially since they're making a sequel right now. They're known for leaving games behind like that.

That being said, I reinstalled the original version and to my great confusion, things like hair and faces are still terrible looking. However I think it did fix the issues with world textures acting strange, as well as the graphical artifacting that tesselation introduced in the DC.

This is very frustrating. Am I just remembering wrong when I say that the characters used to look way better than this?

The human brain also has a funny way of remembering things like that.

It's possible that new iterations of the drivers for your graphics card have lowered the visual quality of this game. Another possibility is that you turned down quality settings for your graphics card, such as mipmap detail.

However, just a week ago I read a complaint on these forums about the faces in this game. Maybe it was you but maybe this game just doesn't have the best faces. They look okay to me but I kind of think any modern game looks pretty great from a technical standpoint. Gone are the days when texture resolution limited how much information you could convey.

Originally posted by Ghanimá:

I starting to think me buy the original collection, was better choice, seeing people are saying the "improved" textures are actual worse and the game is even buggy, thought i got to admit haveing reworked boss and freeier use of augments would be nice

I'd trade places with you. You got the good version.

Originally posted by Mono:

that's part of the company way of work really, it's a single player, they released it, its over, its in the closet, anyway, it's not that big of a deal, I play the game smoothly and I'm hyped as hell for the sequel D:

So, CD Projekt Red isn't a company? What about Epic Games? What about Ubisoft, even they have released post-launch content and patches for free. Don't say that somehow their hands are tied and they can't fix this product and they shouldn't be expected to, don't even say this shouldn't have been a free patch instead of a re-release, because any gamer who's been around for a while knows that isn't true.

[Nubblecakes]

Yeah, sadly the abuse of DLC content is becoming progressively worse in the industry. It just boils down to greed. Unfortunately I bought this Director's Cut when I was a bit more naive. I just recently decided to replay the game and noticed how much of a scam it really was for those who already owned the original.

Now we have things like Bamco's Scholar of the First Sins DLC for Dark Souls II. When I read an article talking about the price model for that crap, my jaw nearly hit the damn floor. It's unreal how greedy and stupid these publishers can be.

[PeredurMaimed]

I will note this game was designed for the wii to start with so that might explain some things.

[redfblack]

Originally posted by preachn:

I will note this game was designed for the wii to start with so that might explain some things.

Let's not confuse things.. this version of the game was originally designed for the Wii U, the game itself was not.

[xxxchunksxxx]

Originally posted by Dleghthikos:

Guys pls, make tickets with SE tech support if you haven't. It might get their attention, I mean that's the most direct way to contact the people that can help, and the only way that officially counts for them.

Look how that turned out when square announced FF7 PC port to the PS4

[The Brain from Mercury]

Originally posted by xxxchunksxxx:

Originally posted by Dleghthikos:

Guys pls, make tickets with SE tech support if you haven't. It might get their attention, I mean that's the most direct way to contact the people that can help, and the only way that officially counts for them.

Look how that turned out when square announced FF7 PC port to the PS4

How did it turn out?

Anyway, what else would you suggest. It is the only way that officially counts for them. There was an unpaid mod from the SE forums that posted a few times in this forum about the technical issues, claiming to be collecting information, but that was only when the game was released and then they disappeared. People have tried asking SE over facebook, no reply. The only other thing I can think of would be to tweet directly at the developers, which someone did to someone at Nixxis, who replied that the DC for PC was based on the earlier build of DEHR, and they clarified that they had nothing to do with the DC port. But those are all unofficial ways of reporting a problem, and sometimes there is a "loud minority" that does those things. In this case, it's not a loud minority because on any discussion forum I look at, I see tons of different people talking about the problems. It's obviously a well-known, well documented situation that this game was abandoned in poor condition. Yet I wonder, with the attitude you have, if many people have simply not tried to create problem tickets with SE tech support. It's about creating a ticket, so the numbers tally up for them and they have an official number to go by. I mean, of course people are warning each other to just not buy this game. But if people who bought it don't also create problem tickets, then they just will look at the numbers because it's easier and more reliable than reading forums.