Your Graphics settings?

[Lodau]

Dumb question, but... what are your graphic settings, and maybe especially the FSAA(?), ambient occlusion, Depth of Field and maybe some others.

I watch unmodded game footage on Youtube and the game looks crisp. sharp, good lines, lots of detail, no Level of Detail seemingly increasing

But mine looks blurry, smoothed out, and as if theres no Anti Aliasing is being done at all. Fences and powerlines look terribly blocky, popping in. Blurry as if someone uses a "soften" filter over the entire image.

Tried all sorts of different settings, even what youtubes said in the video, but I only seem to make it worse now. From off to Ultra/High, checkboxes on and off.

AMD Rx570 4GB on a 24 inch 1920*1200 display. Most everything on High except shadows and whats shown in the mirrors, on medium. I don't remember it looking this blurry, but maybe thats me. Unmodded game, latest expansion I own is Washington. (missing Utah and Wyoming)

Hope that makes sense, thanks for suggestions/settings!

[Oz Gaming]

I have Depth of Field turned Off............Makes things further away look blurry
Scaling is set at 300%........................Makes truck dashboard and gauges a lot clear and sharper.

1920x1080 display

[ShaftZilla86]

I play on 2560x1440, scaling 400% and everything maxed out, DoF off and get around 120 fps (a little lower in cities)

Ryzen 5 3600, 6700XT, 16GB 3200Mhz DDR4, 27" Samsung Odyssey G5 1000R curved.

[Sandhill]

And Idaho. What happens if you max everything at 300% or 400% ?

[Lodau]

> And Idaho
Oops yes, and Colorado. Was considering the highest discounted ones, but wanted to fix my graphics first!

> Scaling is set at 300% // scaling 400% // 300% or 400%
There we go! Did not know what it scaled, but that definitely made it look ~340% better than before! (I alrready had DoF turned off, but scaling was at 63%)

Thanks much for the right direction!

[ttower]

Originally posted by Lodau:

> And Idaho
Oops yes, and Colorado. Was considering the highest discounted ones, but wanted to fix my graphics first!

> Scaling is set at 300% // scaling 400% // 300% or 400%
There we go! Did not know what it scaled, but that definitely made it look ~340% better than before! (I alrready had DoF turned off, but scaling was at 63%)

Thanks much for the right direction!

Scaling changes the resolution the game renders at. if you have a 1920x1200 monitor, running at 63% scaling, then the game was only rendering at around 1200x750. That would definitely explain your poor graphics. 200% scaling is rendered at double, which is 3840x2400, which is then downscaled to the monitor resolution. This increases fidelity slightly, and makes certain details easier to see. Higher scaling is good, but lower scaling is VERY noticeable. 100% is standard.

[CAPTGFD]

At my age I am happy with the 100% on a 1920X1080 26" screen. But I tried to go to 300% and the screen lags or stutters. DOF is off. The lower % I tried the less stuttering. So 100% is good. But am I missing something or do I need to change some other setting.

[luZk]

3440x1440@200% scaling, capped at 100 fps, mirror distance on high, everything else om max.

[Nimir-Raj]

Originally posted by ttower:

Higher scaling is good

It is, but naturally the higher scaling beyond 100% puts increased load on the GPU. So if like me you're on a 4k TV and using UHD resolution (3840 x 2160) and whack it up to 400% that's basically 15,360 x 8,640 - you're gonna need a damn good system if you want a respectable performance.

[tesTTrucker]

Originally posted by luZk:

3440x1440@200% scaling, capped at 100 fps, mirror distance on high, everything else on max.

Why you don't cap it on 60 FPS and raise scaling to 400? Scaling means a lot IMO. And if 60FPS is to low for you, believe me, your eyes would adapt in a matter of minutes.
P.s. you can turn off AA because at 2k it's a very small (or even no difference) with turned off or on AA.

[CAPTGFD]

Where do you find FPS to change it?

[Viking2121]

3440x1440 and I max it out, I do run 400% render resolution to smooth out the jaggies, Anti Aliasing kinda sucks in ATS.

[tesTTrucker]

Originally posted by CAPTGFD:

Where do you find FPS to change it?

Sorry. Probably it's too late for the answering. You can cap the fps through the your gpu software. Depending on which gpu you have. Tell me which is your gpu and I can help you.

[luZk]

Originally posted by tesTTrucker:

Originally posted by luZk:

3440x1440@200% scaling, capped at 100 fps, mirror distance on high, everything else on max.

Why you don't cap it on 60 FPS and raise scaling to 400? Scaling means a lot IMO. And if 60FPS is to low for you, believe me, your eyes would adapt in a matter of minutes.
P.s. you can turn off AA because at 2k it's a very small (or even no difference) with turned off or on AA.

Because I have grown accustomed to 100 fps tbh, I could prob get used to 60 fps again but...

[tesTTrucker]

Originally posted by luZk:

Originally posted by tesTTrucker:

Why you don't cap it on 60 FPS and raise scaling to 400? Scaling means a lot IMO. And if 60FPS is to low for you, believe me, your eyes would adapt in a matter of minutes.
P.s. you can turn off AA because at 2k it's a very small (or even no difference) with turned off or on AA.

Because I have grown accustomed to 100 fps tbh, I could prob get used to 60 fps again but...

then try with 70. Believe me, there's no need for 100 in this kind of games. I mean, it's not such a big action, huh? And speed is also relatively low, compared to racing games.
Well.. you have a good gpu. But ... with everything on max and with 100 + utilisation must be over 95 % all the time?

[luZk]

Originally posted by tesTTrucker:

Originally posted by luZk:

Because I have grown accustomed to 100 fps tbh, I could prob get used to 60 fps again but...

then try with 70. Believe me, there's no need for 100 in this kind of games. I mean, it's not such a big action, huh? And speed is also relatively low, compared to racing games.
Well.. you have a good gpu. But ... with everything on max and with 100 + utilisation must be over 95 % all the time?

I've tried 400% but it does'nt run well and my pc becomes very noisy even at 60 fps cap.