I played the demo. The textures look bad no wonder the game is well optimized.

[GosuDRM]

I'm playing at 1440p ultrawide with 300+ FPS on my RTX 4090 and 9800X3D it's the modders' job to fix the game.

[Mr. Pharaoh]

Yup, some of the textures are pretty muddy, almost N64-ish lol. Gameplay makes up for it but like u said, modders will fix this in no time.

[Dissident]

Graphics are fine, not everything needs to be state of the art. I prefer it being like this and running well for everyone than having the same game but with fancier graphics that only 5% of people can play without stuttering and low framerate. It's gameplay>art direction>fidelity

[Dekonega]

Originally posted by Mr. Pharaoh:

Yup, some of the textures are pretty muddy, almost N64-ish lol. Gameplay makes up for it but like u said, modders will fix this in no time.

I'd imagine that the demo didn't ship with full quality textures or other assets. It's only ~16GBs after all. And the full release is going to feature a 4K texture pack.

[Soma]

Originally posted by Dissident:

Graphics are fine, not everything needs to be state of the art. I prefer it being like this and running well for everyone than having the same game but with fancier graphics that only 5% of people can play without stuttering and low framerate. It's gameplay>art direction>fidelity

If I set the texture setting to 4k, I expect 4k textures. Not sure if it's a bug but most of the environment textures look awful. Characters look great though.

Originally posted by Dekonega:

I'd imagine that the demo didn't ship with full quality textures or other assets. It's only ~16GBs after all. And the full release is going to feature a 4K texture pack.

Didn't see this when I first replied, but if this is the case it could explain it. I'd need to see confirmation before buying though.

[Acquire]

Originally posted by Soma:

Originally posted by Dissident:

Graphics are fine, not everything needs to be state of the art. I prefer it being like this and running well for everyone than having the same game but with fancier graphics that only 5% of people can play without stuttering and low framerate. It's gameplay>art direction>fidelity

If I set the texture setting to 4k, I expect 4k textures. Not sure if it's a bug but most of the environment textures look awful. Characters look great though.

It's the same on the PS5. The female character models obviously look very good, but everything else was merely ok. Doesn't seem like they improved much on the PC version, which is why it runs so well. It's like a boosted PS4 game.

[Far]

I only have a 6GB VRAM 2060, so I just assumed the poor texture quality was a VRAM limitation on my card. Weird that it's happening to people with what I assume are much more powerful and VRAM sufficient GPUs. It could be a demo thing just to keep file size down, but we won't know until launch or if the devs update the demo.

[Dr.Krieger]

"1440p ultrawide with 300+ FPS on my RTX 4090 and 9800X3D"

On low settings maybe. Or you have DLSS on which will cause texture issues until game-ready drivers are available.

Play on max quality and DLSS/framegen off. The quality is quite good for a UE4 game ported from a console compared to most others.

[Dr.Krieger]

Originally posted by Far:

I only have a 6GB VRAM 2060, so I just assumed the poor texture quality was a VRAM limitation on my card. Weird that it's happening to people with what I assume are much more powerful and VRAM sufficient GPUs. It could be a demo thing just to keep file size down, but we won't know until launch or if the devs update the demo.

Everything maxed it takes about 9.5GB of VRAM.

[mjuarbe19]

Originally posted by Dr.Krieger:

Originally posted by Far:

I only have a 6GB VRAM 2060, so I just assumed the poor texture quality was a VRAM limitation on my card. Weird that it's happening to people with what I assume are much more powerful and VRAM sufficient GPUs. It could be a demo thing just to keep file size down, but we won't know until launch or if the devs update the demo.

Everything maxed it takes about 9.5GB of VRAM.

on my AMD RX 7900XTX at 4k Max settings im getting 13GB VRAM usage

[RomeoAlpha552]

Most likely bugged, the 4K textures don’t look like 4K textures.

[GentleLight]

Its a ps5 port over to PC. Of course the textures look bad.

Modders will fix that.

Its obvious their focus were on the characters and the environment with no zoom. They even fade out the trees if you attempt to get close with the camera.

[Apeek7]

if u enable 4k texture on settings it eats upto 12.5gb vram i doubt they didn't add 4k texture. maybe there's some bug

[PIG]

Are the tits in hd?

[Samo Bane]

Originally posted by Mr. Pharaoh:

Yup, some of the textures are pretty muddy, almost N64-ish lol. Gameplay makes up for it but like u said, modders will fix this in no time.

They won't, this isn't a Bethesda game. How many games do you think get massive texture packs or mods that meaningfully upgrade graphics?

It's just a fckton of gaudy, awful looking Reshade presets and scam .ini tweaks like "stutter removal" that do literally nothing.

[Dekonega]

Originally posted by Soma:

Originally posted by Dekonega:

I'd imagine that the demo didn't ship with full quality textures or other assets. It's only ~16GBs after all. And the full release is going to feature a 4K texture pack.

Didn't see this when I first replied, but if this is the case it could explain it. I'd need to see confirmation before buying though.

I've yet to see AAA game that was under 20 GBs and shipped 4K textures past few years. Even for a demo. There's is just too much data even when compressed to make that happen.

I read from Twitter that the rough size of the base game is going to be approximately between 30~50 GB range (which is about the same data density as dual layer BD can hold). Apparently the PC specific 4K Texture Pack is going to double the size of that somewhere between 70~80 GB range.

There's no confirmation of this that I know about and could link to. So I too would love to see a confirmation e.g. from the devs about this as well. However the Steam store page fairly clearly states that:

Texture pack support
Enrich the stellar Blade universe through a 4K option for the environment texture quality.

So it should ship with it. Anyways we should remember that if the product doesn't match the expectations and we're not happy with the final full release then we can refund the thing.