Low-res textures in ultra?

[Helpless Heroine]

Up until now the game has been running fine on ultra settings and looking beautiful.
I started the game up again after a few months of not playing and immidiately noticed the textures were loading unevenly and just looked really bad. I don't know ♥♥♥♥ about FPS tbh so I can't say if that's worse than before.

It's gone from this
https://postimg.org/image/6tgm759rz/
https://postimg.org/image/3n4yvpmv3/
https://postimg.org/image/yq5amdlzz/

to this
https://postimg.org/image/7ffr3bwu1/
https://postimg.org/image/jwibpgfrd/

In case it's of any interest
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
RAM: 8GB


I don't know what to do. Anyone have any suggestions?

[Alucard †]

you do know that theres is absolutely 0 difference between medium and ultra texture quality except vram usage?

if your gpu is struggling with vram textures wont load properly and those "low res textures"
R9 200's arent exactly packed with Vram + this game's engine is very "dodgy"

you'd be better off setting game textures on medium you will have a lot less badly loaded textures issues and its same quality as Ultra

don't believe me read here:
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/fallout-4-graphics-performance-and-tweaking-guide

[Edson]

there's no resolution differences on textures settings, the only things is level of mipmapping, on medium textures can look a bit grainy

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by Edson:

there's no resolution differences on textures settings, the only things is level of mipmapping, on medium textures can look a bit grainy

nope the difference is barely noticable
you need a microscope to notice it

[Bobby Digital™]

texture pop in and loading has been an issue from day 1

[DjPufnStuf]

Originally posted by ⎛The Crimson ♥♥♥♥♥♥⎞ ✞:

Originally posted by Edson:

there's no resolution differences on textures settings, the only things is level of mipmapping, on medium textures can look a bit grainy

nope the difference is barely noticable
you need a microscope to notice it

the biggest difference between textures in medium high and ultra is minor things like branches and such. Ultra they look more tangible like close to an actual branch and medium makes them look like brown thick grass floating off the trees. Other then that there isn't a ton different.

[Alucard †]

oh well ... unless you're doing a "tree hugger" playthrough ;P you can just safely put Medium textures on

[DjPufnStuf]

Originally posted by ⎛The Crimson ♥♥♥♥♥♥⎞ ✞:

oh well ... unless you're doing a "tree hugger" playthrough ;P you can just safely put Medium textures on

I put it on high lol, I tried playing it on medium and it's not bad but for me atleast it's distracting enough to up it a little. It feels like looking at fallout 3 texture whichisn't so bad in fallout 4 base game but in far harbor it gets pretty nuts when there are trees covering everywhere and you have to look at them.

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by DjPuffnStuff:

Originally posted by ⎛The Crimson ♥♥♥♥♥♥⎞ ✞:

oh well ... unless you're doing a "tree hugger" playthrough ;P you can just safely put Medium textures on

I put it on high lol, I tried playing it on medium and it's not bad but for me atleast it's distracting enough to up it a little. It feels like looking at fallout 3 texture whichisn't so bad in fallout 4 base game but in far harbor it gets pretty nuts when there are trees covering everywhere and you have to look at them.

maybe its just me i like to not push my GPU to the limits
if game still looks great and my GPU has breathing room
its a win win for me :P

[DjPufnStuf]

Originally posted by ⎛The Crimson ♥♥♥♥♥♥⎞ ✞:

Originally posted by DjPuffnStuff:

I put it on high lol, I tried playing it on medium and it's not bad but for me atleast it's distracting enough to up it a little. It feels like looking at fallout 3 texture whichisn't so bad in fallout 4 base game but in far harbor it gets pretty nuts when there are trees covering everywhere and you have to look at them.

maybe its just me i like to not push my GPU to the limits
if game still looks great and my GPU has breathing room
its a win win for me :P

I'm not pushing my graphics card much by having everything on ultra, but yea understandable.