Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

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New Bug; pixelated trees and crumbs
Can't escape it even with changing settings.

http://i59.servimg.com/u/f59/15/71/53/96/2014-110.jpg
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Guydodge Dec 7, 2014 @ 10:48am 
it'll probably go away on next chapter love the series but these games are just buggy mostly graphics bugs nothing game breaking.serious sam2 is the only one i played that had no bugs
Solais Dec 7, 2014 @ 11:55am 
It must have been a different SS2 then.

Anyways, while I don't know the answer to how to fix this, you should try searching around, as this bug was reported by quite a few people already, maybe they found a solution.
Thanks for trying to help Solais
Solais Dec 7, 2014 @ 2:31pm 
Also I'm sure the devs will help you once they launch Talos next week.
Zaxx Dec 9, 2014 @ 12:34pm 
It's just a guess but maybe you could try the non-modded version.
Last edited by Zaxx; Dec 9, 2014 @ 12:34pm
aTastySandMitch Dec 15, 2014 @ 7:32pm 
This is actually an issue of not using coverage sampling Antialiasing. If you are using and AMD video card, you must force it in the AMD control panel as EQ multisampling (override application settings).

This happens when you use gfx_iTransparencyAntialiasing without a form of coverage sampling AA (coverage sampling makes intermediate multisampling blend "smoother" to get rid of that effect you're seeing).

Here is what it looks like when properly applied: http://postimg.org/image/ptcp5lixn/

This was using my laptop with an AMD Firepro graphics card. I have a desktop with an Nvidia GTX 480 that I've never seen this issue with (mostly because Nvidia's filtering is the proper way to filter 2D images where-as AMD does filtering for angle-dependent and 3D shapes/images. This is another reason to buy an Nvidia graphics card...)
Last edited by aTastySandMitch; Dec 15, 2014 @ 7:34pm
Thanks but I'm using the NVIDIA GeForce card
aTastySandMitch Dec 15, 2014 @ 7:37pm 
What antialiasing settings are you using?

It doesn't do this for me when using my Nvidia desktop (using latest 344.75 WHQL drivers) and I have the control panel settings as application controlled for SSHD:TSE. If you have anything forced, might want to try with application controlled and use the ingame antialiasing settings instead. Otherwise, the driver might have a bug.
Last edited by aTastySandMitch; Dec 15, 2014 @ 7:38pm
You're right. It is the antialiasing. I set it to none because even though I have a great computer, I wanted it to run even more smoothly. I guess antialiasing is a must with NVIDIA graphics cards. I didn't have this problem in my older computer with AMD.

Thanks for the help as it is fixed now.
Faded-Raider Jul 31, 2022 @ 2:16am 
soo what am i really supposed to do exactly? do i need to do something in the NVIDIA control panel?
vlad[54rus] Aug 4, 2022 @ 7:32am 
It's caused by ingame transparency antialiasing. You can turn it off with a console command:
gfx_iTransparencyAntiAliasing = 0
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