Very poor foliage textures despite very high settings?

[P90RUL0R]

I already played and finished Hellblade when it came out and now I wanted to play through it one more time. However, the textures suddenly look awful despite the settings being at maximum and I'm very sure they didn't look like this before:

https://i.imgur.com/jsScbnT.jpg

What could cause this?

My system didn't change:
AMD Ryzen 1600 CPU
AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card
8 GB RAM, 500 GB Samsung SSD and so on

I already updated the GPU drivers and Windows to no avail. Verify game integrity also didn't bring any change :/

[P90RUL0R]

is there really nobody else experiencing this weird and seemingly unsolvable bug?

[Draven]

I'd set all your settings back to default or change them all then, put them all back where you want them, maybe It would refresh a setting if for some reason it's not working correctly. Next thing I'd try would be to delete your settings ini. for the game if you can find it also maybe reinstalling your video card driver or roll back to one before you had the problem.

If that doesn't work:

Is it possible that mesh texture got corrupted? That or it has something to do with your gpu/psu.

Honestly if you can't pin point the file that could be doing it and delete it, and require it through verifing your files, you may need to reinstall.

If reinstalling doesn't work and you are having problems in other games...could be a failing video card or psu.

[76561197970717118]

Do the AMD Radeon driver settings enforce a certain texture quality?
Since most reviews of the game back in August were made using AMD: Catalyst 17.7.2 WHQL, did you consider installing that older driver?

[P90RUL0R]

I now tried the following:

- re-downloaded the game
- updated graphics drivers once more
- erased the game's profile in the AMD driver, so that it uses the general settings
- tried every single setting there to see if anything changes
- erased the AMD GPU's shader cache in the Radeon driver

I already did this before:
- verified game integrity cache (everything was fine)
- tried every in-game graphics setting step by step
- the foliage setting isn't doing anything besides increasing the amount of plants
- texture setting changes all the textures, but not the foliage textures
- deactivated the new Steam shader cache feature

-> problem still persists

Further notes:

I do not have any issues in other games, it's only pertaining to Hellblade.

Of course, going back to an old graphics driver is no "solution", since those updates exist for a reason, not to mention all the hazzle to go through...

It's such a bummer that I now have to live with that or buy the game again on my PS4 to play it normally.

Update:

Possible solution?

I deleted my save game and started again. There the textures of the plants seem normal so far.