Any way to make it less grainy?

[Izziee]

Honestly, the game looks poor. I have it on ps4 and it actually looks better, it really does - Obviously it has less detailed objects and foliage doing the special thing it is meant to do on PC and ofc it's 30 fps but it doesn't look like this.

Most things except maybe the trees look like it has a disgusting bitty film grain on it, yes, I have the sharpening all the way to zero.

This is on ultra by the way, absolutely max settings. 1440p.

I've tried turning down the AA - which doesn't seem to make any difference on FPS for some weird reason, TAA looks slightly better, especially compared to FXAA+SMAA which is the absolute grainiest but that brings its own weird problem of some kind of ghosting effect - some said they don't have that, until I pointed out where to look, now they can see it.

I've tried forcing everything to run via game settings, and I've tried forcing everytime to run through the nVidia CP but no matter which takes control, it's grainy.

[Roadkill]

Antialiasing also on Ultra?

[Boomsticksimo]

the sharpness in video settings kan make it look grainy turn it down

[Izziee]

Publicado originalmente por TYRANNOSAURUS REX:

izzie those vids, wtf thats ultra max everything? i have mine to ultra max everything and it looks ten times better than that. i wish i could help, but damn i am confused on that!

Those vids aren't mine, they are 3 random people on youtube (the top ones) including candyland who afaik has a NASA computer so I'll believe he has it maxed out considering that's what he does. The issue with the videos however is there is youtube compression, which will blur the artifacts somewhat, just like a 1080p monitor will due to the lower pixel count so using DSR or the ingame render scaler won't make much of a difference, at least if you increase it - With that said, If I DECREASE mine, then it's not so grainy, but I don't want to play at a lower resolution.

Your image also looks very grainy and as I said in my original post and elsewhere, it's _not_ all over, so that means it's not a grain filter. It depends drastically where you are in the game, certain trees show it up far more than others, long grass is a major culprit and so are far off foliage.

I also have my sharpness set to zero.

[Izziee]

Publicado originalmente por Gonzo_850:

What monitor do you use?

RoG Swift pg278QR - 165hz 1440p monitor, still regarded as one of the best hence the 600 pound price tag. It's not the monitor, it's the game. Possibly the engine, i can't say I'm not really a fan of AC or FH but there's reports of games on the engine looking grainy also.

[mac_angel]

Not sure if you found the answer, but I have it for you if you still need it.
It's the Sharpening effect under Video (not Graphics). Scroll down and you'll see it. By default it's set to 30% I believe. Slide it to 0 and it should fix the grain effect.
I came across this post because I had the same problem. I'm running 1080tis in SLI, and three 1080p screens, so slightly less than 4k. I ran it on Ultra and it actually looked fine (not much grain that I can remember) but the fps sucked. As soon as I started with the settings, going to Very High, horrible grain effect. I found the answer on a Reddit page.
I hope this helps

PS. Not sure what's with the people on here arguing about what they see or don't see. It's an obvious problem since Google auto-completed it for me when I searched. If something works for you and you don't have anything helpful to say, don't troll and start a fight with some stranger on the internet.

[Brian]

Sharpness is exactly what the problem is. Turned it off and now it looks good.

[Izziee]

Publicado originalmente por Brian:

Sharpness is exactly what the problem is. Turned it off and now it looks good.

I don't know why a mod indicate that this post answers the question, because it doesn't, at all. Have already stated from the start, even in THE ORIGINAL post that SHARPNESS IS OFF.

[LaPadite]

Bro I have the same problem.... it's a weird grain and it's frustrating. Do you discover some solution?

[Izziee]

Publicado originalmente por MasterDenek:

Bro I have the same problem.... it's a weird grain and it's frustrating. Do you discover some solution?

Actually, I did sort off. It's not 100% however so it might be different with you.

I played around with the nvidia control panel, but it depends on how much of a performance hit you want (I got a 1080 ti so it wasn't much for me)

make a wildlands profile, don't do it in global.

Put the anistropic filtering on x16 (though, it is on already in game)
Put the anti-aliasing mode on enchance the application
Put the anti-aliasing setting on x2 (I wouldn't recommend higher but you can try it)
Put MFAA ON if you DON'T use ansel (if you DO use ansel, it can have a memory leak, if you don't know what ansel is, put it on)
Change texture filtering - anistropic to off
negative LOD bios to clamp (stops shimmering, all games should be set to this IMO)
quality to high quality (will default to quality)

and whatever else you want to play around with after.

[tank2]

I'm on PC. Ryzen 7 1700X 16gb Trident Z ram 3200mhz GTX 1070TI. This is the most beautiful graphically game that I've ever played. Are you on drugs?

[Izziee]

Publicado originalmente por tank2:

I'm on PC. Ryzen 7 1700X 16gb Trident Z ram 3200mhz GTX 1070TI. This is the most beautiful graphically game that I've ever played. Are you on drugs?

Or you just haven't played many games.

Or, you're just running at a different resolution.

Or, your standards aren't as high.

Pick one.

[Chedderd]

Yeah it is a bit grainy but I always assumed that was just the art style or something. At least it’s better than the game being blurry i guess. Games like mafia 3 look like ♥♥♥♥ because the devs intentionally made the game look blurry for some reason, cuz it makes it look more 1960’s or something, idk.

[Monarch]

Screenshot on the so called "grain" perhaps?

[Chedderd]

Publicado originalmente por .Monarch:

Screenshot on the so called "grain" perhaps?

Its kinda hard to tell, at least when I first played the game I didn’t notice it, but if you get up close and personal to certain textures, like tree textures for example, they’re pretty sharp. Game still looks good though IMO and I assume it was an art style choice, kinda like how mafia III is blurry on purpose

[LaPadite]

Publicado originalmente por Chedderd:

Yeah it is a bit grainy but I always assumed that was just the art style or something. At least it’s better than the game being blurry i guess. Games like mafia 3 look like ♥♥♥♥ because the devs intentionally made the game look blurry for some reason, cuz it makes it look more 1960’s or something, idk.

Agree with you. BLUR VS GRAIN..... FIGHT