Blurry textures

[Not Lee Harvey Oswald]

Is anyone else still getting the blurry textures bug like I am? Everything seems fine and dandy when I first load into a level, but the more I move from room to room, the blurrier some of the new textures being loaded get. Is there a fix for this?

[Inane]

Please post your specs and the resolution you are playing on. You might run out of VRAM or RAM so the game can steam textures on the fly and have to chache them instead.

[Lar Dass]

You need to tone down the settings, its a bug on order pcs that they have horrendous textures if one tries to go too high, sort of like a failsafe so prevent overheating etc. Put your graphics quality to medium or low

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You guys think I would be able to run it on my Ryzen 5 2400g with Vega 11 iGPU and 5.9 RAM? Its below minimum specs for Pray but I've played quite a few games like Witcher 3 and Battlefront 1 that were also above my PC but ran like a charm on Low settings.

[Inane]

Originally posted by chanluci586:

You guys think I would be able to run it on my Ryzen 5 2400g with Vega 11 iGPU and 5.9 RAM? Its below minimum specs for Pray but I've played quite a few games like Witcher 3 and Battlefront 1 that were also above my PC but ran like a charm on Low settings.

Prey is mostly CPU demanding game so after meddling with settings a little you should be fine.

[Not Lee Harvey Oswald]

Originally posted by INANE:

Please post your specs and the resolution you are playing on. You might run out of VRAM or RAM so the game can steam textures on the fly and have to chache them instead.

My current specs are:
AMD Ryzen 7 3700x
RTX 2070 Super
8 GB Ram
And the game's running on a 2 TB SSHD

I've tried lowering the texture quality down to medium and while that's helped a little bit, there's still blurry textures (example: blurry posters and objects) that appear when I get far enough away from where I loaded my last save.

[Not Lee Harvey Oswald]

I'll try validating some of the files, and if that doesn't fix it, I'll completely reinstall the game and will share the results after that.

[Not Lee Harvey Oswald]

Sadly the issue still persists after a while, and another detail I noticed, some of the weapons like the pistol and gernade also seem to degrade in texture quality after entering and exiting enough too, to the point where the textures on them just look completely flat.

[Inane]

Try this:

1. Open the game set textures to Very high, apply and quit the game.

2. Go to C:\Users*your user*\Saved Games\Arkane Studios\Prey and open game.cfg

Add these lines at the end:

r_DetailDistance = 16

r_EnvTexResolution = 4

r_DetailTextures = 1

sys_spec_textureresolution = 4

Save and check in as read only.

[Not Lee Harvey Oswald]

Originally posted by INANE:

Try this:

1. Open the game set textures to Very high, apply and quit the game.

2. Go to C:\Users*your user*\Saved Games\Arkane Studios\Prey and open game.cfg

Add these lines at the end:

r_DetailDistance = 16

r_EnvTexResolution = 4

r_DetailTextures = 1

sys_spec_textureresolution = 4

Save and check in as read only.

Tried that and it didnt really help all that much

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Played it last night and it ran very smoothly on 1080p. No problems at all and I haven't even touched the settings but maybe the game did the adjustments by itself.

[Not Lee Harvey Oswald]

Originally posted by chanluci586:

Played it last night and it ran very smoothly on 1080p. No problems at all and I haven't even touched the settings but maybe the game did the adjustments by itself.

May seem like an odd question, but how much ram do you have?

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I have 5.9 available RAM. After seeing your post I opened the game and RAM went from 3.3 with several tabs opened to 4.9 on medium settings and it stayed there while I was roaming around Talos for 10 minutes.

[Rex Vortex]

Could actually be the RAM. The bare minimum requirements for Prey is 8 gigs with 16 being recommended. I play on just a basic RTX 2070 at 1440p at all max settings but don't have the issue your having and I'm running 16 gigs of ram. I would upgrade to 16 if you can. At least RAM is one of the more cheaper things to upgrade.

[Falco]

I think you have some problem with that stupid motion blur, like me.
Try it when you're getting blurry textures, maybe that's your problem as well.
You can't even turn it off, it always stay on "Low", but never on "No".

You can disable it by yourself without any mod, by editing a file called "game.cfg".
You can find that file in your Saved Games directory, like this:

C:\Users\InsertYourUserNameHere\Saved Games\Arkane Studios\Prey
If the game is not installed in the C: HDD or SSD, change the letter with the correct drive.

Simply edit that file and add: r_MotionBlur = 0

Now I'm not sure where you need to put it, at the bottom or not.
This mod[www.nexusmods.com] that I am using (among the other stuff it have a checkbox for the motion blur) have put it the string between "sys_spec_shadows" and "cl_hfov", in the middle of this two.

The good thing is that now if I reload or enter another area, it works as it should. No blurry or flipped textures.

The only thing that you have to remember is that if you edit whatever you want in the game AFTER editing that file without setting it in "read only", it will reset your "no motion blur" edit.
Same goes with that mod, always put "game.cfg" in "read only".

Even Nvidia GeForce Experience overwrite the files, if you allow it to "optimize" the game for you.

So, if you need to change something in the video section, with mod or without the mod, change your settings as you like, close the game, set the "game.cfg" file to "read only" and (hopefully) enjoy your game.

Good luck, hope it helps. :)

[Not Lee Harvey Oswald]

Originally posted by Falcoman:

I think you have some problem with that stupid motion blur, like me.
Try it when you're getting blurry textures, maybe that's your problem as well.
You can't even turn it off, it always stay on "Low", but never on "No".

You can disable it by yourself without any mod, by editing a file called "game.cfg".
You can find that file in your Saved Games directory, like this:

C:\Users\InsertYourUserNameHere\Saved Games\Arkane Studios\Prey
If the game is not installed in the C: HDD or SSD, change the letter with the correct drive.

Simply edit that file and add: r_MotionBlur = 0

Now I'm not sure where you need to put it, at the bottom or not.
This mod[www.nexusmods.com] that I am using (among the other stuff it have a checkbox for the motion blur) have put it the string between "sys_spec_shadows" and "cl_hfov", in the middle of this two.

The good thing is that now if I reload or enter another area, it works as it should. No blurry or flipped textures.

The only thing that you have to remember is that if you edit whatever you want in the game AFTER editing that file without setting it in "read only", it will reset your "no motion blur" edit.
Same goes with that mod, always put "game.cfg" in "read only".

Even Nvidia GeForce Experience overwrite the files, if you allow it to "optimize" the game for you.

So, if you need to change something in the video section, with mod or without the mod, change your settings as you like, close the game, set the "game.cfg" file to "read only" and (hopefully) enjoy your game.

Good luck, hope it helps. :)

Sadly didn't completely work, though it does seem like textures pop in a little bit less with motion blur disabled. But I also set my texture quality to low so that might be what's causing less pop-in.

Originally posted by Rex Vortex:

Could actually be the RAM. The bare minimum requirements for Prey is 8 gigs with 16 being recommended. I play on just a basic RTX 2070 at 1440p at all max settings but don't have the issue your having and I'm running 16 gigs of ram. I would upgrade to 16 if you can. At least RAM is one of the more cheaper things to upgrade.

That's probably what's causing it. I've been planning adding another 8 gigs of ram to my rig so hopefully that'll fix it.