Texture Setting is Broken

[Roquen]

So I was fiddling with the settings trying to figure out why the game looks so bad, and it turns out the texture setting is locked to low regardless of the setting chosen. Here are some screen shots. The first one is with textures on low and the second one is with textures on very high. There is no difference whatsoever (all other settings are at max for both screen shots)

https://imgur.com/a/ANXDYsD

https://imgur.com/a/WtkkrxB

I've also restarted the game in between setting changes just in case it's one of those titles where settings aren't changed on the fly.

EDIT (Update 12/5): A few conclusions have been reached based on some comments below:

1) The texture setting DOES affect SOME objects in the game. A prime example is here:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/186947806806802432/519701326855274499/2018-12-05_03_26_32-Just_Cause_4.jpg

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/186947806806802432/519701333117370368/2018-12-05_03_26_59-Just_Cause_4.jpg

So obviously the big center object changes, BUT the texture of the grapple stuck on it does not, the background and ground textures do not, and Rico's textures do not.

This does lend credibility to the certain missing textures thoery.

2) The settings ARE being persisted to a .JSON file in different locations depending on if you are using cloud saves or not.

3) Water settings seem to be stuck on "medium" according to a few people. In testing this myself, indeed there is a slight difference between low and all other settings, but not between any other settings.

[Alkpaz]

Meatsac님이 먼저 게시:

Typically you can edit the "GameUserSettings.ini", "Scalability.ini, and "engine.ini" in UE4 based games to improve visuals (have done it for many other titles). I haven't bought JC4 yet but as soon as I do, I'll dive in and start tweaking (holiday season nuked my bank account, so it may be a while -wink).

Besides the visual issues, do you guys like it?

You sure it was the holidays and not all this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1508494212

:P

[Demonsamura]

Meatsac님이 먼저 게시:

Typically you can edit the "GameUserSettings.ini", "Scalability.ini, and "engine.ini" in UE4 based games to improve visuals (have done it for many other titles). I haven't bought JC4 yet but as soon as I do, I'll dive in and start tweaking (holiday season nuked my bank account, so it may be a while -wink).

Besides the visual issues, do you guys like it?

Gameplay seemed ok for me and i could even overlook the broken graphics. I had to refund though because no day 1 patch and no dev presence at all when there are tons of complaints. I can't support that. Not to mention that the trailers had way better graphics and if the grahpic setting weren't working properly they'd have said something by now but no they are hiding because they know what they did.

[Meatsac]

Alkpaz님이 먼저 게시:

You sure it was the holidays and not all this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1508494212

:P

Ahh... Yea, and that too. I have to upgrade a few things in there also, so I'm bending over and awaiting the painfull beating my wife is gonna give me (LoL).

Demonsamura님이 먼저 게시:

Gameplay seemed ok for me and i could even overlook the broken graphics. I had to refund though because no day 1 patch and no dev presence at all when there are tons of complaints. I can't support that.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll keep my eye on it (hope the devs get on it soon).

[similarly]

Same problem here.

Win10 pro
AMD Ryzen 7 2700x (8 core, 16 cpu, 3.7ghz)
16gb ram
GeForce GTX 1080 (updated to latest)

GeForce can't retrieve JC4s settings.

Graphics look really bad.

[Blackwolfe]

If I look closer at textures the difference is this

http://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/186947806806802432/519701326855274499/2018-12-05_03_26_32-Just_Cause_4.jpg

http://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/186947806806802432/519701333117370368/2018-12-05_03_26_59-Just_Cause_4.jpg

A bit further away it seems to make no difference. I mean on the ground and on the little sign the difference is pretty clear between very high and low.

[Spawn of Totoro]

As this seems to be a common issue at the moment (most likely for everyone), I will pin this so people can more easily find it. Hopefully it will lessen confusion on the matter.

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[austincherry]

Spawn of Totoro님이 먼저 게시:

As this seems to be a common issue at the moment (most likely for everyone), I will pin this so people can more easily find it. Hopefully it will lessen confusion on the matter.

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Thanks for that, for some people it must be maddening not knowing what's causing this.

[HeuZ]

Why none of the developers or support team not showing up? I mean they basically just released a "AAA" game with 60$ price and next-day of release they just vanish? What is this? Self lack of responsability. Jesus. Kinda disapointing. Are you guys trying to beat Bethesda and becoming Loser Developers of The Year? why is most developers nowadays are lacking off they're games? its getting out of hand.

[Spawn of Totoro]

HeuZ님이 먼저 게시:

Why none of the developers or support team not showing up? I mean they basically just released a "AAA" game with 60$ price and next-day of release they just vanish? What is this? Self lack of responsability. Jesus. Kinda disapointing. Are you guys trying to beat Bethesda and becoming Loser Developers of The Year? why is most developers nowadays are lacking off they're games? its getting out of hand.

Imho, they may be working on fixing the issue (and possible others) at the moment. At least that would be my guess on the matter.

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[d0x360]

Roquen님이 먼저 게시:

brianmolko1234님이 먼저 게시:

If your using Nvidia what drivers are you using in the UK it's up to 417.22 and it doesn't mention Just Cuase 4 maybe it needs the lastest drivers ?.

Same, 417.22. It DOES mention Just Cause 4, though. See my screenshot below:

https://imgur.com/a/zJSHXPw

I tried it on both and it ran better on the drivers released just before 417.22. In fact .22 breaks a couple games, the biggest being hitman 2.

It turns all shadows in HM2 into blinking squares. As for JC4 the visuals are the same between drivers but I got better performance on the older ones than I did the "game ready" 417.22 ones by about 6fps which was the difference between a lock at 60 at 4k or dips so I rolled back and stayed there.

Doesn't matter though. Since there hasn't been a single word from the dev's about this despite 3 days of forum posts I've just refunded the game. I paid $90 for the gold edition and I imagine if they ever fix it I'll be able to get the gold edition for half that price in a sale before long.

Truly shameful of square enix to push this out the door in this state

[d0x360]

Spawn of Totoro님이 먼저 게시:

HeuZ님이 먼저 게시:

Why none of the developers or support team not showing up? I mean they basically just released a "AAA" game with 60$ price and next-day of release they just vanish? What is this? Self lack of responsability. Jesus. Kinda disapointing. Are you guys trying to beat Bethesda and becoming Loser Developers of The Year? why is most developers nowadays are lacking off they're games? its getting out of hand.

Imho, they may be working on fixing the issue (and possible others) at the moment. At least that would be my guess on the matter.

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That's no excuse for lack of taking 2 min to make and pin a post saying they know something is broken and they are working on it... sorry but this is on them

[Spawn of Totoro]

d0x360님이 먼저 게시:

That's no excuse for lack of taking 2 min to make and pin a post saying they know something is broken and they are working on it... sorry but this is on them

I didn't say it was an excuse, nor did I imply it wasn't on them. Just offered a reasonable alternative.

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[Phat Monkey]

Thay may have nurfed the graphics / water prior to release to gain performance, would not suprise me.... dirty tactics...

[RedLightning]

Nice that graphics cards are at a 'premium' price lately .. yet graphics are going the wayward side. Makes it worth it . yea.. hell no.

like they never noticed that graphics were stuck on 'low' before release....

I'll certainly steer clear from this franchise from now on as well - adding it to a growing list of developers who just do not GAF.

Somehow .. it just reeks of 'on purpose' as these guys are not the only one doing crap like this.

Tis a continuing, disturbing trend.

Bugs are one thing.. missing or locked settings.. another.

[Jim.]

I think it's a bit silly to immediately assume some sort of graphics setting false advertising conspiracy right now, especially when they clearly have the tech there for various previews to look fine. A last minute ♥♥♥♥ up caused by rushing for a Christmas release makes way more sense to me.

Let's wait a bit to see what they say about it, ideally soon, and try to not to run wild with speculation.