Bloom Graphics/Glowy Light Billboards look rubbish now

[Corsin]

BRING BACK MY GLOWY LIGHTS D:

The LCDs with tier 3 glow have been massively reduced, they look poop now :(

Before I could hear the TRON soundtrack as I flew round my factory, Now its like been in a google office.

Before:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198001130820/screenshot/2153343710666205735/

After:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198001130820/screenshot/2175862346728972135/

Update seems to have messed up the Blood/Emission strength graphics :(

[HardXcoreXdave]

I've noticed that too sadly. Also items moving by on a belt seem to appear grainy now

[Imhotep]

Originally posted by HardXcoreXdave:

I've noticed that too sadly. Also items moving by on a belt seem to appear grainy now

This is accurate and the "Before" photo does look epic.

[Zak]

Originally posted by HardXcoreXdave:

I've noticed that too sadly. Also items moving by on a belt seem to appear grainy now

Grainy or blurry/fuzzy? Do you have NVIDIA card? Have you enabled DLSS? This seems to be related to borked implementation of DLSS. Not sure about the AMD side of things.

[Imhotep]

Originally posted by Zak:

Originally posted by HardXcoreXdave:

I've noticed that too sadly. Also items moving by on a belt seem to appear grainy now

Grainy or blurry/fuzzy? Do you have NVIDIA card? Have you enabled DLSS? This seems to be related to borked implementation of DLSS. Not sure about the AMD side of things.

This was actually a good mention. I tested this out after you stated this and with DLSS on or off, everything maxed out the content on the belts regardless of what it is, is slightly grainy. BUT this is on the level 5. They don't appear grainy on the 4 and below. It might have to do with the speed at which they traverse.

[Zak]

When I played the game right after U8 hit the Experimental, DLSS would give me a nice speed boost while looking OK. I just came back last week and now DLSS makes no performance difference whatsoever and the game looks fuzzy, not just the items on belts but driving also makes the lines between foundations fuzzy and shimmering. This is regardless of DLSS level. So I ended up disabling DLSS for now. I've just installed the latest NVIDIA drivers that came out today and it made no difference.

Someone blamed latest UE5 for not being able to render fast moving objects properly.

[Corsin]

Enabling Global illumination helps a bit,. but not much, still looks poop compared to before.

[Vault Traveler]

Imho the whole graphic as a whole took a hard hit, it looked way better before.

[Imhotep]

Originally posted by Vault Traveler:

Imho the whole graphic as a whole took a hard hit, it looked way better before.

I'ma have to steeply dissagree there.

[Diplo]

My game looks way grainier and lower quality now... really disappointing. EVGA Geforce 1080 that's worked great for years now apparently isn't good enough suddenly

[Vault Traveler]

Originally posted by Imhotep:

Originally posted by Vault Traveler:

Imho the whole graphic as a whole took a hard hit, it looked way better before.

I'ma have to steeply dissagree there.

Thats fine, I personally feel it more grainy, lights are washed out and missplaced (unless you activate lumen), Screenspace Reflections are still buggy since ever..., Glass has issues with rendering behind it, Textures in general look worse.

[Zak]

Originally posted by Diplo:

My game looks way grainier and lower quality now... really disappointing. EVGA Geforce 1080 that's worked great for years now apparently isn't good enough suddenly

The game received a massive graphical upgrade, so yeah hardware reqs might have gone up.

[skp]

Originally posted by Vault Traveler:

Originally posted by Imhotep:

I'ma have to steeply dissagree there.

Thats fine, I personally feel it more grainy, lights are washed out and missplaced (unless you activate lumen), Screenspace Reflections are still buggy since ever..., Glass has issues with rendering behind it, Textures in general look worse.

Could not confirm this. Looks brilliant on my side. Maybe review your settings.

[Vault Traveler]

Originally posted by skp:

Originally posted by Vault Traveler:

Thats fine, I personally feel it more grainy, lights are washed out and missplaced (unless you activate lumen), Screenspace Reflections are still buggy since ever..., Glass has issues with rendering behind it, Textures in general look worse.

Could not confirm this. Looks brilliant on my side. Maybe review your settings.

Yeah dunno its all maxed out and performance is fine but it looks worse I probably have to make some screenshots to compare it.

[Diplo]

Originally posted by Corsin:

Enabling Global illumination helps a bit,. but not much, still looks poop compared to before.

This helped make it bearable for me actually, thanks.

[Vault Traveler]

Ok, after comparing Update 7 with Update 8 I have to say DLSS makes it sharper, there are some changes in lights and shadows I am kinda mixed but overall I have to change my mind, Update 8 looks better.

I hope they iron out some issues with color grading when switching biomes and lake/river transitions.