Grainy textures

[Razer]

Heya, just got this game and I was wondering if there was anything I can do to improve the texture quality. I've got everything set to maximum, but textures are very pixilated and blurry. Also it's mostly when things aren't zoomed in. So in conversations everything looks ok, but when I walk around the surroundings and my character look very pixilated. I play on a 24" screen at 1080p. Like I said at max settings that the game has to offer. I know there's a texture pack, perhaps I should try that, but I feel the base game should look better. I have much much older games that look a ton better so I'm thinking something's off. any help is appreciated.

[NoobMaster69]

Texture pack probably your best bet.

[Flibble]

Have you tried turning off Volume Rendering?

[Razer]

Turned off Volume Rendering thingy, but that didn't help anything. Image is incredibly choppy and blurry. Also the texture pack (I'm downloading it now) complains that it needs more vram than I currently have. If this game cannot play on 1080p with decent graphics on my card then the game is incredibly poor when it comes to performance handling. It's not very noticable when I'm fighting monsters, but when I'm just wandering around or standing still I can tell the graphics are really poor. Reminds me of a PS2 game to be honest. :(

[Chief]

I have the same problem. I'm over the VRAM limit in settings but textures are similar to low settings ones and never going over 2GB VRAM usage. I used to play like this in World, with the High Resolution Texture pack, but after Iceborne and decreased performance on DX11 I had to switch to DX12, and since then the textures aren't loading in properly for some reason. Try switching back to DX11 and go look at lava textures (or any texture from anywhere) down from camp 16 in Elder's Recess and compare. If I do it myself, high res textures are back but I'm down to 30fps, but I used to get above 60 in World.

Edit: And i think someone mentioned that bad Ambient Occlusion implementation is to blame for some weird blocky texture effects while moving. Try disabling that.

[NoobMaster69]

OP, can you show us a pic? That doesn't sound right. I don't use the HD texture pack and play at 3440x1440 and things look fine:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1981078026

[Razer]

Here's a pic from the menu before you start the game: https://imgur.com/s6J7eY4

[Razer]

and another from ingame: https://imgur.com/dq5WNmd

[NoobMaster69]

That looks pretty normal to me? Not sure I can see what is wrong there. What about pics in-game?

Edit: posted as soon as you posted that second pic.

[NoobMaster69]

Hm honestly I can't see much aside from low image quality; is that 1:1 of the game or the actual image capture that is making it look a little fuzzy? Other than that it looks normal to me.

Here's a pic on mine in a similar position (couldn't get same time of day sorry):

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1981085428

I honestly can't notice much difference between them? Or is there something I'm missing?

[_Synt3rax_]

Originally posted by Razer:

Turned off Volume Rendering thingy, but that didn't help anything. Image is incredibly choppy and blurry. Also the texture pack (I'm downloading it now) complains that it needs more vram than I currently have. If this game cannot play on 1080p with decent graphics on my card then the game is incredibly poor when it comes to performance handling. It's not very noticable when I'm fighting monsters, but when I'm just wandering around or standing still I can tell the graphics are really poor. Reminds me of a PS2 game to be honest. :(

mid settings take 2gb while anything above high takes a minimum of 4gb vram,so the texture pack needs like 6gb for sure
also if you turn everything to ultra and expect a stable frame rate thats on your side of problems......

[Razer]

Ok, so it's choppy all around. Hm that's a shame. I also own Dragon's Dogma (also by Capcom) and that game just looks so much better.

[Seamus]

Originally posted by Razer:

and another from ingame: https://imgur.com/dq5WNmd

Looks like you've got DLSS or FidelityFX on with sharpness turned all the way down.

[NoobMaster69]

Originally posted by Razer:

Ok, so it's choppy all around. Hm that's a shame. I also own Dragon's Dogma (also by Capcom) and that game just looks so much better.

I've always thought MHW looked pretty good, I mean it doesn't have the best graphics in the world but its definitely not PS2 level. Either way just as well people play for the gameplay and not the graphics, right?

[Calan]

Turn off fidelity fx in options, it looks awful and does the opposite of what it says. Disable it and enable sharpening in your GPU settings

[Razer]

This is the settings I use: https://imgur.com/qSvbNKT