Why does the game look grainy and pixelated?

[✪BigEelis✪]

Decided to try out the game but i can almost count the pixels on the screen despite maxing out my graphical settings, and i have a 13700k + 4090 pc and the game just looks like absolute dogwater, i cant even read the info text about the different classes.

[Karna5]

make sure you're not using screen scaling of any sort. It shouldn't look pixelated nor grainy, so you probably have a setting doing that to you.

Here's an example of how it looks in remastered, for instance:

https://i.imgur.com/t8zBxxD.jpg

[✪BigEelis✪]

Originally posted by Karna5:

make sure you're not using screen scaling of any sort. It shouldn't look pixelated nor grainy, so you probably have a setting doing that to you.

Here's an example of how it looks in remastered, for instance:

https://i.imgur.com/t8zBxxD.jpg

Ive turned off any scaling and tried again, still looks like crap.
Here's a quick screenshot i took of the text, it looks like 5x worse ingame and the characters dont look as bad but they definitely dont look good.

https://gyazo.com/c213475c116d80eacca0c6d1fd869c7b

[Karna5]

Wowee, that does look terrible :( You were right to post here asking for help. Something's definitely wrong.

[Karna5]

Post script: As for text, make sure you're using:

Display->Genereal Settings->Quality of Life->Font->Strong Sword

On my 4k screen resolution the default DeJaVu Sans is atrocious :)

[Simple Man]

You probably maxed graphical settings under "display quality" but didn't check "game window", at a guess you're playing at 720p or something of the sort (even the pentagon in your screenshot is full of jagged edges), change it to native screen resolution.

[✪BigEelis✪]

Originally posted by Kodiak.pW:

You probably maxed graphical settings under "display quality" but didn't check "game window", at a guess you're playing at 720p or something of the sort (even the pentagon in your screenshot is full of jagged edges), change it to native screen resolution.

Nope, i have my res set to 1440p, game started at some weird version of 1080p res but i quickly changed it seeing as the game looked absolutely horrible, but yeah it didnt fix it.

[✪BigEelis✪]

Originally posted by Karna5:

Post script: As for text, make sure you're using:

Display->Genereal Settings->Quality of Life->Font->Strong Sword

On my 4k screen resolution the default DeJaVu Sans is atrocious :)

Im sorry i dont really understand what you mean.
Under general settings i have no quality of life, font or strong sword option.
All i have is "Region" when i click general settings

[Karna5]

Originally posted by ✪BigEelis✪:

Originally posted by Karna5:

Post script: As for text, make sure you're using:

Display->Genereal Settings->Quality of Life->Font->Strong Sword

On my 4k screen resolution the default DeJaVu Sans is atrocious :)

Im sorry i dont really understand what you mean.
Under general settings i have no quality of life, font or strong sword option.
All i have is "Region" when i click general settings

I definitely recognize the font problem in your screen shot. It's what fonts look like in my game if I use the default font instead of strong sword.

This said, I've also heard from other posters in these forums that yo are not allowed to change the GUI settings in your game until you hit 7th level. I don't know if that's true or not, but if you can make it in game, check the settings once you're in game. The font option should be there (unless they make you wait until 7th level).

In summary, I'm absolutely sure that font issue can be fixed by changing to Strong Sword, but I don't think you can get to that setting from the launcher (you have to get in game). And they might be making you wait until you play longer to change your settings (which would be a very sad design).

[GrimLordKi]

Looks like Interface scaling set it back down to 100% via ESC > Search Bar > Edit UI

[Vycer]

Have you created a character already?

I'm asking because a lot of options are not present until you are in game, create a character and change your settings once you are logged into the game.

[✪BigEelis✪]

Originally posted by Vycer:

Have you created a character already?

I'm asking because a lot of options are not present until you are in game, create a character and change your settings once you are logged into the game.

I havent no, i didnt even want to make a character as my impression was "Wow is the game gonna look this crap too?" despite changing settings so i never actually made a character.

Ill get to it later today.

[M — K]

same, game looks awful and runs poorly

[M — K]

I tried nearly everything on my rig, RX 7900 XTX and Ryzen 7 5800x, the performance is awful, cpu utilization is low and gpu utiliziation even lower ,around 30% max 50%, Cyberpunk 2077 Raytraced and Witcher 3 Next Gen Raytraced runs BETTER than this piece of garbage and it isn't even an RT card.

I have no idea what to do, but this game is unplayable till i can fix this

[GrimLordKi]

Originally posted by K — M:

I tried nearly everything on my rig, RX 7900 XTX and Ryzen 7 5800x, the performance is awful, cpu utilization is low and gpu utiliziation even lower ,around 30% max 50%, Cyberpunk 2077 Raytraced and Witcher 3 Next Gen Raytraced runs BETTER than this piece of garbage and it isn't even an RT card.

I have no idea what to do, but this game is unplayable till i can fix this

Ryzen 5 5600x, RTX 3070ti game runs fine?

[✪BigEelis✪]

Right i did the intro which was the WORST new player experience of any game i have ever experienced, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ controls, looking around with the mouse will suddenly not let you turn your mouse back to where you turned it from forcing you to keep rotating completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up your view.

I also had "strong sword" selected and the text still looks like ♥♥♥♥ and while ingame i changed all graphics to max and it still looks like dogwater.

This game is NOT IT, it doesn't let you access the settings menu from the get go either, you have to waddle through that dogwater intro.