Graphics look blurry?

[Mavsynchroid]

Anyone else think the graphics are extremely blurry? I play in windowed mode because I don't like the game taking up the whole screen, but regardless of if it's campaign mode or in a battle, the further away I am from a unit, the blurrier it looks. Same goes for the highlighting green circles under a unit, If I'm not extremely close to them, they look patchy and somewhat blurry. Had this problem with Resident Evil 2 remake and turning off Screen Space Reflections got rid of it, but those are off by default in this game so it doesn't seem to make a difference.

EDIT: Tried restarting once I changed the resolution to windowed mode thinking maybe it was the change mid game that caused it but no difference. Tried fullscreen at my normal resolution and it is STILL blurry and pixelated. I say it looks blurry but it also looks pixelated.

Here are some images

https://imgur.com/a/cncsFoP


Looks 10x worse than that since they're moving. That's when you REALLY see the pixelation/blurriness.

[Achilleslastand]

Originally posted by Eldrin:

Originally posted by Abradolf Lincler:

Welp, might be time for a trip to best buy.

Just so you know, going to 2k or 4k, increases the system requirements DRASTICALLY. You will need HIGH end gear to run anything on 2k or 4k. GTX 1070 is BARE MINIMUM to even think about a good 2k though i would still recommend at least a 1080. Forget a good 4k experience if you have anything under at RTX 2080. (Ofc a CPU is important too but not as important.)

Stop spreading misinformation.
A 1070 will do 4K just fine, now you might need to disable things like DOF/shadows/etc. I have a 1070 with a i7-4790K and it pushes 4K just fine.

[Eldrin]

Originally posted by Achilleslastand:

Originally posted by Eldrin:

Just so you know, going to 2k or 4k, increases the system requirements DRASTICALLY. You will need HIGH end gear to run anything on 2k or 4k. GTX 1070 is BARE MINIMUM to even think about a good 2k though i would still recommend at least a 1080. Forget a good 4k experience if you have anything under at RTX 2080. (Ofc a CPU is important too but not as important.)

Stop spreading misinformation.
A 1070 will do 4K just fine, now you might need to disable things like DOF/shadows/etc. I have a 1070 with a i7-4790K and it pushes 4K just fine.

Yea at what fps and what settings lol and i dont mean what fps when the game hardly pressures your graphics card, but when it is in a massive battle with tons of stuff flying on the screen. Your the one giving misinformation, most people do not want to play under 60 fps if they can help it.

[Mao Zebong]

It's hard to get a good video, but here you can see the shimmering effect. Some pics too.

https://imgur.com/a/D8fvX8q

And yes, if anyone asks, the shimmering on the character models is that apparent in the original video, this is not caused by compression or resolution of the video changing.

[Mao Zebong]

Originally posted by Eldrin:

Originally posted by Achilleslastand:

Stop spreading misinformation.
A 1070 will do 4K just fine, now you might need to disable things like DOF/shadows/etc. I have a 1070 with a i7-4790K and it pushes 4K just fine.

Yea at what fps and what settings lol and i dont mean what fps when the game hardly pressures your graphics card, but when it is in a massive battle with tons of stuff flying on the screen. Your the one giving misinformation, most people do not want to play under 60 fps if they can help it.

Either way, I'm not upgrading my graphics card and monitor just to play this game because the HD mode is glitchy.

[Actionjackson]

Originally posted by Abradolf Lincler:

It's hard to get a good video, but here you can see the shimmering effect. Some pics too.

https://imgur.com/a/D8fvX8q

And yes, if anyone asks, the shimmering on the character models is that apparent in the original video, this is not caused by compression or resolution of the video changing.

Maybe your best bet is the TAA for now, it difficult to say but stay away from the FXAA, it just blurs in every game(like puring water on water colour picture).

You know it could be some sort of dynamic graphic scaling to keep a desired fps number, i dont know if something like that is in the game and can be turned off.

Also you can try to put AA to OFF in game, and force MSAA 2x at least or 4x would be good in your GFX card panel, see if that fixes it.

[Eldrin]

Originally posted by Abradolf Lincler:

Originally posted by Eldrin:

Yea at what fps and what settings lol and i dont mean what fps when the game hardly pressures your graphics card, but when it is in a massive battle with tons of stuff flying on the screen. Your the one giving misinformation, most people do not want to play under 60 fps if they can help it.

Either way, I'm not upgrading my graphics card and monitor just to play this game because the HD mode is glitchy.

oh i am not telling you to do that. I know going to 2k or 4k from HD is expensive which is why i warned you before that simply getting a monitor would not be enough, making that kind of upgrade takes a lot more thought and money then just "i go to store and get 2k or 4k monitor".

[Mavsynchroid]

Originally posted by Actionjackson:

Originally posted by Mavsynchroid:

Ugh.. When the units attack each other, it looks like blurry pixelated ants..


https://imgur.com/mhDABxH

I see it now... is that the same in fullscreen?

Yeah, it's the same no matter what options in game I fiddle around with.

[Mao Zebong]

Originally posted by Eldrin:

Originally posted by Abradolf Lincler:

Either way, I'm not upgrading my graphics card and monitor just to play this game because the HD mode is glitchy.

oh i am not telling you to do that. I know going to 2k or 4k from HD is expensive which is why i warned you before that simply getting a monitor would not be enough, making that kind of upgrade takes a lot more thought and money then just "i go to store and get 2k or 4k monitor".

I know, I was supporting you that you were not giving out false information. I looked into it for five minutes and came to the same conclusion.

[Nero]

It seems to be a problem with the render distance. Its really low on 1080p but the higher the resolution the further the render distance becomes and the game starts to look better.

When you got a NVIDIA gpu you can use DSR to go with the resolution beyond your monitor limit. You then render a 1440p image that is displayed in a 1080p image (same size, better look).

Game looks good for me now in 1440p but yeah 1080p was bad.

[Mao Zebong]

Originally posted by WitchingSnake:

It seems to be a problem with the render distance. Its really low on 1080p but the higher the resolution the further the render distance becomes and the game starts to look better.

When you got a NVIDIA gpu you can use DSR to go with the resolution beyond your monitor limit. You then render a 1440p image that is displayed in a 1080p image (same size, better look).

Game looks good for me now in 1440p but yeah 1080p was bad.

This is not a useful solution for those of us who cannot run games in 1440p, which is a lot of the gaming population.

[Mao Zebong]

Made an official report, here's hopin

https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/242672/shimmery-static-y-fuzz-over-all-character-models#latest

[Nero]

Originally posted by Abradolf Lincler:

Originally posted by WitchingSnake:

It seems to be a problem with the render distance. Its really low on 1080p but the higher the resolution the further the render distance becomes and the game starts to look better.

When you got a NVIDIA gpu you can use DSR to go with the resolution beyond your monitor limit. You then render a 1440p image that is displayed in a 1080p image (same size, better look).

Game looks good for me now in 1440p but yeah 1080p was bad.

This is not a useful solution for those of us who cannot run games in 1440p, which is a lot of the gaming population.

It is, lower the other settings a bit.
No point in having stuff set to high or ultra when the render distance distorts it to the point of looking like low/medium.

[Mao Zebong]

Originally posted by WitchingSnake:

Originally posted by Abradolf Lincler:

This is not a useful solution for those of us who cannot run games in 1440p, which is a lot of the gaming population.

It is, lower the other settings a bit.

I'm glad you've got my PC and you know how it runs. Unfortunately, this does not produce stable or enjoyable performance. I think it's not crazy to expect the game to not have a static halo around it for HD.

[Achilleslastand]

Just a quick heads up i noticed especially when fiddling with the AA and shadows settings, if you have them disabled in game options they are still enabled in the scripts folder{ at least in mine}. You will have to go in and manually to "zeros" for both.

[Actionjackson]

That what i meant with dynamic scaling, in order to keep the performance the same the game turns itself lower.

You need to lower some stuff and/or turn off any dynamic gfx scaling element.
Seems the game downscales itself to keep your fps playable.