Bad quality Weird pixelation and jagged textures

[MashupMaster]

Hi, so I don’t know why this is happening but since like late November-ish last year, 3d games (GTA, Saints Row, Mafia) for me has been having graphical issues. While the games run smoothly, the distance is filled with dotted textures, jagged shadows and weird grainy artifacts. I’ve tried everything from reinstalling drivers, changing settings, and even sending my computer in for repair. I even revived a new computer in replacement and it has the SAME problem. It was working so well for a good 6 months and I don’t know what happened. I don’t know if a GTA update messed up the GTX 1050 part or what. It also started to have shimmering lights and things like that. Anybody have any solutions? Like I said, I tried reinstalling drivers, updating drivers, installing older drivers, changing settings in game and in the NVidia control panel such as AA and distance scaling and nothing seems to work. (Update: Two Weeks Later) Now I have a brand new laptop that I received yesterday and it still has the same problem, I really don’t know how to fix this. I even called acer and they gave me an upgrade, with an i7 core and GTX 1050 ti but the same exact problem is still there. The strange thing is the games run so smooth with a minimum of like 60 fps, but you can see jagged edges and grainy artifact everywhere. I have had FOUR different laptops and the problem remains. I hate when people say "Well, you've probably had this issue all along, you probably just didn't notice it, because I first bought my Acer Nitro 5 back in June last year, and it didn't have any grainy artifact or anything like that. I don't necessarily think Acer sent me four laptops with the same pixelated graphic issue, so it makes me think (and hope) that maybe there is a way to fix it? I have literally tried everything like mentioned above, nothing works. Again, I JUST got this new laptop, and it wasn't refurbished, it was brand new, came in a new box and everything

Acer Nitro 5

GTX 1050 ti (4GB of VRAM)

Intel Core I7 8th edition

16 GB of ram

[Snow]

Have you tried forcing anisotropic filtering x16? That's kinda what you do to make GTAV look fine. Not sure about other games mentioned.

[Autumn_]

What resolution are you running the games at?
You're gonna want to play the games at the monitors native resolution.

[Capn' Dubbymon]

same issue for me on my 1060 6gb tower, i have tried everything. looked ok when i got it a few months back, about 3 driver updates ago, everything started to slip, and now i cant even play my games on any graphics settings.seems like its a common problem now, and theres no real answers. tried contacting Nvidia and they send you on a loop the loop, and cant log into their website.

[Autumn_]

Originally posted by Capn' Dubbymon:

same issue for me on my 1060 6gb tower, i have tried everything. looked ok when i got it a few months back, about 3 driver updates ago, everything started to slip, and now i cant even play my games on any graphics settings.seems like its a common problem now, and theres no real answers. tried contacting Nvidia and they send you on a loop the loop, and cant log into their website.

Could you provide a screenshot of the issue?

[The Rock God]

Using GeForce Experience?
Make sure GFE isn't forcing some stupid setting that Nvidia thinks is "optimal".

[Capn' Dubbymon]

it doesnt seem to matter what settings i alter, it either looks bad, or worse after moving away from default recomended settings

[King Julien]

Okay I had the same problem and changing the anisotropic filtering, FXAA, MSAA etc didn't help at all. Took me some time, but the simplest fix is "Advanced Graphics -> Frame Scaling Mode -> OFF". Keeping the Scaling Mode to even the lowest (ppl do this for best frames) causes jagged edges. Keep it on OFF.

[Capn' Dubbymon]

Unrealistic hardware expectations? or unrealistic software development expectations?