Very bad graphics [solved]

[mukremin]

Guys, i am a big fan off the Thief series. Been playing it since earle 2000, and of course been playing TDM all the way. The thing is, i didnt have this problem before with TDM.

 

I installed some missions yesterday, when i started i saw that all the graphic settings were on low somehow. I put the settings back to high, but still i have a very bad quality. It wasnt like this before, i have the most updated TDM. You guys know anything about it? I cant even see the blue text when in settings, which says that the game has to be restarted etc. Am i doing something wrong? I compare the TDM screens from the website with my, and my screens are very bad. I have put everything on, PP, AA and screen on 1600x.

[mukremin]

Here are some screens, its all blurry and the characters objects arent smooth.

[SeriousToni]

Just a guess, but: Did you choose some wrong resolution for your display maybe?

The screenies are a bit small for my eyes ^^ You could upload them to a file hoster and post the links here so we can get a bettter glimpse

[Bikerdude]

Also it looks like you don't AA (anti aliasing) enabled.

[mukremin]

I took those screenshots with F12, it doesnt have a good quality. Any other way to make it? Whats the quality with Fraps?

 

Here is my settings:

[Serpentine]

I cant really see any detail in 640x480 screenshots - Please could you try get some higher res shots?

[Springheel]

My guess is that the compression settings in your cfg have changed.

 

Try this:

 

Look into your DoomConfig.cfg inside your darkmod folder and check that the following settings are like shown below:

seta image_roundDown "1"

seta image_forceDownSize "0"

seta image_downSize "0"

Also, what video card do you have?

[Bikerdude]

Whats the size and native resolution of your monitor..?

[mukremin]

those settings are good in the config file, i use 1440-900 setting for monitor.

My card is AT HD 4800

[Springheel]

Just shooting in the dark here:

 

 

 

Graphic Corruption

 

One report we had was for a Radeon ATI HD 4650, catalyst 10.9. This screen corruption as I understand it was heavy pixelation even on the menus. Closing down Xfire fixed it. "I fiddled with the xfire Doom 3 configuration through the xfire_games.ini, and determined it has to do with InGameFlags portion. For some reason the settings in that were interfering with doom 3, and after I removed some things from there, I was still able to run xfire, and doom 3 was still able to look proper."

[mukremin]

thats not the case, thanks though

how can i take high res shots?

Edited January 13, 2013 by mukremin

[SeriousToni]

If you press F12 and the screens aren't in 1440p resolution which you should choose for your monitor, but they are something about 640x480 then there's something really wrong and you probaply play in 640x480 then!

 

Try turning off "Post Processing" in the Advanced Options.

Edited January 13, 2013 by SeriousToni

[mukremin]

thats weird yes, i seem to be playing with that res even though the game says otherweise.

 

is my GPU broken?

Edited January 13, 2013 by mukremin

[mukremin]

check out! i changed it to 1280x720, turned off PP. It seems i get better results now, still i am shocked why it doesnt accept a different resolution.

Ist still not the quality i used to have

[mukremin]

it only lets me choose 1280x720. all the others dont work

[Baddcog]

I know my Catalyst Control Center will over ride game settings. So either choose what you want there or check 'let game decide'.

 

Don't know if that's the issue though.

[mukremin]

i cant seem to find/open catalyst control center :S

i only have AMD Vision Engine control center, i used to have the control center where i could enable/disable certain settings. But its nowhere to be found, even after installing latest driver with software package.

Edited January 13, 2013 by mukremin

[Baddcog]

you probably just need to dl it from ati website. Don't know what the vision center is.

[mukremin]

i have re-installed the driver stuff, i have enabled AA etc in the control center. Other resolutions dont work, only 1280x720 works. And when i put AA on 16x it resets it back to 6.

[nbohr1more]

Please zip and post your Darkmod.cfg file. (rename with a *.txt) extension)

[mukremin]

It wont let me upload here, not with rar, zip or txt.

 

Seems this problem only happens with TDM, have got no trouble with FarCry 3.

[Serpentine]

Nuke your config, don't set AA to 16 if it allows you to - it should limit you to 8.

[MoroseTroll]

i cant seem to find/open catalyst control center :S

Don't know what the vision center is.

AFAIK, Catalyst Control Center on DX11 AMD GPUs = Vision Center on DX10 AMD GPUs.

[mukremin]

So what happens now?

here is my darkmod cfg, i packed it into a zipfile. I uploaded it to: http://www.freeuploadshare.com/files/yWDQmB1358157393.html

Edited January 14, 2013 by mukremin

[_Atti_]

Are you playing on a TV by any chance? When i played on TV some resolution settings cause TDM to run on 640*480.