Stuck in lowest graphic setting. (bug)

[Ferrante]

After the 2.01 patch, he game has the lowest graphics setting. Change it in Options/graphics does nothing at all. The Map option shows how bad resolution is it now. Please Help!

 

DxDiag.txt

[Ferrante]

At least someway to change the graphics option form an ini file or something... 

[Ferrante]

I'm really disappointed. I thought this was a Technical support forum and I have not an answer or at least a replay from the support. Anyway, i'll add this issue is happening in every save (pre and post patch), I have the White March  DLC and I have uninstalled-installed the whole game without a change. 

[lameover]

Try changes in registry

HKCU\Software\Obsidian Enterainment\Pillars of Eternity

[Ferrante]

Try changes in registry

HKCU\Software\Obsidian Enterainment\Pillars of Eternity

 

Thank you. I'm checking it and it seems my resolution is fine. Quality has value = 2 which I think is High. I still don't know what to do but it's something. Hope someone of Obsidian answer me...

[lameover]

The Map option shows how bad resolution is it now.

Clarify please, what's wrong with map on your screenshot?

[Ferrante]

It seems the uploading process has shrieked my image, so it is not that easy to spot the quality. I will try with links:

 

Before

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/419188589628748752/DC0BC6AF4A6181E1D9E0349C868963B0E72FB9E7/

 

After

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/419188589628747343/A25EE71A81F5C7B8FB2DBD664B42D4E94E756017/

 

As you can see, the second image is blurry, low quality.

 

I have other problems, but as the forums rules say I must post them in separate topics, I will. Just for the record (in case they are related), they are: The autosaves does not override as usual, so I have 1 file more every time an autosave happens. (4 autosaves right now). Game crashes in launch the first time. I must try a couple times to make the game run. As I said before, reinstalling does not work. 

Edited September 15, 2015 by Ferrante

[Ferrante]

Update: I ttrid changing some stuff, in the regedit. Nothing happend, but in fact, i did not know what I was doing.  If someone knows what values to change, it will be great. Please, help me. 

[lameover]

I have the same blurry map view as you. Didn't notice that before and it don't bother me.

[Aarik D]

Hello Ferrante,

 

I apologize for the late response, we have been really busy here. Could you please clarify what the issue is? I am looking at your screen shots and they look fine to me. Please make sure that your graphics card has the latest drivers installed and verify your game cache in steam. 

 

Thank you for your support. 

[Ferrante]

Hello Ferrante,

 

I apologize for the late response, we have been really busy here. Could you please clarify what the issue is? I am looking at your screen shots and they look fine to me. Please make sure that your graphics card has the latest drivers installed and verify your game cache in steam. 

 

Thank you for your support. 

 

Mmmm, I did verify my cache twice. I even, as I said, Uninstalled and reinstalled everything with no change at all. I have a 7959 HD Radeon vcard with latest drivers (15.7.1). The issue is:

In the first image, you can see the texture of the trees, the grass, the roots of the bridges and so. In the second one, these look blurry. The best way to note it is ctrl+tab or alt+tab so you can see the change in the textures. I noted first in the trees, but grass seems like a green color applied instead a texture. In normal gameplay, I noted first because of he circles under the character. (they seem dotted when stalking instead smother.)

[Aarik D]

Hello again Ferrante,

 

When you uninstalled the game, did you go through Steam or Program Features in the Control Panel?  Also when you uninstalled the game, did you delete the Pillars of Eternity folder in the Steam directory? 

[Ferrante]

Hello again Ferrante,

 

When you uninstalled the game, did you go through Steam or Program Features in the Control Panel?  Also when you uninstalled the game, did you delete the Pillars of Eternity folder in the Steam directory? 

 

Through steam. No, I did not delete folders or modified my reg, so my options and saves were there. 

[Aarik D]

Try uninstalling the game again and delete the Pillars of Eternity folder in the Steam folder in Program Files. Your save files are located in your user folder so you wont be deleting your saves. 

[Oralaina]

It seems the uploading process has shrieked my image, so it is not that easy to spot the quality. I will try with links:

 

Before

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/419188589628748752/DC0BC6AF4A6181E1D9E0349C868963B0E72FB9E7/

 

After

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/419188589628747343/A25EE71A81F5C7B8FB2DBD664B42D4E94E756017/

 

As you can see, the second image is blurry, low quality.

 

I have other problems, but as the forums rules say I must post them in separate topics, I will. Just for the record (in case they are related), they are: The autosaves does not override as usual, so I have 1 file more every time an autosave happens. (4 autosaves right now). Game crashes in launch the first time. I must try a couple times to make the game run. As I said before, reinstalling does not work. 

 

That looks more like a gamma issue to me.... or perhaps a difference in time of day at the screenshot.  Also, your second (the one labeled "after") is dated in April, while the first ("before") is dated in September?

Edited September 19, 2015 by Oralaina

[Ferrante]

 

That looks more like a gamma issue to me.... or perhaps a difference in time of day at the screenshot.  Also, your second (the one labeled "after") is dated in April, while the first ("before") is dated in September?

 

 

No, no, it is not about the brightness or so. It is about the detail level. Yeah, they were not taken at same daytime, but, in fact, the Before one is brighter, so it should be show more detail. It is easy to see the detail level in the trees and so. You can compare them with your own game too, so you can see how blurry it is. About the dates, don't know where did you take the data, but in fact, the Before one was uploaded to Steam in April 19 and the After in Sept 15. Maybe you mixed them or something. 

 

Another way to tested could be moving your graphics setting to Lowest. I can't test that one because that bar does nothing for me, (which is the issue), but I bet you will end with a blurry map

Edited September 19, 2015 by Ferrante

[Ferrante]

Well. I have reinstalled again, this time I deleted the PoE Steam folder. It seems the autosave replication and the start problem has been corrected, but still, no improve in the graphics. 

[AndreaColombo]

The "Graphics Quality" slider only affects anti-aliasing; the amount of detail on backdrops is fixed since they're 2D pictures.

 

Did you enable super-sampling anti-aliasing in your graphics card's control panel? That would indeed blur out the backdrops.

[Ferrante]

The "Graphics Quality" slider only affects anti-aliasing; the amount of detail on backdrops is fixed since they're 2D pictures.

 

Did you enable super-sampling anti-aliasing in your graphics card's control panel? That would indeed blur out the backdrops.

 

Ho, thank you for the Graphic slider tip. Well, Antialiasing is not in Supersampling. Now I have the 2.02 update, still blurry graphics.