why do my landscape and buildings look S$#$T

[catar]

After the last patch beta and official my buildings and landscape look like crap.Buildings start like painted roof on the ground and landscape textures just keep sort of unfolding right in front of me.



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settings for buildings in game won't make any difference as for the landscape I have to max out everything to make it look reasonable
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Any ideas???? Anything that can be changed in config to stop this?It drives me crazy

Originally Posted by catar

After the last patch beta and official my buildings and landscape look like crap.Buildings start like painted roof on the ground and landscape textures just keep sort of unfolding right in front of me.


Any ideas???? Anything that can be changed in config to stop this?It drives me crazy

because of the failing attempt to optimise this sim....crippling the visuals

[Ataros]

It was done to make it run faster on low end PCs as too many people were complaining on this forum.

To turn up the quality:

In video settings put Texture quality on Standard (it is the highest original setting) and Houses detail to High. Make sure you run at least medium landscape shadows.

Increase anisotropic filtering quality and texture filtering in your driver settings. Turn up mip-map detail level in video drivers.

You may also set visibilitydistance=4 in conf.ini iirc. And SSAO in game settings.

more like to be faster on med to high end PCs....

[catar]

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These are the settings I use but still no luck.No matter what settings I use buildings still look like 2D paited roofs on the ground untill the jump out in front of me. visibilitydistance does nothing,I tried 0-4 but can't notice any difference

[mayestdo]

Originally Posted by catar

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These are the settings I use but still no luck.No matter what settings I use buildings still look like 2D paited roofs on the ground untill the jump out in front of me. visibilitydistance does nothing,I tried 0-4 but can't notice any difference

You are right. With all my settings in HIGHEST, the image quality is worse than in the original "pre-patches" game. These guys are talking about changes which make all four cores take advantage and blablabla, but the truth is that, IMO, they are only reducing the image quality so that most PC's can play it.