Units are looking "low-res" with different effects

[Sartarius]

I am playing with ultra graphic settings and everything is fine however in combat units look "pixelized" and "low-res" as from old games of 80-90 years if some effect is applied - poison cloud, fire ground etc. They look quite good without it or if you zoom in very close. I watched some videos and I couldnt see such a problem. Any advice on this? Drivers updated, requirements are met. Playing on Nvidia GeForce 1050 Ti 4Gb

 

[Vjeldan]

Happens to me too. Strange effect!

 

[Sartarius]

Thats what I was talking about.

 

[ivarhill]

I'm seeing this issue on my end as well. Windows 10, GTX 970, i5-4690k.

 

[Big J Money]

Do you have any kind of Aliasing enabled in the game's graphics settings or force-enabled in your nvidia settings? I would play around with disabling things to see if you find out what setting causes the bug.

I have not seen this yet on a GTX 1070 Win10.

 

[Vind7]

Looks strange like some glitch with DSR or antialiasing. Doesnt seen this so far but im on win7 still.

 

[ivarhill]

Do you have any kind of Aliasing enabled in the game's graphics settings or force-enabled in your nvidia settings? I would play around with disabling things to see if you find out what setting causes the bug.

I have not seen this yet on a GTX 1070 Win10.

On my end, the issue appears regardless of AA settings in-game or in the nVidia control panel. Interestingly, regardless of whether AA is turned on or off anywhere it looks the same, as if AA is turned on. For this reason I suspected DSR, especially since performance is also quite a bit lower than I expected in general, but it's definitely turned off in the nVidia settings.

I also tried disabling all other post-processing effects (bloom, ssao, soft particles, reflections) but still getting the same issue. Screenshot for reference:

Note two things:

• The Imperial Standard underneath the Harrier looks pixelated
• Despite AA being explicitly turned off in the settings, there's definitely AA (more of a curiosity, since I do want AA on, but it's still strange)

This is natively on 1920x1080, and my GPU drivers are also fully up to date.

 

[Sartarius]

I have reduced SSAO and turned off bloom. Things got better but still not perfect

 

[Vind7]

Windows 10 also got some built-in DSR in game mode. Dont know the details how to turn it on/off.

 

[Big J Money]

I had think I had this happen to me yesterday but it might not be the same repro that you're getting. For me it was those Assembly zombie units that can be spawned into battle; they were very pixelated.

 

[ivarhill]

Yup, I definitely see this issue very noticeably on the spawned Assembly units. It does seem related to any sort of overlay screen effect, but hard to tell.

 

[ivarhill]

I did some more comprehensive testing on this. Regardless of any in-game settings the issue appears all the same - with everything turned off and at low, at maximum settings for anything, and a variety of configurations in-between.

Disabling fullscreen optimizations and DPI scalings in the Windows Properties dialog for the game executable also seems to have no effect.

Reinstalled my GPU drivers as well, but the issue still appears.

 

[Elgareth]

I did some more comprehensive testing on this. Regardless of any in-game settings the issue appears all the same - with everything turned off and at low, at maximum settings for anything, and a variety of configurations in-between.

Disabling fullscreen optimizations and DPI scalings in the Windows Properties dialog for the game executable also seems to have no effect.

Reinstalled my GPU drivers as well, but the issue still appears.

Hmm. And you are 100% sure that you don't have any nVidia optimizations active?
Especially that "AA but I deactivated it" sounds suspicious to me that there ist an override somewhere in nVidia controls. Otherwise you can do a file check via Steam, basically the softer variant of a reinstall
(Are there still PhysX configuration Options btw?)

 

[ivarhill]

Hmm. And you are 100% sure that you don't have any nVidia optimizations active?
Especially that "AA but I deactivated it" sounds suspicious to me that there ist an override somewhere in nVidia controls. Otherwise you can do a file check via Steam, basically the softer variant of a reinstall
(Are there still PhysX configuration Options btw?)

I'm fairly sure but here's screenshots of my nVidia control panel for reference. I don't have GeForce Experience installed so the control panel should be all there is.

I did also do a verification of game files on Steam but that doesn't appear to have made a difference.

 

[ivarhill]

An update on the anti-aliasing part of this issue:
After some testing, it seems like AA is tied to one of the other graphics settings ingame and not actually the AA option. If I set all settings to low and restart the game, there's no AA regardless of whether the AA box is checked. If I set all settings to high and restart, AA is enabled no matter what. Maybe a bug?

In either case it seems completely unrelated to the pixelation issue, that appears regardless of any settings.