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Everything on ultra and textures look bad

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Manimal_pro
Profile Joined June 2010
Romania991 Posts
June 15 2012 21:19 GMT
#1
Hello, i've had this issue only recently, i can't get the game to look high quality even with the settings at max.

My video card is a ati radeon 7850. Any ideas why this might be happening?

[image loading]
If you like brood war, please go play brood war and stop whining about SC2
jWavA
Profile Joined January 2011
United States73 Posts
June 15 2012 21:24 GMT
#2
I'm not sure what you mean. It looks just like my own graphics before my card started acting up. I think its supposed to look like that.
EdenPLusDucky
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
571 Posts
June 15 2012 22:04 GMT
#3
That IS high quality. Starcraft is a competitive game, its not meant to look good.

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Filter
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Canada620 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-15 22:31:33
June 15 2012 22:12 GMT
#4
On June 16 2012 07:04 EdenPLusDucky wrote:
That IS high quality. Starcraft is a competitive game, its not meant to look good.


This forum is getting filled with terrible advice.

I run high textures, low everything else and compared my in game to that screen shot and it's absolutely night and day.

Do you have the settings in catalyst control center (sorry you have to use it) to fast, or high quality? That looks to me like you've got it setup to render things quickly.

Edit: You also have to do a restart for texture setting changes to take effect, have you done a game restart since you changed the settings?
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vaderseven
Profile Joined September 2008
United States2556 Posts
June 15 2012 22:15 GMT
#5
Screen shot your graphics options screen in game pls.
Paradise`
Profile Joined January 2012
United States201 Posts
June 15 2012 22:17 GMT
#6
Yeah that looks terrible dont know what eden is talking about lol
Nimix
Profile Joined October 2011
France1809 Posts
June 15 2012 22:33 GMT
#7
Textures are definitely low resolution on the screenshot, as suggested above your drivers settings might interfere with the game. And sc2 actually looks good on ultra >.<
Matuka
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom74 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-15 22:41:30
June 15 2012 22:40 GMT
#8
Locate your variables.txt and perhaps rename it to something else, start up the game and reset your graphic settings. See if that does anything different?

Also do you have ATI Tray Tools? If so, check if your LOD Bias is past 1+, if it is, set it to 0 (Center).
Hoon
Profile Joined December 2010
Brazil891 Posts
June 15 2012 22:57 GMT
#9
Try and move variables.exe to another folder or maybe your whole profile folder inside My documents.
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iKill[ShocK]
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Vietnam3530 Posts
June 15 2012 23:59 GMT
#10
what resolution are you playing at? 1920x1080? what is your monitor's max resolution?
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Snackysnacks
Profile Joined December 2010
United States411 Posts
June 16 2012 01:21 GMT
#11
On June 16 2012 07:04 EdenPLusDucky wrote:
That IS high quality. Starcraft is a competitive game, its not meant to look good.

So with my much worse 460GTX on ultra i produce this somehow?+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
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Sathiroth
Profile Joined December 2010
Australia93 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-16 01:33:22
June 16 2012 01:32 GMT
#12
Judging from your latest post one would assume you’ve upgraded to a new GPU and not only that you’ve switched manufactures (Nvidia – ATI). So I would recommend the following steps.

• With the 460GTX installed in the pc, uninstalling the Nvidia drivers.
• Reboot in safe mode and run DriverSweeper and remove both Nvidia and ATI drivers/directory’s if they still exist.
• Then remove the 460GTX and install the 7850 with the latest drivers from ATI.
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DJFaqU
Profile Joined May 2011
466 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-16 01:49:10
June 16 2012 01:47 GMT
#13
[image loading]

If you want awesome as fuck graphics, slide everything to the right.

This is just to illustrate what you're looking for, not the settings you're supposed to use.
Manimal_pro
Profile Joined June 2010
Romania991 Posts
June 16 2012 23:01 GMT
#14
i banged my head with this one, the FAULT was coming from the overclock of the graphics card. I turned overdrive off and everything came back to normal after a game restart
If you like brood war, please go play brood war and stop whining about SC2
toiletCAT
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Qatar284 Posts
June 16 2012 23:46 GMT
#15
Looks normal to me o___o
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