#Quake 4 low res textures Pc#
When I played it on an older PC the scene was pretty neat, now it looks like a "rain shader" placed on top of a series of flat shapes.īefore everyone calls me an idiot. Binary Domain for example has an opening sequence where everything is getting rained on. It's not so much 'magic' as it is that the lower detail/ low res textures often gave older games like Quake and Thief the illusion of the textures looking much more 'gritty' and 'worn' than they actually were. I have to imagine devs depended on the grit of lower AA and blurring of lower resolution to give the illusion of detail, similar to your brain filling in the details in pixel art JRPGs from the SNES era.īut when you rip off that sheen it just suddenly gives SOME games a more barren look. The newest radeon 7970 with hardware acceleration for megatextures has a 384 bit bus and 3gb vram and can even use system ram as virtual memory for storing some of the megatextures if necessary. NOTE: disable SLI and limit texture memory must be done in some cases. This surprised us, because movement in the first-person shooter isn't especially fast, but perhaps because of the game's high- res textures. These games were clearly not intended to run at this high of resolution since a lot of the objects in the distance that were blurred by low AA and res are now shining in their barren low poly glory. To get higher resolution textures you'd need at least 1.5gb vram on a single card and for really significant results as much as 3gb. It can even upscale textures that would otherwise be too blurry as they were made for the. Low-poly models and low-res textures and a 'throw some normal maps on there and itll work out' approach to the whole thing. 57 GB Raiden IV Gamestop Exclusive USA XBOX360-MOONWALKER 6. What happens is that no matter what Graphical Quality Setting you put it on, it always ends up looking the same.
They run AMAZING the IQ is PERFECT, but wow do low resolution textures and lower poly models stick out like a sore thumb. So that includes Doom 3 and Quake 4 and Quake Wars.
why do the games look bad? Like real bad? Got my fancy new computer and ready to go.