Guild Wars 2

Hey all, wasn’t sure where to put this so here it is.

After buying the hairstyle (the human one with the flower in it) I noticed it doesn’t look as “high-res” in game as it does in the hairstyle kit menu. I’m not sure if this is a graphic setting I can’t seem to find (I tried bumping everything to ultra, no difference), or if its just supposed to be lower quality. Is there a way I can get a refund for it or something for it? When I hit accept to use my kit I sort of expected the same quality as in the menu. In game it sorta looks unfinished.

Yeh I can see why you are disappointed. Not sure why it’s that way tho

RebornReprise.1694:

Hey all, wasn’t sure where to put this so here it is.

After buying the hairstyle (the human one with the flower in it) I noticed it doesn’t look as “high-res” in game as it does in the hairstyle kit menu. I’m not sure if this is a graphic setting I can’t seem to find (I tried bumping everything to ultra, no difference), or if its just supposed to be lower quality. Is there a way I can get a refund for it or something for it? When I hit accept to use my kit I sort of expected the same quality as in the menu. In game it sorta looks unfinished.

ewwwwwwww, you game looks UGLY.

Get sweetfx and play with the setting you WILL thank me for that. And no, it simply just a directX modifier it doesn’t mess with the game files. You can also use sweetfx for any video game also.

Trust me, the game looks better and your character looks better and higher res. Maybe my memory is fuzzy but my toon hair looks a little better than that, I will have to remember to check when I get hom.

My game works just fine for me personally. I’m not the only person having problems with the hair looking lower quality. There’s plenty of other posts about it going on. People playing with a lot more graphic intensive settings are reporting that same problem.

RebornReprise.1694:

My game works just fine for me personally. I’m not the only person having problems with the hair looking lower quality. There’s plenty of other posts about it going on. People playing with a lot more graphic intensive settings are reporting that same problem.

The in game graphics setting are not going to sufficient.

Let me give you an example, did you know that guild wars 2 has for some odd reason a white filter that makes things not clear and blurry? Which you ss shows.

anyways, just trying to help, well not you, but anybody that is complaining.

silvermember.8941:

RebornReprise.1694:

My game works just fine for me personally. I’m not the only person having problems with the hair looking lower quality. There’s plenty of other posts about it going on. People playing with a lot more graphic intensive settings are reporting that same problem.

The in game graphics setting are not going to sufficient.

Let me give you an example, did you know that guild wars 2 has for some odd reason a white filter that makes things not clear and blurry? Which you ss shows.

anyways, just trying to help, well not you, but anybody that is complaining.

SweetFx won’t fix the problem op pointed out. It’s not just the new haircuts all haircuts look different ingame.

No, it’s because your game is not “really” on ultra. Don’t know if you noticed, but there is a (normally) uncheckable checkbox in your graphic settings that’s named : “Hi-Res character textures”. ANet disabled it because it provoked crashes on some computers, but it’s possible to get it checkable if you modify your GC parameters. Here’s a screen of what MY character’s hair looks like in-game.
And then, i noticed it’s not 100% as high-res as in the preview, but it’s closer than anything.

I think that the OP means the edges of the hair strands rather than textures.

The issue for that lies mostly in transparency than the quality of the textures (I dunno how’s that for a comparison, but I’m adding a screenie below – I think that textures are the same in the preview and in the world. My desktop is five years old. I run on mediun shaders, low post processing and no/low shadows. Oh, and SMAA). Besides, character creation preview has the most “default” lighting possible, fixed especially to pretty up the looks.

In game, this will change at almost every step. You’ll find places where your char looks odd, and places where they will look awesome (HoM and snowy areas for me).

I don’t know much about rendering transparent materials, but the display will be affected depending of your screen resolution, anti aliasing, the distance of your camera, and surroundings (presence of other alpha based materials either in front or behind your character) rather than the quality of the textures.

Heh… And this is why I prefer to pick the “safer” hairdos, so I won’t fixate on such details like I usually do, so believe me OP, I know “that feel”.