Guild Wars 2

Ok so I have two laptops, one is an HP pavilion g6 and the other is a macbook running windows through bootcamp (I know macs are useless but this was through school funding). Now on the macbook when I play I get clear sharp detail but with the same game settings on my HP I get this weird foggy appearance. Some of it is from LOD but the graphics seem to be more blurry on the HP. If anyone can help me figure out what this is or how to fix this that would be great.

First three are the HP and the last three are the Macbook for comparison.

A few questions.

Q1. You mentioned having the same game settings on both, but are you sure you have FXAA anti-aliasing enabled or disabled on both? It seems that you have FXAA enabled on your HP, but off in your macbook. FXAA does tend to add a blur to the scene, which is how it smooths edges. If it is enabled on your HP but not on your macbook, then this could be the cause.

Q2. From what I can tell, it isn’t just a fogginess that is visible on the HP, it also seems like lower quality textures. What brand graphics card are you using on your HP? You may want to check into the settings in your graphics utility on your HP to ensure your texture related settings are on ‘high’ or ‘quality’, instead of performance. Low res textures will also cause the entire scene to appear very blurry.

Thanks for the reply I’ll check out the settings on the HP and get back to you.

Ok turns out my graphics card was set on performance settings, rather than appearance. Thanks for the help!

No problem
I’m glad it was something that was quick to correct.