Guild Wars 2

I have my graphics pretty much maxed. It runs fine but just doesn’t look as good as some of the screenshots I see people post. Then last night(4/13/13 about 1130pm central time) when I log in the graphics looked incredible, like the screenshots that I see people post. Now today they look like the normal blah that I usually see. What would cause this? I have not changed any settings in quite a few weeks nor have I updated any drivers.

My graphics card is an ATI HD5770 and I have an Intel Core i7 920 with 6GBs of Ram.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Pics would help.

Were you by chance drinking last night?

Joking (sort of)

Like Solar says some screenshots with your settings on screen (options menu) would help in diagnosing.

Ok, here’s a picture with my settings and one of my toons. The other night when it looked good, the chain armor actually looked like individual chain links and the blue fabric looked like some sort of cotton type fabric, not just blue.

I’ve seen this problem quite a lot, both in GW2 and some other games. Usually it’s caused by one of the settings in the Catalyst Control Center – either something is set to override the game settings (for example Anti-Aliasing) or one of the quality/detail settings is set too low and it’s forcing the game textures to downsample despite the texture settings being maxed out ingame.

So open your CCC and make sure that:
- all graphical settings are set to use the program defaults (especially Anti-Aliasing / Anisotropic Filtering)
- mipmap detail is set to the highest level
- all other general quality related settings are set to prefer High Quality over Performance

If it turns out to be none of these things, the only thing I can think of is trying to repair and reinstall the game + reinstalling your graphics drivers.

Btw I assume with 6 gigs of RAM you are running a 64-bit version of windows?

Thanks for the screenshot.

It definitely looks like a low resolution texture issue. I have tried to lower my settings to make them look as bad as the one in your picture but I can not seem to do it. I also changed all my CCC settings to “worst possible looking” and it still does not make the textures look as bad on the character screen as your does.

Like amaranth says I would try to reinstall your drivers as they may simply not be rendering the textures properly, or down sampling them for some reason.

In addition to what Amarinth.8534 said, change your render sampling to “Supersample”.

Yay, my graphics are so bad that you can’t even purposely make them that bad. Sigh.

Turned out to be a bad driver. Completely purged all AMD/ATI from my system and reinstalled and all is working well so far.

Thank you all.

abomally.2694:

In addition to what Amarinth.8534 said, change your render sampling to “Supersample”.

Don’t do this. (unless you have a very powerful machine)