Weird graphics (colors, shadows)
Hi everyone. I have a problem for which I haven't seen an answer or solution yet despite being posted regularly at Bioware's forum, and while I know it's not urgent, it's very annoying. Look, it's th...
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for the people constantly complaining about graphics i dont understand, i run on 1920x1080 in full 1080p HD and i do fine. if you wish to boost the graphics, and you have an AMD card, you can choose to override the games colours set graphics and everythign else fromt he catalyst control center. GO under "gaming" "3D application Settings" and choose "Override Application Settings" and put in your own. you can also turn up the gamma to reduce the shadows you have, playing in HD helps alot as it helps dispurse shadows so they arent so concentrated in certain corners, you can also change your Anisotropic filters colour concentraion and how vibrant etc you want them and turn them way up along with tessilation and triple buffering. the game chooses the best graphics setting so you dont lag , it does thsi so others dont have to deal with your lagg.
Alright, but just to make sure, does your game look like mine? And do you know which parameter does control this? I've tried changing some parameters with RadeonPro, including AA, tesselation and Anisotropic, but I couldn't fix this.And while I know it's a relatively minor graphic issue and the rest of the game looks and plays just fine; I'd trade anything, from filters to shadows to particles for a fix for this issue. It's incredibly ugly and bafflingly constant.
Will try with the CatalystCC, it's missing since I update my drivers directly from Steam. Thanks for the answer! 🙂
EDIT: Catalyst didn't help either. I also tried spoofing the drivers to a Radeon 4850 (vendor recommended) to no avail, so I guess autodetect is out of the question, too? I refuse to believe not a single reviewer has had this and just decided it didn't impact enough on gameplay to mention it. I've seen complaints for stupider things than this.
are you in 32 bit colour with full range instead of limited?
I'm using Windows 7, and on the display mode window I can see I'm using 1366 x 768 @ 60hz "True color 32 bit", which is the highest color combination available. I can't find "full range" anywhere, but I'm pretty sure to be currently using the highest color combination my computer is able to dish by the looks of it.
I've been using this computer for the last 4 years and this is the first time I encounter this problem. Moreover, I've been reading related problems on other games, and for the most part I haven't been able to see any banding at all on their screenshots. Again, this has been reported by a lot of users, to the point of people pointing out this is a deliberate design choice. I see it on review videos, too, so just to be sure: Everyone is getting this? I just want to know if you look at this and see several points where the colors abruptly change tones (on the walls, cupboard, floor and on Shepard's shoulder and back black armor pieces).
I don't know. I've never complained about the graphics on anything, and this is the first time on the Mass Effect franchise I've had the slightest problem with the graphics. It just surprises me that all threads related to this go cold without a proper explanation or solution and that neither Bioware nor manufacturers has commented on it despite being something that I can't see happening on the xbox version. Seriously, are you OK with the game looking like an abstract painting every time there's some aggressive lighting changes? After two games that still look gorgeous?
