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TheWaxwingSlain
12 years ago
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Looks like grainy film

I've noticed that all of Need for Speed Rivals looks like a movie that was shot on grainy film, as if there was some kind of gauze over the lens of the camera.  One thing that every Criterion racing ...
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    Bob422
    12 years ago

    You didn't mention what platform you're on, but if it's PC alot of it is caused by the 30fps cap. Everything would be sharper and more clear at 60fps. If you want to see it for yourself, force Most Wanted 2012 to 30fps and see how ugly it gets. The other part is the Frostbite 3 engine. It just has a grittier look to it than the Chameleon engine Criterion used. The Run looked similar to Rivals and it ran on the Frostbite 2 engine.

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Bob422
12 years ago

You didn't mention what platform you're on, but if it's PC alot of it is caused by the 30fps cap. Everything would be sharper and more clear at 60fps. If you want to see it for yourself, force Most Wanted 2012 to 30fps and see how ugly it gets. The other part is the Frostbite 3 engine. It just has a grittier look to it than the Chameleon engine Criterion used. The Run looked similar to Rivals and it ran on the Frostbite 2 engine.

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    TheWaxwingSlain
    12 years ago

    You're right, I'm on PC, and the 30fps is almost certainly the problem.  I just went and changed Most Wanted to 30fps and got very near the same effect.  I don't like it.

    And I'm pretty sure my graphics card could handle 60fps.  Any idea why they're capping at 30fps?  Does it have something to do with cross-platform multiplayer and trying to keep PC players framerates consistent with the less-capable Playstation 4's and Xbones?  And thank you for your reply.

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      psychic717
      12 years ago
      @TheWaxwingSlain wrote:

      You're right, I'm on PC, and the 30fps is almost certainly the problem.  I just went and changed Most Wanted to 30fps and got very near the same effect.  I don't like it.

      And I'm pretty sure my graphics card could handle 60fps.  Any idea why they're capping at 30fps?  Does it have something to do with cross-platform multiplayer and trying to keep PC players framerates consistent with the less-capable Playstation 4's and Xbones?  And thank you for your reply.

      They just don't care about PC...

      The engine is already optimized but they still can't make the game work like it should on PC.

      I also think that the "grainy film" is caused because of FXAA.

      I wish I could turn that off, it makes the game blurry...

      Devs should add more graphics options like different Antialiasing settings, this is PC after all.

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