Very low resolution textures

[Blackvenom01]

Hi, I bought Supreme Commander 2 and the first thing I noticed was it look awful compared to SC/FA. So I switched around with settings and such and noticed that textures doesn't do anything if I set it on low or high.

Anyone know why this is happening?
http://i42.tinypic.com/nb5daq.jpg

http://i44.tinypic.com/vsgbyg.jpg

System specs:

HDD: Western Digital 2x WD1500HLFS (150 GB) Raptor's
PSU: TruePower New Series TP-750 (750 Watt)
MBB: Asus P6T SE (Intel® X58)
RAM: Kingston HyperX 6 GB DDR3-1600 Tri-Kit 8 8 8 24
CPU: Core™ i7 950 (4x 3066 MHz)
GFX: 2x HD5870 (ATI Radeon HD5870) (crossfire)
SFX: Club 3D Theatron Agrippa 7.1
Monitor: Acer GD245hq 120hz

[DarK_cS]

The quality won't be surpassing FA but that's def low settings.
Maybe try manually changing on cfg? Otherwise might be driver issue.

[Aesir Rising]

Check Catalyst settings and ensure you're not overriding game options. Just a guess but maybe the mipmap option is set to something horrific.


To set expectations, this is what I see - with a JPEG @ 80% compression:
http://hdimage.org/viewer.php?file=506jae9locry28txkh22.jpg

[Blackvenom01]

Thanks for the help, what did the trick was mipmap detail, I set it on performance, but setting it on quality makes it look high res, kinda strange though but fixed =)

Now even the units look better hehe !

[Aesir Rising]

the mipmap settings determines the amount of compression for textures. roughly speaking, high compression = high performance and low image quality (IQ). Low compression = low performance and high IQ.

The good news is changing that setting probably just made all your 3D games look better, but probably run slower (depending upon the game and the rest of your computer hardware). Since you have such high-end system specs, I don't think you need to worry - I would leave that mipmap detail, and every other option, maxed out for quality, not performance.

[Thygrrr]

The original poster has a MONSTER RIG!!! He should use "Quality" everywhere in Catalyst, and max settings and Anti-Aliasing in every game including Crysis and other Monster titles.

Use "Performance" settings only if a Game runs slow and you don't mind poor quality for a few extra FPS.

[Aesir Rising]

Thygrr, yes, I just saw that too - and I edited my reply accordingly. It would blow up my single 5770 w/ athlon II 240.

[RCIX]

The original poster has a MONSTER RIG!!! He should use "Quality" everywhere in Catalyst, and max settings and Anti-Aliasing in every game including Crysis and other Monster titles.

Use "Performance" settings only if a Game runs slow and you don't mind poor quality for a few extra FPS.

This. That system could probably run FA at high settings...