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Graphics lower quality since Rubicon

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Ssabat Thraxx
DUST Expeditionary Team
Good Sax
#1 - 2013-11-27 04:37:24 UTC
Since Rubicon, when I am zoomed out even a little bit from my ship it loses all detail....it becomes polygonal and loses the shadings, details, etc. Oddly enough, this only happens in space and not in stations. Never had this issue before, it really sux to be flying around in a ship that looks like it came from the Everquest era.

How to fix?

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CCP Antiquarian
C C P
C C P Alliance
#2 - 2013-11-27 10:29:26 UTC
Rubicon introduced the Texture level of detail system, designed to give players the option of balancing their detail/performance needs.

In the ESC menu's Display & Graphics tab you can adjust both the Texture quality and LOD quality levels to suit your hardware environment and style of play.

It is new, though, and we are looking at making adjustments to distances and quality. So if you are experiencing LOD issues even after adjustment, we need to hear that.

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Niera Domo
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-11-27 12:07:25 UTC
I also have this issue. None of my hardware has changed, and changing my gfx settings doesn't help. I understand that the level of detail on my ship will degrade the further I pull out the camera, but it happens when my ship is still taking up about 30-40% of my entire screen. It's a really jarring change in resolution (it looks like the ship skin is 5 huge pixels all blurred together) and it gets even worse when you pull it out a ways further. I definitely don't think this is what you guys intended when you changed the LOD system.
Ssabat Thraxx
DUST Expeditionary Team
Good Sax
#4 - 2013-11-28 00:27:35 UTC
CCP Antiquarian, thanks for the info. I changed both settings to high and it helped, but it's still not as good as it was before the patch at a medium distance.

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Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#5 - 2013-11-29 16:07:00 UTC
I don't get it. The Texture and LOD options have always been there. Whats new?

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CLP125
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#6 - 2013-11-29 18:35:07 UTC

Have also tried to set both settings to high.

Still the quality is lower than I was used to before the upgrade to Rubicon.

So a step backwards for graphic details I guess.
Jai'dan
Cosmic Crew
#7 - 2013-11-29 18:58:31 UTC
When I load up on grid it looks like my ships is made out of brown cardboard for a moment.
Vincent Cod
The Cod Pact
#8 - 2013-12-01 04:46:18 UTC
Same problem, and my friend also has it.

For me it is only really apparent on low texture quality, as soon as i zoom out a tiny bit my ship turns into polygons. ATI Radeon 5870 HD.