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2014 High-Res PC Screenshot Thread of the Last Hope for Image Quality
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Masochism Tango
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I know it's a high-res shot thread but.. 5-6 megs for each pic (in png) and a 3-part post? My net is crying. Shots can easily retain quality saved with FastStone to jpg @ 98/99.
Boulotaur2024
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Those SH3 shots. So intense.
How the hell are you getting SH3 to render @8K ? Driver downsampling ? SRWE ? I know GeDoSaTo doesn't work with it so it has to be that.
GavinUK86
Member
Massive PNG's are more fun.
After seeing Stallions SH3 shots i thought i would fire up it's older brother .
The geain effect is not removable so bear with it .
Also has black bars during cutscenes .
I took (almost) the same shot when I was trying gedosato.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Here is the full set of SH3 shots I took. 117 total. I might post a couple more of my favs down the road.
You can remove it, it's in the game options somewhere. I think they refer to it as "Noise Effect."
You can remove it, it's in the game options somewhere. I think they refer to it as "Noise Effect."
The game has it built right in. The slider they have only goes up to 4096x4096, but you can put an value you want in the .ini file. It helped a lot because even 4096x4096 internal had some aliasing on certain edges and I wasn't able to getting any form of AA going.
Phreakuency
Banned
Ok this might be better in the stupid gaming question thread or whatever but here goes...
Two of the most anticipated (visually) games, in Mordor and Ethan Carter are confusing me.
I've seen full res videos of Vanishing of EC and it looks to be one of (if not the most) impressive graphics ever.
Mordor looks very good in motion too.
But the pics here of both games just don't look crisp. I know Vanishing of EC has a softer look but even at crazy high resolutions you guys are posting, the screens are looking like they've been blown up in size. Even the worst games look super crisp when using high resolutions/downsampling.
Now I'm seeing the same with Shadow of Mordor. I don't mean textures either. You can have crap textures or whatever and still have a super crisp looking screenshot, but like Ethan Carter, Shadow of Mordor is looking low res.
Are my eyes failing me in old age or is there something different going on with the rendering that isn't being captured with screens of these games?
Two of the most anticipated (visually) games, in Mordor and Ethan Carter are confusing me.
I've seen full res videos of Vanishing of EC and it looks to be one of (if not the most) impressive graphics ever.
Mordor looks very good in motion too.
But the pics here of both games just don't look crisp. I know Vanishing of EC has a softer look but even at crazy high resolutions you guys are posting, the screens are looking like they've been blown up in size. Even the worst games look super crisp when using high resolutions/downsampling.
Now I'm seeing the same with Shadow of Mordor. I don't mean textures either. You can have crap textures or whatever and still have a super crisp looking screenshot, but like Ethan Carter, Shadow of Mordor is looking low res.
Are my eyes failing me in old age or is there something different going on with the rendering that isn't being captured with screens of these games?
jim2point0
Banned
It's the low poly and boxy geometry that bothers me about Shadow of Mordor
I haven't really exploed the game at all though
I haven't really exploed the game at all though
Wait, not crisp? I can't speak for Mordor, but even if not captured at high res and downsampled, I thought TVoEC looked quite crisp indeed. The distance fog and general lighting did give a soft touch to the general atmosphere. The textures weren't oversharpened, but it was anything if not crisp, I felt.
crazyturtle
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the Shadow of Mordor team did a good job tiling those textures
I probably feel that way too some times -- make sure you click pictures to enlarge them to 100% size, just in case they're being resized by your browser.
Also, I wonder if some people were using downsampling of some sort, causing Ethan Carter to look lower res. Do my pictures look blurry too?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=132049865&postcount=10674
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=132050051&postcount=10675
That was 1680x1050 without any modification or downsampling, so though I feel like it looked better ingame, there may well be some sort of filtering going on which is why I noticed very little aliasing or shimmering ingame.
jim2point0
Banned
Downsampling causing Ethan Carter to look lower res? What am I reading....
And if anything, I think Shadow of Morder looks TOO crisp.
That was captured at 8K. Some FXAA might do it some good.
And if anything, I think Shadow of Morder looks TOO crisp.
That was captured at 8K. Some FXAA might do it some good.
I was thinking the same thing. Masterful uv mapping work. Especially the characters.
jim2point0
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Phreakuency
Banned
Hmm, it may be the browser resizing after all... they look fine on my tablet but not in Chrome. Gonna see what's going on.
And, yeah Mordor looks a lot better than I initially thought (those 8K one's above look brilliant). I still stand by Ethan Carter though, just don't like the soft look at all.
For one thing I imagine it would depend on the image resize quality, though presumably most anyone here will be using a high-quality resize method. For another thing, this happened when someone tried downsampling Ethan Carter with GeDoSaTo:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=131913302&postcount=10636
It apparently only worked with 32-bit mode, so they ended up with lowres textures.
In general though you are probably right.
Dictator93
Member
It is possible for down sampled screenshots to mess up the texture streamer in UE3 so the textures are ridiculously low res on terrain for example.
But that would require the game to be ridiculously bandwidth starved.
But that would require the game to be ridiculously bandwidth starved.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Downsampling causing Ethan Carter to look lower res? What am I reading....
And if anything, I think Shadow of Morder looks TOO crisp.
That was captured at 8K. Some FXAA might do it some good.
I was testing FXAA with downsampling yesterday and I actually prefer the look. And this is coming from someone who generally despises FXAA.
FXAA is a great pre-filter for sharp (e.g. Lanczos) downsampling. As long as you have ~4 or more rendered pixel per final pixel you don't lose any detail in the final image, and it really helps with long aliased edges.
^ This. I recently had lots of problems with textures and the Transformers games when rendering 4k or above.
Dunno why but F12 doesn't work with me, all my .tga have the HUD. ._.
Cool! Which UE3 binds are you using? Does freecam work? I remember having problems getting the normal binds to work.
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jim2point0
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electricsheep26354
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electricsheep26354
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WetTreeLeaf
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Is it me or is Talion's head way too big or something? It's even more noticeable with his ranger outfit. He got a melon head.
Trust me, it's the opposite. It's WoW design 101 for that guy. Small head, small legs, huge torso, huge arms and hands.
The Shogun
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Witcher 2
jim2point0
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jim2point0
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Sure. The details are in the description here.
It can be tricky. But I've seen other people get some good results with it.
Thanks!
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