Brothers of Arms

[Paddo]

Hi all

I haven't been able to get on much recently but managed to get a couple of hours the other day.

The thing is, the graphics were not as good as I remember them (pre-Dreamworld update I guess) so I wanted to check if this is normal or just my rig Probably just getting old and losing my memory...

I have a GTX570 (1280Mb), 8Gb main RAM, X9650 3Ghz system, Windows 7 64-bit and running OS & AOC from an SSD.

A concrete example is in the inventory those shiny gold coins you get from level 70-something mobs are anything but shiny nowadays - like some sort of low-res, blurred yellowish disc, no detail. And in general scenes seem a bit more washed out than I remember. Same in dx9 and dx10.

I have played around with deleting shader caches, resetting graphics to default and so on but no luck. Nvidia control panel has default settings for AOC, latest drivers installed. I tried googling with no luck either.

Anyway, if anyone has experienced anything like this I would appreciate a steer on whether anything can be done about it. Perhaps it's just the way it is nowadays.

Thanks
Paddo

[Paddo]

Just found something in AoC tech forums - http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=165266

Apparently everyone has this now - of course, please let me know if anyone has found a fix

Thanks

[Atkara]

Blurry inventory is a bug that came with the engine update. We'll have to live with it till FC fixes it.

[Gert]

Yep - inventory items still use SM2 rather than whatever settings you've got; just something to live with and poke Funcom lots...

1st post here has all the feedback threads: http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=165398

Known issue since Dreamworld was on TL and "it's being looked into"...

[Paddo]

Thanks for the info chaps, much appreciated

[Magman]

They changed the inventory graphic quality on purpose. This was to help the delay there was when opening your inventory.

[Paddo]

in general scenes seem a bit more washed out than I remember. Same in dx9 and dx10.

Doing a bit of a necro job on this thread but just stumbled across something related here: http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=174128

It seems FXAA causes the washed out look and by copying some files into your AoC directory you can add a bit of va-va-voom back into the graphics.

I'm using this one: http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showpos ... ostcount=8 but there are quite a few options you can try out. (And yes that one takes you to a skyrim forum but it works for any dx9/10 fxaa game.)

Doesn't fix the crappy inventory quality though

[Gert]

Can't see them changing the inventory icons any time soon