Fallout New Vegas low resolution textures

[Darksonic22]

So the other day I started up Fallout New Vegas again after a break and I come back to some guns with awful big black pixelated sqaure shadows on them and when ever I look a few inches infront of me everything is blurred to hell and also the ground literally looks like the minecraft texture for rock and I don't understand why.

I have no mods installed and I've reinstalled.
My rig
Intel Quad core 2.40ghz
Nivida geforce 275 gtx 800mb
3 gig Ram
Windows 7 64 bit

It was fine earlyier but I came back to it the other day and everything looks like a ps1 game apart from under my feet. I've tried to post this on a lot of sites and even email bethesda but no replies from anyone and I just want to play my game without these horrible blurs and smudges cos my game used to look good but now fuzzy pixely and rubbish.

Here is a screenshot you may need to zoom in to it, it seems like a problem with draw distance aswell:

http://img861.imageshack.us/i/42859948.jpg/

Here is a screenshot:

 

[digibucc]

the picture doesn't look like your description.

it looks a little off, but just like the settings aren't maxed maybe. but no square blocks or minecraft textures for sure.

truthfully i don't know what that means. obviously monitor comes to mind but i have to
assume it doesn't look like that with anything else, including other games?

 

[Darksonic22]

Okay I over exadurated sorry about that but all my other games are fine I've been playing Portal 2 on ultra and Crysis 1 on meduim to high but Fallout even though my settings are maxed still doesn't look great at all even the console version looks better and I do have it console
Thanks for replying though

 

[digibucc]

no problem.

settings are maxed? do you notice a difference changing low to high & vice versa?
have you changed any defaults in your nvidia control panel? locking aa or anything?

the screen shot doesn't look that bad, so i have to assume it's your card's settings and not the game files.

 

[Darksonic22]

It probably will be the nvidia control panel I've had to do a ton of tweaking so I best put it all back to default thanks again

 

[Black Panther]

It's been some time since I played that game, but I'm ready to bet that that's how the actual textures look.

.........

I just loaded the game and took a screenshot. Look at the low textures on my character's hands and the gun..
I think this game needs some good texture overhaul mods

Spoiler

 

[Darksonic22]

See on the varmint rifle with the big black shadow? Well on mine that has black sqaures going down the side where it should be getting brighter it's strange

 

[digibucc]

yeah i do see the difference in pixelation for the shadows on the gun, so it's probably the shadows causing the issue - as everything else looks right in your ss.

 

[Darksonic22]

Maybe my shadows need to be put up to full then but my PC and shadows don't get on at all

 

[Darksonic22]

Hmm no difference I've reset everything changed resolutions and shadows but still afoot infront of me everything looks like blurred mess and pixely on guns

 

[Darksonic22]

Huh it's fixed I put AA to max and AF lol thanksguys anyway it's much appreiciated

 

[Black Panther]

Huh it's fixed I put AA to max and AF lol thanksguys anyway it's much appreiciated

That's great. I also run AA and AF maxed, perhaps that's why those little squares don't show up on my varmint.

Still, textures in Fallout NV aren't that great...

 

[ShogoXT]

I notice what hes talking about. Its the mipmapping settings. Check your graphics control panel and color bit depth. AF definately fixes it somewhat, but again check your mipmap settings.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

yea you need texture settings on high mipmap settings to best quality, etc otherwise it can get ugly. overall tho i use so many mods i dont use the vanilla in game equipment anymore.

 

[Kwod]

Hey guys, reinstall FO3 and it should occur to you how low res some of this game is.....an embarrassment for a 2010 game, but the trend when it comes to games that have already been degraded for consoles.

 

[Benetanegia]

Wow. Were weapon textures and models really that bad? I mean I do remember that graphics weren't so good, especiaally textures, but the first thing that I thought when looking at the screenshots was "LOD for those models are completely fucked up, as if using the models/textures that should have been used on enemies 30 m away from the player or something". I mean for the textures, I could "almost" understand them, the game being cross platform and consoles only having 256 MB, etc. But the model? It's almost just a f***g cylinder, I could do that in under 3 mins!

In fact, if my memory serves, the hunting rifle looked much more like this:

It's just a random screenshot taken from google, so I don't know if that's with a mod applied, but on my head it looked pretty much like that and nowhere close to what I see on ss in this thread. So I reiterate that probably LOD is broken for both OP and BP.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

thats a different weapon above bene

i can confirm the varmint rifle does indeed look that shitty other weapons look better,

 

[Benetanegia]

Ah ok. It's really horrible then, from the looks of it it doesn't even have UVW coordinates set right, which would be understandable if it was indeed a low detail LOD replacement, but not for the player's weapon.

I never played New Vegas. That weapon is not present in Fallout 3 right? Or maybe I forgot about it, because it's a shame for 3d artists around the world.

And yeah after googling varmint rifle... and seeing that it trully is that way (not that I didn't believe you crazyeyes)... you MUST use this mod. Even if you want to play vanilla, I think at least this ONE mod (or a similar one) is essential.

http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=41224

I dont know if this affects the unscoped or other versions of this weapons, maybe there's a mod that replaces all weapons... then use it. Just use it.

PS: Sorry if I'm being annoying but I'm shocked and terribly horrified by such a model in a 2010 game...

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

lol you got to remember bene consoles were the lead platform for Oblivion Fallout 3 and New Vegas all same game engine same settings same everything, nothings changed from Bethesda / Obsidian with this game engine in 5 years, it looks old because it is old lol

also that mod was removed because the user was a POS and stole it from someone else lol.

heres a working link to the original modder who did the work
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35189

and yea bene trust me i use alot of mods 90+ for New Vegas and counting,

just grabbed the Eve 900 companion mod a couple days ago adds the Terminators to the game + underground lab and about 40-50 new mutated creatures etc so it was pretty epic. If you havent played New Vegas id say pick it up and give it a play through. its worth about 2 full plays roughly 90-120hrs. with no DLC but then again might as well wait for the Game of The Year version.

 

[Kwod]

I dled a hi res weapons mod, popped it into the data folder, but nothing happened...?

 

[AltecV1]

did you unpack the file or did you just moved it to data?

 

[pantherx12]

Some mods require fallout mod manager as well.

 

[Kwod]

Name: Hi-Res World Weapon Textures
Author: Das Great/Jimmy Hsu
Version: 1.0
Date: 10/24/2010
Cateogry: Models and Textures
Link: http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35235

I unpacked this to a 270mb textures folder, and moved that to my FV data folder as per the read me.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas/data

 

[AltecV1]

I unpacked this to a 270mb textures folder, and moved that to my FV data folder as per the read me.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas/data

well that mod isnt supposed do change your gun in the first person view only when you drop it

download this mod http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38285

 

[ShogoXT]

Not really what the OP is talking about though. If you right click the image and click view image, you will see all textures at angles are SQUARES. No filtering whatsoever. Like you are playing Quake 2 software rendering. Its the mipmaps.