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GTA3 PC slight graphics problem?

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:27 pm
by o'dium
Dunno about you guys?

Anyways, the game runs fine obviously but i kinda havea weird problem... Some things in the game, such as people (not cars) look pixelated. It looks like the people in the game have no filtering on them at all, where as everyting else, does? Its not because of lower res textures, because they would just appear blurey else.

It looks just like games used to do back in the old software days, big blocks with no filtering.

Its not stopping the game, just distracting from time to time because my guy is right in front of me :p

Picked GTA 3 up the other day for some old nostelga, was only a fiver. Runs flawlessly FPS wise at max detail. I remember this game taking a dump on my pc when i tried to play it a few years back, heh.

Anyways, odd little graphical problem...? Anybody else have this?

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:29 pm
by glossy
shit graphics quality about sums it up. i don't remember really what you're talking about, but i do remember revisiting it and thinking "fark, the quality is kinda lame" -- taxis felt like solid yellow blocks with windscreens and blurry black smudges on doors.

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:32 pm
by o'dium
Nah, you know me, I pick out anything ;) But its not something like that, because i can live with it being "shit low quality graphics" because its all consistent. I only cant live with games when they are inconsistent.

Take GKY's Total Overdose, that "looks" low quality too, but i cna live with it because it all "looks the same low quality" ;)

Long story...

Anyways take a look at our hero here:

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This is what he looks like on mine. NOTE ONLY PEOPLE LOOK LIKE THIS. The city, the cars, everything else, is filtered fine:

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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:34 pm
by MKJ
mebbe some ini edit? force fsaa on actors or summat

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:36 pm
by o'dium
Not a clue if i can even do that, i installed it the other day, only just noticed this. I force 16x AF on in all my games anyways :shrug:

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:40 pm
by o'dium
Heh, just noticed in the menu i had draw distance down half way... Could of sworn i put that up to max when i first played...?

Thats not the problem for this however.

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:51 pm
by FragaGeddon
Check out the patch on the GTA site.

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 3:00 pm
by glossy
it's like the players and people aren't lighted for some reason?

i just remember it looking shit, nothing ever looks as good as the screenshots...

might be one of those annoying ATI-nVidia-other issues, where things look great on one, shit on another.

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 3:40 pm
by o'dium
Patch never fixed it. This is the only game it does it on :(

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 4:02 pm
by phantasmagoria
the music and sound effects don't work on my gta3 :(

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 4:35 pm
by Geebs
glossy wrote:might be one of those annoying ATI-nVidia-other issues, where things look great on one, shit on another.
...like the volumetic lighting in Splinter Cell on ATI cards. Grrr.