VasFURY Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Hey guys, running CMSF2 on Alienware 17R4 Laptop, with GTX 1080. I have browsed through the forum, found all the performance topics, all of the topics to activate CMSF file through the Nvidia launcher, with all the relevant settings tweaks proposed here: Changed the display size in the display file to mirror my laptops, etc. The game still looks horrible/pixellated, and the text is blurry, and the gfx are bad. I ran the game on a work desktop with much worse stats than i have on the laptop, and it looked crisp, cheerful, beautiful. Is there something that I am forgetting to activate or switch on/off, or maybe there is another way to launch CMSF2 that forces the game to use best possible settings? Have a look at these screenshots to show what i mean (this is at 2560 x 1440 @120hz forced resolution). Look at the depixellation on the ground, in the menus, in the shadows, and on the unit icons. Game looks outright bad, on a system that should be running it smooth with no problem (CMBS looked gorgeous compared to this). Any ideas? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IICptMillerII Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Based solely on the screenshot you provided, my guess is it is some sort of resolution issue, though more specifically I can't say. I definitely agree that the game looks blurry, and that it should not look that way. Can you post a screenshot of your options page from the CM menu? Might help to narrow down the issue. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 1 hour ago, VasFURY said: Hey guys, running CMSF2 on Alienware 17R4 Laptop, with GTX 1080. I have browsed through the forum, found all the performance topics, all of the topics to activate CMSF file through the Nvidia launcher, with all the relevant settings tweaks proposed here: Changed the display size in the display file to mirror my laptops, etc. The game still looks horrible/pixellated, and the text is blurry, and the gfx are bad. I ran the game on a work desktop with much worse stats than i have on the laptop, and it looked crisp, cheerful, beautiful. Is there something that I am forgetting to activate or switch on/off, or maybe there is another way to launch CMSF2 that forces the game to use best possible settings? Have a look at these screenshots to show what i mean (this is at 2560 x 1440 @120hz forced resolution). Look at the depixellation on the ground, in the menus, in the shadows, and on the unit icons. Game looks outright bad, on a system that should be running it smooth with no problem (CMBS looked gorgeous compared to this). Any ideas? Check if the game is set to run on an integrated Intel chip, which sometimes is default on laptops with Nvidia cards (perhaps AMD too, no experience with theat). Just set it to run on the graphics card. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VasFURY Posted July 31, 2019 Author Share Posted July 31, 2019 Thanks for responding so quickly guys. Here is the screenshot of my Nvidia page showing the GTX card is forced on, and the options page. The 2nd options page states TREES: HIGH / SHADERS : ON 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IICptMillerII Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Have you tried setting display size to the “Desktop” setting? That’s what I use and I’ve never had any issues on my laptop or desktop running CM. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VasFURY Posted July 31, 2019 Author Share Posted July 31, 2019 Hello CptMiller, I tried setting the DESKTOP setting, but the game looks exactly the same as before. Maybe the resolution is not being "Forced" despite me putting the larger resolution information into the DISPLAY text file? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IICptMillerII Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Did you try setting it to "Desktop" without also forcing a resolution in the text file? I've never manually set a resolution size in the text file, so it could be that is causing an issue for you somehow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VasFURY Posted July 31, 2019 Author Share Posted July 31, 2019 Interestingly, i just changed the resolution to 1920 x 1080 x 120Hz, and its looking a lot better...! Very surprising that it looks worse/blurry when trying to set a higher resolution. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thewood1 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 I had the sane issue on a 3000 x 2000 display. Had to drop it down a couple notches to get the blurriness to go away. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yskonyn Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 As a sidenote : keep away from Transparency AA settings in the Nvidia panel. It will make the ground look weird and blurry if you enable it. (Multi Samping / Super Sampling) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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