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Reinstalled Windows, Graphical Issue

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited March 2010 in Graphical and Sound Issues
Hello! I just reinstalled my operating system (Windows Vista 64 bit) and have been updating drivers.

I have:

Mobile Intel (R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
v8.15.10.2086

Direct X 10

I'm running into a weird issue. My graphics are (on the whole) better (with less lag) than they were before. I can run at full settings without lag or rubberbanding now. However, the images look to have less contrast and objects have pixel-y edges on the highest settings, something that used to disappear.

What is odd is that portrait previews look like what I'm used to seeing on the highest settings but in-game screenshots just seem to look... lower res, no matter what I set the resolution to.

Now why would I want higher quality images with a choppier frame rate?

One reason. Machinima. I want to force the higher rez rendering process and use the demoplay screenshot dump command to create high quality videos.

This is a screenshot of what my video looks like now:

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/2397/screenshot2010031608280.jpg

Note the blocky edges that objects have.

Now, here's a video from before the windows reinstall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ztaQzIOZjo

Note the crisp shapes. I could never render that in realtime on my laptop (it would have been choppy) but I was able to get that by dumping screenshots out one at a time with the demoplay dump command. I want to be able to get images that smooth-looking again even at a bad framerate.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    BTW, here's my config file:
    Prefentry GfxSettings.CharacterDetailLevel 1

    Prefentry GfxSettings.ScreenHeight 800

    Prefentry GfxSettings.ScreenWidth 1280

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Aticrossfiregpucount 0

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Audiodrivername

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Audiodriveroutput

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Audiodriverversion

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Audiox64checkskipped 0

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Computername PATRICK-PC

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Cpucachesize 1114112

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Cpuidentifier "Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13, GenuineIntel"

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Cpuspeed 2.161e+009

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Diskfree 244914962432

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Disktotal 309058334720

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Hassse 1

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Hassse2 1

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Isrunningnortonav 0

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Isusingd3ddebug 0

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Isvista 1

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Iswine 0

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Isx64 1

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Material_Hardware_Supported_Features

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Material_Supported_Features "SM20| SM20_PLUS| SM30| SM30_PLUS| SM30_HYPER"

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Nummonitors 1

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Numrealcpus 2

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Numvirtualcpus 2

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Nvidiasligpucount 0

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Osver0_Lowversion 0

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Osver1_Highversion 6

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Osver2_Build 6001

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Osver3_Servicepackmajor 1

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Osver4_Servicepackminor 0

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Osver5_Hostversion 6.0.6001.18000

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Physicalmemoryavailable 2491625472

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Physicalmemorymax 4152283136

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Ramspeedgbs 0.984839

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.RenderingHacks REHA_NONE

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Svnbuildnumber 93055

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Trivia

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Videocarddeviceid 10818

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Videocardname "Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family"

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Videocardvendorid 32902

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Videodriverversion 8.15.10.2086

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Videomemory 128

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Videoolddriver 0

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Virtualaddressspace 2147418134

    Prefentry SystemSpecs.Wineversion
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Okay. Glancing at the screenshots, I notice that they are only 512 x 384.

    That seems to be the problem. How can I force higher resolution?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Are you running in full screen? Try changing the game to be windowed before you run save a demo record. You can do this by adding "-windowed" to the command line, just like where you add "-demo_movie_save".
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