gta iv blurry textures xbox 360?

[Blakeey]

im jsut wondering anyone playing on gta iv on xbox 360 do you get blurrry textures to makes the game unplayable to me well i dont want to play it when its like it ive got a 32 inch samsung hd tv i know its not the tv so it must be the game happen to anyone else? and im using the hdmi cable not component cable

[BlackTitan666]

do you have it installed to the harddrive if so take it off and play it form the disc.

[Harry Lloyd]

How the hell is that supposed to help? Texture quality is equivalent to the Low setting in the PC version. This game is very poorly optimized, and 512 MiB of shared memory is way to little for it. They had to make a lot of sacrifices for the game to be playable on this archaic hardware.
The console versions also use a blur/pseudo-depth-of-field filter, which makes them look even worse.

The Ballad of Gay Tony looks much better because the blur filter is gone, but the PC version still beats the hell out of it.

[UntamedShade67]

if you mean you go speeding along in a car then the town seems to blurr and it takes a while for it to retexturize, then yes I have that problem quite a bit.

[a1337username]

I also have this problem, this is the only game I get blurry textures from.

[xTKWxCanadaEhx]

Yes, this problem was also evident in GTA 3, GTA Vice City, and GTA IV.

It's due to the open-endness of GTA's world. When you go speeding through one area to another, the game has to load the new area as quick as possible.

If you continue speeding along, say, a highway, you'll notice it happens multiple times. That's because once you've left the first area, into a new area, the game starts loading that area. But if you speed through the new area into another new area, the game tries to quickly load the previous area and start loading the newer area.

It's just the game loading textures for the areas.

[blakeydinho7]

does anyone know why this is happening to me its a 32inch samsung hd tv can anyone recomend to me what to do all my other games are perfect on it and i like gta iv and want to play it??

[Harry Lloyd]

Does anyone actually know what blurry means? It means "not sharp".

What you're referring to is delayed texture loading. X360 has very little system memory, so it's a problem for such a huge open world game. In Midnight Club LA it's even worse, sometimes the whole road disappears while you're driving. There's nothing really you can do.

[xTKWxCanadaEhx]

blakeydinho7, Harry, I explained that above in my post:

Originally Posted by xTKWxCanadaEhx

Yes, this problem was also evident in GTA 3, GTA Vice City, and GTA IV.

It's due to the open-endness of GTA's world. When you go speeding through one area to another, the game has to load the new area as quick as possible.

If you continue speeding along, say, a highway, you'll notice it happens multiple times. That's because once you've left the first area, into a new area, the game starts loading that area. But if you speed through the new area into another new area, the game tries to quickly load the previous area and start loading the newer area.

It's just the game loading textures for the areas.

[Blakeey]

no it's not that what i mean i mean when niko is just standing still or walking down street its all blurry still ill take a picture so you know what i mean

[xTKWxCanadaEhx]

Originally Posted by Blakeey

no it's not that what i mean i mean when niko is just standing still or walking down street its all blurry still ill take a picture so you know what i mean

That's texture loading. Trust me. I know what I'm talking about.

[Blakeey]

no its not mate lol it stays there and its like loads little dots and around edge cars and stuff seems all pixualted

[Blakeey]

IMG_0140.jpg see what i mean

[xTKWxCanadaEhx]

Alright, it might be your TV, since Samsungs are crap.

Check the AV cables, make sure they're plugged in nice and snug.

If that isn't the problem, I'd probably take a hammer to your Samsung.

[Blakeey]

av cables? im using hdmi

[xTKWxCanadaEhx]

Ok make sure the HDMI cable is snug, otherwise, introduce Mr. Hammer to Mr. Piece-a-crap Samsung.

[Blakeey]

it's fine on every other game though just gta

[Blakeey]

could it be the hdmi cable its self? its a xbox 360 one does it matter which hdmi cable i have? heres my tv http://www.le32a457.co.uk/

[Harry Lloyd]

Originally Posted by xTKWxCanadaEhx

Alright, it might be your TV, since Samsungs are crap.

Check the AV cables, make sure they're plugged in nice and snug.

If that isn't the problem, I'd probably take a hammer to your Samsung.

Wow, good to know Samsungs are crap. I'll throw mine out the window right now.

The photo quality is terrible, but that's what this game looks like. This game has a loooot of aliasing, shadow quality is low (they look like sprayed on), and the overall blur filter doesn't help.
Don't blame the TV, that's what this game looks like. TBoGT looks much better, but still far from perfect.

[OverTheBelow]

Originally Posted by Harry Lloyd

How the hell is that supposed to help? Texture quality is equivalent to the Low setting in the PC version.

Wrong. The texture quality is equivalent to 'medium' on the pc. Though, high still rapes the medium setting in the ass.

[Harry Lloyd]

I don't know about you, but I compared the 360 and the PC versions, and the PC has much sharper textures with a "medium" setting, even with the blur filter enabled.
Right now I can tell you one obvious place where you can see a huge difference - the randezvous spot in Hangman's NOOSE - the ground and the grass look way better on PC.

I haven't compared the PC version to TBoGT (which looks much better), but I'll do that.

[golobayj]

Originally Posted by Blakeey

Attachment 4583 see what i mean

This reminds of what the screen looks like after you smoke blunts in saints row.

[MartyMcFly]

Originally Posted by golobayj

This reminds of what the screen looks like after you smoke blunts in saints row.

lol that's exactly what it looks like!

Honestly though, the game shouldn't look THAT bad.

[natetheguitarkid]

I have a insignia and I have the same problemo