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The Witcher 2Weird grid on faces(28 posts)(28 posts)
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Posted May 28, 2011
There are a few options people've had success with -

Disable AA (and probably use an outside source of it)

If you can't run regular ubersampling smoothly, open the ini file "user in the config folder in the witcher folder in your documents folder
ctrl+f and search "uber" and change ubersampling to 1 and try that

I use the second method personally - you can sort of still notice the "grid" on some things in some lighting, but barely
Posted May 28, 2011
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Oddhermit: If you can't run regular ubersampling smoothly, open the ini file "user in the config folder in the witcher folder in your documents folder
ctrl+f and search "uber" and change ubersampling to 1 and try that
Is this any different from activating ubersampling from the options menu?
Posted May 28, 2011
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josh6135: i noticed there is a very faint grid on geralts face and have spotted on triss as well. any idea of how to get rid of this?
I kinda like the dithering detracts from his ugly-ass washed out face!!
Posted May 28, 2011
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Oddhermit: If you can't run regular ubersampling smoothly, open the ini file "user in the config folder in the witcher folder in your documents folder
ctrl+f and search "uber" and change ubersampling to 1 and try that
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Kitako: Is this any different from activating ubersampling from the options menu?
Yes, the options menu sets ubersampling to 2, or 0.
Some users have really bad performance with the setting in the options, setting it down to 1 in the ini seems to improve graphics and reduce the "grid" without much performance drop.

I posted it on the steam forums as well, and got a few responses from people who reported it to work better than 0 or 2 ubersampling for them also.
Post edited May 28, 2011 by Oddhermit
Posted May 28, 2011
Most games don't use dithering.
It has barely any performance impact.
And for some reason the devs put a sharpening filter over the whole screen which makes the dithering look much worse than it has to.

The problem with turning off sharping in the user.ini is that because (at least for me) AF does not work you end up with blurry textures.
Posted May 28, 2011
I agree that the grid/stripes are by design. Looks like some stupid, cinematic post processing feature added to make the game look more like a movie, because people think movies look realistic? I tweaked something and I think I got rid of it.

Edit:
Nope, effect is still there. heh, I wish you hadn't reminded me of it, now I can see it in the background of some dialogue too :(
Post edited May 28, 2011 by ecat
Posted May 28, 2011
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Kitako: Is this any different from activating ubersampling from the options menu?
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Oddhermit: Yes, the options menu sets ubersampling to 2, or 0.
Some users have really bad performance with the setting in the options, setting it down to 1 in the ini seems to improve graphics and reduce the "grid" without much performance drop.

I posted it on the steam forums as well, and got a few responses from people who reported it to work better than 0 or 2 ubersampling for them also.
Thanks for the info, I'll try it out
Posted May 28, 2011
A feature is something you can turn off, a bug is somethig you can't turn off. So... what is this ugly grid shadow? Design or not, I think it completely ruins the otherwise stunning graphics. :(
Posted May 28, 2011
i have an ati 4850. and i have this bug, but i didnt wanted to spam forum with yet, another bug thread...

http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/7167/witcher2bug.jpg

Im not sure if i changed something in settings some time ago or what but it looks ugly and im not sure how to fix it.If anyone had this problem and know the solution, plz tell me :)
Posted May 28, 2011
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ambient_orange: i have an ati 4850. and i have this bug, but i didnt wanted to spam forum with yet, another bug thread...

http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/7167/witcher2bug.jpg

Im not sure if i changed something in settings some time ago or what but it looks ugly and im not sure how to fix it.If anyone had this problem and know the solution, plz tell me :)
I'm no expert (and I don't have an ATI card), but that seems bloom gone wrong. Maybe try to disable it and see if the problem persist, just to pinpoint the problem
Posted May 28, 2011
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Oddhermit: There are a few options people've had success with -

Disable AA (and probably use an outside source of it)

If you can't run regular ubersampling smoothly, open the ini file "user in the config folder in the witcher folder in your documents folder
ctrl+f and search "uber" and change ubersampling to 1 and try that

I use the second method personally - you can sort of still notice the "grid" on some things in some lighting, but barely
Thank you for the second advice. I've put "1" on the ubersampling line and oO. I don't recognize my game. And the cherry on the cake? No fps loss \o/ .
Posted April 20, 2012
Was there ever any more information or a better solution for this?

I am getting this problem now badly. I have not played this game for a long time but I don't seem to remember it this bad before on a previous install. Setting ubersampling to 1 did not help. See the picture for what I mean. It is especially noticeable in that picture on Geralt's neck but I feel like overall the whole game has that grid pattern and especially on people's skin.
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Post edited April 20, 2012 by _Motoki_
Posted May 20, 2015
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_Motoki_: Was there ever any more information or a better solution for this?

I am getting this problem now badly. I have not played this game for a long time but I don't seem to remember it this bad before on a previous install. Setting ubersampling to 1 did not help. See the picture for what I mean. It is especially noticeable in that picture on Geralt's neck but I feel like overall the whole game has that grid pattern and especially on people's skin.
Necroing an old thread here but a workaround is to set the following value in the config file:

AllowSharpen=0
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