For some reason in DF and now in the TWW, the graphics look noticeably different from any xpac prior on my PC. The textures seem softer and the colors seem more muted and muddled, and everything just looks less sharp? It’s almost like DF and TWW have an animated comic book feeling about their graphics.
Does anyone else notice this? And are there any in-game settings to get it to look more like Shadowlands and anything prior to that?
They’ve been going this way since WoD
DF and TWW really stepped it up, I don’t like it at all
Also the detail has went down since Legion and the quality hasn’t improved
You must be playing on Safe Settings and standard resolution.
When I went back to WoW during pre-TWW, I found the default graphic settings unplayable to me becoz my hardware is set for 4K. And this freaking Windows 11 HDR is also adding pressure to my hardware as it wants to turn on after it sees my monitor an OLED. I have to soften much of the settings so I could play WoW. It means I need to start upgrading my PC. They made WoW so so pretty. You would see them if you can run WoW on OLED TV on Ultra 4K Settings.
Really? I feel like bfa and SL were both closer to the old art style, but DF and now TWW definitely feel cartoonish to me and not like the “old world” feeling of WoW
I’m playing on a 27 inch 1440 monitor with an Rx 6750xt, so I don’t think its my graphics hardware. I can go back to any other place that isn’t TWW or DF and it feels like the old game to me.
1440p monitors operate at 2560x1440. Awesome performance at that resolution.
OLED monitors operate at 3840x2160. It has vivid color pallete and Windows 11 HDR pushes it more to become way more beautiful. At this resolution which is standard for 4k, it’s prettier to see it on monitors bigger than 27 inch… like 32 inch to 39 inches. You can even use OLED TVs like LG OLED TV’s which starts at 42 inches all the way to 77 inches.
On me, I am at 3840x2160 with 55 inch LG OLED TV. And games looks awesome to me compared to my old setup… double 27 inch at only 1080 resolution. HOwever, performance-wise, 1440p is ideal for gaming purposes as it would have more framerates. But hey, as long as I could do M+20 and Heroic Raid with no lag/glitches, I would choose OLEDs all day. I did it on DF Season 1. And I have beaten Uber Lilith on Diablo 4 (fast pace action), at awesome resolution. The only issue with 4k resolution is that OLEDs are WAY MORE EXPENSIVE. And driving these 4k monitors would also be expensive. Nvidia 3x series is the norm today. BTW, RTX3060 Ti is cheaper than RX6750 and RTX 3070 performs way better in 4K. And 4K requires faster CPU’s. You need a monster PC to drive those 8Million Pixels.
theres a chinese dude on youtube that walks you through graphic settings you should look him up. helped alot. especially the settings where you gotta type stuff in the chat bar.
Did you have always sharpen on in DF? I did throughout DF and when I was on the TWW beta noticed the soft textures. Re-enabling it fixed the soft, blurry look. Others do not like it. You can use the in game slider in Graphics or the script to adjust it to your liking.
I had “ResampleAlwaysSharpen” set to 1 in Retail. Turning it off makes everything look degraded in comparison. I can’t believe “off” is the default!
Thanks for the direction.
/run SetCVar(“ResampleAlwaysSharpen”,1) works in the beta to enable sharpness. Looks a million times better!
Also, set the strength with this one:
/run SetCVar(“ResampleSharpness”, 0.2)
Default seems to be 0.2, but 0 would be full sharpness.
Blizz adjusted their settings softly as they know the game causes CRASHES on old PC’s (older CPU/older GPU/old Low RAM).
My settings in DF is just regular at mid but 4k resolution. I was doing fine and the game looks amazing. When I came back to play WoW for TWW, the prepatch caused my PC to crash. Also D4 released a new Season, also caused my PC to crash. I found some their Default Settings too aggressive. I just realized too, Windows 11 when I updated it, it’s defaulting it to turn on HDR. Well, my old hardware cant handle it anymore.
It’s too much for my 4k settings. When I cast a spell on Remix (you know our toons there have tons of spells), the spell effects were exaggerated. When I casted one of those spells, dang, I started hearing my GPU fan to shout so loudly … it shuts down the GPU becoz of overheating causing black screen. I could still hear the audio but the screen is unrecoverable until I reset the PC.
I thought, my hardware just needs clean up. It really needs clean up. I even replaced thermal pasted both on my GPU and CPU. I also replaced case fans that are too dirty. After these heavy clean up, I know my setup is now ventilated properly.
It improved but it still crashes. So I started tweaking my graphics settings softer. It improved. Before every 20 mins, it crashed. I made tons of adjustment. The GPU’s can be overclocked and even XMP RAMs can be overclocked. I realized that Motherboard has settings too… Performance or Pretty-look. Windows 11 has settings too… Performance (HDR off) or Pretty (HDR on). Nvidia has recommended settings for WoW and Diablo 4. Then WoW has graphics settings. This freaking too many settings. Actually, I should just go back to 1080 monitors instead of dealing with this. But I am not moving backwards. I would move forward although it could be expensive on me to upgrade more my hardware. I also bought more RAM to fill up all my motherboard’s slots doubling its memory capacity size. Becoz when I minimize WoW, to see a browser or any application, Windows 11 HDR keeps everything looks beautiful also on 4K.
Anyway, I found a good settings that has good performance and yet it still looks good at 4K.
If your hardware is powerful fast, you should tweak your graphics to make the game look better as the default settings is like on safe settings. Blizz wants you to play the game… not crashing.