ESO looks great

Malediktus · August 2015

I must say ESO looks very good for a MMO. The lightning effects, reflections and shadows add nicely to the scenery. My only gripe is the body painting armor.
The images are taken in UltraHD, but downscaled to FullHD for faster loadtimes.

Bananko · August 2015

TESO is among the most beautiful MMO's I've ever played... and I've played quite a few MMO's over the years (I'm old

)!

RatedChaotic · August 2015

I agree. I stood on a cliff to watch the sun go down(in game). LOL. What was even funnier was my family watched aswell.

Mojmir · August 2015

my computer is dying trying to load these

soon i will be able to go above medium settings...soon!!!

Gidorick · August 2015

Oh I completely agree. For me, the graphics have set a really high bar for the expectations of the rest of the game.

Slylok · August 2015

The world design is second to none IMO. Easily the best.

Now the skin armor and such is because it allows for more characters on screen at a time before there is slow down. So with large PvP it was pretty much needed to keep the game from chugging. Though I do wish there would be an option to turn on that makes armor look less painted on.. I doubt they have anything like that created though.

Kammakazi · August 2015

#pcprivelege

BlueGreenMikey · August 2015

Beautiful graphics:

FishBreath · August 2015

The game's graphics are good, but the in-game graphics tweaking options aren't good enough for people with high-end graphics cards. When I first played the game with FullHD 1080p Ultra settings the graphics disappointed me. Only after enabling NVIDIA DSR resolutions, manually tweaking the game's settings file, and installing mods SweetFX and ESO Launcher (and tweaking their settings) I got great graphics.

Things I especially dislike in the graphics:
- Only support for FXAA anti-aliasing. To get sharper graphics you have to increase resolution and use downsampling methods (like NVIDIA DSR).
- No way to adjust Anisotrophic Filtering from in-game. 16x AF has to be enabled from graphics drivers.
- The unrealistic light/shine that hits characters from left. This can be disabled by editing the usersettings.txt file or using ESO Launcher mod.
- The game's Color Correction which dulls colors in some environments. This can be disabled by editing the usersettings.txt file or using ESO Launcher mod.

Malediktus · August 2015

Kammakazi wrote: »

#pcprivelege

This is all on a PC from early 2011, so it does not even need a high end pc for it to look like this

Muizer · August 2015

It does look great. And even better in 3D

sadownik · August 2015

It looks great on static pictures. Animation on the other hand...

Malediktus · August 2015

sadownik wrote: »

It looks great on static pictures. Animation on the other hand...

What is wrong with animations? They look decent to me

rb2001 · August 2015

It's pretty good looking, except for the texture resolution.

A higher-resolution texture pack would go a long way. Right now, it looks pretty.. console-y.

The textures are muddy and lack definition. The PC version should have much sharper textures. There is no excuse for it to not, because the lower options would still remain for lower end systems.

And seriously, a 100 dollar graphics card can max this game. It needs better textures.

Xerosus · August 2015

The Xbox version has terrible lighting, i wished something was done about it. *Cries*

mrskinskull · August 2015

BlueGreenMikey wrote: »

Beautiful graphics:

My screen must be busted because your post seems to display a complete jerk.

mrskinskull · August 2015

Malediktus wrote: »

sadownik wrote: »

It looks great on static pictures. Animation on the other hand...

What is wrong with animations? They look decent to me

Don't worry, they look fine.

Just try to imagine every PC player has looked at graphics that render about as well as whatever was in that ark in Indiana Jones. Unless a PC players face melts to the skull, they see nothing.
#2theskull

RinaldoGandolphi · August 2015

ESO Looks good period. The game and art work is truly great, i think they captured the feel of Tamriel very well

Molag_Crow · August 2015

Agreed, it's beautiful!

waterfairy · August 2015

It does look good (on PC, water looks like jello on console ha) but there's other contenders. Black Desert is F2P and looks pretty good with a much better character creation-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48GMnIxBTSo

Moonlight Blade and Revelation Online are also nice looking...that flying with beautiful scenery sells it.

Sallington · August 2015

Vigarr wrote: »

It does look good (on PC, water looks like jello on console ha) but there's other contenders. Black Desert is F2P and looks pretty good with a much better character creation-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48GMnIxBTSo

Moonlight Blade and Revelation Online are also nice looking...that flying with beautiful scenery sells it.

Beautiful game, but that combat.... Holy crap that combat looks awful. It's WAY too over the top.

Cherryblossom · August 2015

Vigarr wrote: »

It does look good (on PC, water looks like jello on console ha) but there's other contenders. Black Desert is F2P and looks pretty good with a much better character creation-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48GMnIxBTSo

Moonlight Blade and Revelation Online are also nice looking...that flying with beautiful scenery sells it.

wow the Character generation looks amazing, however game play looks awful to watch.

waterfairy · August 2015

Sallington wrote: »

Beautiful game, but that combat.... Holy crap that combat looks awful. It's WAY too over the top.

ha I agree...doesn't help that they seem to be at 30FPS in the demo. On the other hand though it appears to have collision which is not something that is common in MMO combat.

Alucardo · August 2015

It's hard to believe I used to play this game not even three months ago

Malediktus · August 2015

The combat sound effects are terrible in that video

Malediktus · August 2015

rb2001 wrote: »

It's pretty good looking, except for the texture resolution.

A higher-resolution texture pack would go a long way. Right now, it looks pretty.. console-y.

The textures are muddy and lack definition. The PC version should have much sharper textures. There is no excuse for it to not, because the lower options would still remain for lower end systems.

And seriously, a 100 dollar graphics card can max this game. It needs better textures.

Have you tried setting MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS to -3 in ini file? It makes textures look much better unless I am imagining things.

Sallington · August 2015

Malediktus wrote: »

rb2001 wrote: »

It's pretty good looking, except for the texture resolution.

A higher-resolution texture pack would go a long way. Right now, it looks pretty.. console-y.

The textures are muddy and lack definition. The PC version should have much sharper textures. There is no excuse for it to not, because the lower options would still remain for lower end systems.

And seriously, a 100 dollar graphics card can max this game. It needs better textures.

Have you tried setting MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS to -3 in ini file? It makes textures look much better unless I am imagining things.

What does that do? I need to keep my textures on Medium, because I'll crash if I set them to high.

This is with a GTX970 and i7-4790k. I suspect my HDD might be failing, and crapping out when trying to load in larger textures.

Asherons_Call · August 2015

Agreed. We have come a long way! You should look up some screenshots of Asherons call if you want to see where MMO graphics began

Malediktus · August 2015

Sallington wrote: »

Malediktus wrote: »

rb2001 wrote: »

It's pretty good looking, except for the texture resolution.

A higher-resolution texture pack would go a long way. Right now, it looks pretty.. console-y.

The textures are muddy and lack definition. The PC version should have much sharper textures. There is no excuse for it to not, because the lower options would still remain for lower end systems.

And seriously, a 100 dollar graphics card can max this game. It needs better textures.

Have you tried setting MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS to -3 in ini file? It makes textures look much better unless I am imagining things.

What does that do? I need to keep my textures on Medium, because I'll crash if I set them to high.

This is with a GTX970 and i7-4790k. I suspect my HDD might be failing, and crapping out when trying to load in larger textures.

Here is what it does:

I am not sure why its crashing for you, I have all settings to max @ 3840x2400 (16:10 UltraHD) + ini tweaks for even better graphics and it is only crashing if it reaches the 32bit limit. I have a GTX580 (slightly overclocked), i7-2600k @4.5Ghz, 8GB RAM, 128 GB SSD so at least your GPU is better than mine

Gidorick · August 2015

I did max graphics with a bunch of tweaks to the settings. It was beautiful but boy my laptop got hot.
Lol

Volkodav · August 2015

I too love the ingame world.Sometimes I'll just stand on the beaches in Auridon,and watch the sun come up.
ESOTU absolutely IS the most beautiful game I have ever played,and I,too,am old.Well,but for Morrowind. When Morrowind was given to me,I just wandered all over,not doing quests.Just gaping at the world. I couldnt believe how amazing it was.And to me,still is.Just as it is.I guess I am eternally stuck on that game.You can mod it,change it into anything you want to.People still create mods for it,even to this day.I added two the other day.