Old games appearing blurry

[bloopiyas]

yeah so whenever i go onto smth like just cause 2 on my pc, i set the res and everything else to high, and then the cutscenes just blurry af, know why?

 

System specs :

14gb ddr3 ram

i5 4590 

gtx 1050 ti (lp)

dell motherboard

[Hinjima]

Just now, bloopskiz said:

yeah so whenever i go onto smth like just cause 2 on my pc, i set the res and everything else to high, and then the cutscenes just blurry af, know why?

 

System specs :

14gb ddr3 ram

i5 4590 

gtx 1050 ti (lp)

dell motherboard

Screenshot?

[jaslion]

A lot of these are prerecorded at a much lower resolution. Or have altered graphical settings to allow for a smooth cutscene on the older systems. This is what just cause 2 does.

[Kilrah]

3 minutes ago, bloopskiz said:

and then the cutscenes just blurry af, know why?

Probably because they're videos and not actually rendered in-engine, and those videos were recorded in a quality that was... OK back then but looks crusty on today's resolutions.

[bloopiyas]

5 minutes ago, jaslion said:

A lot of these are prerecorded at a much lower resolution. Or have altered graphical settings to allow for a smooth cutscene on the older systems. This is what just cause 2 does.

it also happend with mafia definitive edition, had to uninstall because it was just..unplayable, i couldnt see anything and it was blurry af

[bloopiyas]

9 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

Screenshot?

im guessing its some sort of gpu problem, because even in games like mafia : defenitive edition, i just couldnt play it.

[jaslion]

13 minutes ago, bloopiyas said:

im guessing its some sort of gpu problem, because even in games like mafia : defenitive edition, i just couldnt play it.

Looks perfectly fine to me. Don't knwo what you are seeing that is blurry. Looks like a regular sharp 1080p image to me.

[bloopiyas]

6 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Looks perfectly fine to me. Don't knwo what you are seeing that is blurry. Looks like a regular sharp 1080p image to me.

look at some of the pixels behind her, its covered in some other pixels

[Dedayog]

10 minutes ago, bloopiyas said:

look at some of the pixels behind her, its covered in some other pixels

Not seeing any issues.  Any blurriness behind her is attributed to the focus being on her, like in real life.  Some games like to blur backgrounds to emulate actual focus.

[Kilrah]

Background is noisy indeed, but yeah it's probably baked in the video.

[saintlouisbagels]

Seems more like a combination of deliberate artistic choices and maybe just really bad textures/assets.

But in most cases, blurry cutscenes are due to the cutscenes being a recorded video whereas the in-game engine is now running at muchhh higher modern resolutions.

Don't forget that the PlayStation 2 era (and the Wii) was still 480i/p.