Do you have film grain on or off?
Whilst on the subject of graphics, what tweaks/mods do you have? For me, I'm MEUITM and the necessary config tweaks, as well as 4x multisampling (0x000000C1 Antialiasing Compatibility bit) and 4x Sparsgrid Supersampling, and it looks great. Using force Ambient Occlusion too. I'm still getting pixelling shadows on faces though.
What are you guys running?
Personally, I hate the film grain. I prefer everything bright and gleaming in this new future for humanity.
Modern computers / graphics cards have no issues at all running this game @max settings, grain on or not.
Personally, I hate the film grain. I prefer everything bright and gleaming in this new future for humanity.
Modern computers / graphics cards have no issues at all running this game @max settings, grain on or not.
Oh yeah, I know that. The 980Ti works beautifully. I'm just hoping there are ways of pushing ME further to modernise the looks a little..
BTW, cool avatar picture. You could say it's, Legend-ary... 
Personally, I hate the film grain. I prefer everything bright and gleaming in this new future for humanity.
Modern computers / graphics cards have no issues at all running this game @max settings, grain on or not.
The film grain is okay in ME2, but that's only because it matches the color scheme and overall dark/gritty tone that game had set. You're not exploring worlds with ice storms anymore, now you're doing fetch quests in a seedy nightclub located on a slum station.
I have used it once or twice but I think the game is better off without it. They said it was a homage to old scifi but I know it was there to hide bad textures. It was more helpful in Mass Effect 2 especially since a lot of scenes in the game was too dark for you to notice everything you see is in splotchy pixels including your armor and your companions. HD retextures did help.
The only mod I use is MEUITM, it's vital for me now as it makes the game look so damn good. Still get the noise on Garrus and Wrex's faces from far away tho.
I honestly struggle to see what difference film grain makes, I should go play with it more.
I admit I like the idea of the film grain and I think it's kind of stylish, but I can't play the game with it and I never have. I just like to have clear view and crisp visuals, I guess.
As for the shadows, MEUITM offers some engine tweaks on its description page and also better shaders on its download page. I'm not sure if they come with the automatic installation (probably) since I install MEUITM manually. But I know that you can Delete Local Shader Cache through ME config and replace them manually by files MEUITM's download page provides (Soft Shadows stand alone). I don't remember having issues with shadows with this set-up.
Otherwise, I force some anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering. I also use SweetFx to improve the colours and tonemap, to make the game a little bit more colourful and less misty-looking.
I turn it off in ME1, it's far too harsh. Leave it on for Mass Effect 2 where it really works well. Wonder where the option went in ME3.
I usually run it in both.
I don't remember what all ini changes I have. I haven't run texture mods in a long time. Was too annoyed in the day with texmod load time. Maybe I will check out MEUITM.
I usually run it in both.
I don't remember what all ini changes I have. I haven't run texture mods in a long time. Was too annoyed in the day with texmod load time. Maybe I will check out MEUITM.
MEUITM isn't without glitches (signs in the Citadel and UI buttons sometimes glitch), but there are no load times incurred like using texmod.
Personally, I hate the film grain. I prefer everything bright and gleaming in this new future for humanity.
Modern computers / graphics cards have no issues at all running this game @max settings, grain on or not.
Unless you have a more recent AMD CPU. Then there are... issues, in certain parts of the game, where it expects you to have the old 3DNow! instruction sets that AMD discontinued a good six years ago.
As for film grain? Nah, I turn that off. Not a fan of those kinds of filters in general, really. I'd rather just see everything unobstructed.
Unless you have a more recent AMD CPU. Then there are... issues, in certain parts of the game, where it expects you to have the old 3DNow! instruction sets that AMD discontinued a good six years ago.
As for film grain? Nah, I turn that off. Not a fan of those kinds of filters in general, really. I'd rather just see everything unobstructed.
I switched to Intel / NVIDIA GeForce a few years ago, and haven't looked back. I will say though, that some AMD GPUs/cards are really well priced for the performance.
When I replayed Mass Effect 1 on the Xbox One I turned film grain off. Everything was clearer looking, plus screenshots look so much better without film grain.
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