Low resolution textures...

[blazerspark]

Hi, everyone.

Just bought BioShock today, so far so good. However, I've noticed that some textures are ridiculously low resolution, and looking at a released screenshot of the same area, the textures are normal looking.

For example, in the room with the large poster advertising plasmids, there is a neon sign in the form of a hand. (See here) In-game, the hand has basically no detail, no lightning bolts, no text over it, and strange artifact-like looking splotches around it.

Some objects, such as suitcases, also suffer from the same effect, with their textures so small it basically looks like a single color painted over it.

Is this a glitch, or a DirectX 10-only feature (i.e. Detailed Surfaces)? I have everything set on High, running in DirectX 9. The low resolution textures really are distracting, and I hope this can be fixed.

[Fantomfreq]

We need some more information. The most important thing to know is what kind of graphics card you're running.

[shiznit]

Thats what happens when you have to develop for a total of 512-32 MB of memory.

[IDoNotContainSpinach]

I bought the game on Steam and I'm having the same issues. I put all the settings the same as I had them for the demo and when I killed the first guy, I noticed there were no textures on him, only 1 color for each item. ie, his vest was tan, his skin was "skin color" all flat with no texture. The walls in the room also looked horrible, like a low res texture blown up to massive dimensions. Currently I can't even "continue" a game without it crashing right away. I had some minor performance issues with the demo, but after I downloaded the beta drivers from Nvidia, they were fixed. I was able to run with all the max setting except forced global illumination, at 1680x1050. I was very surprised. Now that I have the full game though... it's unplayable

I have a 7900GS

Also I was having issues with it crashing as soon as I got to Rapture. Disabling EAX seemed to fix this the 1st time but I'm going to try and mess with drivers and setting some more. I don't see why I can't just use my demo settings though. This is very disappointing

[blazerspark]

Here are my specs:

Pentium 4 - 3.20GHz
Windows XP - SP 2
nVidia GeForce 8600 GT - 256MB
1.0GB RAM

I'm running the game at 1024x768, VSync off, Force Global Lighting off, and everything set on High.

I have managed to fix my texture problems with a simple restart. To make sure, I went into the graphics options and set textures to Medium then back to High before playing.

Everything looks fine now.