Anyone else think Dishonoured 2 looked a bit naff?

[WantoN]

Enjoying the gameplay, but the game seems to suffer badly from console-itis.

I've played with the settings, have it on ultra at present, and I've got the least blurry effect I can, but it doesn't look great.

It's like I can see the potential but it's hidden under a smeary mess.

Any tips?

 

[WantoN]

It didn't look blurry to me at all.
Something's going wrong for you.

I don't think so mate, no issues with any other games, fresh drivers, reinstalled. Plus it obviously drove th chap above you bonkers.

It's like an art style that's been applied that makes especially the more distant scenery look a bit crap.

Nice to know you had no issues with it though.

 

[WantoN]

The original game had that kind of visuals highly stylised and works quite well though not everyone likes it - in the second game the engine (which is different to the first game) doesn't really pull it off quite as well and it can look a bit naff and low res at times :s

It is one reason I've not really picked up and played the game despite being a huge fan of the original game.

Yeah I absolutely loved the original and was pretty excited. I've enjoyed the game and finish it. I'm really starting to feel that these things are just a symptom of console bleed.

 

[WantoN]

Didn't you see any footage of it before you bought it?
It has a consistent and coherent art style. That's what it offers, take it or leave it.

No it was on special, was well received and I thoroughly enjoyed the first one.

I'm posing to see others opinions on the art style, so thanks for sharing.

When you consider graphics more important than gameplay :V

I'm sad if that's what you took away from my post. As I said I'm enjoying it. I would prefer the graphics if they were much less smeary though.

 

[WantoN]

Duplicate.

 

[WantoN]

I love the look, it's part of the appeal to me. As Rroff said, the original was the same. Another game that I love for the same reason is the last Bioshock.

It's interesting that you mention these titles as they hold a special place in my heart too. To my eyes they share a style but look completely different.

 

[WantoN]

Just for the record, Dishonoured 1 doesnt give me the blurriness, its literally only Dishonoured 2. I dont know if something changed in the engine they use but there is simply no doubting that I suffer a blurry effect in Dishonoured 2 which isnt present in the first game.

I only played it on console but it looked like it was smeared with vaseline, still enjoyed the game though.

So glad I'm not the only one, for me it doesn't ruin it (I luckily don't get headaches from it, feel for you man, the mrs gets migraines) but I would most definitely prefer it without.

Can you let us know how you get on with reshader? I'm going to give it a go too.

 

[WantoN]

I played through it twice and highly enjoyed it. Didn't notice a blur issue at all, was just stuck in the amazing gameplay it has. Each to there own

No denying it's a cracker of a game

 

[WantoN]

can't say i noticed blurriness, although any blur inducing effects (principally motion blur and depth of field) i default turn off in games as i'd rather let my own eyes do the blurring for me.

Yes me too. Interestingly depth of field worsens the effect.

I haven't explored the steam forums link covering the reshader fix, but it makes me wonder if the issue isn't identical or even present across systems.

 

[WantoN]

Hi Wunkley, thanks for taking the time for such a lengthy post.

It's blurry, especially in the background. As if smeared with Vaseline.

I do believe it's a combination of 'art style', bleed over from console optimisation, and the specific effects applied.

I've done the best I can to mitigate his with SweetFX and the game settings, but I still don't enjoy the aesthetic.

Just to be clear I'm not necessarily saying I believe it's an error that needs fixing, but I do not like it, hence my belief it looks a bit pap. Doesn't ruin the game for me but I'd prefer it gone.

I really must check out the ReShafer fix posted above!

 

[WantoN]

I love the look, it's part of the appeal to me. As Rroff said, the original was the same. Another game that I love for the same reason is the last Bioshock.

I played through it twice and highly enjoyed it. Didn't notice a blur issue at all, was just stuck in the amazing gameplay it has. Each to there own

can't say i noticed blurriness, although any blur inducing effects (principally motion blur and depth of field) i default turn off in games as i'd rather let my own eyes do the blurring for me.

Not at all, the game looks great to me. Beuatiful and a brilliant game. It looks quite dark alright but it suits the context and I liked it. I didn't notice any blurring, although I always turn off things like motion blur etc.

Didn't you see any footage of it before you bought it?
It has a consistent and coherent art style. That's what it offers, take it or leave it.

OP - you need to really define what you mean by blurriness. Are sure you're not referring to intentional in game depth of field or bokeh effects.

Anyway, prime causes for actual 'blurriness' in games is usually:

So I'm tinkering with ReShade now. The following screenshot comparison highlights my issue, and how I would like it to look, absolutely perfectly : https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/screenshot/46369/full/

 

[WantoN]

I had to actually give up on the game because of the blurriness, gave me terrible headaches.

The original game had that kind of visuals highly stylised and works quite well though not everyone likes it - in the second game the engine (which is different to the first game) doesn't really pull it off quite as well and it can look a bit naff and low res at times :s

It is one reason I've not really picked up and played the game despite being a huge fan of the original game.

I know others were also bothered, sorry I didn't quote you. Just to update you with my results.

ReShade has had a significant improvement for me, looks much better just by setting LumaSharpen to 1.2

It does add some loading times to the game, and makes Alt-Tabbing a little more laborious (has to reload the effects) but totally worth it for me.

 

[WantoN]

Yeah, I also found there to be a bit blurryness, mainly in the background. I fixed this with sweetfx, there's a guide for this problem on steam. Sorry, I can't say exactly where but I'm sure a google search will point you in the right direction. Didn't have a problem after that. I didn't have this issue at all with Death of the Outsider.

Try and get this sorted, it's a great game!

Edit: I fixed it with reshade not sweetfx... https://steamcommunity.com/app/403640/discussions/0/217691032427325489/

Just to give kudos where it's due, huge thanks to you Punt for directing me to this mate.

 

[WantoN]

that image seems more to me like lack of colour saturation, which is normal enough fare for the current crop of bethesda games.

Crikey, you can't see the difference in sharpness?

Just goes to show how different everyone's eyes are.

 

[WantoN]

i can see how it seems like sharpness, because the lack of difference in the colours makes edges less defined. but i guess you're right i'm probably not seeing the same image you are (even if our screens are displaying the same)

in fairness, i can tolerate much lower framerates than a lot of folk on here would consider acceptable.

Yeah there's a significant improvement in colour contrast too, but to me it's not a case of contrast, but clarity. ReShader has an impressive array of features and it's doing more than just improve the sharpness in the screenshot I linked, the overall effect is significantly sharper and better to me, and still true to the Dishonoured aesthetic.

I couldn't agree more with you on difference of experience. I've got an awful eye for colour, and I'm the same as you I hardly notice lower frame rates (or motion blur, ghosting and smearing) and I play on a slow responding U2412m (16:10, 1200p!) which probably doesn't help.

I wonder if the people who don't feel it's blurry have got a much better monitor than me? 1440p or higher?

A higher pixel density might mitigate the effect? Mind sharing what monitor you've got?

 

[WantoN]

running an ROG dominator, so 1440p 144hz ips, although i cant remember if i had it when i was playing dh2, if not it would have been a trio of ~2001 dell monitors with glorious 1600*1200 and the colour quality only early lcd could provide

Hahaha so it was either epic or slightly worse than mine!

I'd be interested to see if any of the others who found no issue had similarly lovely monitors.

 

[WantoN]

Well, thanks. I loaded up Dishonored 2 to check out the graphics and ended up having another playthrough (with Reshade enabled)

That's awesome news, I've played with the settings quite a bit and enabled a couple of other features as well, brilliant tool. For me it's night and day.

Did you install Direct 3D 10+ or OpenGL?

Did you find it made a big difference?

 

[WantoN]

Direct 3D 10.

Haven't really noticed a ton of difference as I liked the original playthroughs with the vanilla graphics, but I'm keeping it on because I can

You can toggle effects on and off on the fly, and you need to set LumaSharpen to 1.2, default 0.6

So you have a high res monitor?

 

[WantoN]

3440x1440

I imported an online ini file so maybe their settings differ. I'll have a look on Monday when I next get a chance to try it.

I think people with higher pixel densities suffer from the effect left. Nice monitor, I'm after an ultra wide but at the minute I'm on a pretty old 1920x1200.