Atomic Systems

Help!!! Just decided to take a drive on the sim for a bit of light relaxation after a hard days reskinning and all my graphics are blurry, like there is no anti-aliasing. Edges are jagged while areas of fine detail are now smudged looking. I can only read large writing such as station names but can no longer read loco nameplates clearly. I checked a few locos in photoshop and they look fine, it is only happening within trainsim. I must add at this point that my main graphics programme i.e photoshop is on a different p.c so I haven't been using my trainsim p.c for most of the reskinning work, except a couple of minutes with microsoft paint but that still shows clear images aswell. Has anyone got any idea what has happened please? Device manager reports that the graphics card is working fine, and I do still get very good frame rates and I have swapped monitors just to make sure. It is definately just in msts that this is happening and it is the same in 16bit and 32bit colour. Any help would be very welcome. Cheers, Dave.

Dave,

Have you disturbed MSTS settings?

On MSTS opening page go to 'options' & play with the detail & distance settings. See how the monitor is set, it might be asking too much of your graphics card.

I've found in the past that these settings can change without human intervention.

Hi Dave !

Too high a OpenGL ANISOTROPIC setting in your card's advanced display properties can cause these effects with high resolutions in MSTS, I found with my nVIDIA TI-4600.

Try 8x and less. But not enough and you will get MOIRE / shimmering in tracks and other detailed objects.

O t t o

I still don't know what happened but the problem vanished as quickly as it appeared and I am back to normal now. Thanks for the suggestions though. Cheers, Dave.

delticcity wrote:I still don't know what happened but the problem vanished as quickly as it appeared and I am back to normal now.

Keep your eyes on that card ! Could be it's overheating after doing a lot of intensive work in a Graphics editor and also a sign of it reaching the end of it's life !

O t t o

Hi Otto. I can see your point about the card overheating but I hope it isn't approaching the end of its life as it is only 18 months old, as is the whole computer.
Cheers, Dave.
And, most importantly, I wasn't even using that p.c or graphics card to do the reskinning. Just remembered.

delticcity wrote:And, most importantly, I wasn't even using that p.c or graphics card to do the re-skinning. Just remembered.

Sometimes shutting down Windows and let it switch off the computer and after a few seconds switching it on again occasionally clears some mysterious problems too !

O t t o