Uh, is it supposed to look that bad ?

[Taldirokk]

Why is the pixelation so intense and the colours so bad on that planet ?
Almost looks like my GPU is dying, but it's not, some planets just do look like this, it's rare, but it happens.
Surely it's not intended, right ?
80 E Piscium 1 Maxed settings, with Ultra+ Terrain.

And this is a "working as intended planet"

 

[Marvin the Martian]

My old GTX 960 looked like that but that was because I was using High planetary settings only and not Ultra. Are you sure you have the planetary textures set properly, because it is a completely different area of the graphics settings than the upper part.

 

[Taldirokk]

My old GTX 960 looked like that but that was because I was using High planetary settings only and not Ultra. Are you sure you have the planetary textures set properly, because it is a completely different area of the graphics settings than the upper part

Yeah everything is maxed, i double checked before posting.

 

[Northpin]

Make sure you have disabled checkerboard setting

Also, it still looks that bad if you restart? (full quit to desktop and then restart the client and if it doesnt help, maybe a full restart of the computer should be tried)*


*(i do have a laptop and i rarely restart it, most of the time i leave it in its sleep modes over night - so after a while, like once in 2-3 weeks i do have to restart it, else if starts to run really bad)

 

[Taldirokk]

Make sure you have disabled checkerboard setting

Also, it still looks that bad if you restart? (full quit to desktop and then restart the client and if it doesnt help, maybe a full restart of the computer should be tried)*


*(i do have a laptop and i rarely restart it, most of the time i leave it in its sleep modes over night - so after a while, like once in 2-3 weeks i do have to restart it, else if starts to run really bad)

Yeah i'm playing with checkerboard rendering off, i tested with it on just for the sake of it, changes nothing to this issue.
Edit : forgot to mention that yes, i restarted 3 times, once for the bug as i encountered it, and 2 when i changed the checkerboard settings, nothing changed.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Yeah i'm playing with checkerboard rendering off, i tested with it on just for the sake of it, changes nothing to this issue.

Out of curiosity, what card are you running?

 

[Taldirokk]

Out of curiosity, what card are you running?

RTX 2080

 

[Marvin the Martian]

You sure you have enough power? That thing is more power hungry than my RTX 3060 Ti.

 

[Taldirokk]

You sure you have enough power? That thing is more power hungry than my RTX 3060 Ti.

Yes i have enough power, the rig i'm running the game on is using a BeQuiet Dark pro 12 1200W PSU.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Well, I'm stumped. That's damn peculiar.

Edit to add: I just noticed in your sig you run 1280 x 1024. May I ask why? Are you really running a CRT?

 

[Taldirokk]

Well, I'm stumped. That's damn peculiar.

I'll check tomorrow if deleting the configs and regenerating them anew could fix that, i doubt it, but who knows, i'll try later.

 

[CMDR-AD]

I have found one planet that looks like this (so far). It was one of the first I landed on, so I my expectations sank pretty low for how planets were going to look, overall. Interestingly, the planet I saw with this effect was also similar brown colors, with some patches of ice or snow (or at least gray/white). It had that same, very obvious pixelation pattern all over the surface when viewed from altitude (yet on the ground, the detail textures aren't pixelated at all).

But several more landings now, and I've not seen this odd effect since. Ice worlds and rocky worlds alike, have looked much better.

I'm on a low spec PC and settings to match, BTW. No idea.

 

[DrinkyBird]

It’s weird, some planets exhibit this issue more than others. Fortunately these planets seem to be rare from my experience. How do other planets look?

 

[Morbad]

There are some areas of some planets where areas of mixed high-contrast terrain look like this. The squares seem to get smaller as texture resolution increases, but they never blend together properly if their colors are too different.

 

[Sakashiro]

Why is the pixelation so intense and the colours so bad on that planet ?
Almost looks like my GPU is dying, but it's not, some planets just do look like this, it's rare, but it happens.
Surely it's not intended, right ?
80 E Piscium 1 Maxed settings, with Ultra+ Terrain.
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And this is a "working as intended planet"
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I call them QR code planets. They are not rare at all.

 

[Walter2]

Why is the pixelation so intense and the colours so bad on that planet ?

It looks OK to me. You seem to be at the height where detail stops being resolved. In your second picture the star is quite low so the smaller stones littering the surface will make patchwork shadows.
What was the altitude of your remote camera? What does it look like at ground level?

 

[Taldirokk]

Well, I'm stumped. That's damn peculiar.

Edit to add: I just noticed in your sig you run 1280 x 1024. May I ask why? Are you really running a CRT?

Haha, no i'm of course not using a CRT monitor, just a private joke of mine, although i still have my first one !

 

[Taldirokk]

It looks OK to me. You seem to be at the height where detail stops being resolved. In your second picture the star is quite low so the smaller stones littering the surface will make patchwork shadows.
What was the altitude of your remote camera? What does it look like at ground level?

Less pixelation due to the close proximity, but honestly, rather bad :

 

[Sakashiro]

"Looks OK to me."

"Looks OK to me."

"Hmmm..."

"What the...?"

"Uh oh..."

 

[Taldirokk]

"Looks OK to me."

"Looks OK to me."

"Hmmm..."

"What the...?"

"Uh oh..."

Your close examples look much MUCH more natural than mine on that planet, but holy pepperoni, it looks absolutely awfull when you take a bit of altitude...