Distorted picture in Doom 3

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Those grills are like that throu out the game. Very annoying. Any one else have this? ATI? Nvidia? I'm using the 4.9 beta's and wondering if the problems they are having are causing this??

Any thoughts?

Turn on antisotropic filtering or whatever it's called.

I havent forced AA in open GL mode. Its set by default in high quality, so I cant alter that. I turned it off in direct 3d mode just to be sure. No diff.

Any ideas?

I didn't mean anti-aliasing.

Me either

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Get used to it. It's a game. Unless you play at INSANE resolutions, or have 8x antialiasing, or both, you will always notice jaggies like that, especially on repetative horizontal lines.

I play at 1600x1200.

Its not jaggies, the vents are curved. Something diff. Anyone else see this?

It is called aliasing. Even in the original Doom, it happens to certain flats.

i dont see anything wrong i with it, most games do look distorted when you look off into the distance.. normaly on the floor...

Those lines happen less on NVIDIA-based cards, I hear. So far that's true, as I only get minimal artifacts like that.

Bloodshedder said:

It is called aliasing. Even in the original Doom, it happens to certain flats.

Quoted for truth. Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering will lessen these effects, but sometimes it just happens. Especially with grate textures where you have a lot of thin lines. You just have to live with it really.

Bloodshedder said:

It is called aliasing. Even in the original Doom, it happens to certain flats.

Then why does it only happen at middle distance and not far away on the screen?

Differing mipmap levels. It also depends on what resolution you're using. Higher resolution equates to more accurate sampling, so aliasing is diminished.

That’s also partly a moray affect.

Surely you mean moire, which is what that effect of aliasing is called, yes.