(PC) game always run low res textures

[Taddis]

I haven an odd issue.
I've set all visual settings all to max, but game looks worse than older ps4 gen titles in visual quality during gameplay. Nowhere close to what i see on Youtube videos with 2k25 gameplay on pc. My cpu and gpu basically run idle at 10-20% usage to run game at 60 fps and it goes to over 240 fps if I uncap it.
Game seems to run "texture detail" setting at low regardless of how i set it. If i switch between low or high textures setting it makes no difference in visual quality. Probably some more settings don't "turn on" as i notice antialiasing is not existing too.
I have tried to reinstall gpu drivers and re-build shaders, but doesn't help.

My pc specs:
i5-12600K
RX 6800 16GB vram
32 gb ram
nvme drive
windows 11 pro

[BenMartinez05]

Is your monitor 1080p?

Mines GPU is lower (rx 5700xt) but has the same problem. My monitor is 1080p. I run the game at high textures and ultra settings but player models looks like it was from the PS2 or PS3 era. Jagged edges and all. Closeups looks next gen though.

Try using the Virtual Super Resolution found in the AMD Software then switch the resolution option to 3840 x 2160 in 2k25 video setting and see if that fixes the low res problem.

I used that and it worked for me, the player models actually looked like the PS5 models, it doesn't look low res anymore. But since my GPU can't handle 4k, the fps can only reach 45 fps in game so I switched it back to 1080p with the low res models but next gen closeups.

Basically it's an anti aliasing problem. NBA 2k25 is not optimized properly for 1080p.

[Dee4Three]

As it relates to the game not being optimized well for 1080p, I do not believe that is true. Go into the user videos & screenshots section, look at my gameplay videos. I am playing at 1080p@60fps, and the game is beautiful. I do not have the texture problem that you two are having, and I have not seen these complaints really anywhere else.

I have a AMD Radeon 6650XT graphics card, which is only SLIGHTLY better in benchmarks > the 5700XT.

I recommend building the shaders again in the video settings (there is a build shaders option), or messing with the graphics settings in general. It would be helpful if you shared screenshots of your graphics settings screens from in the game, and also show screenshots of what your monitor settings are.

Also of note: 1080p is still the most common resolution used by gamers. 1080p would be incredibly high priority as it relates to optimization. I have my PC hooked up to my 50 inch Samsung TV via HDMI.

[Taddis]

I'll get some some screenshots once I'm back home. What's weird is that any match cutscenes like intros, replays post game camera cuts etc runs at full quality and when it gets back to gameplay it's low quality again.
I have tried rebuilding shaders multiple times as well as reinstalling GPU drivers.

Added few images. Pictures don't do justice how ugly and old gen like it all really looks.

[Dee4Three]

I'll get some some screenshots once I'm back home. What's weird is that any match cutscenes like intros, replays post game camera cuts etc runs at full quality and when it gets back to gameplay it's low quality again.
I have tried rebuilding shaders multiple times as well as reinstalling GPU drivers.

Added few images. Pictures don't do justice how ugly and old gen like it all really looks.

Post screenshots of your in game video settings, your monitor settings, and your CPU specs (cpu, gpu, ram, etc)

[sticky-fingers]

I'll get some some screenshots once I'm back home. What's weird is that any match cutscenes like intros, replays post game camera cuts etc runs at full quality and when it gets back to gameplay it's low quality again.
I have tried rebuilding shaders multiple times as well as reinstalling GPU drivers.

Added few images. Pictures don't do justice how ugly and old gen like it all really looks.

textures look normal
try to enable antialiasing & anistropic filtering

[Taddis]

I use 1080p monitor, ultra preset settings, ray tracing off.

The fix to visuals:
enable "Virtual super resolution" in amd control panel
Set resolution to "4K" in video settings

Its still an issue with antialiasing setting not working on 1080p and texture quality seem to be reduced.
Its the first game I've played that i have to do such thing to make game look like intended. For instance, EAsportsFC is also "next-gen" port on pc and it runs at full quality on native resolution.

[sticky-fingers]

try to disable DLSS and set it to 1920x1080
try to reset/update your GPU drivers
you're the only guy here with an AMD GPU to report this issue, so its highly probably related to one of yours settings.

[Taddis]

try to disable DLSS and set it to 1920x1080
try to reset/update your GPU drivers
you're the only guy here with an AMD GPU to report this issue, so its highly probably related to one of yours settings.

I only got fsr and xess as available options and im not using either.

Still the thing that texture quality setting make no difference between low-mid-high (i know i have to restart game to make change) buggers me and indicates that probably something wrong with drivers/game.

[Dee4Three]

try to disable DLSS and set it to 1920x1080
try to reset/update your GPU drivers
you're the only guy here with an AMD GPU to report this issue, so its highly probably related to one of yours settings.

I only got fsr and xess as available options and im not using either.

Still the thing that texture quality setting make no difference between low-mid-high (i know i have to restart game to make change) buggers me and indicates that probably something wrong with drivers/game.

I asked you to show screenshots of your graphics settings in game, and your monitor settings. Also, it would be helpful if you let us know if anything is turned on in the AMD Radeon control panel.

Also, are you using the Steam version of the game?

You showed a screenshot of yourself on the court. That means you can show the screenshots I am requesting. I am not going to have a back and forth continue until you help us help you.

If you are unwilling to provide those screenshots. I will close the thread.

[Taddis]

try to disable DLSS and set it to 1920x1080
try to reset/update your GPU drivers
you're the only guy here with an AMD GPU to report this issue, so its highly probably related to one of yours settings.

I only got fsr and xess as available options and im not using either.

Still the thing that texture quality setting make no difference between low-mid-high (i know i have to restart game to make change) buggers me and indicates that probably something wrong with drivers/game.

I asked you to show screenshots of your graphics settings in game, and your monitor settings. Also, it would be helpful if you let us know what your rig specs are, as well as if you have anything turned on in the AMD Radeon control panel. Also, are you using the Steam version of the game?

You showed a screenshot of yourself on the court. That means you can show the screenshots I am requesting. I am not going to have a back and forth continue until you help us help you.

If you are unwilling to provide those screenshots. I will close the thread.

Here is my setting,
Saw some more people complain about graphics on steam forum too but i think most people with same issue are complacent about how game looks and don't think of an issue.

[Dee4Three]

What are your monitor settings, and do you have anything on in the AMD control panel.

Also, important, are you using the Steam version of the game?

Note: you can turn the low vram indicator off, not sure why you have it left on. I supposedly have "low vram", but the game, as you can see in the videos, looks amazing, I get compliments on it consistently. My game doesn't have any texture issues. There is misinformation on Reddit related to "low vram looks horrible". That makes no sense based on my experience.

[Taddis]

What are your monitor settings, and do you have anything on in the AMD control panel.

Also, important, are you using the Steam version of the game?

Note: you can turn the low vram indicator off, not sure why you have it left on.

Yes I'm on steam and that's only way to play game on pc. You can add me on steam by the same name like here if you have some ideas to assist

I didn't mean to make this personal troubleshoot thread, but more to find if anyone else noticing same thing about graphics on pc version of the game.

[Dee4Three]

If you create a thread like this, which is related to an issue you are having, it will more often than not end up being a troubleshooting thread. That should be expected

Try turning low vram indicator off, make sure your monitor is 1080p@60fps, and that matches what you have in game, and that you don't have any other AMD Radeon control panel setting on (I do not, everything is turned off).

Also, try putting everything for the game graphics on high default, but shaders on medium. I am curious if that will fix the issue.

Lastly, you didn't show your advanced graphics settings screen. Where AA is. Etc. Please show us a screenshot of that.

[BenMartinez05]

I rebuilt my shaders a lot over the course of the week trying to fix this problem.

Unfortunately, that doesn't fix it.
Here's my vids which shows settings, specs, and gameplay
https://youtu.be/vVTl_633QMk
https://youtu.be/e0B65m9jGNQ

Things I tried:
-Turning off TAA. Which changes nothing on the gameplay.
- Rebuilding shaders. I delete the pso.bin and pso.toc to completely rebuild my shaders which can take 20 minutes. I did that twice since the past week.
- Turning off motion blur. Nothing still jagged.
- Trying various settings in amd.
- Disabling AMD software adrenaline settings which is shown in the vid. Reason why it shows as custom instead of default is the default has tesselation setting using amd instead of the application's setting.
- Menu mods and reshades are stuff I downloaded right after I post the first vid.

Some people over at the steam discussion forum also has problems regarding this.
- https://steamcommunity.com/app/2878980/ ... 936056922/
- https://steamcommunity.com/app/2878980/ ... 979552131/
- https://steamcommunity.com/app/2878980/ ... 976759453/
- https://steamcommunity.com/app/2878980/ ... 938230092/
- https://steamcommunity.com/app/2878980/ ... 785545373/
- https://steamcommunity.com/app/2878980/ ... 820336874/
- https://steamcommunity.com/app/2878980/ ... 786121305/

[Dee4Three]

Thanks for sharing those videos.

Just some observations

1. I see you are trying to play it on Ultra settings, but I am seeing quite a bit of stuttering. It's possible that either you have background processes running that is impacting your frame rate, or your computer (combo of GPU and CPU) can't handle ultra at a smooth FPS. I recommend trying High as your default and changing your shader detail setting to medium. It would probably smooth things our (Maybe give you a consistent 60 fps), and it will still look great.

2. I am not seeing "PS2" graphics, even as it relates to textures/jagged edges. That type of comparison gets thrown around a lot, but it's not a good comparison. This is obviously FAR ahead of anything PS2 could do.

3. Maybe I am blind - But I am not seeing a major issue here. Overall things look smooth on the youtube videos. I am not really seeing jagged edges everywhere like you mentioned.

This is what the game looks like maxed out, including with ray tracing reflections on, on my rig. I am playing on 1080p@60fps.

PC Specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3700x 8 Core Processor
GPU: AMD Radeon 6650 XT
RAM: 16GB

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Edit: I see that your textures are not the same quality as mine, now that I am seeing it on my tv. It looks playable (And obviously not like PS2), but yeah, your textures look lower res. Try putting your graphics settings on high by default, and shader detail on medium. See if that helps.

[Taddis]

Little update..
Did fresh installation of windows 11 recently and the problem still persists.
The game just refuse to use full quality textures during gameplay. "Game texture detail" setting in the video settings is the culprit i think. Game look exactly the same if i put it to low or high and it should be most visually impactful setting for visuals. Funny thing game eats more VRAM if its "high" versus "low" setting without improving visuals.

[mAstic]

Hey, I'm late to the thread, but yes, this problem exists in the game. At 1080p resolution, there are jagged edges around the players, crowd, and arena—basically everywhere. My graphics card is low-end, but that's not the reason for it. The TAA anti-aliasing isn’t working well at 1080p. I switched to XeSS native after watching some videos on YouTube where people were addressing this issue. However, the problem with XeSS is that it makes the game look blurry and there's ghosting around the players' names. Also, the game doesn't perform the same every day. Some days it runs smoothly, but on other days it lags a lot.

My PC specs : Ryzen 5 3500x, GTX 1650 Super, 16gb ram
Platform : Steam (family sharing)

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here is the video link : https://youtu.be/ZgcHCveLnlM?si=fc7F6ANMt0c4K6Yy
(YouTube's video compression made the gameplay look a bit smooth, but without the compression, you can see the jagged edges)

[Uncle Drew]

They develop these games for high-end computers. You have to spend ungodly amounts of money to upgrade your computer just to run these games, MB, memory, GPU, CPU, etc.. I noticed that in Madden 24. It's gotten to the point, like what's the point? My computer is a mid-range build, that can run most games. I don't have the resources to spend that kind of money to play games unfortunately

[Dee4Three]

They develop these games for high-end computers. You have to spend ungodly amounts of money to upgrade your computer just to run these games, MB, memory, GPU, CPU, etc.. I noticed that in Madden 24. It's gotten to the point, like what's the point? My computer is a mid-range build, that can run most games. I don't have the resources to spend that kind of money to play games unfortunately

Have you tried to run it? What are your rig specs? (CPU, GPU, RAM)

[Uncle Drew]

They develop these games for high-end computers. You have to spend ungodly amounts of money to upgrade your computer just to run these games, MB, memory, GPU, CPU, etc.. I noticed that in Madden 24. It's gotten to the point, like what's the point? My computer is a mid-range build, that can run most games. I don't have the resources to spend that kind of money to play games unfortunately

Have you tried to run it? What are your rig specs? (CPU, GPU, RAM)

No, I haven't bought it yet. I got burned last year with Madden 24. I ran a program called "Can I Run It" It said my rig could run the game mostly on lower settings. So I load the game and it freezes on the loading screen, and I have to reboot the computer to get out of it. Start the game again, and it freezes. So I called EA to request a refund but they refused, even though they acknowledged other users were having the same problem. So, I'm not about to spend $70 bones on a game that there's no guarantee will work—not getting burned twice.

[Dee4Three]

What are your PC specs?

And what are you playing on? (Monitor, TV, Laptop, etc)

[Uncle Drew]

What are your PC specs?

And what are you playing on? (Monitor, TV, Laptop, etc)

LG 24-inch monitor, CPU- Intel core I5-4990K 3.5 GHZ LGA 1150 processor, MB- Asrock Z97 Pro4 LGA 1150 ATX, RAM- Kingston HyperXBlue 16GB 2X 8GB DDR3-1866, SSD, Crucial BX200 240GB SATAIII 6GB/s 2.5 Solidstate drive, HHD- WD Desktop Mainstream 3TB intellipower SATA 6.0GB, Videocard- GeForce GTX 1080, Power supply- Corsair TX850 850 watt 12V 80 plus Bronze ATX, Case- Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 Mid tower case, DVD drive- LG DVD, Windows 10 Pro. The latest drivers are installed.

[mAstic]

They develop these games for high-end computers. You have to spend ungodly amounts of money to upgrade your computer just to run these games, MB, memory, GPU, CPU, etc.. I noticed that in Madden 24. It's gotten to the point, like what's the point? My computer is a mid-range build, that can run most games. I don't have the resources to spend that kind of money to play games unfortunately

This screenshot is from a benchmark video of the RTX 4060 with 8GB VRAM, and you can see it also has jagged edges at 1080p resolution. They haven't implemented anti-aliasing (AA) properly in the game. My main concern is these jagged edges because they don't look good while gaming. I'm using Reshade to make them a little less noticeable. I play on medium textures with a mix of high and medium settings, and I get 65+ FPS most of the time. Performance is not my concern.

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[Dee4Three]

What are your PC specs?

And what are you playing on? (Monitor, TV, Laptop, etc)

LG 24-inch monitor, CPU- Intel core I5-4990K 3.5 GHZ LGA 1150 processor, MB- Asrock Z97 Pro4 LGA 1150 ATX, RAM- Kingston HyperXBlue 16GB 2X 8GB DDR3-1866, SSD, Crucial BX200 240GB SATAIII 6GB/s 2.5 Solidstate drive, HHD- WD Desktop Mainstream 3TB intellipower SATA 6.0GB, Videocard- GeForce GTX 1080, Power supply- Corsair TX850 850 watt 12V 80 plus Bronze ATX, Case- Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 Mid tower case, DVD drive- LG DVD, Windows 10 Pro. The latest drivers are installed.

Do you mean I5-4690k, or I7-4790k? I am not finding a 4990k.