Best Graphic Settings on GT5
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What do you mean figure out? wont simply setting the ps3 to 720p in the options do the trick?...
Dunno, I'm guessing Extra lighting, wind, advanced tire and wheel physics, in addition to the fact they wanted 60fps on 1080p, all take their toll.
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- bertvw
This is not just about 1080p and 1080i or 720p...
It's about what your tv can do in terms of progressive or interlaced... If you have a hdtv wich is FULLHD and not HDready, you may hope you went for progressive back in the time when you bought it. If not, you end up with jaggies alot more profound and flickerings of details...
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/video2.htm
progressive is normally worse because it's only 30 frame/sec, but ps3 overcomes this anyway and runs 60fps, so progressive fullhd is better...
It's about what your tv can do in terms of progressive or interlaced... If you have a hdtv wich is FULLHD and not HDready, you may hope you went for progressive back in the time when you bought it. If not, you end up with jaggies alot more profound and flickerings of details...
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/video2.htm
progressive is normally worse because it's only 30 frame/sec, but ps3 overcomes this anyway and runs 60fps, so progressive fullhd is better...
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1080p IS progressive. Full HD IS 1080p. Thats what the p or i stands for. You make it sound like there are 1080p, but interlaced tvs or 1080i progressive one, unless i've misunderstood you? They are one in the same.
Also if you bought full HD TV you dont need to hope its progressive because it is.
1080p = FullHD = Ultra HD = TrueHD TV=1920 by 1080 resolution in progressive
Anyway Ive tried it on 3 1080p monitors and they all look the same.
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i still think that this thing of choosing GT5's screen size is likely to do harm, cause I believe is very hard to match those red border lines correctly so that each TV pixel correspond to each pixel the ps3/GT5 generates.
but I´m not a tech guy so I may be saying nosense...
and maybe your case is not relative to the GT5 screensize after all.. but anyway, this is my case:
first my GT5 screen size was set to something like 96%, cause was the 'best' size that did not crop much of the image, nor show much black bars around it. but i noticed that something was a bit wrong cause even some text on the menus were a bit awkward.
I simulated the 'before case', and took a picture just to post here (language is portuguese, during a re-install):
original: http://i53.tinypic.com/i2snk3.jpg
emphasized: http://i52.tinypic.com/1hxstv.jpg
so I was intrigued by this, and while I was trying to make this better, I found something that worked for me:
I put GT5 screen size to 100%, this obviously at first cropped a part of the screen, but then I got to my TV options menu and set "PC Mode"*. this way, the image was not cropped (I checked various screens) and it made the text menus look better and more definite. I would even say that I perceived a difference during gameplay, but during gameplay i cannot affirm 100% since is hard for me to compare objectively.
But I will repeat myself, after I put GT5 screen size to 100% and the HDMI channel of the TV I use in 'PC Mode' the text in the menus are better defined, and GT5 image was not cropped. Strange, but worked here.
this is how the same screen shows now:
http://i56.tinypic.com/68sg38.jpg
* the HDMI channels of my TV has a option that says "PC Mode". when this option is on, the true resolution the PS3 sends is shown on the TV, no upscaling in the TV.
Ex. 720p games (like Uncharted and LBP, etc) uses only a part of the screen when this option is on, on a 1:1 pixel ratio, the rest of the screen is shown black.
maybe thats something you could try to see if helps you with your problem... 👍
yeah i thought gt5p looks better too, London looks amazing but there's vsync/tearing issues, i think maybe its not capped at 60fps? I have it running at 720p and turn off the sharpness setting on my tv to make it look better. It looks really bad sharpened. So disappointed with the framerate when racing, i mean gt4 was smooth as, come to think of it is there even a ps3 racing game that runs at 60fps? And whats with special stages? its WAY too dark
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- bertvw
well yeah, what i meant is next to that on the tv buying list options. Some run both, but you want to go for progressive only.
nice test above me here, i'm gonna test myself with my other screen, from pc.
LG 27inch full HD.
I've been running the game on a Sony Bravia old HDready 38 inch, but lot's of flickering.
You can btw change 3 settings in GT5's options screen, Flickering reduced is what i'm running. But i saw with my friend on a much smaller Ful HD, 19inch, and wow, everything sharp, no flickering, no jaggys...
time to test
nice test above me here, i'm gonna test myself with my other screen, from pc.
LG 27inch full HD.
I've been running the game on a Sony Bravia old HDready 38 inch, but lot's of flickering.
You can btw change 3 settings in GT5's options screen, Flickering reduced is what i'm running. But i saw with my friend on a much smaller Ful HD, 19inch, and wow, everything sharp, no flickering, no jaggys...
time to test
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- Antarctica
Awesome news today, I was playing with my monitor and I turned all the filters off, everything and the graphics were so much better, but GT5P still looks better, and it seems weird, but when I first started playing and leveled up about 3 ranks the graphics looked better, I'm just saying. It's really weird someone explain what was going on?
Also the minimap looks terrible, I wish it was good and simple like prologue, I know you can adjust it to a few settings but it's always pixelated, unless you turn it off. That's what I did becuase it looked bad.
Also the minimap looks terrible, I wish it was good and simple like prologue, I know you can adjust it to a few settings but it's always pixelated, unless you turn it off. That's what I did becuase it looked bad.
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They should have released two different versions, an overpriced 3d version for the rich tech nerds, and an optimized 2d for the rest of the people
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No 1080i is only up to 720p. Full HD is 1080p 720p/1080i is not the same but on tvs 32 inches and under there is very little difference. The smaller the screen the less noticeable.
I have a 1080i and a 1080p the 1080i set does not support 1920 x 1080 res. 1920x1080 is the native res of the 1080p set.
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- Jiu Driftsu
I for one can't stand the new bumpy ride feature in the cockpit view. Strangely the bumpy ride "feature" is only turned on on the higher level cars. It gives me a headache. I've switched to the hood cam. Bummer bc in car view was my favorite. 
I can't help but notice that it seems like the res and frame rate changes depending on the view and which track you are on.
If playing at 720p makes the game run smoother I'm switching. I've got my wheel about 5" from a 27" monitor so I don't think it will make a huge difference. Those of you that try it, please post your results.
I can't help but notice that it seems like the res and frame rate changes depending on the view and which track you are on.
If playing at 720p makes the game run smoother I'm switching. I've got my wheel about 5" from a 27" monitor so I don't think it will make a huge difference. Those of you that try it, please post your results.
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You guys...
Research real hdtv's before saying this. GT5 can't cut resolutions in half, your tv does. it's called interlacing, and that's why you definately need progressive, that makes an image in one go, instead of making two shortly after eachother wich are then cut in half and projected like that. That's causing the flickering and detail jaggying because those 2 images can't process tiny details as good as progressive...
Remember page one, what i said there. I tried my HDlcd LG on full 1080p, needed to raise image size from 96 percent to 100 percent. And suddenly the jaggies and flickers occuring from 1080i ara gone.
The screen is 10 inches smaller then my Sony Bravia, but ten times better. Game looks like a real good pc game, with even notable some blur and occlusion to be seen now. Only the jagged shadows is a staying problem, wich is pretty normal because it's the only problem caused by GT5, all the rest is the tv choice...
Seen it first with my mate, i couldn't believe it. Switched my pcHDTV screen too, and it's like soo, Full HD with alot of progressive and rather no interlacing instead of mixed is the way to go.
I can even put it on sharp now ingame, and it doesn't flicker!!!!!!!! Woooooooot...
This changes my perspective over the whole game!!! the graphics are actually very good now...👍
tdk
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me too, any solution to this? i tried reducing the sharpness to minimum on my tv, no use.
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I think the issue may be the "size" of your HDTVs. I'm just using a 19" Dynex TV, running at 1080i, and I don't have any graphical issues. I play up-close to the TV so everything that I'm saying is from an up-close view of the game.
All the tracks that were not in GTP look AMAZING!! Some of the tracks that were from GTP still look pretty much unchanged. ALL cars are Beautiful, regardless of being premium or standard. The reflections on the car, the hood of the cars, look great, a lot better than GTP. I don't have any major flickering or tears either, therefore, I don't have to pick the option of sharpness or flicker reduction. But I do agree that the frame-rate is not constant, however, it is more consistent than it was in GTP. I ask you guys to try GT5 on a smaller TV, (doesn't matter if its progressive or interlaced) it may run a lot better.
Also: Did everyone pre-load/install the game in the options menu?? Or online? If you haven't, then you really should. I feel that the overall game-play will get better as you play your way into new races/sections of the game. Because I think that as you get further into the game, the new data is saved onto the HDD so load time and graphical issue are diminished. Another thing to note is, even after installing the game twice, as I get into new races/ sections/tracks in GT mode, the game still continues to install. You guys can also try to re-install the game from the options menus for a smoother game experience.
I hope this works.
All the tracks that were not in GTP look AMAZING!! Some of the tracks that were from GTP still look pretty much unchanged. ALL cars are Beautiful, regardless of being premium or standard. The reflections on the car, the hood of the cars, look great, a lot better than GTP. I don't have any major flickering or tears either, therefore, I don't have to pick the option of sharpness or flicker reduction. But I do agree that the frame-rate is not constant, however, it is more consistent than it was in GTP. I ask you guys to try GT5 on a smaller TV, (doesn't matter if its progressive or interlaced) it may run a lot better.
Also: Did everyone pre-load/install the game in the options menu?? Or online? If you haven't, then you really should. I feel that the overall game-play will get better as you play your way into new races/sections of the game. Because I think that as you get further into the game, the new data is saved onto the HDD so load time and graphical issue are diminished. Another thing to note is, even after installing the game twice, as I get into new races/ sections/tracks in GT mode, the game still continues to install. You guys can also try to re-install the game from the options menus for a smoother game experience.
I hope this works.
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I play on a 1080P 16:9 23.6 inch monitor
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i think i managed to somehow fix my jagged shadows, im playing on a benq 24inch full hd monitor, i had dynamic contrast pumped up at first, changed it to off, and played around with manual brightness and contrast settings, then in the game changed image quality to sharpened, game looks MUCH better!
The TV I play on Ive calibrated using those discs (takes about 1 hr). Im not monkeying with it just to make GT5 look better. I still dont understand why GT5P looks great and GT5 looks odd. Im on a 52" 1080 Samsung LCD...it is only 60hz, thats the only thing I can think of that would make the movement less sharp, but again, GT5P looks great on the same set.
