If you run the game at "Extreme" graphics, you might have noticed a horrible grainy effect on some textures.



The screenshot really doesn't show how bad it looks. When you move around, the grain shifts in a really ugly way.

I tracked this issue down to the r_SSAOQuality setting. When r_SSAOQuality = 3, you get the grain.



With r_SSAOQuality = 2, the grain is gone.

So, the fix is simple. Just add r_SSAOQuality = 2 to the end of your autoexec.cfg file. If you don't have a autoexec.cfg file, use a tool like this to make one.

thx

but the grain looks KEWL!! :p

TBH first picture looks better then second...

lol that "grainy bug" is not a bug and it is there for a reason. You think everything is nice and perfectly white during an alien invasion?

Thank you very much. That grain was annoying me.

the grain covers the fact that the texture is very small - you can see it clearly repeating on the wall without the grain effect.