Killing Floor Support
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try turning all graphical settings up to high. (minus aa and af) and see if its ok then, if so revert all settings back one by one till you get the issue again.
Make sure that in your videocard options that the mipmap settings are set to the highest quality.
Make sure that in your videocard options that the mipmap settings are set to the highest quality.
I've had that before you have to try to guess where options is
and change your resolution or you can go to killingfloor.ini and change it there
Its gonna be under [WinDrv.WindowsClient]
change fullscreenviewportX and fullscreenviewpointY to your desired resolution
and change your resolution or you can go to killingfloor.ini and change it there
Its gonna be under [WinDrv.WindowsClient]
change fullscreenviewportX and fullscreenviewpointY to your desired resolution
The screenshots still look extremely low-res and this could be what's causing these anomalies.
Here are a couple of things you can check:
Resolution:
Try changing the resolution ingame through the console:
Open the game again. When you're in the menu open the console with the tilde key.
If this doesn't open it it's bound to another key. In this case quit the game, delete KillingFloor.ini and start it up again. This will reset everything to default settings, including the key to open the console.
Now type "setres 'nativeXresolution'x'nativeYresolution'x'desiredcolordepth'"
In my case this would be "setres 1920x1080x32"
Confirm with enter.
Texture Detail settings:
If this doesn't improve readability either your texturedetails (including the interface texture detail, which normally can't be touched for exactly this reason!) is set too low. Open KillingFloor.ini in WordPad and look for these lines:
TextureDetailInterface=Normal
TextureDetailTerrain=UltraHigh
TextureDetailWeaponSkin=UltraHigh
TextureDetailPlayerSkin=UltraHigh
TextureDetailWorld=UltraHigh
TextureDetailRenderMap=UltraHigh
TextureDetailLightmap=UltraHigh
Set them all to Normal.
Then start the game again and enter the setres command again if you need to apply the resolution again.
That should fix it if it is a problem with the resolution or the detail settings.
This should not happen though. The lowest resolution it should default to is 800x600 and the interface textures shouldn't go lower than Normal.
Driver forcing very low mipmap levels:
It could be that you are forcing a very low mipmap level for the textures through your graphics card driver. This would mean that you are forcing the use of very low-res versions of the textures, not dissimilar to turning the details down in-game except it's independent of that and is forced through the driver. Be sure to check this!
Zet suggested this already, but you didn't say if you tried it yet.
Graphics card is incompatible with D3D9 renderer:
It is also possible that your graphics card has a problem with the currently selected renderer. Open KillingFloor.ini in WordPad and change the following lines:
RenderDevice=D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice
;RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=Engine.NullRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=PixoDrv.PixoRenderDevice
to
;RenderDevice=D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice
RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=Engine.NullRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=PixoDrv.PixoRenderDevice
to change the renderer from D3D9 to D3D.
IF the pirated version works this is one helluva strange coincidence, btw. I know no one else who has this problem with the steam version of KF. Just so you know this isn't some widespread issue caused my some malicious DRM methods. Aside from the game requiring steam I don't think there even are any.
If anything it could be a problem with certain steam features, seeing that the pirated version probably runs without steam. Maybe disable the steam community chat overlay if nothing else helps. It's a long shot but who knows... It's caused problems before. Last resort though because this is just a wild stab in the dark.
Something mentioned above in bold should fix your problem.
Here are a couple of things you can check:
Resolution:
Try changing the resolution ingame through the console:
Open the game again. When you're in the menu open the console with the tilde key.
If this doesn't open it it's bound to another key. In this case quit the game, delete KillingFloor.ini and start it up again. This will reset everything to default settings, including the key to open the console.
Now type "setres 'nativeXresolution'x'nativeYresolution'x'desiredcolordepth'"
In my case this would be "setres 1920x1080x32"
Confirm with enter.
Texture Detail settings:
If this doesn't improve readability either your texturedetails (including the interface texture detail, which normally can't be touched for exactly this reason!) is set too low. Open KillingFloor.ini in WordPad and look for these lines:
TextureDetailInterface=Normal
TextureDetailTerrain=UltraHigh
TextureDetailWeaponSkin=UltraHigh
TextureDetailPlayerSkin=UltraHigh
TextureDetailWorld=UltraHigh
TextureDetailRenderMap=UltraHigh
TextureDetailLightmap=UltraHigh
Set them all to Normal.
Then start the game again and enter the setres command again if you need to apply the resolution again.
That should fix it if it is a problem with the resolution or the detail settings.
This should not happen though. The lowest resolution it should default to is 800x600 and the interface textures shouldn't go lower than Normal.
Driver forcing very low mipmap levels:
It could be that you are forcing a very low mipmap level for the textures through your graphics card driver. This would mean that you are forcing the use of very low-res versions of the textures, not dissimilar to turning the details down in-game except it's independent of that and is forced through the driver. Be sure to check this!
Zet suggested this already, but you didn't say if you tried it yet.
Graphics card is incompatible with D3D9 renderer:
It is also possible that your graphics card has a problem with the currently selected renderer. Open KillingFloor.ini in WordPad and change the following lines:
RenderDevice=D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice
;RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=Engine.NullRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=PixoDrv.PixoRenderDevice
to
;RenderDevice=D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice
RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=Engine.NullRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=PixoDrv.PixoRenderDevice
to change the renderer from D3D9 to D3D.
IF the pirated version works this is one helluva strange coincidence, btw. I know no one else who has this problem with the steam version of KF. Just so you know this isn't some widespread issue caused my some malicious DRM methods. Aside from the game requiring steam I don't think there even are any.
If anything it could be a problem with certain steam features, seeing that the pirated version probably runs without steam. Maybe disable the steam community chat overlay if nothing else helps. It's a long shot but who knows... It's caused problems before. Last resort though because this is just a wild stab in the dark.
Something mentioned above in bold should fix your problem.
This might just be the problem. That thing is made for office tasks and videos, not for games. If games run on it at all it's probably an accident.
No offense.If you have a dedicated graphics card in your system it isn't used at the moment and your PC tries to use this Intel toy instead.
Install the driver for your actual graphics card again.
If you don't have a dedicated graphics card, get one! Let someone in a store help you pick out one that is supported by your motherboard and isn't bottlenecked by the rest of your system.
Even cheap cards like the 3650HD AGP with 512MB VRam run the game just fine on high details and they don't cost much more than 50$ anymore, I think. But someone in a shop can help you better there. Maybe bring that file you attached there alone.
You think that we know everything about every computer out there? There are billions of hardware combinations in this world, so we aren't simply refusing to help you, but you are not the first person to have this issue. The other people figured out their issue, so you should probably do a little searching on the forum to find the answer.
It should also be noted that, at this point, the community knows more about how to fix our game for particular hardware configurations than we do, so we leave it to them most of the time. Good luck.
Your frustration is not unfounded, I completely understand your problems with a purchased product not working out of the box, I'm a gamer just as much as a developer. I also completely understand the lack of time, as I used to take 20+ hours a semester in college while working full time at a game development studio. I hardly had any time to play games, much less to fix the games that I purchased, so when I ran into unplayable games, I tended to just skip over them in those days. Now that I only work 60 hours a week, I can put a little more effort in, so I've taken the time to play some of those games now. I hope you can find the time somewhere in the future to play Killing Floor!