Aliasing and Draw Distance Problems

[Renevant]

Hey all, this problem I have as been going on for a while now, and it's not just to do with GTA IV, and spreads across all my games.

 

Let's go to the start: back when Halo 3 came out, I was playing on a 17" monitor with VGA HD cable. I soon noticed that I had an incredibly bad aliasing problem, where nearly all objects in the game (especially thin objects such as poles and the like) were terribly jaggy. I also noticed that some objects in the world would only appear in front of me at a certain short distance. Back then, I was playing on a normal 20 gig white 360 I had since launch. This problems occured with all my games, there would be abnormal aliasing that should've be there and it made loads of games look damn ugly.

 

Now, I'm onto a 26" HD telly on 1080i, playing on an Elite with HDMI. Yet I still have the same problem!

 

It is especially annoying on GTA IV where the world is big and open, so there are a lot of aliasing faults.

 

Basically, this is pissing me off as I feel I'm not experiencing the graphical intensity of the game that I should be.

 

It's also weird how this problem has spanned across two different formats on two different 360s

 

So does anyone have ANY idea how to fix this? I turned the sharpness down on my TV a lot, and it helped, but not technically, it was more of a cover-up.

 

Because I used to use an OFFICIAL MS VGA and HDMI cables, I was thinking of maybe investing in a better 3rd party HDMI cable.. any ideas? Ta.

 

BTW sorry for long post!

Edited April 30, 2008 by Renevant

[jezzpd]

If you are using an hd tv,then sharpness should be turned way down anyway,its an atificial control which actually softens the picture(when not required) on a plasma or lcd hd screen.This also applies to watching dvds.It varies from make to make,but as a rule between 20-30 out of a 100 slide for sharpness,i learned this from using a professional screen setup program/disk(avia,if your interested) hope this helps! Quite a lot of problems with gaming picture quality are due to people simply not having setup their tv correctly, i even know of ppl leaving their tv set on the original"vivid" setting,which is only intended for the bright lights of a shop to push the product.It might sound a boring subject,but a little investigation and effort can lead to some amazing quality screen images,even from a budget tv. And,it makes your F**cking games rock!!

Edited April 30, 2008 by jezzpd

[Renevant]

I have done this, and it works but like you said only making it softer. The aliasing is still present to the same degree but only softer

[jezzpd]

yes thats gta 4 im afraid to say.but believe me on the calibration bit!