please help me

[Dr Harry]

ok so I have GTA4 on the 360 and I'm playing it on a LG 720p HDtv and here's my quarry

 

during the day the shadows and textures on the buildings seem "fuzzy" or "blurry" and the textures on the buildings even flicker a little, but at night it looks clear

 

this has been driving me crazy because when you look at screens or vids of the game on websites such as IGN it looks allot better and I've yet to find mention of it on any gaming blogs

 

so I ask, is something wrong here? is it supposed to look that way? and if so does it look better on the PS3? I bought the 360 version because of the future downloadable content and so I could play with my friends on Xbox live, but this is putting a damper on my enjoyment of the otherwise excellent GTA4

 

thank you

 

EDIT: I guess a good way to describe it is it makes liberty city look like a "painting"

Edited May 5, 2008 by Dr Harry

[BigBalls]

Yes, this was done intentionally by R*. many people call it "The Bob Ross Filter" I believe there is a way to disable the Flicker filter. But this was done (I am assuming) to keep frame rates up.

[Dr Harry]

Yes, this was done intentionally by R*. many people call it "The Bob Ross Filter" I believe there is a way to disable the Flicker filter. But this was done (I am assuming) to keep frame rates up.

Bob Ross filter

 

think they'll maybe release a patch?

 

I remember back in the day Vice City had some "blur" thing or something and you could turn that off

[Dr Harry]

so does it look better on the ps3 or not?

[ratphour]

I have it for PS3 and play on a 26" sony bravia with 720p, and it looks good on mine, my friend has the 360 version, running on the same TV and I saw his was a tad blurry.. PS3 version is probably a little better (graphics wise) ..

[Dr Harry]

so does anyone have any REAL ps3/360 comparason screenshots? not the shenanigany official stuff...