Painted Items Textures look bad from afar

[ocean bolt]

For some reason my painted items get grey pixels on their edges when looked at from a distance. Tried changing lod, texture quality and texture filtering but nothing works. Any help ?

[languid shell]

Screenshot/send your modules.cfg

[ocean bolt]

also got these in my autoexec

[ivory lotus]

try setting the anti_aliasing=msaa_8x and texture_filtering=aniso16x modules

the anti_aliasing module'll probably do it

[ocean bolt]

that didn't do it

I'm seriously willing to pay whoever finds a solution that's how desperate I am lol

[languid shell]

Launch the game, from the main menu do this in console:
preset_ultra;run_modules
Join a game and see if it's still doing it. If it is, there's likely nothing you can do.

[ocean bolt]

after doing that, will I have to do anything to revert it to the medium high preset ?

it didn't fix it, only made it slightly less jarring for some reason, the grey outlines were a little smaller but still there

oh well

thanks for the help anyway i appreciate

[languid shell]

No, it'll reset next launch.

[ivory lotus]

@ocean bolt are you using dx8?

[ocean bolt]

no, also tried manually running under dx95 and the issue persisted

[cunning bison]

@ocean bolt has leveled up! (2 ➜ 3)

[ivory lotus]

ooc how did you swap your dx version

[ocean bolt]

launch options

-dxlevel 95

[ivory lotus]

are you using an nvidia gpu?

[ocean bolt]

YES

caps

you think changing the program specific options might help ?

right now it's all set to high performance, so this might be it

these are the tf2 specific settings in my nvidia control pannel

[ivory lotus]

yeah try setting everything within tf2 and globally to default

via the default button on the top right

make sure as much as possible's set to application-controlled

also, what are you launch options?

[ocean bolt]

-novid -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -nohltv -particles 1 -precachefontchars -noquicktime -freq 240 -no_texture_stream

ill try to mess around with the nvidia settings, if that don't fix it then welp

[ivory lotus]

ensure stuff like anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering's set to either application controlled or forced to the max

preferably application-controlled

and then after you're done resetting the settings to default/application-controlled then launch tf2 and see how it is

if it's still bad, then try grabbing the ultra preset and temporarily renaming your overrides folder to something like overrides1 to disable it and ensure that no custom settings are screwing things up

[ocean bolt]

alright i'm noting all of this and trying it out as soon as i find some time, thanks a ton

[ivory lotus]

also might be good to temporarily clear out your custom folder and leave only mastercomfig

good chance that clearing out your custom folder won't do anything but you can do it if you want to ensure nothing you've added is causing issues

and then if it works you can add your stuff back and rename overrides1 (or whatever you renamed it to) back to overrides

if that's good, then you can remove the ultra preset and set it back to what it was before

[ivory lotus]

if it's not good after lowering your preset to what you were originally using, then ensure these modules are set

[ocean bolt]

update : it was the nvidia control pannel screwing things up

[ivory lotus]

makes sense