ok so basically this game looks like ■■■■, but can apparently look a lot better. I have been adjusting all of my game settings individually with restarts in between. and this is the best my game can look. (See Pic #1&2) but i notice that when I was changing an fx parameter that I can get a brief glimpse at what I believe the game should look like. (see Pics #3&4)
Your framerate might drop to an unplayable level if the game tried to render like that all the time. I can see your “Target Minimum FPS” setting is at 30; try bumping that down to 20, that should improve the quality quite a bit. Up to you to decide if it’s still playable or not.
Edit: regarding the reflections, it’s again because of the FPS target. Without the extra work of rendering reflections the game can devote more resources to rendering distant objects without dropping below the threshold.
What view distance are you using? It might not be too noticable with other settings lower as well.
As far as I understand it it dynamically scales doen graphics settings to ensure the minimum FPS. The higher you set the minimum fps the more it will impact your settings to keep the higher framerate.
Maximum fps shouldn’t have much of an effect on other settings though.
