Call of Duty 4; Pixels in refelctions

[Needles]

I tried for help at bungie.net, but got none on this:

I decided to turn on Call of Duty 4 today to play some multiplayer. I had to enable R_sun (and some other thing I forget) or PunkBuster would kick me. As soon as I did, I got really nice specular. Soon though, reflections on mirrors and shiny objects got REALLY ugly. They looked like HUGE pixelations.

What happened?

My specs are:
Nvidia 8600 GT 256 VRAM gddr3
2GB ddr2 RAM
Intel core duo e4500 @ 2.19GHz.

This has happened to me before, but it usually disappears after a while or becomes less noticeable, but I lose a LOT of nice specular. How do I keep this specular while getting rid of the ugly shiny pixilation/large squares?

I have no AA, AF up to the highest it can get, at 16:10 ratio, 60 Hz, 1680x1050, everything on the setting"extra", and Bilinear filtering. Changing these won't help me.

I have used google, and it did not help or give me anything remotely close to what I was looking forI do have latest drivers installed.

Any idea what's happening and how to stop it?

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6366/akaj9.png

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo239/madkiller93/ak2.png

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo239/madkiller93/wall.png

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo239/madkiller93/LMG.png

It gets much worse when I go into an outside area. Then the pixelated area/squares get quite noticable.

[Sel]

What's the problem :|

[Needles]

What's the problem :|
You don't see those ugly little square shapes on the mirrors, walls, and guns?

[BobtheGreatII]

Yeah... isn't that just a grunge look?

[Needles]

Yeah... isn't that just a grunge look?
A what look?

I didn't have those ugly little squares before it forced me to do something under the command r_sun

[Reaper Man]

Grunge/dirt etc. It's supposed to look like that.

[Needles]

Grunge/dirt etc. It's supposed to look like that.
Is there any way to get rid of it? I didn't have it before, and I don't like it. It would be ok if it wasn't so blocky, they look like ugly pixels.

Are the gold guns supposed to have little squares on them/over 1/2 of them that shine more than anything else?

I can't check on my thread at bungie, I just got banned and it got hidden.

[Syuusuke]

You would have to completely replace textures...and why would you ask the guys at Bungie about CoD4?

[mech]

Inject a new shader, or turn graphics all the way down.

[rossmum]

LOL

So-called 'pixellation' on the tiles would be the rough, pitted surface of the tile, and I think you'll find the normal maps are to blame rather than reflections mate

[Reaper Man]

Is there any way to get rid of it? I didn't have it before, and I don't like it. It would be ok if it wasn't so blocky, they look like ugly pixels.

Are the gold guns supposed to have little squares on them/over 1/2 of them that shine more than anything else?

I can't check on my thread at bungie, I just got banned and it got hidden.
Bawwww. That's what you get for turning on specular, if you really don't like it, disable specular and enjoy your flat, matte game.

[kenney001]

Looks fine too me.

[rossmum]

oh hey


1:25 PM - kolby: is that guy dumb its the fucking r_sun option
1:25 PM - kolby: it was used in debug for the bloom and hdr

[Bad Waffle]

Guys, there IS a problem. ive seen this before--its not evident in single frame images, but if he frapped it, you would DEFINTELY be able to tell.

[SnaFuBAR]

let's address another problem as well. The makers of COD4 have no effing clue what the guns they made look like.

[Cortexian]

let's address another problem as well. The makers of COD4 have no effing clue what the guns they made look like.
Look pretty accurate to me.

[SnaFuBAR]

They're not. Believe me.

[Dr Nick]

The Guns look decent, but they sound like shit.

[Needles]

Guys, there IS a problem. ive seen this before--its not evident in single frame images, but if he frapped it, you would DEFINTELY be able to tell.
Really? I might be able to get a video.

When I move around, almost my whole gold gun gets ugly squares on it instead of the normal look. As I move around, the ugly blocks on things appear and disappear.

Is my really gold gun supposed to have large areas of squares/pixel-looking things as I move around that show and then might not show at a different angle? Same for walls.

It only recently started to happen, it looks really horrible. I never had it before, why would it just appear?
And this happens on pretty much anything that will reflect or shine. Is everything that reflects or shine supposed to have "dirt"?

[Pooky]

Jesus fucking christ have you guys even played this game -_-

The gold weapons in particular, do not look that way under any settings.

I don't know what r_sun is, but even if it's that it's sure as hell not a 'grunge look'.

[Needles]

Jesus fucking christ have you guys even played this game -_-

The gold weapons in particular, do not look that way under any settings.

I don't know what r_sun is, but even if it's that it's sure as hell not a 'grunge look'.
It enables sun light making things shiny. Right after I enabled it, I got those squares. I guess I'll have to play around with the settings and lose some nice specular to get rid of those. :(

[Heathen]

Or get a 360.

[Needles]

Or get a 360.
Not an option. I was lucky my dad added a decent CPU and GPU to the PC he was getting so I could play some games.

And I suck at using controllers.

[Heathen]

Well their is finally a good mouse and keyboard out :/

[Needles]

Well their is finally a good mouse and keyboard out :/
Just googled it, it's some "XCM" thing.

I would go to consoles. But don't they have a lot more retarded and rude people who yell swears trough the microphone? Plus, no modding.

And any ideas how to fix this? Right now, I'm going to toggle r_sun commands. Might not change much, but I'm desperate to get rid of it.

[Pooky]

Just googled it, it's some "XCM" thing.

I would go to consoles. But don't they have a lot more retarded and rude people who yell swears trough the microphone? Plus, no modding.

And any ideas how to fix this? Right now, I'm going to toggle r_sun commands. Might not change much, but I'm desperate to get rid of it.

PC has plenty of retarded people too... the difference is a higher concentration of smart people.

[Needles]

PC has plenty of retarded people too... the difference is a higher concentration of smart people.
I guess.

Sorry for the bump, but I really need help with this. Another image:
http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo239/madkiller93/Pixelation-1.png

How do I get rid of those pixelations?! R_sun options did nothing.

[Hunter]

Why would you be bothered? Do you shoot at the persons shadow? If you ask me the sun effect looks good, and that LMG looks very nice and shiny.

Now stop complaining... Focus on shooting shadows people.

If it is as bad as WoL says it is then okay, complain Lol.

Although I have never seen a gold weapon looking that shiny on Xbox360.

[Needles]

Why would you be bothered? Do you shoot at the persons shadow? If you ask me the sun effect looks good, and that LMG looks very nice and shiny.

Now stop complaining... Focus on shooting shadows people.

If it is as bad as WoL says it is then okay, complain Lol.

Although I have never seen a gold weapon looking that shiny on Xbox360.
I can ignore it on the Ak-47, but I just can't ignore how bad it looks on my machine gun and walls of brodcast.

And I wasn't complaining about shadows or shiny-ness, I'm complaining about those ugly dots/square areas on it.

[Bodzilla]

Is there any way to get rid of it? I didn't have it before, and I don't like it. It would be ok if it wasn't so blocky, they look like ugly pixels.

Are the gold guns supposed to have little squares on them/over 1/2 of them that shine more than anything else?

I can't check on my thread at bungie, I just got banned and it got hidden.
Rofl



i.... i cant breathe hahahahaha

[Hunter]

I can ignore it on the Ak-47, but I just can't ignore how bad it looks on my machine gun and walls of brodcast.

And I wasn't complaining about shadows or shiny-ness, I'm complaining about those ugly dots/square areas on it.

Ooh right lol.

[Rosco]

It looks like you got rain on your lmg, lol.

If you can't stand your lmg looking like that, why don't you use the rpd or use red tiger. Sure gold is a good show off icon, I know because I have them all too, but I don't use them at all because the weapons that you can have gold are shit, apart from the ak. D:

[Needles]

It looks like you got rain on your lmg, lol.

If you can't stand your lmg looking like that, why don't you use the rpd or use red tiger. Sure gold is a good show off icon, I know because I have them all too, but I don't use them at all because the weapons that you can have gold are shit, apart from the ak. D:
Well, I guess I can do that.

But what about tiled walls and mirrors? They still look bad.

[Syuusuke]

That's what happens when people don't clean walls or mirrors.

[Needles]

That's what happens when people don't clean walls or mirrors.

It's also on metal doors and there is a little bit on the un-camouflaged P-90.