@Neosolidus12 said in Steam Version - All graphics and text on the UI look blurry and pixellated:

for me the Steam game is "stuck" at 720p resolution regardless whicht setting i choose(3840*2160) which is very frustrating.....So good thing I haven't uninstalled the Window store version.

only thing i can think on this is going to be your desktop resolution. by default, the game only allows windowed and borderless windowed/virtual desktop. in either case, the game won't go past the resolution set by your desktop.

two things i can suggest...

A.) change your desktop resolution

B.) goto your Documents folder and goto SEGA > PHANTASYSTARONLINE2_NA_STEAM. (or the other one if you are using MSStore version) open user.pso2 in notepad. go all the way to the bottom and you should find some resolution options. if using it, change the virtual option to false and the other fullscreen option to true.

you will find some height and width options, but i don't know what the "3d" options do. they don't seem to do anything. either way, i wouldn't change anything you don't understand without making a backup copy.

good luck!

@Dacruea-Xikuuze said in Steam Version - All graphics and text on the UI look blurry and pixellated:

Having the same issue. I'm guessing its exclusive to people who play on a 4k tv. 1080p monitor users seen to have no issue

if you haven't tried the DPI scaling thing, i would give that a go. other than that, and another thing or two in my previous post, i wouldn't know what else to suggest.

at any rate, i also play using a TV. it is 55inch and native 3840x2160, but i play my games at a 1080p resolution and allow the display to perform the up-scaling.

i suppose that could be something else worth looking at. seeing if your graphics control from desktop is set to use GPU or the display for up-scaling.

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in almost all cases, display up-scaling is going to be better than what you can get off of the GPU. and this is because the GPU isn't going to be aware of all the display parameters involved when up-scaling.

well, other than that... i wouldn't know. good luck!

using different display adapters wouldn't be likely to cause this issue. it wouldn't change graphic detail settings, or change what settings the game uses. worse case scenario, it would just decrease your framerate. (only real exception here would be version levels. so if the iGPU only support up to DX10, but the game wanted to use DX11 by default, then that could cause a loss in graphical deatil. same for like shader version too.)

with that being said... only thing i can think of is either a resolution issue, or desktop DPI scaling.

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you seem to have already touched on the resolution part. i would look at DPI next. if you are using desktop DPI scaling... it is from | right click desktop > display settings > that percentile under scale and layout. if set to anything other than 100%, you would just right click pso2.exe and set the option for it to "Application" from the compatibility tab.

other than that, i can only think of anistropic filtering. it shouldn't cause such a severe issue, but that might depend on your resolution. personally? i haven't been able to get the game to look good past 1920x1080.

EDIT : for the anistropic filtering... the game doesn't have an option for this and isn't used by default. you will have to enable it through your graphics control panel.

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well... i can't think of anything else that would cause the game to appear blurry or pixelated. sorry, and good luck!

okay! now STEAM version is out, we have some better control over this. is a touch touchy, but is working the way i have found a trick.

one thing i notice, the game won't allow using the Big Picture overlay mode, and only gives standard overlay mode. even when launching from the Big Picture mode, still uses standard overlay.

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steps to using STEAM to configure your controller for this game...

1.) launch STEAM to Big Picture mode

2.) launch launcher, then game

3.) after the game itself is loaded, alt-tab back to Big Picture mode

4.) use Manage Game > Controller Configuration

5.) when making changes to the controller config, be sure to exit out of "Controller Configuration" for changes to apply

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after some testing, i can confirm that the changes you make are to the base configuration and are not stacking. in other words, if you remove a button it will no longer function.

as for step 5... this isn't needed for every game, but i notice it seems to be needed for this game. these steps are just a trick i found to configure controller for games that either won't support correctly, or for when STEAM applies the configuration to a launcher and not the game itself.

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other thoughts... xgaming.dll is no longer present in the game folder.

https://pso2.com/news/server-info/maintenancenotes0804 Fixed issue in which players could not use the “599: Festival” ticket

i wouldn't call deleting it to be a 'fix'. damn... wtf?

not likely, but...

it MIGHT be possible to do this to a limited extent. if you are on a default installation, then the bulk of your data should be in the "C:\Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps" folder. download the Xbox App through the MSStore and use it to Enable Mods.

you would still need to download roughly ~11GB worth of data, assuming this will actually work. as for using PSO2Tweaker, looks like they have an option specifically for this through the newest version 6.0.2.1.

at the moment, the STEAM folder i got for downloading is labeled as "PHANTASYSTARONLINE2_NA_STEAM". it would presumably contain the "pso2_bin" folder as a sub-directory.

all-in-all, i wouldn't know if will work or not. nor do i know if you need the Xbox app, but the app does have an option for enabling mods. might help.

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Good Luck!

anyone know anything about this? are they going to fix it?

rather dubious of them to not even mention the item will expire.

yeah... was there actually any warning to this? i am looking here > https://pso2.com/news/announcements/independencedayevent2020

but don't see any mention of this emote no longer being usable after the event. if there was a warning in the game, i totally missed it.

but this blows, i never used the item and now is seems to be lost forever.

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please restore it! so sad

i wonder...

i have to wonder what would happen if someone attempted to either A.) disable the MSStore or B.) uninstall the MSStore. i mean, of course, after installing the game. there appears to be alternate ways of calling an MSStore app. but i haven't tried this stuff out and don't initially experience these self-deleting issues, so... yeah.

but i do have to wonder is something along those lines could work. just a thought! if you could just some how block MSStore from having write permissions, then that is something that should work. again, just a thought.

@Bette

i understand where you are coming from, and know how to do these things. and have been using Windows since at least version 3. in the end i am 100% certain to following directions correctly. installing to the root of the drive and such.

personally? i have never had the game delete itself issue until trying to use PSO2Tweaker to fix the lobby lag issue we had. thankfully SEGA did indeed fix the lobby lag issue, and i no longer have any need for PSO2Tweaker. but with that being said, i did check it out again when they updated the guide and procedure for it. but still same results, file and/or permissions corruption leading to OS failure. i don't know why, it isn't as if the script does anything to anything sensitive enough to warrant re-installing the OS. it is completely inconclusive as of to why my usage of PSO2Tweaker causes an issue in the OS.

and even though i can't find anything in the script that even so much as touches the "WindowsApps" folder, it causes permission corruption there. especially for "Gaming Services" app. the corruption it causes is particularity difficult to fix on Windows version 2004.

furthermore, even though i do everything as guided, installing to the root... Windows will 'fix' any changed permissions making the MSStore believe the data is corrupt.

all-in-all, i still don't experience the self-deleting issue, and have only ever had that issue when trying to use PSO2Tweaker.

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i guess there are just those who don't have any initial problem, and are better off avoiding PSO2Tweaker. i don't know.