That's gotta just be the way they set it up, right?
Thought the black crush was from the filter, but apparently not.
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Xbox One Scaling Chip Improvements in February Update (No more sharpening filter!)
- Thread starter John Caboose
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That's gotta just be the way they set it up, right?
Thought the black crush was from the filter, but apparently not.
thelastword
Banned
I hope you guys realize that this is just going to make the games look blurrier in general. I mean any sub-native HD game will look much softer without the artificial sharpener.
Unknown Soldier
Member
TVs have a Sharpness setting for the people who like that crap. It should never be enabled by default.
It is what it is. If the game looks blurry, that's the flaw of the systems hardware. I would much rather the game look natural, vs overly harsh sharpening effects that make things look jaggy (on top of the crushed blacks).
The filter didn't make it look better.
Dreams-Visions
Member
The games aren't blurry. They are softer, but not blurry. And it is a clear improvement.
By "softer" you mean what it's supposed to look like when you up-rez a sub-native HD game instead of making it look even worse by applying an artificial sharpening filter right?
I hope you realize that if you prefer you can just turn your TV or monitor's sharpness setting to maximum and ruin your eyes.
The way MS had it set, people who didn't like the sharpening couldn't "unsharpen" it.
phosphor112
Banned
So will the people saying the sharpen filter and crushed black making BF4 on X1 look better than PS4 change their tune?
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Does anyone have BF4? I don't have an Xbox One but I know the games textures looks very different on my TV whenever I increase or decrease the sharp levels.
vpance
Member
Softer, but not blurry? Are you serious?
LinkToTheFuture
Member
I turned off my console even completely unplugged it to power it all the way down. Turned it back on with the touch button on the one. Then the dashboard came up as usual after over a minute. Still no update. So i xbox off'd it then waited 5 mins.. Turned it back on with xbox on and dash came up fast but still no update =(
My power brick however has almost always had a white light on in this state since launch. Its barely ever been orange unless i hold the power button on the console to turn it off.
I dont get why there isnt simply a check for updates. I have my preferences set to automatically download updates so whats going on?
My power brick however has almost always had a white light on in this state since launch. Its barely ever been orange unless i hold the power button on the console to turn it off.
I dont get why there isnt simply a check for updates. I have my preferences set to automatically download updates so whats going on?
Dreams-Visions
Member
Yes, quite. Softer is what my PC games look like when I run them slightly below native resolution. Blurry is something associated with things being difficult to see. "Blurry" is what happens to the screen when you pan or sprint in KZSF, for example. Or when an EMP was dropped in BF4 before they removed the visual effect. Uncomfortable to look at and often headache-inducing. Nothing here is difficult to see or look at; it's simply softer down the lines and edges.
Or is that difficult for you to wrap your brain around?
Your power brick should always be white. In the last update, the brick would blink white when the update was ready to install. However, many have said this update, their power brick didn't blink....and just by taking it out of sleep mode the update would start downloading. It looks like the method that worked last time isn't working. Seems like the updates are just being dished out randomly, and you can't force it to install.
EDIT: I agree with you though. They try to make updates more "seamless" by having them automatically download, but when your update isn't downloading, it becomes frustrating that you can't just go to a section and initiate the update (like you do on your phone or PC).
Caayn
Member
Have it in instant-on mode. It's updating when the Xbox logo starts to softly blink. Or if you come home and the PSU is orange instead of white it's done a system update.
Try turning it off completely(energy saving mode) reboot and turn instant-on on. Shut it down and wait a couple of minutes till the Xbox logo softly blinks.
The Elite
BOSS
This should also make the scaler much better. Anyone with the Titanfall beta should try a before/after
From the other thread.
Makes me wonder if this was a Respawn request along with the controller fix.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=100854863&postcount=336
Confirmation from Respawn dev.
This should also make the scaler much better. Anyone with the Titanfall beta should try a before/after
Confirmation from Respawn dev.
absolutely...completely different things...
Blackthorn
"hello?" "this is vagina"
Great move, more and more steps towards making the system more attractive.
Yeah I tried that. I turn Energy Saving On. Then I did a hard reboot. Turned on Instant On, and put it in sleep. Guess I'll try waiting 15 min this time.
Yes. FXAA makes a picture softer, for eaxmple. Sub native resolution is just blurry. Very much so.
Dis
M_A_C
Member
looks pretty noticeable on all these shots now for sure.
How did you get your update to install? Still trying to get mine to. =/
LinkToTheFuture
Member
Ok followed the steps and now the xbox one is off. You are saying that it will just randomly start blinking white on the power button at some point?
id take an upscaled image over an upscaled image that is molested by a sharpening filter ALL DAY EVERY DAY
digoutyoursoul
Member
Anyone tried COD Ghosts ?
the Xbox light will flash for 30 secs or so ,after it stops flashing turn on your xbox it wiil start updating
does the sharpness setting on your TV change the contrast ratio?
Hawk269
Member
Not sure where to put this request for help so here it goes.
I just moved and reconnected all my Audio Video Gear. For some reason, every once in a while, The Xbox One will change the audio to just stereo versus the 7.1 I set it at. Prior to moving it never did this as well. It is completely random when it does it. For example, the first few days of reconnecting it, it would change all the time. For the last 36 hours it was fine staying at 7.1, but today when I got home, it magically changed itself to Stereo.
Any ideas on what I should look into?
Thanks for any help!
I just moved and reconnected all my Audio Video Gear. For some reason, every once in a while, The Xbox One will change the audio to just stereo versus the 7.1 I set it at. Prior to moving it never did this as well. It is completely random when it does it. For example, the first few days of reconnecting it, it would change all the time. For the last 36 hours it was fine staying at 7.1, but today when I got home, it magically changed itself to Stereo.
Any ideas on what I should look into?
Thanks for any help!
No, they're blurry. Upscaling 720p to 1080p results in blur. Dead Rising is incredibly blurry.
I don't understand why this would be a respawn request. I mean, I get why it is or was, but it had to be fixed for every game. It was broken previously. Developers were actively avoiding using it.
GoofsterStud
Member
So any news on the crush blacks? Great news, just seems they would fix both at the same time.
Caayn
Member
It worked for me and others are saying that it worked for them too. But it doesn't seem to work for everyone.
AgentP
Thinks mods influence posters politics. Promoted to QAnon Editor.
Not sure about that, I think upscaling is similar to a Gaussian blur.
id agree with them being blurry...but the images were already blurry...the edges were just sharpened to hell and back...the result of removal of the sharpening filter is a "softer" image, not one that is more blurry
put it this way...if im watching a bluray on my TV...its in 1080p...no scaling....
- if i crank the sharpness up to 100...the image is overly sharp...
- if i drop the sharpness to 0...the image is not BLURRY....it is soft...
in the case of the Xbone...we had blurry upscaled images...with razor wire edges due to sharpening...now we have blurry upscaled images that have more natural soft edges...ill take the second scenario every time
brightsons
Member
The same thing happens to me except I have mine set to 5.1 uncompressed and it drives me insane.
Yeah, this method worked for me for the last update. But I'm not having luck this time. Oh well. I guess it will eventually roll out for me. Bleh.
Oh it is definitely better. And if you don't think so, you can add a Serrated Ass filter by fiddling with your TV.
Gamma is still skewed. I don't know why they have it like that, it was the same with the 360. I guess it's a weird preference of whoever is in charge of these things.
Ol No Bones
Banned
No comparisons yet?
which i think is perfectly acceptable...some people shockingly liked it...so now they can do it manually on their own...but it should have never been implemented by the console...
personally i probably have the sharpness settings a little high on my TV...though i have a Rear Projection DLP which has a naturally softer image to begin with...and i like a little extra contrast in my life as well lol