Very bad unit textures.

[PotetoChippu]

Hey guys, I just purchased FoTS from Steam today and had to download a 3 GB patch before I could play. However, upon playing I noticed that units that were at some distance away from the camera had very bad texture. You cannot see the detail on the units face at all, it is really bad. Not just the face but the armour as well. Units up close were fine and you can clearly see the difference between units up close and those further away. This did not happen when I only had Shogun 2 installed and I did not change any settings(everything is on max except with SSAO off and depth of field on low).

Does anyone else also have this problem?

Unfortunately I did not take a screenshot as evidence because I have already uninstalled the game. I will try reinstalling to see if it fixes anything.

[von stoker]

CA degraded the graphics with the release of FOTS to presumably compensate for larger (40 stack) armies and battlefield smoke. DOF, HDR, textures (blank faces), gloss, AA were all signifigantly downgraded. a recent patch corrected the gloss and HDR, but it's doubtful that they will return the pre FOTs graphics fully.
so it's not your pc or settings, its how the game is post FOTs.