Blurry / Fuzzy Text - Radeon 6850

[Kartoffel]

Hi all, I purchased Empire: Total war (complete with all the DLC's) via Steam during the after thanksgiving sale and here is my problem:

I've been having issues with the text in game. I currently have the most up to date drivers (11.11) for my Radeon HD 6850. All my other drivers are up to date as well (chip set, etc.).

I've done a search and noticed there's various issues, with different cards, but mots of those seem to be with Nividia cards.

I've tried my native resolution, full screen (on both of my monitors. 1440 x 900 and 1600 x 900) and my text is still blurry and headache inducing after five minutes. I've tried various resolutions, display settings within the game and I still have this issue. Is there a setting in the catalyst control center I'm overlooking?

I've included my dxdiag report as a a .zip in a attachment as well as some screen shots as an attachment and links to imgur.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

http://i.imgur.com/3bana.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/njDdb.jpg

[Kartoffel]

There no solution to this?
I got new drivers as of today (11.12) still, this problem persists.

Guess I'll just uninstall it and choc it up as another bugged out game, even after all the patching.

Thanks anyways...

[Sasu]

Quick forum search found me this thread: http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...-texts-problem (the last post has further links.).

You should include your dxdiag as described here: http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...before-posting! (reading this thread in its entirety is not a bad idea...).

[Iscaran]

You are running in a low res window - but then scale it back to "full screen" => image distortion causing blurriness.

Try running in a window without scaling - or run it with "centered timings selected in the "My digital flat panels" section of the catalyst driver controls.

[Kartoffel]

You should include your dxdiag as described here: http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...before-posting! (reading this thread in its entirety is not a bad idea...).

I did include a dxdiag in a zip file in the attachments. I don't see any specific instructions on how to post the diag. So instead of spamming this thread with with 3 posts for the diag, I thought i'd make it convenient and post it in a zip, as it wouldn't allow me to post the .txt due to file size limits.

I've also played this game in full screen, native resolution and I still have this problem.

[Kartoffel]

You are running in a low res window - but then scale it back to "full screen" => image distortion causing blurriness.

Try running in a window without scaling - or run it with "centered timings selected in the "My digital flat panels" section of the catalyst driver controls.

Cant select "Use centered timings" for some reason. The selections are greyed out even when I check / uncheck the "Enable GPU scaling" selection.

Oh well, I give up. Thanks anyhow guys. Game's already uninstalled.

[Iscaran]

Then perhaps the drivers is not installed correctly - perhaps try reinstalling them.

What kind/model of display do you have exactly.

[Kartoffel]

Samsung SynchMaster 941bw and Acer S201HL.

I could run driver sweeper, and reinstall them again if you want.

[Iscaran]

Not sure but it could be a driver limitation that you can only enable the GPU scaling if you use only 1 display.

[irishron]

I wonder if this game does not like the cpu being overclocked.