Textures/lighting look low-quality after migrating to 4.9

Hello,

I migrated my project from 4.8 to 4.9 today, and have not changed a thing. The texture/lighting in my project looks significantly worse in 4.9. Things looks splotchy and pixelated. I’ve included two photos from the same area below. First is 4.8, second is 4.9:

In particular, the whole left side of the room looks terrible. Ceiling is splotchy, edges are jagged and pixelated. Colors look off. What happened?

All my settings in the editor are set to ‘Epic’ Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I dont know about anyone else but ive noticed sometimes when first loading engine my textures are splotchy.When I hover over any of the materials in content browser it “refreshes” and everything looks right again…

Hi jessekirbs -

I have seen this sort of look before and it was usually the resolution scale setting in Engine Scalability was at 25 % even though all the settings were on EPIC.

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Can you look to see if that is the case, if so or not let us know -

Thank You

Eric Ketchum

Unfortunately, this was not the issue. My resolution scale is at 100%. Thank you for the suggestion, though. Any other ideas? Might just have to stick with 4.8 for now, but I’d rather not.

4.9 has a ton of bugs forcing me to continue working in 4.8 even for prototypes. Its a well known bug in 4.9 that wont be solved until 4.10 that anti-aliasing went from like 16x to 1x for example with no way to fix it.

I think were stuck this way until some more hotfixes or 4.10 in a couple few months.

Have you tried deleteing your intermediate folder so you can rebuild all shaders and lighting?

Hope this helps
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So a few things to check. Look at your Material Quality and Preview Rendering Level and make sure they are set to High and Shader Model 5. Also test your Post Process settings AA settings by switching from Temporal AA to FXAA. Also if you have not already done so, try rebuilding lighting.

Let me know -

Eric Ketchum

Hi jessekirbs -

We currently have an engineer that is looking into this issue, as I know more I will post back here for you.

Thank You

Eric Ketchum