Low quality texture problem.

[halkion]

Today i decided i wanted to play some Gmod with my friends. But when I started it up, i got this!
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As you can see, I have every setting at max the background texture aswell as various other textures in-game are extremely low-res.
It is very annoying and makes me not want to play. This bug has also effected other games such as Team Fortress 2.
I even tried updating my catalyst drivers to 10.2 to see if that would alleviate the problem. Any help and response on this matter would be extremely
helpful, I have no idea what the problem is. I will post my computer specs below and any other information that might be useful.
Feel free to ask any questions about my computer if they could help solve the problem! ^_^



OS: Windows 7 Professional x64
CPU: AMD Phenom 9950 Quad Core ~2.6GHz
RAM: 4096MB DDR2 ~1066MHz
GPU: ATi Radeon HD 4870
Catalyst Version: 10.2
DirectX Version: 11
And I don't know if this could make a difference, but I am currently using the Steam beta UI.

[WhiteWolf]

I don't see the issue.

Also, you are NOT an Ancient.

[halkion]

Hurp durp, I am so an ancient! >_> (GLEE!! you can read ancient! ^-^)
You have to view the picture at 100% zoom, and then you will see the scary pixelation much more clearly.

[Divran]

I have the same graphics card. No problems here. Although I run at 1920x1080. Increase your resolution?

[Grocel]

Did you check the background texture to, maybe it's low res it self?

[halkion]

Nah, i made it myself. It's 1680x1050, which is my screen res. Here's another pic of the problem in-game.

[Grocel]

Did you try to set the texture quality to "high" instant of "very high", maybe it's broken.

[Big-Blue]

I got the same problem a year before...
It occured because I got 'Theme' programs on PC... Extra bars, moving backgrounds whatever. Just colorful and blinking shit.
When I uninstalled them, hooray, I got rid of it.
If you got some of these programs, just try your luck ^.^

[halkion]

:V I tried just the normal high settings and nothing. And i don't have any theme software either. :< i have Windows 7 which looks good enough to not need custom themes :P

[N00bDud3]

Some textures seem to be perfectly fine... Maybe you could try defragging your harddrive. That has helped me when some files worked and some didn't.
I see very little problem with anything but the main menu, but that's probably because I have a crappy computer that can barely run GMod on high...