Hi,

I am running on Windows 8.1 with all updates applied and an ATI Radeon HD4870 graphics card with the latest and only driver for Windows8.1 install.

I dont have any graphics problems with any of the other 170 games in my gog collection.

But for some reason I just cant seem to get Pixel Piracy to render in focus.

I have tried both Windowed mode and full screen so far without any luck fixing the issue.

The effect is kind of like trying to focus on a 3D movie without the 3D glasses on so as such makes the game unplayable.

did you even try the depth settings, bloom, stuff like those? There are a few settings besides fullscreen and window.

Yes I have tried all the options and I see the same thing on my desktop with an ATI graphics card, my work desktop with an nVidia card and my MS Surface with intel video, so it does not seem to be hardware dependant. Unless of course having a high end graphics card with AA forced would reduce or fix the issue.

So it would seem that the blurry headache causing out of focus rendering at the edges of the screen is a feature of the rendering engine for some reason.

An update/fix has been promised more than a year ago see http://steamcommunity.com/app/264140/discussions/0/41973821362462610/ but so far they don't seem to have done anything about it.

I have attached some screen grabs to show the issue more clearly. If you look at the same text that says "Bones" when rendered at the side of the screen and in the middle to see what I am talking about, the prates talking also show the same effect as well.

I Just wanted to say I found a fix to my out of focus graphics issue with this game.

You need to go into the options for the game and disable all the following.

Bloom, Depth Motion Blur and finally Vignette.

Its Vignette that causes the migraine mode bug/feature which makes the screen out of focus at the edges.