2K5 looks terrible on the 360

[dragon4ever]

I'm playing on a 21 inch HD monitor hooked up to my 360 Elite via a HDMI cable and the quality of the graphics are worse than on the original Xbox. First of all, the color of the game is way too dark. I set the brightness on the monitor to the max and it's still too dark. Second, the game doesn't fit the entire screen. I have all my settings set to widescreen and have my consloe set to 1280 x 1024. All the other games that I play look fantastic on these extact same settigs. Is this a common issue with playing 2K5 on the 360?

[Ram209]

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I went back to playing it on the regular XBOX. On the 360 you have to turn your 360 resolution to 480i and turn off widescreen then it looks better.

[daflyboys]

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Neither do my Atari 2600 or Mattel Intellivision games.

[Bulldogs78]

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I'm playing on a 21 inch HD monitor hooked up to my 360 Elite via a HDMI cable and the quality of the graphics are worse than on the original Xbox. First of all, the color of the game is way too dark. I set the brightness on the monitor to the max and it's still too dark. Second, the game doesn't fit the entire screen. I have all my settings set to widescreen and have my consloe set to 1280 x 1024. All the other games that I play look fantastic on these extact same settigs. Is this a common issue with playing 2K5 on the 360?

That's your problem. You're playing it on a 21 inch screen. I'm playing it on a 42 inch and it looks great.

[daflyboys]

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That's your problem. You're playing it on a 21 inch screen. I'm playing it on a 42 inch and it looks great.

Flat screen size is the new pen1s envy!

[Alai]

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I can overlook most of the graphic glitzes, but the white 5 yard lines on the field start to flicker, make it very annoying to the eyes. If someone knows how to rid of that problem, I'd love to try again.

[MC Fatigue]

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I don't think it looks terrible, but it doesn't look very good either. There do seem to be some glitches - like the guy above me mentioned, I get the lines on the field flickering or disappearing constantly.

[GoToledo]

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That's your problem. You're playing it on a 21 inch screen. I'm playing it on a 42 inch and it looks great.

I have to agree. I am also playing it on a 42 inch screen and it looks spectacular. In fact, it looks so good that my wife didn't believe at first it was a last gen game.

[SoxFan01605]

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I dunno, I've played it on both a large screen (57in) and a smaller one (27in). It looks pretty good on both. Clearly last gen, but excellent last gen...lol. I get the occasional ficker from the white lines, but it's still a good looking game.

[Blitzburgh]

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I can overlook most of the graphic glitzes, but the white 5 yard lines on the field start to flicker, make it very annoying to the eyes. If someone knows how to rid of that problem, I'd love to try again.

I have the same thing and i use a samsung 52" plasma (great tv by the way). Anyways, you can do one of a few things to help reduce the flicker every five yards. One is change your xbox display setting to 480p or 720p helps. When using 1080p, I get the most flicker. When i switched it to 1080i it was reduced but still there. Playing it at 480i and non-widescreen will reduce the flicker but it doesn't look as good.

What I did was turned down the contrast drastically and reduced the brightness. I also always have the sharpness at 10-15, very low. I then play it on 720p most of the time and it looks pretty dam good. If I forget and leave it at 1080p I willsee some flickering but I just deal with it.

[kfig5]

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This thread surprised me...while it's not as great as next-gen, say NBA 2K9, realism...I still think this game looks awesome. I'm playing my 360 on a 42" plasma, using HDMI and set at 720p. The only thing I think looks really cheesy is Virtual Berman. In game it moves fluid, and looks great...I'll see if I can upload some pics.

[daflyboys]

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This thread surprised me...while it's not as great as next-gen, say NBA 2K9, realism...I still think this game looks awesome. I'm playing my 360 on a 42" plasma, using HDMI and set at 720p. The only thing I think looks really cheesy is Virtual Berman. In game it moves fluid, and looks great...I'll see if I can upload some pics.

No jaggies?

[kfig5]

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No jaggies?

I didn't really notice any, nor did I notice any flicker on the field lines.

[nyczrich]

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Man I'd love to see what it looks like on a bigger screen

I'm playing on a 19" monitor and it looks so undetailed

please upload pics, I'm starving for 2k5 HD pics