Chocobo texture

[Zenaku]

my original on high texture quality
http://i.imgur.com/qpUkW.jpg
fooling around and put standard quality to lower memory usage trying to boost frames. and the Chocobo looks better.
http://i.imgur.com/Ytfn4.jpg

edit - checked and the same with the company flag.
high: http://i.imgur.com/Hc0Kf.jpg
standard: http://i.imgur.com/8tZ9H.jpg

edit2 - http://i.imgur.com/jNS6E.jpg
opening cutscene for ul'dah shows the chocobo helmets not blobs of brown and silver but actually look like leather.

what video card you guys using? i have a 450gt and my chocobo flag look like that on standard o.o