real solar system moon textures look grainy

[astronaut_]

They look different compared to what I've seen other people get in RSS. I'm running 16k, and my ground textures look like this: 

and not like this, which is how they're supposed to with a plain RSS install: 

I ran the express CKAN install too many times to count and have tried switching versions a few times but nothing happens. I'm running 1.12.5 currently.  Am I doing something wrong

[astronaut_]

edit: managed to get the ground textures looking okay by copying from mercury's cfg file. however i cant get parallax to load in at all, if anyone knows how to do that it would be awesome