Game is causing me eye strain

[BTGMX]

I got pretty bad case of eye strain from playing this game on my laptop, like I cannot play longer than an hour without my eyes feeling irritated. It's weird because I never experienced anything thing like this with other games on the same laptop, same room setting. I tried something with graphic setting, and set reflection to low seemed to relieve the pressure on my eyes a little bit. The game itself runs fine on ultra setting with 120 fps and I'm playing with motion blur off, Fov set to 80. Anyone else has similar experience? Is there a solution to this?

[dcy665]

Never knew it would run on a laptop

[BTGMX]

Yeah apparently gaming laptops have really good performance nowadays. I got stable 60 fps in Cyberpunk with DLSS enabled and my eyes didn't feel a thing with all the actions going on in that game. Maybe it's just me but I figured this game has pretty bad shadow/reflection optimization because everything in the background appear to be way too bright. On a second note, maybe the game has poor compatibility with 16 inch oled? Cuz when I first played this game on a 4k TV screen everything was normal, and the game looked quite amazing. A shame I have to put this game down for something like this... the game itself is really solid.

[Turuk Makto]

Originally posted by BTGMX:

Yeah apparently gaming laptops have really good performance nowadays. I got stable 60 fps in Cyberpunk with DLSS enabled

Funny that people call 60 fps with the need to turn on dlss to reach it "good performance".

From my point of view everything below 100 is bad performance :)

Which is why I would never buy a game that can just deliver 60 fps like some of the recent arrivals do. People with a 4080/4090 would wonder why they spent so much money if they would just get 60 fps.

If I'd play on a laptop not just my eyes would strain :P

[BTGMX]

LOL, god forbid people use alternative gaming device, cuz PC master-race amirite? I just wanna point out some of graphic problems with the PC port but yall gonna tunnel vision on this "ew laptop bad" like what do you think people would play on a laptop? Tetris?
As for the problem itself, I figured out the game heavily relies on HDR to pull everything together, so that the color panel in your view would achieve a smoother gradation toward the background to make it appears more natural to the eyes. No other game I played on this laptop requires HDR as much as this one does and my laptop monitor just so happen to not support HDR. Now with a external HDR monitor plugged in, I can finally play this game on this laptop. Nvida dlss has by far the best upscaling texture for me due to my gpu being a 4070 and I'm getting 240 fps no stress. So yeah, Cheers mate

[Turuk Makto]

Originally posted by BTGMX:

but yall gonna tunnel vision on this "ew laptop bad" like what do you think people would play on a laptop? Tetris?

Sounds about right :)

I know games can be played smoothly on laptops, but those cost like 3k+ and for that money a PC is the better option anyways. A 700 bucks laptop is enough for work related stuff, if it even has to cost 700,

Originally posted by BTGMX:

As for the problem itself, I figured out the game heavily relies on HDR to pull everything together,

It does? My monitor supports HDR but I never activated it because I dont like it that bright playing at night thus I run it at 25 % brightness :)

Eye strain is subjective thus different for everyone but its good that you found a solution for yourself.