What's with the washed out colors?

[J-&Dre]

The game looks washed out and colorless.

[MerlinW]

Use to it or use reshade.

[X__INFINITY__X]

I notice it only in the daytime. Same washed out filter/overlay similar to Starfield...
If you have Nvidia you can do the Alt+F3 filter option. This should help.

[J-&Dre]

Originally posted by X__INFINITY__X:

I notice it only in the daytime. Same washed out filter/overlay similar to Starfield...
If you have Nvidia you can do the Alt+F3 filter option. This should help.

Thanks. That is actually a good solution, for now =)

[periurban]

That's weird. I thought the opposite!

[J-&Dre]

The sun light look very over exposed. When inside buildings it looks, from what I can tell normal or intended.

I see people mention bloom, and adjusting bloom in Nvidia filters kind of verifies that.

[Skywalker]

Yes, too bright in daylight. And no ingame button to adjust brightness/contrast, which should be standard (or do I overlook the option)?

[J-&Dre]

Originally posted by Skywalker:

Yes, too bright in daylight. And no ingame button to adjust brightness/contrast, which should be standard (or do I overlook the option)?

I agree or at least a setting to turn off bloom.

As X__Infinity_XX suggested, if you have an Nvidia card, you can use Geforce Experience filters to somewhat tame the effect.

[Dre G Writer]

Originally posted by X__INFINITY__X:

I notice it only in the daytime. Same washed out filter/overlay similar to Starfield...
If you have Nvidia you can do the Alt+F3 filter option. This should help.

ooohhh shhhh***!!!!ttt, I didnt know about that! THIS WAS HERE THE WHOLE TIME!?

[J-&Dre]

Originally posted by Dre G Writer:

Originally posted by X__INFINITY__X:

I notice it only in the daytime. Same washed out filter/overlay similar to Starfield...
If you have Nvidia you can do the Alt+F3 filter option. This should help.

ooohhh ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I didnt know about that! THIS WAS HERE THE WHOLE TIME!?

More embarrassing for me, as I knew of them. Just didn't think of it to use that.

[Dre G Writer]

Originally posted by J-&Dre:

Originally posted by Dre G Writer:

ooohhh ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I didnt know about that! THIS WAS HERE THE WHOLE TIME!?

More embarrassing for me, as I knew of them. Just didn't think of it to use that.

Wow this made a HUGE difference. I turned the shadows up, turned the sharpness up since the DLSS made stuff too blurry, lowered the exposure a bit and that make the washed out colors issue OP described, gone.

So this works on any game???

[J-&Dre]

Originally posted by Dre G Writer:

Originally posted by J-&Dre:

More embarrassing for me, as I knew of them. Just didn't think of it to use that.

Wow this made a HUGE difference. I turned the shadows up, turned the sharpness up since the DLSS made stuff too blurry, lowered the exposure a bit and that make the washed out colors issue OP described, gone.

So this works on any game???

Should work in most games, if not all. At least games native to Windows 10/11.

[Skywalker]

Originally posted by X__INFINITY__X:

I notice it only in the daytime. Same washed out filter/overlay similar to Starfield...
If you have Nvidia you can do the Alt+F3 filter option. This should help.

You improved my gaming experience with enshrouded by 100%. Thank you! Don't know the ALT F3 option. And now I can adjust brightness and sharpen the washed-out graphic. And the game looks 100% better :)

[X__INFINITY__X]

Originally posted by Skywalker:

Originally posted by X__INFINITY__X:

I notice it only in the daytime. Same washed out filter/overlay similar to Starfield...
If you have Nvidia you can do the Alt+F3 filter option. This should help.

You improved my gaming experience with enshrouded by 100%. Thank you! Don't know the ALT F3 option. And now I can adjust brightness and sharpen the washed-out graphic. And the game looks 100% better :)

Glad I could help!

[thestile]

Yeah daytime looks washed out. I was hoping to turn down brightness so it wasn't so apparent, but there is no such option.

I'll mess with those Nvidia filter options and see if that helps.

[Gerarderloper]

I think the washed out effect comes from all the insane levels of bloom interacting with the generated cloudlet system that is going on. Even when you make a new base, the cloudlets will attach themselves to walls and stairs and the light bleeds into them creating a washed out bloom effect.

They certainly need to work on that! (probably a performance hog too)