Brightness/Gamma issues, even during daytime

[Skooma]

Even during the peak of daytime, the game world never feels properly illuminated. I don't know how to explain it but it feels AWFUL to play. Is there any kind of way to fix this without using a third party tool to change my gamma or color settings? The white glow from the sky is also awful, it's like I'm playing on a TV placed next to a window.

[Necramonium™]

Turn on HDR, than it looks correct.

[LostRealist]

Assuming you're not wildly exaggerating I would strongly suggest browsing the settings of your display device. Just off a hunch that sounds like something's going on there.

[Rick James Bish]

2nd what LostRealist stated. I am running default display settings and default GPU settings ( no HDR). I have no issues that come close to what you describe. I would set everything back to default and make sure you test with no mods loaded.

[Skooma]

I have defaulted my display device. Normally I use set my color range to 'Full' on my NVIDIA Settings, which makes my desktop look great, but normally this makes most of my games darker than they should be. so when I'm playing many games, I will switch color range back to "limited", which usually gives me the the view I expect. While this does help slightly with Reforger, it definitely doesn't fix the problem. I do appreciate the insight though.

[LostRealist]

Originally posted by Rick James Bish:

2nd what LostRealist stated. I am running default display settings and default GPU settings ( no HDR). I have no issues that come close to what you describe. I would set everything back to default and make sure you test with no mods loaded.

Yeah, same here. Granted, there's definitely some brightness things in Reforger that can be a little jarring - I experienced a blindingly bright sky the other day for example, when the sun came out after a rainstorm in the late afternoon - but even when they're kinda overdone, you can normally still tell where they're coming from and what they're going for. And there's definitely not such a strong difference between Reforger and other games for me.

So what you're seeing really isn't normal... but I'm not sure what you could do about it right now. I think I would probably get into my settings, first in my monitor, then in the drivers and then the game, just ♥♥♥♥ around with things that sound related until there's observable effects. Sorry mate, not super wise but that's all I got.
If I had to blindly wager money here, I'd say it's the NVIDIA driver. somehow. Again, just a hunch though.