Character surrounded by red aura

[Finwë]

Hi everyone, I'm noticing that in certain scenes, characters appear surrounded by a red aura depending on the lighting. I've tried everything I can think of to fix it: verified game files, restarted, removed the GPU overclock, and even reset all my custom settings in the Nvidia Control Panel — but nothing seems to work.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Specs:
Processor: Ryzen 7 7800X3D
GPU: RTX 5080

[giasof]

I am glad I am not the only one having this issue. I am also on RTX 5080

[Finwë]

It's strange, I saw another post from someone who had this same problem with an RTX 5070 T.I. I don't know if it's something that only happens in the 50 series.

[Cobalt]

Same. RTX 5080

[Bag and Tag]

Can also confirm on 5080

[Bag and Tag]

Fixed it guys!!!!
I fixed it by uninstalling the drivers with DDU and then reinstalling them.
But after I found out that the latest drivers have some bugs with the 5000 series — in shadow areas everything looked way too dark, to the point where characters were almost invisible.
So I downloaded an hotfix from Nvidia:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5650/~/geforce-hotfix-display-driver-version-576.15
So try to directly install this driver (or if you prefer use DDU and then download it).

Hope this was helpful!

[giasof]

I already was on 576.15, but reinstalling it after using DDU effectively worked, thank you^^

[Cobalt]

Originally posted by Bag and Tag:

Fixed it guys!!!!
I fixed it by uninstalling the drivers with DDU and then reinstalling them.
But after I found out that the latest drivers have some bugs with the 5000 series — in shadow areas everything looked way too dark, to the point where characters were almost invisible.
So I downloaded an hotfix from Nvidia:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5650/~/geforce-hotfix-display-driver-version-576.15
So try to directly install this driver (or if you prefer use DDU and then download it).

Hope this was helpful!

It didn't work for me. Uninstall 576.02 with DDU and install 576.15: red aura still here

[Finwë]

Hi guys, I followed the recommendation from Bag and Tag in his comment. In my case, I already had the Nvidia hotfix 576.15 installed. I reinstalled everything from scratch using DDU in Safe Mode, but it didn’t work for me — the red aura issue in the game was still there.

I then uninstalled the drivers again using DDU in Safe Mode, but this time I disabled the "Keep NVIDIA Control Panel Global / Program Settings" option in DDU. After reinstalling the hotfix 576.15 and testing the game, everything worked perfectly.

From this, I concluded that the visual glitch is caused by a custom setting in the NVIDIA Control Panel. In my case — and I assume it’s the same for many of you — I like to tweak a lot of settings both in the NVIDIA Control Panel and with NVIDIA Profile Inspector. So, I have many personalized adjustments applied over the default configuration.

When the game was working fine, I loaded my custom profile in NVIDIA Profile Inspector, which includes all my tweaks. After testing the game again, the red aura reappeared. I disabled my custom profile, and everything returned to normal.

This confirmed my suspicion. I spent a couple of hours testing, disabling one setting at a time, and found that the problem is related to modifying the default value of "Anisotropic Filtering - Setting". I normally set this to x16 to improve texture filtering quality across all my games. However, it seems this particular game has issues when anisotropic filtering is manually set.

Once I reset this setting to its default value and tested the game, everything worked without any issues.

My recommendation: keep your general profile with your preferred settings, but for this specific game, create a separate profile in the NVIDIA Control Panel or NVIDIA Profile Inspector and set "Anisotropic Filtering - Setting" to the driver default.

[Cobalt]

Originally posted by Finwë:

Hi guys, I followed the recommendation from Bag and Tag in his comment. In my case, I already had the Nvidia hotfix 576.15 installed. I reinstalled everything from scratch using DDU in Safe Mode, but it didn’t work for me — the red aura issue in the game was still there.

I then uninstalled the drivers again using DDU in Safe Mode, but this time I disabled the "Keep NVIDIA Control Panel Global / Program Settings" option in DDU. After reinstalling the hotfix 576.15 and testing the game, everything worked perfectly.

From this, I concluded that the visual glitch is caused by a custom setting in the NVIDIA Control Panel. In my case — and I assume it’s the same for many of you — I like to tweak a lot of settings both in the NVIDIA Control Panel and with NVIDIA Profile Inspector. So, I have many personalized adjustments applied over the default configuration.

When the game was working fine, I loaded my custom profile in NVIDIA Profile Inspector, which includes all my tweaks. After testing the game again, the red aura reappeared. I disabled my custom profile, and everything returned to normal.

This confirmed my suspicion. I spent a couple of hours testing, disabling one setting at a time, and found that the problem is related to modifying the default value of "Anisotropic Filtering - Setting". I normally set this to x16 to improve texture filtering quality across all my games. However, it seems this particular game has issues when anisotropic filtering is manually set.

Once I reset this setting to its default value and tested the game, everything worked without any issues.

My recommendation: keep your general profile with your preferred settings, but for this specific game, create a separate profile in the NVIDIA Control Panel or NVIDIA Profile Inspector and set "Anisotropic Filtering - Setting" to the driver default.

The recommendation works, thanks

[Gatki]

Thanks, I restored the default settings in the 3D settings and it's fine. <3

[Ghokury]

Originally posted by Finwë:

Hi guys, I followed the recommendation from Bag and Tag in his comment. In my case, I already had the Nvidia hotfix 576.15 installed. I reinstalled everything from scratch using DDU in Safe Mode, but it didn’t work for me — the red aura issue in the game was still there.

I then uninstalled the drivers again using DDU in Safe Mode, but this time I disabled the "Keep NVIDIA Control Panel Global / Program Settings" option in DDU. After reinstalling the hotfix 576.15 and testing the game, everything worked perfectly.

From this, I concluded that the visual glitch is caused by a custom setting in the NVIDIA Control Panel. In my case — and I assume it’s the same for many of you — I like to tweak a lot of settings both in the NVIDIA Control Panel and with NVIDIA Profile Inspector. So, I have many personalized adjustments applied over the default configuration.

When the game was working fine, I loaded my custom profile in NVIDIA Profile Inspector, which includes all my tweaks. After testing the game again, the red aura reappeared. I disabled my custom profile, and everything returned to normal.

This confirmed my suspicion. I spent a couple of hours testing, disabling one setting at a time, and found that the problem is related to modifying the default value of "Anisotropic Filtering - Setting". I normally set this to x16 to improve texture filtering quality across all my games. However, it seems this particular game has issues when anisotropic filtering is manually set.

Once I reset this setting to its default value and tested the game, everything worked without any issues.

My recommendation: keep your general profile with your preferred settings, but for this specific game, create a separate profile in the NVIDIA Control Panel or NVIDIA Profile Inspector and set "Anisotropic Filtering - Setting" to the driver default.

Thank for the help, moderator Jack.
I feel everyone with 5080 who likes to change settings got this issue.