Really dark and hard to see even on max brightness?

[Xeawn ~Rafa~]

Is anyone else running into this? I've got my monitors on max, the game on max, everything, and it's super difficult to see during the opening, even during the daytime training sequence.

[Nephitis]

I have a Samsung G9 OLED monitor and for that type of display the nits brightness is quite good compared to competitors. However, Ghost of Tsushima seems to be innately dark for a game even when it is daylight in-game.

One solution to this is playing the game in HDR if your monitor supports it. And tweaking both HDR Max Luminance and HDR Paper White to what your monitor can handle. The max luminance (nits) setting will affect things like sunlight and moonlight.

Another solution on top of any HDR adjustments is to set the actual Brightness setting to 70 and above, and enhance any loss of color vibrance by setting Contrast to "dramatic". This will make shadow effects more easy on the eyes.

This can be slightly further improved by playing around with the Ambient Occlusion setting. Both SSAO and HBAO+ tend to apply more shadows around the edges of objects. XeGTAO will counter this a bit while still looking amazing. Adjusting Screen Space Shadows will also help.

[Who]

Originally posted by Xeawn ~Rafa~:

Is anyone else running into this? I've got my monitors on max, the game on max, everything, and it's super difficult to see during the opening, even during the daytime training sequence.

I don't have an OLED or HDR monitor I play the game on an Led other games seems to be fine and can be visible in the dark but GOT is really dark. I think it is a game issue or it might be a driver issue .
I have an Rx6650xt running on 24.5.1 and an AMD cpu ryzen 5 5600x . The game restarted my pc , the game have some graphical glitches and it crashes every time on stream.
Here is the link for proof==> https://www.youtube.com/live/sbv1OZGX5mI?si=Iq86wt66kAjo_r_A

[Mav1122]

My monitor support HDR, but it doesn't support it well enough. I've looked up info about my Asus TUF 35 UW. When i compare colours from screenshots from others compared to mine it looks like crap. That's why i don't use it

[Hichem]

Originally posted by Sam:

Yeah its so dark everything kinda looks washed out.

because you play on ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ips, buy oled

[Xeawn ~Rafa~]

https://www.nexusmods.com/ghostoftsushima/mods/34

Looks like we may have our solution. I'm going to try this out later tonight.

[Archer]

Originally posted by Xeawn ~Rafa~:

https://www.nexusmods.com/ghostoftsushima/mods/34

Looks like we may have our solution. I'm going to try this out later tonight.

Update please

[Hichem]

because all of you playing on ♥♥♥♥♥♥ IPS/VA monitor

[CH13F]

the difference between VA and New age OLED IPS monitors s like day and night. i got VA secondary secreen right here near me, i use it for only browsing net.

tbh they aint so new at this point but price difference really seperates them from others.

[Xeawn ~Rafa~]

Originally posted by Hichem:

because all of you playing on ♥♥♥♥♥♥ IPS/VA monitor

I mean...that's a pretty broad sweep to assume you know what every gamer on this forum has for their setup, friend...

[Subset6]

Aye it is on the dark side, 60 works for me on brightness without changing anything on my display.

[Ricky the Pooh]

Yeah the brightness is driving me nuts. No matter the settings, it's either too dark or too bright. There is no inbetween. Played it on PS4 prior and do not recall the brightness/contrast being this much of an issue.

[KyrenCross]

I think its just the game. They have no character light where an invisible light lights up your character, mostly the face, like in Forbidden West in dark areas.

So when its dark, specially indoors, you really need to up your brightness to see anything.
They can excuse realism, but its just does not look good, specially if you cant see anything to appreciate them visuals. A torch or a lantern would have been appreciated so you can light up them dark spots.

In photo mode, you up that exposure bias everytime to have a good looking shot.

I guess they are still new at this and would improve this as they go. Maybe they will implement it in Tsushima 2.

[Legolas]

LOL, I played the first 10 minutes on daytime and hardly see anything. So I decided to wait till evening. Perhaps that the artistic choice of the devs, or I have to get a better gaming monitor, mine is HDR 450 nits max.

[Valkynaz]

Mini LED, HDR Display here, 100% too dark in certain closed areas, most houses are ok, thematically dark but you can actually see things, certain enclosed areas however can be literally impossible to see in without bumping up the ingame brightness to 80-100.

Doesn't help that most internal light sources basically emit no real luminescence (I know it's set in like 1270-1280, but still, at least let the candles and torches emit light in dark areas at the very least guys)

Did get a little bit better when I calibrated my monitor correctly (Did it incorrectly via Windows tool last time, accidentally set the black point too low) but some areas are just too dark to see anything useful.

Like, I honestly like games not having forced lighting on models (Even though some random, uninteractable objects in this game DO have lighting for... some strange reason) but at least give us some sort of either character item to light up dark areas (And no, explosive arrows do NOT count to this, although that does work surprisingly well) or have the candles/torches light more then a 10cm area around them lol

[Legolas]

Originally posted by Valkynaz:

Mini LED, HDR Display here, 100% too dark in certain closed areas, most houses are ok, thematically dark but you can actually see things, certain enclosed areas however can be literally impossible to see in without bumping up the ingame brightness to 80-100.

Doesn't help that most internal light sources basically emit no real luminescence (I know it's set in like 1270-1280, but still, at least let the candles and torches emit light in dark areas at the very least guys)

Did get a little bit better when I calibrated my monitor correctly (Did it incorrectly via Windows tool last time, accidentally set the black point too low) but some areas are just too dark to see anything useful.

Like, I honestly like games not having forced lighting on models (Even though some random, uninteractable objects in this game DO have lighting for... some strange reason) but at least give us some sort of either character item to light up dark areas (And no, explosive arrows do NOT count to this, although that does work surprisingly well) or have the candles/torches light more then a 10cm area around them lol

Haha same, this is the first game ever I have to wait "physically" till night/midnight to play, my room is not dark enough.