HDR and Bloom Off

[CHASE6]

I’m curious about your opinions. I use Cyrodiil ENB and just realized the game looks better with HDR off. I’d never disabled the lighting effects before and I think the visuals are much cleaner, crisp and not over-bright. I’m wondering if anyone else has tried this and agrees.

[WhateverWorks]

I have always played with Bloom and HDR turned off, both look terrible in this game. I even have screenshot comparisons on here to show it. I do overhaul the game visually, and I have reshade running on it too, but the built in bloom and HDR both look like ***.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3111781399
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3118194283
The bloom in particular makes everything stone super bright, like blindingly so. Don't have any shots with that though.

[theo]

I turn them off in any game, it's pretty much common knowledge that they just emulate a camera stained with oil, or vision of a drunk person.
It's especially bad and extreme in Oblivion because it was one of the first game to utilize HDR

[CHASE6]

Right. I had never turned off HDR as I was under the impression it was supposed to provide a better look. Now I see it doesn't lol. Thanks.

[CHASE6]

I’ve also notice the visual quality of textures is greatly improved. Probably because they aren’t glowing. Lol

[arbenzlola]

Wish someone had told me this a decade ago

[CHASE6]

Ya same

[Уединение]

Bloom is awful from what I've seen. Can't even turn HDR on in Oblivion so wouldn't know if it's any good or not.

[CHASE6]

Originally posted by Snow:

Bloom is awful from what I've seen. Can't even turn HDR on in Oblivion so wouldn't know if it's any good or not.

I always used hdr over bloom, even back in 2007 PS3 days. Just realizing now they both suck. Also, just got a 4K monitor; do it…amazing.

[Hobbit XIII]

Originally posted by arbenzlola:

Wish someone had told me this a decade ago

Me too!