washed out graphics

[dwtripp]

A21 and now the new V1.0 have very washed out graphics, no density to the color making it difficult to see with clarity. Nighttime is bright, no matter what i do, I have been running 7dtd on my Linux machine for the last 4 years with no issues. Other games, videos, etc are all all fine. This started with A21. Any ideas on what I might do in the options menu to correct? It's specific to 7dtd so it's not the monitor or graphics card... unless I missed something

[onanonehand8]

I don't have that problem. Everything looks similar to last version.

[Damian Ramirez]

turn down the brightness to 35%

[dwtripp]

Originally posted by Damian Ramirez:

turn down the brightness to 35%

Yeah, tried that. I went even lower. Just saw the new update so I'll try again. Thanks

[CatPerson]

They did do something re: the brightness or shadows or lighting or whatever so you could see a little better at night/in POI' without the headlight - at least I think I remember seeing something about that in the patch notes. >.>

Although overall it seems pretty much the same to me, as well. A tad brighter in terms of me leaving the game "brightness" at default vs. raising it a tiny bit.

Even if it's "not your monitor" etc, the changes could mean altering settings on TV/monitor could still help.

there was also a worldglobal.xml in the Config folder that you could fiddle with. Some people liked to use it because of "too dark", before - maybe if you did the opposite now? Haha.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/251570/discussions/0/3819662889075024762/

[Ancientdrake]

Do you mean it looks exactly like when you start a new game and there's that 'white bright wash' where everything is super white, like you're dazed? If so, I'm having the same exact issue. Doesn't happen on the normal version, but thought I'd give the experimental a go. It has to be some kind of a bug because the brightness setting doesn't do anything. Running linux kernel 6.1, nvidia 535.171.04 drivers. / hw - i7/1060 gtx. Also no matter what settings I select, it seems to do very little for the fps, stuck at 40max in the starting area with chops down to 25.

[Ancientdrake]

Ok, for some reason the fps is a bit better now. just shy of 50, with a few hiccups. But this overly bright environment is painful.

[dwtripp]

Originally posted by Ancientdrake:

Ok, for some reason the fps is a bit better now. just shy of 50, with a few hiccups. But this overly bright environment is painful.

That's it exactly. I did sort some of the issue out by fiddling more with the settings but yeah, the FPS is not good at all with the settings I'm using. Next time I play I'll screen shot them. There was a small update and that might have been what improved the visuals.

[Ancientdrake]

Ok...so a bit of an update. I tried to look all over for the solution to this. It seems some people may have encountered it going back years sometimes. No solution worked for me. I tried seeing if I could find the config file, which I did, not that it's any different to the ingame settings. I even put the 'Brightness' to 0. There was never any noticeable change. It feels like the gamma is overblown. It's like it ignores those settings or it just gets stuck on the 'bright white wash' when you first load the game up. It might be something with my side, but I don't know what it could be....never had this problem before.

BandAid Fix[/b]: I can't believe I'm saying this on a native linux client, but....Force the game to run with proton (I used Experimental). Sorted.

[LeftToFray]

Originally posted by Ancientdrake:

Ok...so a bit of an update. I tried to look all over for the solution to this. It seems some people may have encountered it going back years sometimes. No solution worked for me. I tried seeing if I could find the config file, which I did, not that it's any different to the ingame settings. I even put the 'Brightness' to 0. There was never any noticeable change. It feels like the gamma is overblown. It's like it ignores those settings or it just gets stuck on the 'bright white wash' when you first load the game up. It might be something with my side, but I don't know what it could be....never had this problem before.

BandAid Fix[/b]: I can't believe I'm saying this on a native linux client, but....Force the game to run with proton (I used Experimental). Sorted. [/quote]

I have this exact problem too. It's blown out from gamma and white wash, it makes it impossible to see things during the day.

[Ancientdrake]

Can you guys specify what kernal / linux distro, CPU/GPU and GPU driver you're running please?

[micro_fisk]

Debug mode recalc light did nothing. And brightness control does nothing.

OS: Linux 6.8 Fedora Linux 39 64bit
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor (cores: 16)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2 (6144 MB)
Graphics API: OpenGL 4.5.0 NVIDIA 550.90.07 (shader level 5.0)

[LeftToFray]

So, when I opened the launcher for 7dtd, I changed it from Vulcan to Directx11 and that fixed my brightness issue.

[Ancientdrake]

Originally posted by LeftToFray:

So, when I opened the launcher for 7dtd, I changed it from Vulcan to Directx11 and that fixed my brightness issue.

But that's not on Linux right? As there was no DX11 option there. (Linux doesn't do DX)

[Mardoin69]

Originally posted by Ancientdrake:

Originally posted by LeftToFray:

So, when I opened the launcher for 7dtd, I changed it from Vulcan to Directx11 and that fixed my brightness issue.

But that's not on Linux right? As there was no DX11 option there. (Linux doesn't do DX)

Probably not since the OP didn't mention using Linux. That was another person. However, if Linux is using Vulcan, that could still be the issue and you should try another option. Been too long since I used Linux for me to remember what those options were.

[PurpleNoxx]

I turned sun rays off. It was making the screen look washed out and faded.