Super dark?

[Benobi]

Hello guys and girls

So i bought evil within on the sale and I was super excited to play it when i finally had it downloaded i got into the game everything was super dark and I couldnt see the characters faces. It seemed like the black was very prodominant. Is anyone else having this problem or can help me solve it? I took screen shots of the problem for clarification and also of the settings of the game. I just want to play it already!

Thanks and Merry Christmas!

[M.]

First time I read about that so no, it's not something common.
I didn't even have to change the gamma so dark areas really look dark and not grey.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/268050/discussions/0/619568793806855736/

this?

[AlucarD]

mhm post some screenshots otherwise its hard to tell. The game itself has some dark areas and I believe it will even black out on purpose during the game 2-3 times or so. One time it blacked out on me and I thought it crashed but the light just went off in the save room lol and sometimes I wasnt even sure if my lamp was on or not because some ares were so dark but thats mostly part of the game I would say.

[Benobi]

Its on my steam profile right now under the evil within. haha oh man well hopefully ill be ready for that when i get there! no i know its exceptionally dark because in the very cut scene i cant even see the characters faces.

[AlucarD]

ah when you have blacked out faces it must be some graphics card issues, what PC setup are you using ? Try to lower Shadows and just try different settings, this game is very demanding on some decent graphic cards and I am not even 100% sure if it runs perfectly on some AMD cards.

[Benobi]

I'm using the hp Probook 4540s which i dont think is the worst computer, its mainly a school one but i still run plenty of games well enough on it so im confused as to why it would completely blackout the characters.

[Thecak3isalie]

dont forget to adjust your moniter and the color and brightness settings of your graphics card !

[Benobi]

I wouldnt have even thoguht of that! im not the greatest with computers but ill have to try that out! is it just in the settings im guessing?

[AlucarD]

The hp Probook 4540s is decent but... be aware of two things !

-you probably have an i5 Ivy bridge CPU which already has a graphics card integrated which is too weak for this game and meant for office applications

-you probably have a dedicated Radeon HD 7650M 2GB graphics card on that laptop which is also probably too weak for this game

I have tested this game on a Asus K53S Laptop which has a sandybridge i5 and a GT 540m 2GB and it ran like crap, so my conclussion is ! Unleast you have some decent gaming laptop, avoid playing The Evil Within like plague on a laptop !

Play this on a decent desktop PC, I am serious !!!

[Benobi]

so youre saying i should try to get a refund and probably get it for xbox? haha is there any way that would be cheap enough to get a new graphics card strong enough to get the game to work or probably not? Thank you so very much for your help, i really appreciate it!

[Gabi]

Originally posted by Schreifels5:

so youre saying i should try to get a refund and probably get it for xbox? haha is there any way that would be cheap enough to get a new graphics card strong enough to get the game to work or probably not? Thank you so very much for your help, i really appreciate it!

gpu's are soldered onto the mobo in laptops. Outside of that issue does it run fine for you? The comnole editions runa t 30fps with many dips below. So not exactly hard to outperform what is there.

[Benobi]

yeah besides that fact that i cannot see, it runs pretty well which is frusterating. I've been waiting to play this game since october.

[Gabi]

Have you tried reinstalling your drivers?