Chromatic Aberration

[Fëanor]

Am I missing it somewhere, or is there really no way to disable the awful, nauseating chromatic aberration effect? It's particularly bad on the Steam Deck's small screen. I have no idea why developers always enable this by default, and I'm completely perplexed as to why they wouldn't allow you to turn it off.

[AmberAnvil]

This might be what you're referring to:
Options / Camera / Vignette & Scanlines - Disabled.

[Fëanor]

Originally posted by AmberAnvil:

This might be what you're referring to:
Options / Camera / Vignette & Scanlines - Disabled.

That's it! Silly me, thinking the graphics settings would be in the graphics menu instead of the camera menu. 🙄

[wkitty42]

well, vignetting and scans lines are camera effects... i wouldn't expect to find them in graphics settings...

[Jouchebag]

Yeah Chromatic Aberration is literally emulating an effect of an actual camera.

But I agree. Turn off that setting. It's terrible.

[Fëanor]

Originally posted by wkitty42:

well, vignetting and scans lines are camera effects... i wouldn't expect to find them in graphics settings...

Because that's where those settings exist in virtually every other videogame that has them? They are, quite literally, graphics settings. The camera isn't real. It's virtual.

Originally posted by Jouchebag:

Yeah Chromatic Aberration is literally emulating an effect of an actual camera.

More accurately, it's emulating the effect of a cheap, low-quality camera lens. People pay thousands of dollars for good lenses that don't have chromatic aberration (tens of thousands or more for good movie camera lenses), and these devs are like "let's make our game CiNeMaTiC by adding an effect emulating the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lens that no serious photographer/videographer would ever use!" Blows my mind. What the hell are they thinking?

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by Fëanor:

these devs are like "let's make our game CiNeMaTiC by adding an effect emulating the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lens that no serious photographer/videographer would ever use!" Blows my mind. What the hell are they thinking?

It's used in a lot of games, usually has a toggle for it, but I agree... who the hell wants it? Who thinks it looks better?

I kind of understand the preference for Motion Blur (I never use it, hate it myself) but I don't see any benefits or enhancement of chromatic aberration.

[Cheburator]

Open file TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML, find <Property name="VignetteAndScanlines" value="true" />, correct true on false.