What graphics setting is washing out my screen.

[Qiox]

3070ti
Have not touched the settings in a few years in this game. It used to be fine.

Since the Words 2 update, it is like I'm getting flash-banged by everything, including my inventory screens.

Here's the weirdest thing. I took screenshots and the screenshots look ok'ish.

For example, the little blue and white blurb under the resource name that says "carbon" or whatever... those are pure white and burn like a thousand suns and the text is invisible on all of them in the game world. BUT. If I take a screen shot they look fine.

WTF do I need to turn off?


EDIT
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It was HDR. Off and everything is back to normal.

[Ozwald]

A bunch of idiots complained that dark things were "too dark". So we got shafted with a this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ high gamma lighting in the last update. Freighters & caves look like absolute ♥♥♥♥.

[Qiox]

I literally can't play. 3/4 of my inventory slots glow like the surface of the sun and I can't tell what anything is.

[Foxglovez]

Gamma is bad and the screen filled with fog/mist/crap effects like we are in the middle of a volcanic ashfall is making the game a lot less fun. I hope this isn't a portent of what LNF will be like. At least give us gamma adjustment but I miss being able to see.

[CatPerson]

Do you have HDR enabled - either in-game or maybe Windows or nvidia panel if it has that option or something. If so, maybe something's messing it up with this game.

If not - no idea. That's my one idea.
Worlds 2 did increase the gamma of indoors (base parts) and certain caves somewhat, looking a bit more washed out. I had to do my own tweaking to make that less terrible. But that shouldn't wash out menus or text boxes and stuff like that?

[CatPerson]

Postscript: btw, why doesn't this game have ANY in-game brightness setting/slider at all? I just double-checked, and there is nothing? Seems kind unusual in this day and age, and all the patches over the years, to not have a setting option for at least that.

I use a OLED TV that has a nice remote so changing settings for it on the fly isn't very bothersome, but I know some monitors are a PITA to alter settings manually if you have to do it constantly. I remember one monitor I had (long ago) had the buttons kind of on the side-back of the thing. And these days too many button inputs vs. very old days of an actual dial on the monitor. I remember brightness dials on CRT's. Those were nice, in terms of functionality.

[Ozwald]

Do you already have a cane you'd like to shake at the clouds or kids on your lawn?

You can borrow one of mine if you need one.

[WarBucks]

the hdr 400/600/1000 setting seems to be reversed so if you are using hdr set it to 1000 and it will max peak at 400. The oled might call for the middle setting.

In fact windows 11 just added a new Hdr calibration app. Maybe try that first to save a profile?

[ItzaLaggin]

İlk olarak Qiox tarafından gönderildi:

3070ti
Have not touched the settings in a few years in this game. It used to be fine.

Since the Words 2 update, it is like I'm getting flash-banged by everything, including my inventory screens.

Here's the weirdest thing. I took screenshots and the screenshots look ok'ish.

For example, the little blue and white blurb under the resource name that says "carbon" or whatever... those are pure white and burn like a thousand suns and the text is invisible on all of them in the game world. BUT. If I take a screen shot they look fine.

WTF do I need to turn off?

hate to say it but yea its hard on my old eyes

[Qiox]

HDR off and the game no longer causes eye cancer.

Thanks!

[maestro]

Does HDR affect ring planets? I hate flying through rings or having my back face the sun, because for some reason, this causes all the screens inside the cockpit to go pure white and I can't see crap on them.

Would love to know how sunlight goes through the back of what should be my very solid starship... and/or how rings cause my screens to go white to where you can't read them.

[CatPerson]

İlk olarak Ozwald tarafından gönderildi:

Do you already have a cane you'd like to shake at the clouds or kids on your lawn?

You can borrow one of mine if you need one.

LOL - I have plenty of canes in my closest also.

Btw there is a "Brightness" setting in the TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML file, in the lowermost section (open it with Notepad or something).
steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS

BUT the caveat is you have to make that file Read Only, or the game sets it back to default upon game open/load. Which means you can't make any graphic options changes on the fly, instead. If you're happy with and rarely/never change graphic settings tho, it's an option of sorts.

I have no idea why they didn't attach it to an in-game slider. It's almost like some odd oversight. I think the default was 50 (can't remember, sorry) and I put it down to 40. Works on planet surfaces and some caves situations. Base/interior may still look washed out with the threshold brightening however -brightness doesn't do anything for gamma/contrast or over bright ray/sun effects. For me even the planet surfaces were too bright, a lot, since W2.

I tried it down to 30 and on my screen that made it pitch black in some spots/night, not even the torch helped much, heh. YMMV.