FIXED: Pip-Boy screen very darkened or (sometimes) lit up screen glitch.

[Hazzikaze]

This glitch is (or used to be) pretty common and it's happening to me. People say that it's because Ambient Occlusion and I tried setting it to HBAO+ or just off, but NOTHING'S WORKING. Vanilla game, no mods, Vault-Tec DLC and Automatron DLC.

I've been trying to fix this for THREE DAYS. Brand new purchase too.
Please please PLEEEASE help me.

MY SOLUTION: Go into the in-game menu's settings > Display > Pip-Boy colors (RGB) and change it to whatever color you want it to be. Try scaling the "G" (green) color to full, and the others to very low.

[CammoSoldier]

Erm, maybe reload?

[Dave]

Okay, leave HBAO+ on, it works so don't play with it.
This isn't a glitch, there are 5 pip-boys in the game and when you first put it on, it is dusty, then you wipe it so you have a clean patch and when you leave the Vault it is all clean... those are 3 of them.

So before we change anything, in console type

player.equipitem 21b3b

Fast travel to another are and check to see if it is okay, the command puts your clean pip-boy on and removes any other if they are causing an issue.

If that doesn't work then in fallout4.ini and custom.ini look for the line or add the line

[Display]
fPipboyScreenEmitIntensity=1.2500
fPipboyScreenDiffuseIntensity=0.150

If you have to add them then this will be default brightness but if still too dark then increase the value from 1.25 to 1.75 and work your way back or forward from there. The 0.150 is for when you are in Power Armor and will be the changes made to the 1.25. Once you are happy with standard then play with PA settings if it is needed

[Hazzikaze]

Originally posted by Dave:

Okay, leave HBAO+ on, it works so don't play with it.
This isn't a glitch, there are 5 pip-boys in the game and when you first put it on, it is dusty, then you wipe it so you have a clean patch and when you leave the Vault it is all clean... those are 3 of them.

So before we change anything, in console type

player.equipitem 21b3b

Fast travel to another are and check to see if it is okay, the command puts your clean pip-boy on and removes any other if they are causing an issue.

If that doesn't work then in fallout4.ini and custom.ini look for the line or add the line

[Display]
fPipboyScreenEmitIntensity=1.2500
fPipboyScreenDiffuseIntensity=0.150

If you have to add them then this will be default brightness but if still too dark then increase the value from 1.25 to 1.75 and work your way back or forward from there. The 0.150 is for when you are in Power Armor and will be the changes made to the 1.25. Once you are happy with standard then play with PA settings if it is needed

I see Fallout4.ini.base and .baked, not just a regular.

[Hazzikaze]

And when i tried the command, it brightened up a little bit, because before it looked as if my Pip-boy was off.

[Dave]

You will definitely have an fallout4.ini file unless you deleted and not run the game since.

.base and .baked are from bethini and if you are using that then go to UI tab and you can change text, Pip-boy, speech and console colours and brightness. If you have messed that up then go to front tab and load defaults, this will reset the INI files to standard

[Hazzikaze]

I added
fPipboyScreenEmitIntensity=1.2500
fPipboyScreenDiffuseIntensity=0.150
to the Fallout4 Configuration Settings file (not sure if it's hiding the .ini part but it did look like an .ini) under the [display] column.
Do the same to the custom variant too?
Inside the custom file there is only:
[Display]
iLocation X=0
iLocation Y=0

[Hazzikaze]

WOW AM I STUPID!
THE FIX WAS TO GO INTO THE GAME SETTINGS AND SWITCH THE PIP-BOY RGB COLOR TO FULL GREEN!!
Thanks guys.

[Dave]

Originally posted by Hazzikaze:

WOW AM I STUPID!
THE FIX WAS TO GO INTO THE GAME SETTINGS AND SWITCH THE PIP-BOY RGB COLOR TO FULL GREEN!!
Thanks guys.

Don't worry, we have all been there even with years of experience, the simplest thing stump me sometimes. Have a good one

[Duxtorm]

Originally posted by Dave:

Okay, leave HBAO+ on, it works so don't play with it.
This isn't a glitch, there are 5 pip-boys in the game and when you first put it on, it is dusty, then you wipe it so you have a clean patch and when you leave the Vault it is all clean... those are 3 of them.

So before we change anything, in console type

player.equipitem 21b3b

Fast travel to another are and check to see if it is okay, the command puts your clean pip-boy on and removes any other if they are causing an issue.

If that doesn't work then in fallout4.ini and custom.ini look for the line or add the line

[Display]
fPipboyScreenEmitIntensity=1.2500
fPipboyScreenDiffuseIntensity=0.150

If you have to add them then this will be default brightness but if still too dark then increase the value from 1.25 to 1.75 and work your way back or forward from there. The 0.150 is for when you are in Power Armor and will be the changes made to the 1.25. Once you are happy with standard then play with PA settings if it is needed

This worked for me!
Well, all I did was type player.equipitem 21b3b into the console, but that worked, thank you!