Weird gamma problem (black turns washed out gray/blue)

[Cilutan]

Just like the title says, my game displays black terribly bad, and in a game with as many dark areas as the metro series, it's almost unplayable.
When I adjust the in-game gamma settings, I'm supposed to make the darkest symbol "almost invisible", but I literally can't. When the gamma is set to the lowest setting, I can still see it clear as day.

The weirdest part is that _sometimes_ it works as intended, often that is when I start the game up and jump in, but as soon as the lightning changes in the game (i enter a brighter area, go outside a building or similar) I can clearly see how some kind of gray/blue filter is smacked in my face and everything just looks horrible.

The only workaround I've found is to dramatically lower the gamma on my monitor and then raising the in-game gamma to almost max, but that instead makes all shadows weak and all lights way too saturated (but it still looks better that way in some situations.

Please help me, I want to experience this game as beautiful as it is meant to be, the ♥♥♥♥ I get on my screen takes so much from the whole experience of it...

My video card is a Geforce GTX 1070

[meep ❤]

I literally have the same problem. Let me know if there's any solution!

[Kommissar1032]

Same issue....

[d0x360]

Do you have HDR and DLSS enabled at the same time? If you do then pick one and shut it off because DLSS and HDR cause that issue in this game.

*Edit*

OP you clearly don't because you have a 10 series card but that might work for others. I haven't heard of anything else that causes this issue although the HDR implementation is poor and because it's only adjusted with a SDR gamma slider the game never looks right with HDR enabled...but it shouldn't be doing what you described.

[Cilutan]

Originally posted by d0x360:

Do you have HDR and DLSS enabled at the same time? If you do then pick one and shut it off because DLSS and HDR cause that issue in this game.

*Edit*

OP you clearly don't because you have a 10 series card but that might work for others. I haven't heard of anything else that causes this issue although the HDR implementation is poor and because it's only adjusted with a SDR gamma slider the game never looks right with HDR enabled...but it shouldn't be doing what you described.

Like your edit says, no, I don't. But HDR has been on my mind as a possible cause for the problem, since HDR (at least when it comes to photos) is achieved by layering several images of different levels of contrast/brightness over eachother, sort of like "filters", and what I see in game looks very much like some kind of "filter" that washes out everything. My thought is that maybe it's only the brighter image in the HDR-processing that shows on my screen, at least that's what it looks like. But I don't know much about this stuff when it comes to monitors and computer graphics.

[guigo]

Hi, did you find a solution? I have the exact same issue

[Stake From JateFarm]

Part time fix is to use a Reshade.

[Nite69]

Yea same issue here, it looks horrible at night when ya go from an interior back to outside

same GPU as well, GTX 1070

[neO_o_]

DX11 has gamma that's too bright for some reason. Try DX12 instead which is perfect at least it is for me.

[Nite69]

Originally posted by neO_o_:

DX11 has gamma that's too bright for some reason. Try DX12 instead which is perfect at least it is for me.

I am still on windows 7 so I can't use DX12 mode, I read that DX12 is better on the RTX cards anyway not the 1000 series

[Moe]

Originally posted by Cilutan:

Just like the title says, my game displays black terribly bad, and in a game with as many dark areas as the metro series, it's almost unplayable.
When I adjust the in-game gamma settings, I'm supposed to make the darkest symbol "almost invisible", but I literally can't. When the gamma is set to the lowest setting, I can still see it clear as day.

The weirdest part is that _sometimes_ it works as intended, often that is when I start the game up and jump in, but as soon as the lightning changes in the game (i enter a brighter area, go outside a building or similar) I can clearly see how some kind of gray/blue filter is smacked in my face and everything just looks horrible.

The only workaround I've found is to dramatically lower the gamma on my monitor and then raising the in-game gamma to almost max, but that instead makes all shadows weak and all lights way too saturated (but it still looks better that way in some situations.

Please help me, I want to experience this game as beautiful as it is meant to be, the♥♥♥♥♥♥I get on my screen takes so much from the whole experience of it...

My video card is a Geforce GTX 1070

If you use Nvidia you can use Geforce Expierence (enable the beta features first!) then while in game press ALT+Z and use their "Freestyle Game Filters" apply the contrast / brightness filter and adjust it to your liking. its like reshade but in real time. it's got plenty of filters to mess around with.

[neO_o_]

Originally posted by Nite:

Originally posted by neO_o_:

DX11 has gamma that's too bright for some reason. Try DX12 instead which is perfect at least it is for me.

I am still on windows 7 so I can't use DX12 mode, I read that DX12 is better on the RTX cards anyway not the 1000 series

That's incorrect. On the 1000 series it's about the same performance wise at least on my 1080ti it is. I use DX12 because of the DX11 gamma issue. DX11 is broken.

[Stake From JateFarm]

Originally posted by Moe:

Originally posted by Cilutan:

Just like the title says, my game displays black terribly bad, and in a game with as many dark areas as the metro series, it's almost unplayable.
When I adjust the in-game gamma settings, I'm supposed to make the darkest symbol "almost invisible", but I literally can't. When the gamma is set to the lowest setting, I can still see it clear as day.

The weirdest part is that _sometimes_ it works as intended, often that is when I start the game up and jump in, but as soon as the lightning changes in the game (i enter a brighter area, go outside a building or similar) I can clearly see how some kind of gray/blue filter is smacked in my face and everything just looks horrible.

The only workaround I've found is to dramatically lower the gamma on my monitor and then raising the in-game gamma to almost max, but that instead makes all shadows weak and all lights way too saturated (but it still looks better that way in some situations.

Please help me, I want to experience this game as beautiful as it is meant to be, the♥♥♥♥♥♥I get on my screen takes so much from the whole experience of it...

My video card is a Geforce GTX 1070

If you use Nvidia you can use Geforce Expierence (enable the beta features first!) then while in game press ALT+Z and use their "Freestyle Game Filters" apply the contrast / brightness filter and adjust it to your liking. its like reshade but in real time. it's got plenty of filters to mess around with.

I can concur, turning on the Contrast setting immediately fixed my issue without even editing the values. Its good stuff.

[aabosarah]

Originally posted by Stake From Jate Farm:

Originally posted by Moe:

If you use Nvidia you can use Geforce Expierence (enable the beta features first!) then while in game press ALT+Z and use their "Freestyle Game Filters" apply the contrast / brightness filter and adjust it to your liking. its like reshade but in real time. it's got plenty of filters to mess around with.

I can concur, turning on the Contrast setting immediately fixed my issue without even editing the values. Its good stuff.

Same!! That solved it! Man I feel like somebody cleaned my eyes. Wow not sure what the issue is to require such a fix.

[kosmozhuk]

Originally posted by Moe:

Originally posted by Cilutan:

Just like the title says, my game displays black terribly bad, and in a game with as many dark areas as the metro series, it's almost unplayable.
When I adjust the in-game gamma settings, I'm supposed to make the darkest symbol "almost invisible", but I literally can't. When the gamma is set to the lowest setting, I can still see it clear as day.

The weirdest part is that _sometimes_ it works as intended, often that is when I start the game up and jump in, but as soon as the lightning changes in the game (i enter a brighter area, go outside a building or similar) I can clearly see how some kind of gray/blue filter is smacked in my face and everything just looks horrible.

The only workaround I've found is to dramatically lower the gamma on my monitor and then raising the in-game gamma to almost max, but that instead makes all shadows weak and all lights way too saturated (but it still looks better that way in some situations.

Please help me, I want to experience this game as beautiful as it is meant to be, the♥♥♥♥♥♥I get on my screen takes so much from the whole experience of it...

My video card is a Geforce GTX 1070

If you use Nvidia you can use Geforce Expierence (enable the beta features first!) then while in game press ALT+Z and use their "Freestyle Game Filters" apply the contrast / brightness filter and adjust it to your liking. its like reshade but in real time. it's got plenty of filters to mess around with.

Is there something similar for amd cards?

[Stake From JateFarm]

Seems like the problem is the games contrast setting needs tweaking. Perhaps a .cfg fix?