Lighting is completely broken what do I do?

[Pliolite]

I am starting a new game and every single lit surface has constant mesh lines going through it, obviously making it impossible to play. I've tried changing every in game graphics setting and nothing solves it. I don't have ray tracing on.

I've not seen anyone else mention this problem so I'm wondering what the heck to do? Does it need a fresh installation? Any help would be great.

[Crypto Gamer]

Dunno about your PC and if it can run the new DX 12 RE engine well or not.Or if you have enough VRAM.

Posting your PC stuff would help.
Steam upper left help and click system information.Videocard and CPU and RAM and windows version.

First make sure your GPU drivers are updated.
Second try to do a verify cache for the game installiation.Maybe it got corrupted.
After that
Try to turn off volumetric lighting,turn off AO,do not use HDAO+ as it is bugged......
Do not use TAA as it is bugged too.....SMAA is likely safe in the current DX 12.......
Turn off FSR.

If it does not work or you just want the version which is likely more stable but lacks a few features such as RT,3D audio,then go download the"beta"patch for the old DX 11 version which is also less than half the size and has less system requirements.

Hope it helps.

[Pliolite]

I'm on Windows 10 with a 3090 (latest drivers) and an i7-12700K, so there should be no issue whether I can run it...

Thanks, for now I've decided to do the DX 11 'rollback' and then maybe reinstall the DX 12 version later. Heck knows if the install got corrupted in the first place. No other game is doing this stuff, so I don't have any hardware or OS issues (that I know of...)

[CLUTCH]

Verify files? Update drivers?

[Crypto Gamer]

Forgot to mention there 2 color options,for me only the second(non default)looks good in DX 12,the default one have more issues for me and "bad" lighting.

[Kurz]

EVERYTHING IS mad dark in certain areas for me now,

[Seamus]

Originally posted by Kurz:

EVERYTHING IS mad dark in certain areas for me now,

Turn off HBAO+

[LagAdder]

I agree with Pliolite. So far the DX12 version feels like a slight visual downgrade on my machine. At first glance, shadows seem way more diffuse and rasterized to the extreme.

Also slimy/wet surfaces like the dead bird in the microwave and the goop in the fridge glitter like a starfield. Turning RTX on or off didn't have any impact on this.

The puddles on the outdoor path from the car to the guesthouse didn't look that great with RTX either.

Crypto Gamer's advice to pick the second color option did actually help a bit to have the shadow rasterization feel a bit less noticable.

So far from what I can say for my system, the DX12 version increases hardware requirements and system load without providing any noticeable visual benefit.

I'll experiment with the settings some more and if I am unable to fix the visuals for me, I'll switch back to the DX11 version (glad we can do that now).

[SuperBun]

Originally posted by Pliolite:

I am starting a new game and every single lit surface has constant mesh lines going through it, obviously making it impossible to play. I've tried changing every in game graphics setting and nothing solves it. I don't have ray tracing on.

I've not seen anyone else mention this problem so I'm wondering what the heck to do? Does it need a fresh installation? Any help would be great.

Revert back to dx11 if it works, but i'm going to uninstall since capcom made the game worse and an extra 20gb is way too much. Yeah some areas are super dark and the dumbest solution is by enabling rtx which destroys the framerate, honestly i don't think the game needs rtx

[sno0ks]

ray tracing isn't even really a solution since it looks bad in a lot of areas.

[SuperBun]

yeah, just a dumb cash grab and marketing from capcom

[Martin]

Right click the game in the list and select properties.
From there go to the beta tab.
And chose the only avaliable beta version.
It's all about the new ray tracing update, that beta version removes it and puts the game back to normal.

[Cygnus Rush]

Opted into the beta to revert back to the DX11 build of the game. The updated build with ray-tracing is half-baked and really needed more time in the oven before it was released.