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Goliath

21 Mar, 2019 @ 10:48pm

Brightness/contrast messed up on PC

The images looks messed up / washed out as though contrast were too low or brightness too high. I've seen on YT (RadBrad) some people have it correct. How to fix the contrast in this game?

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Ritchey#228471 has Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice

22 Mar, 2019 @ 2:20am

//edit: Pointless post by now. See:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/814380/discussions/0/1850323802587550054/

It is the same with any FROM title so far. You will have to rely on using reshade. I am using it and it does make the picture look right.

//edit: ignore this part and read my next post. That one does fix the black levels pretty much to as what it probably should be like.

I recommend using the "curves" filter at about 0.3 to adjust the contrast and the "liftgammagain" to reduce the darkest gamma to about 0.95 and the mid-gamma to about 0.975.
Also don't forget to set the ingame brightness to 5 again. You will see then, that the darkness seems more right and the washed out, greyish overlay in the game seems gone.

But I have to admit, that they improved. Dark Souls 1 was even more horrible in that term. Maybe some day, they will get it right...

Last edited by Ritchey#228471; 25 Mar, 2019 @ 8:17pm

Ritchey#228471 has Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice

22 Mar, 2019 @ 3:19am

//edit: Pointless post by now. See:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/814380/discussions/0/1850323802587550054/

Okay, so I fiddled around a bit with "Reshade" and it seems, that they did not adjust the full blacklevel spectrum of modern screens. The game seems to run in 11-244 black level range instead of the full 0-255. What you can do to entirely fix that, is use the reshade filter called "levels plus". Set the "input black point" to 11 / 11 / 11 and for white point to 244 / 244 / 244. Then it is perfectly right.

Don't use the regular "levels" filter though, as it creates clipping by cutting of greyish and whiteish tones to harshly. The "levels plus" filter prevents clipping quite well!

Last edited by Ritchey#228471; 25 Mar, 2019 @ 8:17pm

Bluetonic47 22 Mar, 2019 @ 3:34am

i lower the backlight in my tv display option's menu and it was fine after that

Zordiark Darkeater has Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice

22 Mar, 2019 @ 3:38am

its 100% fine for me .. both ds3 and sekiro looks great for me with great contrast colors

Ritchey#228471 has Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice

22 Mar, 2019 @ 3:48am

//edit: Pointless post by now. See:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/814380/discussions/0/1850323802587550054/

Well, many people do not have the eye to see black level problems or palette issues or simply do not have the knowledge about colour space. If you do not and are enjoying the game as it is, that is good.
Also on TV it might be a different thing, as your TV might already be set up as limited black level range of 11-244. On a regular PC screen you do not have such an option and thus to correct the mistake of the programmers you can use reshade's "levels plus" filter.

Just an option, not forcing anyone into doing it. But as the OP said, the black levels are definitely off, just as they were with all Dark Souls titles.

Last edited by Ritchey#228471; 25 Mar, 2019 @ 8:17pm

Net

22 Mar, 2019 @ 3:51am

Originally posted by Ritchey:
Okay, so I fiddled around a bit with "Reshade" and it seems, that they did not adjust the full blacklevel spectrum of modern screens. The game seems to run in 11-244 black level range instead of the full 0-255. What you can do to entirely fix that, is use the reshade filter called "levels plus". Set the "input black point" to 11 / 11 / 11 and for white point to 244 / 244 / 244. Then it is perfectly right.

Don't use the regular "levels" filter though, as it creates clipping by cutting of greyish and whiteish tones to harshly. The "levels plus" filter prevents clipping quite well!

Interesting, need to remember this fix because this issue happens every now and then to me.

Ritchey#228471 has Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice

22 Mar, 2019 @ 3:54am

//edit: Pointless post by now. See:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/814380/discussions/0/1850323802587550054/

I will post some comparison screenshots later on, to explain what I am talking about.

It is indeed present in some games. Especially games, that were originally developed by japanese console game developers, like Capcom games, especially the older ones. The new ones come with the REC2020 and the REC709 options, which pretty much solves it, when you set it to REC709.

Last edited by Ritchey#228471; 25 Mar, 2019 @ 8:17pm

F4LK

22 Mar, 2019 @ 5:33am

Originally posted by Ritchey:
Okay, so I fiddled around a bit with "Reshade" and it seems, that they did not adjust the full blacklevel spectrum of modern screens. The game seems to run in 11-244 black level range instead of the full 0-255. What you can do to entirely fix that, is use the reshade filter called "levels plus". Set the "input black point" to 11 / 11 / 11 and for white point to 244 / 244 / 244. Then it is perfectly right.

Don't use the regular "levels" filter though, as it creates clipping by cutting of greyish and whiteish tones to harshly. The "levels plus" filter prevents clipping quite well!

This helped me very much, because in the Display options when changing the correct brightness the Shinobi picture on the right side would not dissapear even if set to 0, lol. I had to crank it up to 7 to see it again but it looks so much better now. Only need to fix the pesky stuttering now.

Ritchey#228471 has Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice

22 Mar, 2019 @ 5:37am

Last edited by Ritchey#228471; 25 Mar, 2019 @ 8:18pm

Ritchey#228471 has Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice

22 Mar, 2019 @ 6:09am

//edit: Pointless post by now. See:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/814380/discussions/0/1850323802587550054/

If you don't want to hastle with installing and configuring reshade, I made a preconfigured zip file with the necessary files in it:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1m6ZfaqrmXU-YXXcy6H7tTWYwoZC-D_y5

All you need to do is unzip all the files into your Sekiro game folder. Ingame you can get into Reshade configuration py pressing "Home" / "Pos 1" key and enable/disable the filters by pressing "End" key.

If you do not want to trust my files, but want to use my config, then install "Reshade" by yourself and add my config file to your Sekiro game folder afterwards:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1d5Rp7OXuzWvxKs-AbwThiOwcphj6oXn0

//edit: New config:

"So I was fiddling around with different options, as I did not like the clipping effect on the levels filter and I came up with 3 solutions. I uploaded the required configs:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=19XV_nh0wzCR703wd_iOF-OOoIAAewXPP

Add them to the folder, where you have Reshade running. Once the game is up, you can press "home" / "Pos 1" and then you can select the 3 configs in the top of the Reshade interface. The default one is the levels filter, the curves filter uses catmull curves filter and the smoother step uses smoother step curves filter. All 3 have the same goal, but look slightly different. I prefer the "smoother step" and the "curves" one, but you could check them all 3 and decide for yourself. Aditionally in those curves filters you can try enabling the "levels" filter too, if you like. Or disable it."

Last edited by Ritchey#228471; 25 Mar, 2019 @ 8:18pm

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Khronikos 22 Mar, 2019 @ 7:10am

Pretty insane we are still dealing with this in 2019. I was previously just using brightness on 0 and adjusted gamma on TV. I was already using Reshade for SMAA so thank you for the fix. It is much better now. It wasn't terrible before if you just crushed the brightness and adjusted gamma on TV because the game is pretty dark. But this helps.

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Leg

22 Mar, 2019 @ 7:25am

Originally posted by Ritchey:
If you don't want to hastle with installing configuring reshade, I made a preconfigured zip file with the necessary files in it:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1m6ZfaqrmXU-YXXcy6H7tTWYwoZC-D_y5

All you need to do is unzip all the files into your Sekiro game folder. Ingame you can get into Reshade configuration py pressing "Home" / "Pos 1" key and enable/disable the filters by pressing "End" key.

If you do not want to trust my files, but want to use my config, then install "Reshade" by yourself and add my config file to your Sekiro game folder afterwards:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1d5Rp7OXuzWvxKs-AbwThiOwcphj6oXn0

Perfect. Game looks great now. Thanks for the help

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HReissM

22 Mar, 2019 @ 7:39am

Thanks for the tip. Looks as it should now.

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HReissM

22 Mar, 2019 @ 7:54am

Well, I apply the effects on the latest version of reshade, but as soon as I exit the UI with "Home" the effects toggle off.

I press "Home" again and they toggle on. Weird.

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Ritchey#228471 has Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice

22 Mar, 2019 @ 7:55am

You can check in the reshade settings, if you set up the same hotkey for toggling the effects on and off, as you did for enabling/disabling the overlay UI.

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