The game is too dark to be played

[VICTORIA]

I know that this has been addressed millions of times from the demo and release. I also saw many people reply with what worked for them and I've tried what I could with trying to change the settings but the game still continues to get darker and darker.

I noticed that during the keypad section with the lockers, opening the interface brightens the screen and it brightens the gameplay for about 7 seconds until it begins to fade darkly again to the point where I have to constantly have to press the map to check my surroundings.

I've looked everywhere on google to check if people have the same problem and some do, others' gameplays look just fine.

I wanna know if this problem will be fixed by another upcoming driver update or if it's something that capcom has to patch because honestly, this is problematic and if there's no fix at all, paying the price was not worth it.

[d0x360]

Certain areas are graded dark or "hazy" on purpose but whether you are playing in HDR or SDR if your display is PROPERLY calibrated and that means the adjustment of basically every possible setting available then this game has absolutely perfect gamma, contrast, no banding and no areas that are too dark to see in.

If you are having an issue then it's your display or your display calibration. Look up calibration settings for your specific display. DON'T try to find settings for re2 find settings for proper calibration.

I see topics like this for alot of games or hear from friends about a game not looking right and 100% of the time it's 1 of 2 things. A cheap display that doesn't properly follow standards despite claims that it does OR it's been improperly calibrated or things like dynamic contrast are turned on or set too high for the display. Same goes for artificially changing black levels. A properly calibrated display can have any extra settings set to off and display a perfect image.

Trust me...it's not the game. Check this out.

https://youtu.be/ZhSyxjnwLOA

[Star Taker]

Originally posted by ELKIE:

I know that this has been addressed millions of times from the demo and release. I also saw many people reply with what worked for them and I've tried what I could with trying to change the settings but the game still continues to get darker and darker.

I noticed that during the keypad section with the lockers, opening the interface brightens the screen and it brightens the gameplay for about 7 seconds until it begins to fade darkly again to the point where I have to constantly have to press the map to check my surroundings.

I've looked everywhere on google to check if people have the same problem and some do, others' gameplays look just fine.

I wanna know if this problem will be fixed by another upcoming driver update or if it's something that capcom has to patch because honestly, this is problematic and if there's no fix at all, paying the price was not worth it.

Are you talking about when the game gets pitch black and u only see the lamps as little yellow dots?

[DevilDaRebel]

Good, I'm tired of games illustrating "dark." as a shade of dark blue or grey. Dark has to be pitch black.

[Nethlem]

Originally posted by ELKIE:

I noticed that during the keypad section with the lockers, opening the interface brightens the screen and it brightens the gameplay for about 7 seconds until it begins to fade darkly again to the point where I have to constantly have to press the map to check my surroundings.

That sounds more like a monitor thing than anything else, maybe an HDR issue? Does your monitor have some kind of "adaptive gamma" setting that might be responsible?

I don't have a fancy HDR monitor, but I also never do the gamma setting "properly" always leaving it a bit lighter than what it says to do because my monitor has ♥♥♥♥ background illumination. Don't have any issue with the game being too dark.

[RedPirate]

Turn the brightness in game up?

[🅶ila]

Game looks fine for me.

Make sure you're running on sRBG and have your monitor's contrast/brightness settings adjusted correctly. (Configured within the game and with a PC calibration tool.) Windows has a pretty nice tool that will get your monitor calibrated correctly, and it makes a world of difference in applications. Not just in brightness, but vividness of the color pallette as well.

Cheaper displays - large screen TV "monitors" will naturally be of a lesser quality, but I enjoy playing with a larger screen. I feel like in this instance, it's much more important to get them set up right because they are usually designed around TV and movies, and generally don't offer the fidelity of true PC monitors.

Another thing to be sure of is your style of display connection - most people *should* be using HDMI, DisplayPort, or DVI as it's pretty much just an industry standard at this point. However, the difference between an analog VGA cable and one of the aforementioned digital variants is like night and day.

[VICTORIA]

Originally posted by Sean Diaz:

Originally posted by ELKIE:

I know that this has been addressed millions of times from the demo and release. I also saw many people reply with what worked for them and I've tried what I could with trying to change the settings but the game still continues to get darker and darker.

I noticed that during the keypad section with the lockers, opening the interface brightens the screen and it brightens the gameplay for about 7 seconds until it begins to fade darkly again to the point where I have to constantly have to press the map to check my surroundings.

I've looked everywhere on google to check if people have the same problem and some do, others' gameplays look just fine.

I wanna know if this problem will be fixed by another upcoming driver update or if it's something that capcom has to patch because honestly, this is problematic and if there's no fix at all, paying the price was not worth it.

Are you talking about when the game gets pitch black and u only see the lamps as little yellow dots?

yes, like the lights aren't blooming at all

[Samurai]

Calibrate your display and then calibrate the in-game correctly. Some areas are supposed to be darker than usual.

Just finished my second playthrough and didn't have any issues where i would say it was too dark so it is an issue with your setup.

[Magilla]

For everyone saying "turn up brightness, recalibrate settings, adjust your monitor, etc" this is an actual bug with the lighting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJDxM5WUBLE

[Samurai]

Originally posted by The Based Ninja:

For everyone saying "turn up brightness, recalibrate settings, adjust your monitor, etc" this is an actual bug with the lighting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJDxM5WUBLE

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Maybe he's on an older driver and needs to update or something idk. Don't have that problem so eh... /shrug

Edit: Okay apparently it's a bug.

@OP what driver are you on right now? I am using the newest Nvidia hotfix driver and don't have any brightness issues so if you're on 417.71, might as well try the hotfix one and see if that helps.

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/geforce-417-75-hotfix-driver-download.html

[𐂃]

Playing 4k HDR with Asus PG27UQ, game asks to activate HDR and it is perfectly calibrated for me from the start. Using old geforce driver 416.94 from like november?

[Ostbullen]

I had the same issue, turn on v-sync or set framelock to 60 fps.

[ryung buda]

I had the same issue :/

[The Ludovico Technique]

Originally posted by John Titor:

Originally posted by The Based Ninja:

For everyone saying "turn up brightness, recalibrate settings, adjust your monitor, etc" this is an actual bug with the lighting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJDxM5WUBLE

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Maybe he's on an older driver and needs to update or something idk. Don't have that problem so eh... /shrug

Edit: Okay apparently it's a bug.

@OP what driver are you on right now? I am using the newest Nvidia hotfix driver and don't have any brightness issues so if you're on 417.71, might as well try the hotfix one and see if that helps.

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/geforce-417-75-hotfix-driver-download.html

It's not the driver. Not trying to be a jerk here, but I'm quite certain anyone playing a game this demanding knows well to update their GPU driver.

Capcom really dropped the ball on this. I'm trying to find better workarounds myself, but for now the popular soultion of turning off volumetric lighting, adjust FPS to anything but variable, and bringing down image quality to 80% or less is all many of us have to go on until Capcom patches this issue.

[popp]

I dont usally post but I feel I need to as I genuinely feel your pain OP.

So I had the same issue when playing the demo. I was searching every where for a fix but most people either posted the same stuff which didn't help or they were insulting the people having the issue simply blaming their monitor or saying they didn't calibrate the brightness properly! Any way... I was using a GTX 780Ti and I have a Predator X34P monitor and as you are experiencing, I too couldnt see anything after about 10 seconds of gameplay. Drivers updated blah blah blah.
Eventually after so much frustration and giving up multiple times I rechecked my settings and carefully disabled EVERYTHING I could, turned everything down to the lowest I could and ...... it worked. This was using DX11 @ 3440x1440.
I'm now using an RTX 2080 with everything maxed out and the issue has not effected me once on the full release. I have also made sure I am on the latest version of windows due to using DXR but I tested Resi before I did update as far as I can remember.
I would recommend rechecking your settings and triple checking again.
Hope you manage to sort it buddy!