Game too dark?

[Freeezy]

Soooo this seems to be a problem with a lot of games and RE2 isnt spared from it. Apparently if you set the games brightness as told by the instructions (lower until pattern disappears yada yada yada) then you cant see f**k all. The game was on a few parts too dark to see anything.
Does anyone have recommendations on how to set the brightness without making it TOO bright and destroy the atmosphere?

EDIT: vanRooijen suggested using GeForce Experience and I optimized it with it. The brightness was suddenly perfect the whole game.

[SalzBrandAffe]

Just make it brighter in the settings? Or you know, change the brighness of your monitor. Jeeze...kids these days

[Freeezy]

Originally posted by MrMerd:

Just make it brighter in the settings? Or you know, change the brighness of your monitor. Jeeze...kids these days

The thing is, the instructions in the game are like "Tune your brightness until the pattern is barely visible" but if I do that the game gets too dark at SOME spots, not everywhere. I know I could raise the brightness and all but i also dont want to destroy the atmosphere. Already had the same problem in other game and it ruins the mood.

The critique is fully justified because apparently in some spots the brightness is just in the right spot but then it gets worse in some places.

Btw. way to go with your passive agressive reply lol "Jeeze... kids these days" Sorry old man :/

[Coconut]

The game has you set both a max brightness and a min brightness. If the game is too dark in some areas, just raise the min brightness and don't touch the max.

[Orion1189]

Brightness directions are never good to follow to a T. They ALWAYS end up too dark if you do. Just tune it to your liking. This game at least has far more granular brightness settings than most.

[Freeezy]

Originally posted by countofcounts:

The game has you set both a max brightness and a min brightness. If the game is too dark in some areas, just raise the min brightness and don't touch the max.

I'll try messing with min brightness. Thanks!

[Rain]

Hi guys, i have problem with brightness.
After starting the game, the game becomes completely dark after a few seconds. I can not see anything. I changed the settings, but nothing has changed. Can not see anything :( Someone have same problem??

[chosen21]

Originally posted by Rain:

Hi guys, i have problem with brightness.
After starting the game, the game becomes completely dark after a few seconds. I can not see anything. I changed the settings, but nothing has changed. Can not see anything :( Someone have same problem??

same problem, only things that i can see clearly is the options menu and the in game indicator when a item is near.

I reset all my settings and now it's ok
for me could be the dx12 option a problem vs old drivers that i use, no more time to test

[Woodzy]

Hey, so I'm having the same issue. It's obvious that is isn't a simple "adjust your brightness settings, you stupid child" like that guy said. (don't be a prick). It's too dark and even with all of the brightness settings all the way up it is only slightly more visible and it looks like garbage. I tried reseting everything to default and I also validated the game files but that didn't help. Have any of you figured out a fix?

[vanRooijen]

I concur... I can't see sh*t!

[vanRooijen]

Ok... So I ended up using NVIDIA's GeForce Experience application and launched it from their game ready driver and boom! I can see!

[Bawkr]

Settings for people experiencing darkness bugs;
Screen Space Reflections: Off (Helps shadow performance on some rigs)
V-Sync On (I believe this helps keep the ambient lighting from going out of wack, bug)
Frame Rate: 60 or 30 for older hardware (Potentially frees up cpu with FPS lock)
Volumetric Lighting Quality: Low (This setting looks a lot more bright)
Shadow: Medium (Medium has the most bright appearance but some quality)
Film Noise: Off (More clarity, performance with no graphical loss)

Full GFX settings that worked for fx6300+gtx7704gb+8gbddr3:
Field of VIew: Max
Dx11
Fullscreen
Native display resolution (1366x768)
V-Sync: On
IQ: 130%
FrameRate 60
AA = TAA(Makes the glossy stuff look less ugly especially in lower res)
Texture Quality: High (0.5GB) (Prevents crash for aprox 4gb gddr5, keep it in the white)
Mesh: Max
Shadow: Medium (Medium has the most bright appearance)
Shadow Cache: On
Contact Shadow: On
Screen Space Reflections: Off
Volumetric Lighting Quality: Low
Particle Lighting Quality: High
Ambient Occlusion:HBAO+
Bloom:On
Lens Flare:On
Motion Blur:On
Depth of Field:On
Lens Distortion:On
Film Noise: Off (More clarity, performance with no graphical loss)

Also try to get nvidia to jive with the game via control panel, Program settings and then set everything to app controlled or identical to your in game setting.

[Chillin]

lol i had the exact opest to this but only when i enabled HDR.. was bright as ♥♥♥♥ disabling HDR game was dark but not to dark. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wierd

[TheCalvinator]

Originally posted by vanRooijen:

Ok... So I ended up using NVIDIA's GeForce Experience application and launched it from their game ready driver and boom! I can see!

I was having the same problem, this fixed the issue and the game looks perfect now. Thanks man.

[Kou]

Honestly if you follow the directions and STILL have issues, that's a you issue. The game works as designed. If it's too dark in some areas when following the instructions, then it's SUPPOSED to be dark in those areas. Simple as that

[Freeezy]

Originally posted by vanRooijen:

Ok... So I ended up using NVIDIA's GeForce Experience application and launched it from their game ready driver and boom! I can see!

This approach seems to work, I optimized it through GeForce Experience and it it was literally perfect after that (idk why but it worked...).

And replying to Kougeru that is definitely not a you issue, since when you pull out the dude underneath the shutter, in every gameplay demo or whatever on Youtube/Twitch you were able to see everything happening but ingame it was so dark that I couldnt even see the dude. If that is supposed to happen then idk what you're on about.