Everything is washed out in-game

[Bitbyte]

In the menus and in cutscenes the game looks great, but when im in-game everything looks washed out. Anyone else experienced this?

[NM91]

You are not alone.

[Maxpeinas]

I noticed this for NPC faces. Either on LOW or on ULTRA, faces look kinda blended and are nicely rendered in cutscenes only.

[Taro]

First thing to come to my mind reading this, is HDR. Did you try to disable HDR?

[Entity]

HDR on? HDR has been known to blow out the image.

[h3master101]

I turned off motion blur, film grain, chromatic aberration, depth of field.

Game does look a bit washed out, but I don't mind it tbh.

[Airica Fyresong]

I just want NPCs eyes to look at my character. Their right eye seems to, but the left eye looks at the camera.

[MercyGG]

My wild guess would be that the fog that is literally everywhere is making the game look bland. Noticed when I switch locations, for a quick second I can see everything without the fog and it's rich in colors.

[Bitbyte]

Originally posted by Entity:

HDR on? HDR has been known to blow out the image.

HDR is off. I did however try to mess around with all the settings, and setting post-processing to ultra improved the colors soooo much! No difference from low to high, but ultra did it

[Taro]

Originally posted by Bitbyte:

Originally posted by Entity:

HDR on? HDR has been known to blow out the image.

HDR is off. I did however try to mess around with all the settings, and setting post-processing to ultra improved the colors soooo much! No difference from low to high, but ultra did it

Nice to know

[PaulGR]

Game is badly washed out.

What I did is:
- I enabled HDR on Windows which looks terrible.
- Then I went in-game and enabled HDR. It looked even worse.
- Now I Alt-Tab'ed and disabled the HDR from Windows BUT I left the HDR "On" in-game.
- Somehow, everything now looks vibrant and colorful, and that weird "mist" effect is gone. Note: It is not actual mist as it is EVERYWHERE. Indoors and outdoors. It's just a weird lighting effect.
- I can even change White Brightness, the Black Point under "Image Calibration" in-game.

I have no clue how this works. Downside is you have to do this every time you launch the game.

[Average Cox Gaming]

Originally posted by PaulGR:

Game is badly washed out.

What I did is:
- I enabled HDR on Windows which looks terrible.
- Then I went in-game and enabled HDR. It looked even worse.
- Now I Alt-Tab'ed and disabled the HDR from Windows BUT I left the HDR "On" in-game.
- Somehow, everything now looks vibrant and colorful, and that weird "mist" effect is gone. Note: It is not actual mist as it is EVERYWHERE. Indoors and outdoors. It's just a weird lighting effect.
- I can even change White Brightness, the Black Point under "Image Calibration" in-game.

I have no clue how this works. Downside is you have to do this every time you launch the game.

Lol this work around is a broken way to make the game look as if it should. Had to give it a shot, holy smokes, after adjusting the HDR brightness the game looks rich and vibrant.

Thanks for sharing you brilliant person!

I thought the game looked washed out on mine and my wife's displays. Which is weird, because usually hers is a little more saturated since mine is more true to the intended color.

[PaulGR]

Originally posted by Average Cox Gaming:

Originally posted by PaulGR:

Game is badly washed out.

What I did is:
- I enabled HDR on Windows which looks terrible.
- Then I went in-game and enabled HDR. It looked even worse.
- Now I Alt-Tab'ed and disabled the HDR from Windows BUT I left the HDR "On" in-game.
- Somehow, everything now looks vibrant and colorful, and that weird "mist" effect is gone. Note: It is not actual mist as it is EVERYWHERE. Indoors and outdoors. It's just a weird lighting effect.
- I can even change White Brightness, the Black Point under "Image Calibration" in-game.

I have no clue how this works. Downside is you have to do this every time you launch the game.

Lol this work around is a broken way to make the game look as if it should. Had to give it a shot, holy smokes, after adjusting the HDR brightness the game looks rich and vibrant.

Thanks for sharing you brilliant person!

I thought the game looked washed out on mine and my wife's displays. Which is weird, because usually hers is a little more saturated since mine is more true to the intended color.

Glad it helped you out. It really does make the game look normal. I'd be interested to learn why and how this works, if someone knows.

[WuffWabbit]

Wasn't there a higher contrast setting?

[Megalithik]

I'll try disabling windows HDR tonight. Maybe they stack and it washes stuff out??? I'll give it a go.

[Bob Gnarly]

Okay good, I thought it was just me.