Extremely high brightness for one of my games

[Joip]

ISSUE
The issue started between afternoon March 3rd and afternoon March 4th. When I open Dishonored, the video feed on the iPad is extremely bright, nearly all white except for some small color patches. The same video on the desktop looks fine. I tried a few other games and they were unimpacted.

OS
Windows 10 and iPad Steam Link client

STEPS
Start Dishonored from the iPad Steam Link client

RESULTS
I hear audio, but the video is completely unusable. Nearly entirely white.

EXPECTED
On March 3rd, this was working as expected - normal brightness and useable video.

Debugging attempted
* Tried Beta track of Steam
* Restarted computer
* Restarted iPad
* Changed resolution sizes both in Steam client and in the game
* At one point, when I changed resolution in the game I had a brief flash of the correct gamma.
* Adjusted gamma
* Tried other games (they all worked fine)
* Disabled Steam overlay
* Changed input controller

[Big Bear]

I'm having a this exact same issue when trying to play Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga over remote play. Any other game I have tried doesn't have this issue. Colors are correct on the host PC during remote play. Issue was not present on Wednesday.

[locutus]

Same over here. For me, it is "The Witcher 2". I have tried different encoder settings (Hardware, software) as well as all the other possible settings for the host and the client. No change. Tested "Destroy all Humans!" and did not see the issue there.

The colors are correct on the host (checked through VNC connection), and when I tab out of the game, the colors on my client also become correct again, but as soon as I tab back into the game, they turn back to being completely overdriven.

My host is a Windows 10 System with an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, and AMD Ryzen 9 3900X. My Client is running on Manjaro Linux.

[CrookedRain]

I'd say definitely an issue caused by the latest Steam update. It seems to mainly be affecting certain D3D9 games, from what I can tell. I've tested it with launching a few different D3D9 games via Remote Play from my library. The problem seems kind of scattershot & inconsistent:

- Issue definitely affects Dishonored, Sonic Mania, and Guacamelee.
- Skullgirls has this issue too, for me the stream starts okay with the opening logos, but then gets washed out at the start screen.
- Spelunky, Castle Crashers, Ducktales Remastered & Nuclear Throne are all D3D9 but don't have this problem.

For reference, I've got an all-AMD setup, RX 5600 XT video card with a Ryzen 5 3600 processor.

[[black]WieselWusel]

same here for lego Lord of the rings and hobbit games my friend had a really dark so they cant play (tried all possible optins) screen and it was just fine before the steam update

[communist]

Hello,

I am experiencing this issue with Skyrim Legendary Edition plus SKSE.

[communist]

Hello,

I discovered a workaround for Skyrim Legendary Edition, but this might also work for other directx games:
Download the latest version of DXVK[github.com], the file should be 'dxvk-1.10.tar.gz'. [1][2] Extract the archive and move the x32 files 'd3d9.dll' and 'dxgi.dll' into the root directory of your game. [3] You can find the root directory of your game by right clicking the game in your steam client and selecting 'manage' > 'browse local files'. It should have the game executable in the same folder I think.

Sources
1. D3D9 Games Streaming with High Brightness and Contrast
2. DXVK Github Page[github.com]
3. DXVK is a Game Changer in Fallout New Vegas

[BoostedFlannel]

Experiencing this in Borderlands 2 as well as Fallout: New Vegas. In BL2 it's constant, but in New Vegas it only appears when entering the PipBoy menu so far. When entering Dialogue menus though it gets this terrifying Blood Red filter/overlay over everything which does add a fun horror aspect to Doc Mitchell, but also makes it almost completely unplayable.

Between this and the (20) crashing issue, whatever they did with this last update to stuff really just needs to be reverted it's the buggiest update release I've seen since I start to heavily use remote play a few years ago.

[BoostedFlannel]

Can confirm that the DXVK Fix mentioned above works for Fallout: New Vegas as well, thank you!!! Gonna get too absorbed into cowboy times to try it out in BL2 but from the other thread detailing this issue it sounds like the DXVK issue might just work in any DirectX 9 game having these issues. Which sounds like all of them.

[CrookedRain]

Good looking out. Does everyone here so far with this problem have AMD video cards? Just wondering if it's yet another AMD-specific bug.

Using DXVK for this sort of issue is kind of a band-aid...it's basically converting the game's D3D rendering to Vulkan rendering. Depending on the game being played, Vulkan has had its own issues with Steam Remote Play for years. I still can't get the new DOOM or Wolfenstein games to stream properly without them being ran in Windowed mode.

Hopefully Valve's on the case with fixing this bug in the Steam client soon enough.

[communist]

Originally posted by CrookedRain:

Good looking out. Does everyone here so far with this problem have AMD video cards? Just wondering if it's yet another AMD-specific bug.

I have an AMD RX590 gpu. I haven't updated my gpu driver since last year.

[locutus]

Originally posted by Marxist-Leninist:

Hello,

I discovered a workaround for Skyrim Legendary Edition, but this might also work for other directx games:

Can confirm this working for "The Witcher 2". Hopefully, Valve will provide a proper fix for this soon, though.

[Fullmetal]

Originally posted by Marxist-Leninist:

Hello,

I discovered a workaround for Skyrim Legendary Edition, but this might also work for other directx games:
Download the latest version of DXVK[github.com], the file should be 'dxvk-1.10.tar.gz'. [1][2] Extract the archive and move the x32 files 'd3d9.dll' and 'dxgi.dll' into the root directory of your game. [3] You can find the root directory of your game by right clicking the game in your steam client and selecting 'manage' > 'browse local files'. It should have the game executable in the same folder I think.

Sources
1. D3D9 Games Streaming with High Brightness and Contrast
2. DXVK Github Page[github.com]
3. DXVK is a Game Changer in Fallout New Vegas

Unfortunately, this did not work for Towerfall Ascension, in which I am having the same issue. I don't know if it was because there was not any of these dll on the root folder before I put them, I think the game might not be using. I don't know if I should put them elsewhere.

[G3na5ide]

Me too. For me it's F.E.A.R. and the DLCs.

[PiotrKFtw]

I have this exact same issue, sometimes going SUPER-DARK.
The game name i'm trying to play: Terraria
GPU in host: Radeon RX 580,
GPU in client Intel HD Graphics.
The issue only happens if the game is in focus on the host.
The high brightness is only present on the laptop screen and not on the host screen.
To add more information, the steam overlay of the game is affected too.

[PiotrKFtw]

To add more information on this case, this issue wasn't present before last steam update.