A bright pixel sky & only silhouette, at night

[GlutenFreeman 0]

I joined these forums to post about an issue I'm having that is roughly described with the same details as posts ranging from 2014 even back to 2012

 

This issue is such: Nights are extremely dark for me-- so much to the point where I am unable to see anything, even with multiple changes  being made to gamma/brightness/bloom/no bloom/hdr/different conditions.

 

If anyone is familiar with terms in photography, or imaging in general: it seems as if the midrange tones and shadows and any deviations of  the sort are just TOTALLY black no matter what. Raising gamma seems to only target the highlights, so the edges of objects will sometimes appear, but absolutely no range of tones is displayed. 

The sky itself, even when it is cloudy, appears to be pixelated, however this goes away if gamma is lowered.

 

I'd like to say that at all times playing at night time (dawn, or dusk as well) is barely playable, and just looks plain buggy..

 

I can't see zombies right next to me.

 

At the moment I do not have screenshots because the scrn print doesn't work,--I'm aware there's a way, I am totally new, and like I said, I joined the community to figure this problem out so I can enjoy the game with other people whom I've attempted to play with and who also can not figure out why I can't see them when they're standing right in front of me. 

 

I get it that this game is meant to be realistic. For example I've always been someone who mods his Elder Scrolls games to have a more accurate portrayal of nighttime.

 

 But this... is just in a whole different world. On one hand high gamma helps me out, and on another it just makes the problems worse. Using a flashlight looks like an extremely SHARP amount of light where it is actually possible to see, contrasted with simply sillhoutes and a pixelated sky.. So goddamn annoying.

 

I cant even see the ground when the sun isn't up high in the sky in this game, and when it is daytime, I can actually play. 

 

If anyone could help me out I'd seriously appreciate it. I have a AMD Radeon HD7700. 

 

My problem looks somewhat similar to this old-ass video:

Edited February 20, 2014 by GlutenFreeman

[omgitzgnar 7]

That's about how night time works on DayZ. For the best gamma trick results, clouds should be on any setting other than disabled, shadows, off and HDR on low, gamma and brightness all the way up, and it's about as good as you'll get. if the moon is out on the game, it will be like a black and white movie. if not, a very dark black and white movie.

[GlutenFreeman 0]

I really think that it's far daaarker than what most people are seeing when they see night time in this game. I've seen people play the game and it doesn't look the way it does on my game.. 

[GlutenFreeman 0]

So after many hours of complete frustration and implayability, I must say that Day Z doesn't work on my computer because the nights are so utterly bad I am unable to see unless I'm standing on a roadway because the reflected light seems to work, however the ground is completely utterly pixelley-black and unplayable.

 

 

Makes this game not fun at all to play, and it appears these issues have been plaguing the game for years on end and no person who has ever mentioned (the same) problem as I has ever got an answer.

 

 

This message is for any future players who have it: There is no solution to your problem and Day Z is simply a game of luck if it happens to work on your computer.