Still day almost dusk, colors fade to black and white?

[RpTheHotrod 1]

No, this isn't with gamma cranked. While it starts to get dark, on my client, the entire world turns to flat black and white except for light sources such as flares. To my friends, it's still pretty light out and is barely noticeable it's actually becoming dusk.

It's like the moment dusk starts, my colors within a minute or two fade to black and white. It makes it very difficult to make anything out. My friends still have full light and color visibility for a good 15 minutes before it starts becoming noticeably dark for them (they are not gamma cranking either).

I tried messing with brightness and gamma by increasing or decreasing the values, but all it does is make everything "shiny" (like when you look at a LCD screen from an angle).

Any ideas what might cause this?

I have a GTX570 or GTX580 (I don't recall off the top of my head and I'm currently not at home) running windows 7 64 bit with 8 gigs of ram. Processor is an i5.

It is very strange and looks like you're in some old black and white TV horror show. While "cool" looking in the creepy department, it's almost impossible to make a bandit out versus the environment.

[Survivor Tyler 77]

The only time i really get black and white screen is when my health is rather low. Im not really sure what the issue could be. Did you try switching servers and seeing if the problem persists?

[RpTheHotrod 1]

It's any server every dusk.

[lvg 1690]

Could you post some screenshots on the effect?

[RpTheHotrod 1]

I'll do that tonight.

[RpTheHotrod 1]

What is screenshot button? I can't run through steam without an error, and PrintScreen doesn't copy to clipboard properly due to dual monitor setup.

[nebu 2]

exact same issue for me.. the colors dont pop anymore in dayz;

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2ptdjwy&s=6

when i die or abort and i see the menu, the ingame color is back to normal;

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=24ywksy&s=6

i reset my video settings to default before i took the screens. so brightness and gamma are booth at 1.0; i got newest drivers for my gfx installed and play 1.7.1.5 / 94209

[Castle (DayZ) 23]

What are your post processing and HDR settings?

[nebu 2]

this is how the colors should pop..

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=245xclv&s=6

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both are set to normal, see screen below;

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=swqvdl&s=6

[4L4N 276]

Im not sure if that is the new tone mapping they brought out with one of the Arma2 beta's.

When the Sun is low on the horizon and you look directly at it the surrounding area's get darker. If you look away from the Sun then all the colours go back to normal. ( thats what is happening in nebu's pics )

Its kind of like wearing reactive lens glass's.

People were crying out for a feature like this in BF3 when the sun used to blind you.

Although i think Arma's is a little too much, it goes too dark.

[nebu 2]

i can see a difference when i turn around. it gets brighter, but its only a little bit.

also when i get hit by zombies the color changes between grey/popping colors?!?!

i dont think its related to the mentioned feature;

** update **

this only occurs when i use 94209

under 94103 the colors are usual good!