Gamma/brightness issue - unsolvable? (vid/pics attached)

[Rifle Eyez 34]

Firstly, I've attached a video and pictures. Apologies for the noise, hot as hell and my fan is full blast. Also I'm taking photos of my screen so naturally the quality is incredibly bad.

https://streamable.com/q3p2nw

You can see how straight away in Windowed mode once I swap the treeline becomes more 'solid' - all the edges pop more etc, still the awful fog, but that's just the game. Here's a photo, see how the left is just whitewashed with the right side more solid - it's really as bad as it looks on Fullscreen in the Left image - that mess of brightness and colour around the trees on the right. 

https://imgur.com/a/4vnHmu1

Essentially the problem is in Full Screen the game looks like I'm playing at an incredibly high Gamma even with the Brightness slider right down to low - spotting people just 15-20m away in a treeline is nigh on impossible because everything is almost white-washed, especially with the fog. Everything just blurs into one. When I switch to Windowed mode, like in the video, it's like a night and day change. Still needs some tweaking, but much better. I used to (Arma, DayZ mod, Early Standalone) be able to spot people moving 100's of meters away through treelines etc, everything appeared to have a nice contrast, but now everything just blurs into one messy mix of pixels. 

I've got thousands of hours on Arma/DayZ (Jul 2012 join date just on the forums) so I'm decent at navigating the files and troubleshooting things - no luck on this one. I'm sure it started around the .60 patches with the Renderer work and all of the adjustments with night gamma and the removal of the sliders. I've noticed if I alt-tab like when the game starts and there's a second of delay I notice the change on my desktop (higher gamma/brightness), and it immediately goes back to my normal monitor settings. 

Tried : Reinstalling DayZ, reinstalled Windows, reinstalled Windows from 7 to 10 (unrelated to DayZ but still - no change). Deleting the .cfg. Changing my monitor settings even to extremes and it just makes it even worse or varying degrees of terrible. Changing the gamma setting in the .cfg to 0.5, or various others - unsure if this even works and adjusts anything but I tried all the same. 

Any ideas? 

Edited August 26, 2020 by Rifle Eyez

[Rifle Eyez 34]

Bump - still suffering. Convinced this is unsolvable 😞

[drgullen 596]

Out of curiosity, have you tried running DayZ Experimental which is its own separate program in Steam?  I've seen other threads on here with people talking about something screwed up in regular DayZ that works with Experimental.

I don't know what else to suggest other than creating a ticket with Bohemia Support if you haven't already.  Also, the link to the photo didn't work for me, so maybe that needs updating?

Good luck, hope you solve it.

[Rifle Eyez 34]

I haven't tried Experimental yet - might be worth trying to see, thanks for the suggestion.

I haven't created a ticket yet either so I'll try that as well. 

Still haven't managed to solve it, my only options are play in Windowed and deal with lower FPS and stuttering from time to time, or play in full screen and deal with it not being able to spot people effectively. Hopefully the photo below works and you can see what I mean - it's terrible quality because it's just a picture of my monitor up close, but you can see how the right side looks more defined, the left is Fullscreen and just looks washed out like I've got my Gamma up incredibly high with a low contrast almost (especially notable in the forest on the right side, but even in the distance it looks much better but the pic doesn't do that justice). Same place, didn't move, just swapped between Fullscreen and Windowed. 

 

Photo link works for me - weird. 

 

Even with the brightness down at it's lowest it still looks like it does on the left side of the picture. All started back in .60 with the Renderer work and the gamma slider being removed, which makes me think it's something to do with that. But I've re-installed everything including my OS, so surely it wouldn't remain an issue and carry over between multiple installs? Sometimes it looks better in Full Screen when I initially start the game but if you change a single setting (not the brightness either) it goes back to looking terrible. Just don't understand it. 

Edited September 19, 2020 by Rifle Eyez

[Rifle Eyez 34]

Sorry to bump but...bump. 

 

[Rifle Eyez 34]

Still not solved this, so bumping.