What about tuning HDR down a little bit

[pod (DayZ) 10]

As it is working right now, your arma character's eyes are working like low end cameras, completely unable adapting to ambience light.

Dusk and dawn are the worse moments of the day, making everything black or white depending which direction you are facing.

Even at noon things aren't easy, since it feels like you are directly watching the sun even if slightly aiming down.

HDR is cool and adds a touch of realism, but as it is set now it's simply too much, blinding you even in low light situation or facing the wrong direction while in the deep of woods.

To me it has to be tweaked and reduced, what do you think?

[stripes 92]

Out of curiosity, what video card do you have?

[lunchbox813 6]

Turn down your brightness a little bit.

[pod (DayZ) 10]

An ati radeon hd4870

Not exactly high end, but enough to run the game on high at 1600*1200 with minor graphical tweaks

[pod (DayZ) 10]

Gamma and brightness are set to default as of now, wouldn't turning brightness down make the game even darker?

[stripes 92]

Ok I have 2 x 6950's in CF & get this blooming effect occasionally too. Interesting as it doesnt happen all the time but may be related to the time of day I'm playing. I have tried turning the brightness up which has made a difference (it doesnt get really dark like it used to sometimes but sometimes its now too bright). Have you tried just setting HDR to low or even disabled?

[pod (DayZ) 10]

HDR effect is related to the relative height of the sun to the horizon

Afaik it is not possible to completely disable HDR and switching from high to low varies the quality and not the amount, and it really does not make any difference other than imptoving nightvision a bit and giving a nice rainbow shade to your compass

Anyway disabling HDR, as disabling grass or removing trees does, would give me an unfair advantage and I'm against this

HDR is fine but the effect switches between extremes, it is simply too much

Edited August 2, 2012 by pod

[BaskerBosse 0]

I have the same problem. what is the sollution of this?

it is pretty much unplayable as it is now. Is it allowed to use the "GDT Mod HDR"?

please reply quickly, thanks.