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Hi folks,

I have this issue where the game will randomly turn very bright. It will play OK for a while, then all of a sudden the screen turns light. Its like the HDR lighting is faulty. I actually need to reset my machine to get ARMA to work again properly when it happens. However if I start a diff game...it is fine.

It is specific to ARMA, not sure..because it happens randomly it's hard to figure what settings if any may be causing some kind of issue.

My specs are:

AMD 64 3500

X800XL

2G ram

asus a8n-sli-deluxe

Any sugggestions out there?

Ta Frosty

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I agree, the HDR light is much too bright especially when flying choppers, it gives a flickering strobe effect from the rotars.

there is a way to "tame" the HDR and involves changing HDRPrecision to 16Bit in your ArmA.cfg file:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

HDRPrecision=16;

Most of the old video cards default to 8Bit which gives extremely bright screens when when facing the sun.

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My screen is bright what ever way I face whenever this happens.

There is no escape. Makes the game unplayable because I cant see clearly even 5 metres in front of me.

Thanks

Frosty

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That happend to me if I put my ArmA brightness up to 1.5+. Try putting "brightness" in the video tab down, or put HDRPrecision to 16 like OFPDude said.

Go to

C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME\My Documents\ArmA

open ArmA.cfg, and change HDRPrecision from 8 to 16.

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This 16 cfg trick worked nice for me

I couldnt fly any choppers before without being blinded

But!

Now the Antialiasing AA is disabled

So Im stuck with big jaggy lines or Blinding windshields

Are they working on a fix for this ?

P4

3.4 Ghz

2 Gb Ram

7950 GT 512mb

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If your running an X800 series card I suggest you roll back the drivers to 6.7 or 6.11. I personally am running 6.11 drivers and they fixed the HDR issue for me wink_o.gif

You can grab the 6.11 drivers right here

You can get the ATI 6.7 Drivers here

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I had the same issue and I found out that I have to run my brightness at .8 and gamma at .9. Any higher and I get that same issue.

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i hope HDR turn off switch will be in next patch, i really do hate HDR in this game

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I just flew Mapfacts AH-64

and the harrier with mavericks

and the blinding light wasn't an issue  icon_rolleyes.gif

it only happens in the stock choppers and planes

The windshield gets totally whited out cant see nothing

why is that

anybody know ?

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This 16 cfg trick worked nice for me

I couldnt fly any choppers before without being blinded

But!

Now the Antialiasing AA is disabled

So Im stuck with big jaggy lines or Blinding windshields

Are they working on a fix for this ?

P4

3.4 Ghz

2 Gb Ram

7950 GT 512mb

icon_rolleyes.gif

HDR over brightness happens sometimes....especially after ejecting from a vehicle.

Use the HDR Precision 16 in cfg (set it to read only afterwards) to disable the sun glare. AA won't anymore though but you can use SSAA instead...works for me but not everyone.

This may have unfair advantages in MP games though...as other players will be suffering from white light blindness. wink_o.gif

Have you tried wearing sun glasses when you play, that works too smile_o.gif

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Nope wink_o.gif

Wrong this isn't about looking toward the sun

it doesn't matter which direction your pointing

and it only happens in the stock chopper AH1 and a few other vehicals

The windshield becomes totally bleached out

other then that everything else is fine

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heres a nice example of the white out in a SU flying away from the sun

click to the outside view and everything is fine

GCS00066.jpg  crazy_o.gif

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