HDR is all messed up, Game is very dark

[Motivator 10]

The HDR for me is all messed up when I am in forests or anywhere the sun gets blocked out, if I am facing away from the sun the lighting is perfect but if I turn around and face into the trees everything is pitch black you can't even see the trees they are just black along with the ground it looks really bad.

Also the HDR seems to lag a lot and if I zoom in it changes? I don't get it, really horrible worst lighting effects I have seen in a game.

Anyone know how to change the HDR effects?

Edited June 19, 2009 by Motivator

[callaway 0]

They have "sorta" addressed this in a few forum posts. HDR is integral to the engine, so we won't see it turned off. Hopefully they will add settings so it can be tweaked. It's the worst use of HDR and "other" effects I've seen in a game. It's almost like they didn't play it at all.

[sk3pt 0]

It's the worst use of HDR and "other" effects I've seen in a game. It's almost like they didn't play it at all.

It works perfectly here, so it has to be some weird stuff going on with different setups/gfx cards.

Anyway, there's probably a hundred threads about this already.

[Motivator 10]

It works perfectly here, so it has to be some weird stuff going on with different setups/gfx cards.

Anyway, there's probably a hundred threads about this already.

So you don't see any black?

[.kju 3245]

It is a common problem.

Does not happen for all as it seems to be related to HW, OS, ingame visual settings.

Overall its a problem in the engine and besides putting ingame brightness value up or

down depending on the situation or waiting for addons to provide a workaround for HDR

to somewhat disable it.

[moosenoodles 0]

So you don't see any black?

E6600@3.4ghz

4gb ocz@800mhz

Aw9d-Max Board

XfX Ati 4870 1gb Card (all app specific settings apart from using AF at x8 off in game) 9.6 official cats, Cat AI is on full.

Using No motion blur mod by kegety..

Running in window mode.

language="English";

adapter=-1;

3D_Performance=100000;

Resolution_Bpp=32;

winX=14;

winY=31;

winW=1652;

winH=964;

winDefW=1920; << window mode rendering equiv to 133% fillrate.

winDefH=1200;

Render_W=1920;

Render_H=1200;

FSAA=0;

postFX=0;

HDRPrecision=8;

lastDeviceId="";

localVRAM=1067663360;

nonlocalVRAM=1878257664;

^^ my arma2.cfg

version=2;

blood=1;

singleVoice=0;

customScheme=1;

trackIR=0;

controller="Default";

sensitivity="Medium";

vibrations=0;

showTitles=1;

showRadio=1;

anisoFilter=0;

TexQuality=3;

TexMemory=3;

useWBuffer=0;

shadingQuality=10;

shadowQuality=3;

soundEnableEAX=1;

soundEnableHW=1;

browsingSource="Internet";

mouseSensitivityX=1;

mouseSensitivityY=1;

floatingZoneArea=0;

difficultyMP="regular";

difficulty="regular";

lastSPMission="Insurgent Airfield CO10 V2";

headBob=0.60000002;

teamSwitchOffsetX=0;

teamSwitchOffsetY=0;

sceneComplexity=300000;

viewDistance=2400.0002;

terrainGrid=12.5;

volumeCD=0;

volumeFX=6.8555746;

volumeSpeech=4.029964;

gamma=1;

brightness=1;

fovTop=0.75;

fovLeft=1.2;

uiTopLeftX=0.27083334;

uiTopLeftY=0.22499999;

uiBottomRightX=0.72916663;

uiBottomRightY=0.77499998;

IGUIScale=0.55000001;

^^ my arma profile config minus the key bindings etc..

No texture popups, no lag unless its general server lag and link dead issues,

hosted game/mp games run at between 35 for very dense action(lots of explosions at once and lots of fires and all that jazz) to 60 fps for normal activity or slow paced city hunting of enemy etc..

Single player gaming, can guarantee 45-60fps fluctuations with 50 or 55 being the avg stable frame rate looking at any direction from low in woods to high on a hill.

....

[sk3pt 0]

So you don't see any black?

No, I don't. It's just perfect on my old ATI HD2900PRO, and I really hope it still is on my new 4890 (still waiting for my CPU heatsink).