Washed-out colours/bad lighting?

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Originally Posted by Coldfire

*cough* Shadows will be rendered if they are disabled or not it seems <.<
Basically you can't do much about the performance. Most settings in the config don't do anything relevant except making the game look bad. Only general drawing is having a negative effect on highest settings.
So enjoy high settings and live with the low fps :P

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Yup, everything is pretty minor on performance except for the draw quality settings, AO and DoF.

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Originally Posted by Ilean

Yup, everything is pretty minor on performance except for the draw quality settings, AO and DoF.

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Oh right almost forgot about AO... it's so broken that I'm unconsciously taking it as a bad joke by the devs xD

I can relate to this problem though, the game is too dark for me during night-time as well. It's really bad in some areas. Even adjusting my monitor does not really help that much. :/

Lighting in some areas inside Uldah also sucks during the day, some buildings are just too dark inside, strains the eye.

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Originally Posted by Buttons

I can relate to this problem though, the game is too dark for me during night-time as well. It's really bad in some areas. Even adjusting my monitor does not really help that much. :/

Lighting in some areas inside Uldah also sucks during the day, some buildings are just too dark inside, strains the eye.

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How about this test? Can you see the first row of squares?

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Originally Posted by Ilean

How about this test? Can you see the first row of squares?

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I was trying these before (did you post these links a few pages back? Thanks if that was you). I can't actually see the first three squares, but when I change my contrast/gamma I then fail the white squares test until I change it back.

I found on all those tests that it was pretty much better if I just left everything alone. =|

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Originally Posted by Caliburn

I was trying these before (did you post these links a few pages back? Thanks if that was you). I can't actually see the first three squares, but when I change my contrast/gamma I then fail the white squares test until I change it back.

I found on all those tests that it was pretty much better if I just left everything alone. =|

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Yup it was me. Not seeing the first 3 squares is actually not too bad, might want to leave brightness and contrast alone and see what you can achieve with gama only.

Sadly if you are on a laptop and even the GPU image controls won't help the only thing you can do is get an external monitor. :/

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Originally Posted by Orcishgrappler

This games color is washed out bigtime. It is not you it's the game. (I love the game but the color not so much)

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I agree that the colors seem a bit bland and not really vibrant except for maybe the leve getting place, the light is alright i guess though i've seen alot better lighting in other games.

Oh the days when I used to actually read what dropped off mobs. Literally, it's been way too long.

My screen is wicked blue at night time I noticed just last night. I was like, damn why does my room look blue? And noticed the ground of Ul'dah is blue at night time... every night.

I love the dawn mist look but honestly when it gets really dark I tend to adjust my monitor brightness which is obviously not how a well lit videogame is supposed to work.

I think they should make the "night" effect with a blueish lighting and less darkness because in Gridania it can get really depressing at times.

I don't mean the hauntingly beautiful XI-style depressing more like XIV-I can't see sh** -type of feeling.

I don't know why so many modern games do this. For example in every Fable game the night-brightness is near unplayable but when I play a game like FF VII-X the night scenes were always art directed in a way that didn't step on gameplay.

your video card or you need to up your settings