Washed-out colours/bad lighting?

[Ilean]

*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

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

[Coldfire]

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

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

[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.

[Ilean]

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.

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

[Caliburn]

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

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. =|

[Ilean]

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. =|

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. :/

[DonMega]

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)

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.

[SniperRifle]

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.

[Seif]

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.

[indira]

your video card or you need to up your settings