Washed-out colours/bad lighting?

[Konachibi]

Here's a daytime picture.



Yes, it's overcast and it may be realistic, but is it nice to look at? No, it's dull and drab. It's a shame because the graphics otherwise are fantastic.

Is it just my game? Because that is pretty much what I'm looking at all the time.

Do what I do when the colours of Thanalan get me down: Go to La Noscea where everything is bright and colourfull.

[Felis]

Okay, that ^ looks pretty good. I'm guessing that's a sunny day. Do you have any at night? Trying to work out whether the problem is really just my settings or not.

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/6...1314217258.jpg

[Ilean]

Here's a daytime picture.



Yes, it's overcast and it may be realistic, but is it nice to look at? No, it's dull and drab. It's a shame because the graphics otherwise are fantastic.

Is it just my game? Because that is pretty much what I'm looking at all the time.

I think your monitor needs adjusting, the pic looks decent for me. Of course everything looks even blander if you don't enable shadows.

If you disabled them for performance concerns, I would recommend that you lower drawing quality instead, setting background drawing quality to 2 makes a huge difference in GPU load.

[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

[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

[viion]

Probably your Contrast Ratio or monitor.

As for the colors being washed out thats just the game, as its all very dull as it tries to be too realistic and uncreative.

[Rutelor]

One thing I've noticed on my computer (Radeon HD9670, 1020 x 1080 monitor) is that, at night, the names and other UI elements are excessively iluminated, compared to the world and models, causing these to be difficult to see, because of contrast.

[Caliburn]

Should this perhaps be moved to feedback & suggestions?

[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.