Blotchy graphics in Aliens Dark Descent
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I'm not seeing the problem. Maybe it's your monitor?
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Are you referring to the banding in the black areas?
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Yes, in my opinion. It is quite challenging, but I managed to get through it and really enjoyed my time with it.
Also, it's worth pointing out a lot of the middling\negative reviews around release mentioned a few irratations that were generally eradicated by the first or second patch.
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Specs of the laptops? Including the type of panel they use if you know
It's predominantly in black areas yes. I'm not exactly sure what banding is, but besides my use of "blotchy", I would describe the issue as what should be one solid area of colour instead having patches of pixels made up of a similar tone, creating an ugly effect.
4090 gpu, i9-13900HX Processor and the panel is WQXGA (2560 x 1600), IPS.
On my main PC screen (LG OLED) the screenshot looks a lot darker than on my old TN screen. Looks like the gamma is too high on the TN leading to the blotchy/banded look. Some of the details on the OLED are crushed in the blackness but who knows what the intended visual is. Since it is a jpeg I could also be looking at some compression artefacts and if the game is using pre rendered cutscenes compression could be an issue there too.
First thing I would try is in the Nvidia control panel make sure the output range at the bottom is set to full.
I think it's under the change resolution sub menu but not 100% off the top of my head. Also set it to RGB mode if it's not.
Your monitor might even support 10 bit colour so could try that to.
I think it's under the change resolution sub menu but not 100% off the top of my head. Also set it to RGB mode if it's not.
Your monitor might even support 10 bit colour so could try that to.
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Very good game, lots of good cut scene content and the missions are fun, the only let down is the final mission, but we can forgive them because 99% of the game is awesome, which is surprising from me because when I first saw the trailer, I was very disappointed that the next Aliens game was like this and felt it would flop, but nope, this game was very enjoyable, hoping there be more.
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I'll have a look, thanks.
I have noticed that when the dgpu is in use, windows is detecting a second display (in device manager they both appear as Lenovo DisplayHDR), could that be an issue?
I don't know tbh, can't think of a reason it would detect two displays. HDR could be the issue though. Try turning it off, I've seen lots of post about problems with PC gaming and HDR but honestly have never looked to much into it myself as I've not got a HDR monitor.