Overbrightness in games

[edamr]

Hi,

I've upgraded to an Rx590 and noticed huge overbrightness in games. It only affects white or near white textures exposed to sunlight, e.g. the pale beaches in far cry 3, any snowy tracks in DIRT2. The textures in full sun appear completely overexposed, similar to whites being overblown in photography.

The textures become so bright no detail can be made out. Everything else is well balanced.

With contrast all the way up it even forces textures to break so that a purple colour comes through (think the same as missing textures) although this effect is not visible when screenshotted, it's only visible on screen.

Have tried different monitors, all brightness/contrast settings and different cable (HDMI and DVI) but it persists. Drivers are up to date.

Any ideas?

 

[shankly1985]

Can you post some screenshots?

 

[arc@css]

Did you do a clean/thorough driver installation? It may be worth reinstalling them again.

 

[edamr]

Here's the screenshot - did have a clean driver install - have been working from a fresh install of Win10 since upgrading.

https://ibb.co/Dz8Zw44

 

[Grandmaster Fap!]

Here's the screenshot - did have a clean driver install - have been working from a fresh install of Win10 since upgrading.

https://ibb.co/Dz8Zw44

That looks like your contrast is off the scale, very strange.

 

[Grim5]

Here's the screenshot - did have a clean driver install - have been working from a fresh install of Win10 since upgrading.

https://ibb.co/Dz8Zw44

Wow yeah something is messed up there - the blacks are crushed into the nether realm and the whites have no detail

 

[edamr]

Yeah, the blacks look worse in the screenshot than on the monitor generally they are ok but the whites are that extreme.

Setting the contrast and brightness to low on the AMD Control Panel makes everything go pallid (obviously...) and whilst the whites are less offensively bright, they still lack any detail.

It seems the problem is all 'pre processing' if that's even possible....

 

[shankly1985]

Yeah, the blacks look worse in the screenshot than on the monitor generally they are ok but the whites are that extreme.

Setting the contrast and brightness to low on the AMD Control Panel makes everything go pallid (obviously...) and whilst the whites are less offensively bright, they still lack any detail.

It seems the problem is all 'pre processing' if that's even possible....

I would try resetting, the GPU settings and even look at windows colour settings reset.
Is it all games?
The fact it's showing on screenshot rules out the display.

 

[edamr]

I've done a complete reset using DDU, still the same.
Nothing out of ordinary in Windows Colour Settings.

Here's the issue in FC3 -

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1919966156
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1919965958

Seems to be an issue with bloom effects being way to strong, but using any options to turn it off doesn't seem to help.

Its all very odd.

 

[Donnie Fisher]

Could be anything like how Nvidia cards limit the RGB range output when they think they are connected to a TV ? (Most often when using hdmi) Is there an option like that in the and drivers ,?