Veprovina.4876 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 (edited) It feels.... Off in most areas, i can't really put my finger on it, but i don't remember it looking that dull. Did anyone else notice a change? Or is it on my end? Here's what i mean: https://i.imgur.com/3GpPvoA.jpg This didn't used to look like this... It was more fiery and glowy all around, with orange lighting in general... At least, that's how i remember it... Edited August 31, 2021 by Veprovina.4876 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 I have not paid attention, but will take a look tomorrow. If it's true, it could be something in preparation to the DX11 beta test next month? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goettel.4389 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Looks the same to me: pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veprovina.4876 Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Maybe it's just me then. Here's what i mean... https://i.imgur.com/3GpPvoA.jpg I remember this area being more fiery and glowy and stuff... Now it's like, nothing... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante.1763 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 1 minute ago, Veprovina.4876 said: Maybe it's just me then. Here's what i mean... https://i.imgur.com/3GpPvoA.jpg I remember this area being more fiery and glowy and stuff... Now it's like, nothing... That..does not look right at all. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veprovina.4876 Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Just now, Dante.1763 said: That..does not look right at all. So i'm not crazy, that's good. 😄 But what happened? Since the patch, there's no like, global lighting? At least i think so. Some areas look ok, some look like this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 1 minute ago, Veprovina.4876 said: Maybe it's just me then. Here's what i mean... https://i.imgur.com/3GpPvoA.jpg I remember this area being more fiery and glowy and stuff... Now it's like, nothing... That's the area by the Forge, right? Errr... nope, that definitely doesn't look normal. I went to check it out, and it looks perfectly normal here. Perhaps it is one of your add-ons that is causing this? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante.1763 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 3 minutes ago, Veprovina.4876 said: So i'm not crazy, that's good. 😄 But what happened? Since the patch, there's no like, global lighting? At least i think so. Some areas look ok, some look like this. Somethings kitteny on your end ^^; this is what mine looks like, and i run an addon that darkens it a bit. https://imgur.com/a/FDQLro8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veprovina.4876 Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 1 minute ago, Ashantara.8731 said: That's the area by the Forge, right? Errr... nope, that definitely doesn't look normal. I went to check it out, and it looks perfectly normal here. Perhaps it is one of your add-ons that is causing this? The only add-on i have currently is d912pxy... I guess if i'm the only one having the issue, it's probably that addon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veprovina.4876 Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Just now, Dante.1763 said: Somethings kitteny on your end ^^; this is what mine looks like, and i run an addon that darkens it a bit. https://imgur.com/a/FDQLro8 Yup, that's how it used to look! Do you per chance run d912pxy? How about you @Ashantara.8731? Are you running that addon? If none of you are, then it's probably the addon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante.1763 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Just now, Veprovina.4876 said: Yup, that's how it used to look! Do you per chance run d912pxy? How about you @Ashantara.8731? Are you running that addon? If none of you are, then it's probably the addon. Im not nope! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Just now, Veprovina.4876 said: Do you per chance run d912pxy? How about you @Ashantara.8731? Are you running that addon? Nope, I am not. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veprovina.4876 Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Dante.1763 said: Im not nope! 5 minutes ago, Ashantara.8731 said: Nope, I am not. Then the new patch did something to the graphics engine, and now dx912pxy is not performing correctly. Culprit found i think. 🙂 I'll delete the addon and see if it improves later. I'll miss the extra fps but oh well... Edited August 31, 2021 by Veprovina.4876 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris De Pig.7258 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 I don't run dx912pxy and the Deepstone Fractal was super super dark. I couldn't even see which floor tiles were missing in the corners. I have updated my AMD gfx drivers in the past couple of days, maybe i need to revert to old version? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anomaly.6328 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Veprovina.4876 said: Then the new patch did something to the graphics engine, and now dx912pxy is not performing correctly. Culprit found i think. 🙂 I'll delete the addon and see if it improves later. I'll miss the extra fps but oh well... I don't use dx912pxy and the game became very dark for me as well. Something definitely happened with this patch that screwed up the lighting. Edited August 31, 2021 by Anomaly.6328 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Boris De Pig.7258 said: I don't run dx912pxy and the Deepstone Fractal was super super dark. I couldn't even see which floor tiles were missing in the corners. I have updated my AMD gfx drivers in the past couple of days, maybe i need to revert to old version? My current nVidia driver is not the latest version but about a few weeks old. It would be interesting to know whether it's an AMD issue or a general issue with the latest existing drivers. Edited August 31, 2021 by Ashantara.8731 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veprovina.4876 Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Well, i uninstalled d912pxy just now (did the whole "remove" thing from the "installer"). It looks like this now: https://i.imgur.com/RwRv4Gz.jpg That's how i remember it looking, so... In my case it was d912pxy it seems. Well, unless miraculously it fixed itself, and i just happened to remove the addon at that time but... I'm gonna go with the addon being to blame. Not sure what's happening with @Boris De Pig.7258 or @Anomaly.6328. If you aren't using the addon, and you have the same issue i did, maybe it really is something the patch did... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris De Pig.7258 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 It's only the boss fight in Deepstone that's affected, and my fractal krewe are offline or doing other stuff. I did try the Dragon Forge area linked in the first screenshot, but it looks normal to me. At the time two of us were struggling and wondered if it was a deliberate change to the Deepstone fractal to make it more challenging :/. I don't really want to revert my drivers as the latest one seems to be more stable than the previous ones... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veprovina.4876 Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Just now, Boris De Pig.7258 said: It's only the boss fight in Deepstone that's affected, and my fractal krewe are offline or doing other stuff. I did try the Dragon Forge area linked in the first screenshot, but it looks normal to me. At the time two of us were struggling and wondered if it was a deliberate change to the Deepstone fractal to make it more challenging :/. I don't really want to revert my drivers as the latest one seems to be more stable than the previous ones... Well if it's just one fractal then probably don't resort to driver changes and other stuff... As long as the rest of the areas look ok, it's ok. Mine didn't, it wasn't just Thunderhead Peaks, it was a bunch of others. I did Chak Gerent and it looked bland as well... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anomaly.6328 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Just now, Boris De Pig.7258 said: It's only the boss fight in Deepstone that's affected, and my fractal krewe are offline or doing other stuff. I did try the Dragon Forge area linked in the first screenshot, but it looks normal to me. At the time two of us were struggling and wondered if it was a deliberate change to the Deepstone fractal to make it more challenging :/. I don't really want to revert my drivers as the latest one seems to be more stable than the previous ones... I don't think this has anything to do with the drivers, as before this patch the game was fine. Many raid encounters are now very dark, namely Sabetha, Sloth, most of Wing 4. My friend said the same thing happened to him as well after this patch. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentMoore.9453 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Checked out the forge today and it looks just as glowy as I remember, but a few months ago, my Gilded Hollow started looking like this. Not running any add-ons, haven't tweaked any settings, just logged in one day and the whole guild hall looked like the term 'Tarnished Coast' incarnate. If I had to guess, I'd say they're preparing for their new engine, but it's also possible something unrelated has broken lighting in certain areas of the game and they haven't gotten around to fixing it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veprovina.4876 Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 (edited) I think they're doing something stealthy to the lighting engine. Maps being "dark" means the game is not rendering lighting sources and effects. That's why it looks dark, but it's mostly noticable in the Thunderhead Peaks forge because the lighting there is extreme. Other areas have lighting but not to that extent, hence they look "just darker" if it's missing. D912pxy probably also clashes with some of the new code it seems and makes the issue worse. Maybe those are some DX11 tests or something. Hopefully we'll see improvements in performance with DX11 because i currently can't play the game without d912pxy, it's just very choppy and unenjoyable. I'll make do without, but please Anet, stable FPS in DX11, can do? 😄 Edited August 31, 2021 by Veprovina.4876 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 3 hours ago, AgentMoore.9453 said: Checked out the forge today and it looks just as glowy as I remember, but a few months ago, my Gilded Hollow started looking like this. Not running any add-ons, haven't tweaked any settings, just logged in one day and the whole guild hall looked like the term 'Tarnished Coast' incarnate. If I had to guess, I'd say they're preparing for their new engine, but it's also possible something unrelated has broken lighting in certain areas of the game and they haven't gotten around to fixing it. There's been posts in 'Bugs' about the Gilded Hollow for some time. It's changed by the shaders option. (Used to be reflective on medium, now requires high.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naoya.1682 Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 I've also noticed it doing Deepstone yesterday but also when I was gathering my daily flax below Jaka Itzel WP in Verdant Brink - it was way darker than usual. Weird thing is, when I restarted the game, it went back to normal. I do use GW2Hook (to remove native bloom) but lighting went back to normal before I turned it off. Maybe something changed about how the game caches shaders or something? I can't reproduce the bug anymore (at least at that flax farm). I have newest NVidia drivers installed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatihso.7258 Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, Veprovina.4876 said: I think they're doing something stealthy to the lighting engine. Maps being "dark" means the game is not rendering lighting sources and effects. That's why it looks dark, but it's mostly noticable in the Thunderhead Peaks forge because the lighting there is extreme. Other areas have lighting but not to that extent, hence they look "just darker" if it's missing. D912pxy probably also clashes with some of the new code it seems and makes the issue worse. Maybe those are some DX11 tests or something. Hopefully we'll see improvements in performance with DX11 because i currently can't play the game without d912pxy, it's just very choppy and unenjoyable. I'll make do without, but please Anet, stable FPS in DX11, can do? 😄 This makes sense bcs recently I have quite the problems with gamma and brightness of the various maps in the game despite I haven't changed any settings. However I'm using default renderer, d912pxy and dxvk. Lastly I ended up turning off Post Processing completely to have some peace. Definitely something is clashing behind the scenes. OP yours also look like post processing was turned off. Get it on and compare (also the shader setting in game) instead of removing addons or any other deeper settings. Edited September 1, 2021 by fatihso.7258 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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