Saniyah.1984 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 I liked the old look how could i turned it down a notch ? 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neighto.7386 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 I'm also finding this.. game looks terrible now, even after adjusting all the settings (yes postprocessing is turned off)... the insane contrast is really bothering my eyes, and a huge step backwards imo. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmakinen.1048 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 I've been playing GW1 and 2 on a variety of platforms since summer 2005 and the game has never looked so horrible and choppy as it looks now that DX9 support was removed (I'm running GW2 on a Win7 machine that I built specifically for the purpose and I'll rather drop the game than upgrade to Win10 if it comes to that). The only thing that the gamma correction slider does is that it switches between unplayably dark screen and a pixellated technicolor barf. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoo.7412 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 -DX9 still work 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hera.6471 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 any clues how to make playable - my character is either a little ball of light beams or so dark i can barley see him - just giving me eye strain to the point of a headache - tried adjusting the contract on my screen - but no effect 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neighto.7386 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 As someone stated in another thread... add a shortcut to gw2.exe right click on the shortcut then properties on target add -dx9 (e.g. ../...../Guild Wars 2\Gw2-64.exe" -dx9) then start the game from that shortcut This seemed to work for me, not sure how long it will last, but its better then not playing cause the game look like garbage otherwise 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madam Pussycat.6153 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 I don't like the brightness either it hurts my eyes worse than the sun😭 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoo.7412 Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 11 hours ago, neighto.7386 said: As someone stated in another thread... add a shortcut to gw2.exe right click on the shortcut then properties on target add -dx9 (e.g. ../...../Guild Wars 2\Gw2-64.exe" -dx9) then start the game from that shortcut This seemed to work for me, not sure how long it will last, but its better then not playing cause the game look like garbage otherwise It is removed from the game settings but still work as windows will force dx 9 on the application so gw2 did not deactivate dx9 just force the clent to use dx11 Also Both working for me just dx9 provide better FPS as dx11 my fps is 30 to 35 on dx9 50 to 60 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 I'm really wondering why not everyone is experiencing this negative visual change when using DX11. @Rubi Bayer.8493? 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witch of Doom.5739 Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 15 hours ago, neighto.7386 said: As someone stated in another thread... add a shortcut to gw2.exe right click on the shortcut then properties on target add -dx9 (e.g. ../...../Guild Wars 2\Gw2-64.exe" -dx9) then start the game from that shortcut This seemed to work for me, not sure how long it will last, but its better then not playing cause the game look like garbage otherwise This worked for me, thank goodness. The game was almost unplayable without the DX9 force -- the whites were so bright and the blacks so dark that I couldn't see any texture, and all the colors were super-saturated neons painful to the eye. 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysica.1027 Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 I tried playing SAB with DX11 on an accurately calibrated monitor/gpu system and it was so bleached out I think there is a problem with ANet's DX11 implementation, The game does indeed look blazingly over contrasted on DX11 they need to go fix it or add a slider for something, it is eyeball searingly horrible on DX11 compared with DX9 for some reason. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaba.5410 Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 2 hours ago, Ashantara.8731 said: I'm really wondering why not everyone is experiencing this negative visual change when using DX11. @Rubi Bayer.8493? Screenshots and examinations of graphics settings would help. It's the post-processing setting that adds in the bloom. I have mine off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaba.5410 Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 Ambient Occlusion on or off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 5 minutes ago, Chaba.5410 said: Screenshots and examinations of graphics settings would help. I am not the one having the issue mentioned in this thread. 😉 6 minutes ago, Chaba.5410 said: It's the post-processing setting that adds in the bloom. I have mine off. So do I, but for some reason that does not resolve the problem for the people having it. 3 minutes ago, Chaba.5410 said: Ambient Occlusion on or off? Mine? On. As I said, I am not having any issue with oversaturation and such. Everything still looks the same for me under DX11 as it did before the patch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaba.5410 Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Ashantara.8731 said: I am not the one having the issue mentioned in this thread. 😉 Indeed. You're not the only reader of this thread though 😉 I suspect if turning off post-processing isn't working, it might be due to an interaction with another setting. Which is why screenshots and inspection of graphics settings would help here. What are their GPUs and driver versions too? No one knows.... Been finding out since yesterday that quite a lot of users have some really old hardware... Edited April 19, 2023 by Chaba.5410 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Chaba.5410 said: Indeed. You're not the only reader of this thread though 😉 Well, you didn't quote nor address anyone in particular, so I thought it was a direct response. 😉 Sorry. 🙂 I still hope that they will soon separate all those settings, because having everything packed in just one single option (post-processing on/off) really isn't very user-friendly, regardless of one's system. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 Win 10, old GeForce, Post-processing High, dx 11 - no issues. Had darkness issues (Gamma slider didn't affect anything at all) when the Devs first implemented dx 11, but those were resolved within a couple of months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfkhaN.5032 Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 this didn't help me. I still can't use it as an option in the game even though my computer and video card support directx 11? https://imgyukle.com/i/QbWX7y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oswald.1860 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 . my computer has Directx12, I cannot uninstall the D12 version and I have no way to add directx11, does anyone else have Directx12 and can enter gw2 without problems? When trying to install D11 directly from the Microsoft page, it is rejected because the D12 is the most current version. It's frustrating having paid for gw2 extensions and suddenly, in the latest update, I can't get into my own game. Has anyone had this problem and managed to solve it?😣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Su Noami.9673 Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 ;the -dx9 was working great, now all of a sudden I'm getting that stupid 3D DirectX error message again, nothing works, any suggestions besides buy a new computer? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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