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[Scouzer]

Preface: I have already set the game to maximum brightness in the settings.

I would love to post this in the technical support subforum, but the forum does not allow me to post there. It says I do not meet the requirements to post in this forum.

Here's a screenshot showing my cutscene problem: imgur.com/ZbtHG

Does anyone have any ideas?

[Qutayba]

I don't think this is necessarily a technical issue or something that can just be fixed by turning up the gamma. There's just not enough lighting on speaker's faces sometimes.

[mybudgee]

I like it, The lighting in the first two games was not always that realistic, also its a cool symbol of the dark subject matter and the running theme of death and mortality...
Too bad I don't know how any of my shepards look with the new lighting engine...

Modifié par mybudgee, 08 mars 2012 - 11:10 .

[jcolt]

ttry turnin the brightness up on your tv or pc idk i don't really have the same problem

[ItsFreakinJesus]

It's not the game, it's your screen. Adjust your settings, not in-game, but through the TV/monitor itself.

[Obadiah]

^^ That what I did: turned the brightness up.

Modifié par Obadiah, 08 mars 2012 - 11:12 .

[Tenkawa]

Scouzer: you have not registered your copy of the game against your BSN profile, which is why you cannot post there. You are not considered an owner.

And which version, XBox360, PS3, or PC?
What is your setup? HDMI, VGA, Component, S-Video, etc
Have you checked your TV settings, make sure it is not on "Movie" as that can decrease the TV brightness and contrast. Try the "Sports" settings, as that tends to bump it up.

I run on Xbox360 through HDMI with a brightness +3 and it is perfectly fine.

[Scouzer]

Obadiah wrote...

^^ That what I did: turned the brightness up.

It's a laptop, I cannot do that. I do not have darkness issues in other games. The game is too dark when I play on my external monitor as well.

Modifié par Scouzer, 08 mars 2012 - 11:23 .

[Duncaaaaaan]

It's deliberately ridiculously dark in areas to hide the poor textures.

For example, this kid in the vent duct, there are actually different shades of black, looks like the contrast is glitching and playing up.

[Julia343]

They do this darkness in some movies too. It sets a mood.

And BSN won't let me register my game here even though my BSN/EA/Origins/XBox Live Accounts are linked. This is a nightmare. Game is registered on XBox Live/Origins

[ael00]

ItsFreakinJesus wrote...

It's not the game, it's your screen. Adjust your settings, not in-game, but through the TV/monitor itself.

Its not the screen.

Its the game, more specifically the lighting.

I would know that because my job is as aphotographer and I worked (and it is a constant strugle) to keep my monitor calibrated to print shops and different software, color profiles etc ..

At first I thought it was a gamma problem aswell, but its not. As far as I can tell its the way that  in game lighting works, and presuming that, it was intentional.

ps. I know arguments like mine ****** a lot of people off, like 'I work here, I have a degree in that, bla bla .. ' But the thing is we actually know a thing or two..

Edit: @Scouzer: You can make video/render decisions for each of your software in your GPU options. Not sure how you do that on your system, I have Nvidia. If you're on the same page, PM me and I'll help you out. This works regardles of weather its a PC or a laptop.

Modifié par ael00, 08 mars 2012 - 11:40 .

[ChickenClubber]

Duncaaaaaan wrote...

It's deliberately ridiculously dark in areas to hide the poor textures.

For example, this kid in the vent duct, there are actually different shades of black, looks like the contrast is glitching and playing up.

I notice this too.  Are you playing on 360?

[friendlybatarian]

 I could turn the in-game and tv brightness up all the way, and I was still unable to see the N7 logo in their test screen. I'm not sure how this happened. My tv is perfectly fine

[OverchargedTeslaCoil]

Hmm, I'm not sure it's a problem with the game. I just played through that exact scene myself, and I did not notice any lighting issues of any sort. Their faces were very well lit, and quite prominent. What you have seems anomalous.

If you are on a laptop, check your ME3 configuration settings via the MassEffect3Config.exe in "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Origin Games\\Mass Effect 3\\Binaries" (or whatever you installed ME3 in). In the settings, check for how many cinematic lights you have it set to. I don't believe you can go below 1, but you never know.

Other than that, I don't know how to fix this, as I don't know your rig or how you set it up. Check for gamma settings, color balance, hue/saturation, etc. on your monitor; maybe check settings in the nVidia Control Panel or ATI Control Panel. The usual spiel.

[MerchantGOL]

the only time i had a problem with this was Sanctuary.

[RebelTitan428]

its not your tv, its the discs. I had the same problem until my discs stopped reading. Replaced the discs at the store, the new discs had the same problem on top of it always freezing so i again returned the game for new discs and the game was fine in brightness.

third times a charm...?

[TaHol]

I had the same problem when I took of the option that had something to do with cinematic lights (I don't have the game installed right now, so I can't check what it was). Anyway, lights, lightning, something like that. I turned it off and result was same as OP:s. So better check your options.

[ChickenClubber]

RebelTitan428 wrote...

its not your tv, its the discs. I had the same problem until my discs stopped reading. Replaced the discs at the store, the new discs had the same problem on top of it always freezing so i again returned the game for new discs and the game was fine in brightness.

third times a charm...?

What does the brightness have to do with the discs?

[ChrisBran]

This is actually an issue that some people have had when playing the game. The lighting in cut-scenes become horrible. Possibly due to those users having a poor graphics card.

They found a workaround for this by setting the number of cinematic lights to '1', turning spherical harmonic lighting to on and turning dynamic shadows off.

[Nimpe]

...Have you tried raising the brightness to max in the game options?

[Icinix]

Nimpe wrote...

...Have you tried raising the brightness to max in the game options?

Haha. There was no need for that


Yeah, ME2 and ME3 lighting gives me the craps. The game actually looks better with dynamic lighting shadows etc turned off - but its still to dark and un-nautral.

ME1 got the outdoor natural lighting really close to perfect - the shadows although sucky, never removed the image or details like ME2 and ME3.

Edit: As for it being graphics cards - nah, I've played all three ME games on several different video cards such as Mobility 6770 - Raedon 6950, 4890, Nvidia 670 and 580 and the dark shadows graphics are pretty universal.

Modifié par Icinix, 25 mai 2012 - 01:40 .

[Mr.House]

Didn't have a problem with the ME3 lighting at all, found it way better then ME2 imo, ME2 was just way to bright.

[mauro2222]

Duncaaaaaan wrote...

It's deliberately ridiculously dark in areas to hide the poor textures.

For example, this kid in the vent duct, there are actually different shades of black, looks like the contrast is glitching and playing up.

Haha yeah

[archurban]

mass effect 3 story is dark, and gameplay is dark because most environment is pessimistic.the universe will fall. but I don't think that screen is too dark. I play it on my brand new laptop. just adjust brightness (0 --> 2). you will be fine.