-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
"Adjust your brightness until the icon in the middle is barely visible."
- Thread starter Orb
- Start date
I usually leave it on default, but there are exceptions.
Like Undead Crypt in Dark Souls II, brightness to the max in that place.
Like Undead Crypt in Dark Souls II, brightness to the max in that place.
I have already calibrated my screen using better tools so i leave this on default. if you follow those instructions you get massive black crush. no thank you
I tend to follow the directions, or even make it a tad bit darker. If it turns out it's too dark, I adjust it later. You gotta have those shadows man.
I usually follow the instructions, if I don't like how it looks, I'll usually bump it up a slider or two past the center.
Depends if I can see things. Sometimes I turn up the brightness, sometimes I lower it, sometimes I keep it as is.
For sure brighter. My TVs are pretty crap and I never bother to really calibrate them so I just want to make sure I can see what I'm supposed to see. Maybe it's that I mostly play Souls games that have this feature, but I want to be damn sure I can see everything possible.
Until indoor lighting is actually decent in video games I will always put it at about 8 out of 10.
My TV is weirdly set perfect for most games. If I notch it down the icon disappears and if I notch it up it's too bright. Yay my calibration I guess.
Just did this on Control PC last week and the rooms were pitch black to make it impossible to see what was in there, so I turned it up a bit.
I have a lot of glare with my setup now, and the first thing I noticed since moving was that I couldn't see anything now. So I'm having to set most of my games to be brighter.
My TV is calibrated so usually the default setting for every game works enough for me. There are occasions where I turn up the in-game brightness up a few notch. Nothing too crazy though.
i try to follow the instructions, and then i change it if there's a problem
since i mainly play during daytime it's not unusual for me to need a brighter image
since i mainly play during daytime it's not unusual for me to need a brighter image
I play on a plasma tv in a room with blackout curtains, so I set it like they want it. Maybe a bit darker sometimes.
Nice thread OP, I've always give slightly brighter and often wondered what other people do. Seems I'm not in the minority.
Came here to post this. I can see every last detail in the dark on my OLED without needing to worry about it being not visible. Yet bright parts in HDR are still super bright.
In SDR, do you adjust to where you can "just" see it or to where it's comfortably discernible?
I follow the instructions but they never works, it only takes like 3 minutes into the game when the surrounding area is too dark you can't see anything I have to go into settings and brighten it up
I still adjust to where I can 'just' see it as that is what the game tells me to do. And the picture is really good still, though the brightest bits don't pop quite as well as HDR obviously. Coming from an LCD before, I noticed how much lower I need the brightness sliders on an OLED.
It's almost always too dark if you follow the instructions. Not sure what ultra-premium monitor stuff devs are using, but regular everyday TVs in people's homes clearly don't live with them.
Calibrate your tv's, people
This can be something really important for this hobby. Sharpness is another option so, so important.
I leave ingame brightness at default most of the time. Sometimes I dark the image a little when needed.
You guys brightening up the image are insane, you are fucking up with the contrast
This can be something really important for this hobby. Sharpness is another option so, so important.
I leave ingame brightness at default most of the time. Sometimes I dark the image a little when needed.
You guys brightening up the image are insane, you are fucking up with the contrast
I'm playing Control and I've just accepted that the game has crushed blacks as part of the aesthetic.
I usually try to stay close to the instructions, but pretty often I end up turning up the brightness slightly later on. I just find it very unpleasant on the eyes when a game gets dark enough that it becomes a hard time to see ahead of you properly, so unless that's part of the gameplay (like horror or stealth stuff) I prefer to turn it up a little. Really depends on the game though, some games just have the balance right from the get-go, but then you run into a game like Borderlands 3 where I feel like I have to turn up the brightness at inside locations and down again at outside locations every time.
I thought it was just me! I always put it brighter. I try o follow the instructions but it always looks like I'm missing important details in the shadows at that setting in most games.
