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Video issues with EE ?

Post by Artenides » Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:02 pm

Hello fellow Arelithians,

I bought EE a few days ago and installed it on my new PC, but experienced some wierd stuff while playing.
When the I transition and game loads the text above the loading progress bar is flashing. The other rather annoying symptom is that the whole game is just darker than it used to be. Maybe those gossips about the servants of evil taking over Cordor is not a gossip at all...

My config is:

Windows 10
Sapphire Radeon RX 570 Pulse 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
I am running the game in win 7 compatibility mode and as an administrator.

Previously was playing on my laptop and never had any video issues... please haaaalp!
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Re: Video issues with EE ?

Post by MoreThanThree » Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:10 pm

Artenides wrote:
Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:02 pm
When the I transition and game loads the text above the loading progress bar is flashing.
probably normal
Artenides wrote:
Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:02 pm
The other rather annoying symptom is that the whole game is just darker than it used to be. Maybe those gossips about the servants of evil taking over Cordor is not a gossip at all...

This is caused by the "High Contrast" in the Advanced Frame Buffer effects.
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Re: Video issues with EE ?

Post by SockYeti » Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:25 pm

I noticed a lot of strange things happening with EE and most after some research seemed to be around the options under Advanced Frame Buffer effects. So I went and turned all of those off and no longer hand any issue and the game was brighter (also this fixed an issue where I couldn't minimize without the game crashing).
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Re: Video issues with EE ?

Post by Teshil » Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:48 pm

My text flashes on transition loading screens every time too.

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Re: Video issues with EE ?

Post by ActionReplay » Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:05 pm

Flashes for me too, just ignore it until Beamdog can fix it. If you still think the game is too dark even with Advanced Effects turned off you can try Symphony's HDR Contrast Shader Override:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... 1353237605

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Re: Video issues with EE ?

Post by Artenides » Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:48 pm

Thanks for the responses, guys! Switching off the advanced effects solved most of my issues. Waiting for Beamdog to do some miracle with the text flashing...
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Re: Video issues with EE ?

Post by Void » Tue Apr 24, 2018 8:37 pm

For "being darker", disable all framebuffer effects on advanced settings. Aside from maybe ambient occlusion they're trash.

Text used to flash for me as well.

EE also had incredibly poor performance in areas where there are a lot of transparent surfaces present. (Fugue or Water Plane).
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