Edit: Image saturation fixed ^_^
This applies mostly to nVidia users, though ATI users might be able to do this. Last I checked, ATI users couldn't adjust the saturation through drivers, but that may have changed. Edit: ATI users can change hue and saturation through the AVIVO section.
To get to the point, if anyone has ever played with the nVidia colour correction settings, you might have realised you can get some stunning imagery from BF2. Adjusting brightness, gamma, contrast, and digital vibrance (nVidia's way of renaming "colour saturation" and patenting it) will turn a previously dull image into one that looks photorealistic - lighting and colour wise, anyway. With a bit of adjustment, and fine tuning, you can get a lot out of the game (and your desktop, and well, anything!). I can't actually live without these settings now. They're applied per-monitor, of course, so if you have two monitors, you can fiddle about and make the images on both look exactly the same - even if one is an LCD and the other a CRT (though contrast ratio isn't really changed).
Look in the "High-resolution pictures" thread in the media/photos section, and you'll see what I mean. The best thing is that this comes with no discernable performance hit, simply because it's a bunch of colour settings.
Image comparison: In order of originals with no adjustments, then enhanced images
Boosted contrast + No digital vibrance/saturation
All the enhanced images are as how I see them on my old LCD screen, with 70% contrast, 45% brightness (I think 55-60% is simulated here), and 50% digital vibrance. I didn't change gamma, so the images will probably look different on your side (mine is set to 70% to make up for the superb contrast on this CRT :)). The last image simulates high contrast, no vibrance.
Hope someone gets something out of this :)
Oh, and if you've already fiddled with these, the latter images will look like nasty neon crap.
This applies mostly to nVidia users, though ATI users might be able to do this. Last I checked, ATI users couldn't adjust the saturation through drivers, but that may have changed. Edit: ATI users can change hue and saturation through the AVIVO section.
To get to the point, if anyone has ever played with the nVidia colour correction settings, you might have realised you can get some stunning imagery from BF2. Adjusting brightness, gamma, contrast, and digital vibrance (nVidia's way of renaming "colour saturation" and patenting it) will turn a previously dull image into one that looks photorealistic - lighting and colour wise, anyway. With a bit of adjustment, and fine tuning, you can get a lot out of the game (and your desktop, and well, anything!). I can't actually live without these settings now. They're applied per-monitor, of course, so if you have two monitors, you can fiddle about and make the images on both look exactly the same - even if one is an LCD and the other a CRT (though contrast ratio isn't really changed).
Look in the "High-resolution pictures" thread in the media/photos section, and you'll see what I mean. The best thing is that this comes with no discernable performance hit, simply because it's a bunch of colour settings.
Image comparison: In order of originals with no adjustments, then enhanced images
Boosted contrast + No digital vibrance/saturation
All the enhanced images are as how I see them on my old LCD screen, with 70% contrast, 45% brightness (I think 55-60% is simulated here), and 50% digital vibrance. I didn't change gamma, so the images will probably look different on your side (mine is set to 70% to make up for the superb contrast on this CRT :)). The last image simulates high contrast, no vibrance.
Hope someone gets something out of this :)
Oh, and if you've already fiddled with these, the latter images will look like nasty neon crap.
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