Making BF2 (and everything else) look better [56K WARNING!!!]

[solofowaffles]

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But, I do like the very last pic: Boosted contrast + No digital vibrance/saturation . That is kinda nice looking.

agreed last pic looks decent.

[DesertFalcon]

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too me the new one looks too much like im playing in a 4 year olds world made of tinker toys and lincon logs. Its just too radiant for me harder to see as well.

[camper.]

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But, I do like the very last pic: Boosted contrast + No digital vibrance/saturation . That is kinda nice looking.

That's how I see the middle ones :hmm:

The originals look practically monochrome to me. Something out of the Vietnam era, really.

Alright, now I bloody get it. All the images are oversaturated. I went along thinking 50% added saturation in photoshop = 50% digital vibrance. It's not. Time to re-edit :)

The current [previous] images are [were] actually the equivalent of 200% digital vibrance.

Oh, and they're fixed now, though slightly exaggerated. Shouldn't look like Chernobyl anymore. Now they're underdone in terms of contrast. Damn.

[Rob848]

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Much better now, they looked like s**t before.

[JTF2_darkloop]

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Can you tell the noobs how to do it. (like myself)

[camper.]

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Can you tell the noobs how to do it. (like myself)

It's really easy.


Just open the nVidia control panel (advanced view) and open the tree as in the pic:



Just fiddle with the settings until you get it right for yourself. If you do any printing/web publishing work, I recommend against doing this, but if you do that sort of stuff, you'd know already, anyway :p

You can just take a couple of screenshots from BF2 and adjust from them, you don't have to keep ALT+Tabbing between the game and the control panel. As for ATI users, the settings are a bit spread out.

Oh, and the correct settings depend on your monitor, don't use mine unless they work.

[Darth_Brandis]

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I'm sure it will look better as you get used to it.
I'll give it a go, than change it if my eyes start to hurt too much.

[camper.]

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If you don't like digital vibrance, you could always jack up the contrast (and brightness). Powerstrip does this perfectly, all you have to do is adjust contrast there.

Examples:







Gives a photorealistic look to everything if you do it right.

[Chris_Redfield]

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I hate the way it looks, way too cartoonish. I really love the less-coloured look in games. For example I absolutely hated Far Crys look, only to find out that a simple colour theme option made it absolutely crazy good looking.

[Mo0by]

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If you don't like digital vibrance, you could always jack up the contrast (and brightness). Powerstrip does this perfectly, all you have to do is adjust contrast there.

Examples:







Gives a photorealistic look to everything if you do it right.

Warning! Do not view in a dark room!


Seriously it burns,,,,

[RYKUU]

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I did a double take. I thought the 'enhanced' images weren't displaying correctly.

It's a matter of opinion though.

I think the game looks better with more contrast

Thats a great tip for snipers.

[Darth_Brandis]

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Good thing also to do is turn your dynamic shadows to low.
That way you can see people from even further away behind a building trying to hide in the shadow.
Very nice.

[Sneaky]

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Tryed some changes in settings and it realy looks way better now.
Thnks for the tip mate!

[*ebutka*]

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i think you sdid it a little too harsh. Me being a photo major, thats all i look fo, color. It you toned it done a little it would be better. your white are too blown out though. otherwise, looks good!

[camper.]

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i think you sdid it a little too harsh. Me being a photo major, thats all i look fo, color. It you toned it done a little it would be better. your white are too blown out though. otherwise, looks good!

Yeah, on my monitor it looks dark. I can imagine how it would look on a TFT, but it's quite hard to get it looking right.

Still, the images aren't what's important, the colour adjustments are :)