I am getting very frustrated by the changes to video after the patch.
Can anyone help me find what the problem is?
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On the left, an image from the last patch, on the right, after the patch.
Deep dark/blue shadows and overall deepening of gamma.
I have gone into the video settings and pumped things up, stopping short of washed out white. Thats Gamma, Contrast, Brightness. What am I missing?
I have not loaded any drivers or direct X yet.
Do I need to? Anyone else experienced this after patch?
My video card is old (GeForce GTX1060 3GB) but it has been serving me well for WoW (the only game I play).
My eyes literally hurt now. And I miss the âprettyâ wow.
QQ.
The list of minimal requirements suggests the GTX series can go back to 900 (2014) and your card came out in 2016. The ârecommendedâ RTX cards started coming out in 2018. Can you pull up something else not wow related with which you are familiar and see if you observe the same phenomenon? If so, it may be your card and not the patch. The only other thing I can think of is that maybe MS updated your O/S recently in which case you might need a new driver.
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As to the error, it looks to me like your gamma was bumped up extremely high in the first picture and is now quite low in the second.
Browsing the Support forums this morning, I see folks complaining about Gamma resetting to default every time they launch the game. So changes you are making are probably being wiped when you launch.
Itâs not your video card; at least not the age of the video card. I run this game on a 750ti and have no gamma problems. Yep, thatâd be a video card from 2014, but no brightness or gamma problems to speak of.
If feasible, set the gamma higher via hardware on your monitor. Like, go into the actual settings via the buttons on your monitor and peruse the menus until you find Gamma. Bump it up. You might also bump up Brightness and Contrast; thatâs up to you.
Have you tried changing these settings outside of WoW, via other software like Windows video settings or an Nvidia control-panel type software? If so, what was the result?
Unfortunately it looks like those relying on software Gamma settings within WoW and experiencing this Gamma reset bug are going to have to wait for a fix.
Are you sure that you didnât accidentally turn on Windows HDR or something? Sometimes that happens with games and then non-HDR games get stuck in the weird SDR mode, where they are all dark or bright washed out, based off the SDR slider in the Windows HDR settings.
That or some kind of mix of WoWâs gamma setting in conjunction with the Windows HDR stuff. That first picture is extremely blown out in Gamma, like probably at something between 0.5 and 1.0. This makes the contrast extremely low (the range of difference between the darkest darks and the brightest brights). Normal LCD gammas are usually around 2.2 to 2.4.
WoWâs gamma slider is just a multiplier I think, so 1.0 on it just means it leaves the gamma up to the default color profile, which should be ~2.2.
Anyways, there are quite a few spots you can screw your gamma up in:
The monitorâs OSD settings (gamma settings or HDR stuff)
Windows color profiles
Nvidia/AMD color profile overrides
Windows HDR/autoHDR stuff while running non-HDR content
Just chiming in that Iâm experiencing the Gamma reset, posted about it in the Bug forum but maybe I should have come to Tech Support, either way it seems a lot of graphic settings were reset to default and it doesnât save when you exit the game.