Game version 4.703 + and the Sun in VR

[OG__Iceman_VR]

Device name    HomePC
Processor    AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor               3.80 GHz (4.6 overclocked)
Installed RAM    32.0 GB
Nvida Geforce RTX 3080 TI
System type    64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

HP Reverb G2 version 2 

Game settings [END]
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      canopy_ref = 0
      desktop_center = 1
      detail_rt_res = 1024
      draw_distance = 1.00000
      far_blocks = 1
      fps_counter = 1
      fps_limit = 0
      full_height = 1440
      full_width = 2560
      fullscreen = 0
      gamma = 0.70000
      grass_distance = 100.00000
      hdr_enable = 1
      land_anisotropy = 1
      land_detail = 3
      land_tex_lods = 2
      max_cache_res = 1
      max_clouds_quality = 0
      mgpu_compatible = 0
      mirrors = 1
      msaa = 0
      multisampling = 2
      or_ca = 0.00394
      or_dummy = 0
      or_enable = 1
      or_height = 3092
      or_hud_rad = 1.50000
      or_hud_size = 0.75000
      or_ipd = 0.05184
      or_render_eye = 1
      or_sipdc = -0.00000
      or_width = 3164
      post_sharpen = 0
      preset = 3
      prop_blur_max_rpm_for_vr = 255
      rescale_target = 1.00000
      shadows_quality = 0
      ssao_enable = 0
      stereo_dof = 5.00000
      vsync = 0
      win_height = 720
      win_width = 1280
[END]

So, after the 4.703 patch the sun went from ok to a 5000w bulb. Can we please do something about this and have your beta testers with the HP Reverb G2 using a Nvidia card give you a report? 

I can tell you it causes my eyes to water, and I am using OpenXR toolkit with sunglass setting to max with the G2 Reverb tweaked to the point trees in a snow map are just black and you can barely see the dials just so the sun doesn't leave me with eye damage.  (added ) This is extreme on snow maps sun rise or sun set, and any map sun rise or sun set to 11am and after 2pm then back to hell. 

Edited June 16, 2022 by BlindedVR_The_SUN_isBroken
added times when sun is the worst.

[firdimigdi]

8 hours ago, BlindedVR_The_SUN_isBroken said:

hdr_enable = 1

 

I would suggest disabling HDR. HDR really messes with brightness as it tries to keep it uniform across the screen, this can lead to increased blinding by the sun - plus it chips away at your framerate a tad.

Also if you are going to be correcting colours/brightness/contrast with the OpenXR Toolkit it is best if you leave the in-game gamma to 1.0 and only use the toolkit's controls, the brightness setting in there is a gamma adjustment.

 

There was a discussion when 4.703 came around both in the release thread and in a thread in this subforum and the devs did reduce the effect especially when viewed through clouds/haze.

[OG__Iceman_VR]

I have tried HDR off. Again, I am having to make the game look like garbage just to work around the issue with the sun. There is NO way this was tested by someone with a 3080 TI or better in the Hp Reverb G2. I have only had one HP Reverb G2 player say it was fine and they had an ATI card. Now I have seen many bugs in this game but this one is not even been discussed. They just did an update for a joystick that hasn't be made in 10 years. Yet they didn't address this issue. 

[firdimigdi]

1 hour ago, BlindedVR_The_SUN_isBroken said:

There is NO way this was tested by someone with a 3080 TI or better in the Hp Reverb G2. I have only had one HP Reverb G2 player say it was fine and they had an ATI card.

 

I didn't test it, but I have a 3080Ti and a G2 and as you can see in the threads I link below I was pretty vocal about it until it got toned down. Currently, IMO, it is on par with the effect you get on screen - before it was way overdone for VR when compared to the screen rendering, due to the limited FOV you had nowhere to hide in VR.

 

Not so sure how turning off HDR (which is basically an adaptive brightness filter) makes the game look like garbage since it's the same graphics and same colors with or without HDR.

 

1 hour ago, BlindedVR_The_SUN_isBroken said:

Now I have seen many bugs in this game but this one is not even been discussed.

 

It had its own thread here:

 

And here:

And in the latter part of this thread:

 

And a lengthy discussion distributed amongst the release thread here:

 

 

 

Edited June 16, 2022 by Firdimigdi

[OG__Iceman_VR]

So, what are they doing about it? Any progress. PS new info on openxr toolkit 1.1.4 

 

[Charlo-VR]

I also find the sun painfully bright in my Reverb G2, HDR off and gamma at .8. Sun over-brightness was addressed in a recent update but has become nearly dangerously bright again in this latest update.

[OG__Iceman_VR]

On 6/17/2022 at 9:02 PM, Charlo-VR said:

I also find the sun painfully bright in my Reverb G2, HDR off and gamma at .8. Sun over-brightness was addressed in a recent update but has become nearly dangerously bright again in this latest update.

Ya and somehow it seems worse. The new patch over all was good on many other issues but not the sun.