Anyone know what's causing this brightness issue?

Hi guys

new to rfactor 2 but played plenty of iracing, Assetto and pcars etc without any issue like this. I noticed yesterday how dark the game seemed and just noticed before it goes bright and looks great when I go off track onto grass. Once I return to track after 5 seconds or so it reverts to being dark again

PC is on windows 10 64
i7 cpu with 16gb ram and gtx 970 gpu



Thanks!

 

Wich plugins are involved, have you tried stock tracks, too?

 

using enduroracer or whatever its called. However i did just try stock car and track randomly and it does same thing no matter what car or track

 

I would uninstall all 3rd party plugins and then verify local files through steam (right click in steam on rF2, properties, local files integrity).

 

Can you tell me what time of day that's happening?

 

Hmm when I verify integrity it keeps saying 1 file failed and it will re-download but then it says it downloads 0 byte/0 byte after it downloads and when I verify again it fails on 1 file again.

How do I even tell what time of day it is?

 

rFactor 2 was closed during verify?

 

I never had a problem like this.
See what happens if you delete all the shaders.
\Steam\SteamApps\common\rFactor 2\UserData\Log\Shaders
The game will regenerate new ones.
This is only a guess but.

 

Wow, never seen that.. I would also get all the shaders deleted and game will rebuild them at next track/car load (Slow but may help)

 

Its got to do with the weather............. cloud changes make it happen.........

 

Cloud and maybe time acceleration??

 

LOL, that would be a MASSIVE coincidence when clouds just come up every time when driver hit´s the grass!
No, my best bet is also screwed-up shader(-order). Delete content of shaders and Cbash.

 

True l was wondering if it had something to do with wheel using pc power when on rough surface .. it's a strange one for sure

 

Voltage/Amp drop when the wheel force feedback kicks in (off road vibrations) pulling current from the powerboard the monitor is on.. (Could be plausable if there was something wrong with the FFB wheel motor - and monitor is drawing from same source.

 

@Drathuu except unfortunately (for that theory) it's the other way around - it goes bright when on the grass, and goes dark again afterwards. Plus the going dark isn't instantaneous. If a fresh clean install of rF2 (or at least the player files and shaders) doesn't fix it, it's certainly a mystery.

Could take out screen hardware issues as a contributing factor by recording game footage on the PC itself (instead of with a camera). If that plays back fine then you know it's a screen issue, otherwise you can rule it out.

 

Lol i should have watched the video closer

Its also interesting it doesnt instantly go dark again when he goes on the road.. rather a second or so after getting back on the road, but instantly dark when off the road.

I was thinking if it was a third party car, it could have something to do with a dust/dirt texture alpha .. or something like that.. where it applies as soon as off road (Tyre texture) ? but doesnt clear for a bit whilst back on the road. (dust cloud) .. but im not all over that level of detail of modding in the sim.