Weird Lightning Problem

[Mastix]

Some Weird Problem Happening in Expose to light... its wayyyy to bright... and it doesnt go realisticly, but it only happens when Shader Quality is set to high(and i tried all the other settings...) and i want to play with high cause i got nice specs... System Specs : Amd Athlon 64 x2 5200 DuelCore AM2.
Sapphire ATI x1950xt. 1024 mb of ram ddr2 800 mhz. with all drivers and stuff........... heres the pictures

thx for any help

[Willbreaker]

Is the difference so huge that you absolutely can't play on medium lightning? Or do you just want to feel good about being able to play with the highest settings (I realize of course that it would feel good to do that with a nice computer) ?

I have X1900XT and I could play with the highest settings, without that bug. Perhaps an in game bug?

/Breaker

[Mastix]

i got it in more lighted area places with some of the objects

[Willbreaker]

Even with Medium setting?

/Breaker

[Dark]

actualy it looks pretty sweet imo :p
but i dont know what it is
i see your having a dualcore processor, i read at some places that it gives problems with some games unless you install a program from amd on your computer
dont know the name tough nd not sure if it would help either

[Thomas]

Try turning off bloom, I will check into this more later and see if I can figure out any reason why it behaves this way.

And oh, if I get to rule the world, everbody will need to have the same computer setups.

[Dark]

agreed :p
just make shure it aint a crap setup then :p
but dang, why didnt i tought of turning off bloom ^^

[Mastix]

Try turning off bloom, I will check into this more later and see if I can figure out any reason why it behaves this way.

And oh, if I get to rule the world, everbody will need to have the same computer setups.

i already said i tried to change all settings.... inculding resoulution effects textures shadows and all other stuff but it only helps when the Shader Quality is not on high...

[Thomas]

Oki, thanks for the nice feedback, my bet is that it is becuase of the specular and that is either due some extra sensitive thingy on your card and driver combo (had that with the tech demo) or simple bad drivers.

If you wanna be a hacker yourself the code for the specular is in:
BumpSpec_Light_fp.cg (especialy lines 28 and 29)
BumpColorSpec_Light_fp.cg (especialy lines 33 and 34)
in redist/core/programs/

try changing:

specular = pow(specular, 16) * lightColor.w * bumpVec.w;
and
specular = pow(specular, 16)* lightColor.w * spotColor.w;

to

specular = 0;

in both the files and see if that changes anything

and feel free to play around and post your results

[Mastix]

it didnt helped.... should i try installing other drivers?