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I don't have any mods installed (at least now when I took this picture) and I was on the default ini, high settings. Anyone else having this problem/have a solution to this? I tried searching but I didn't find anything relevant.

edit: Added a second screenshot.

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what snow is bright when the sun is hitting it o.o

Ever been in the snow before? That's what happens in the sunlight. Up here in Montana, you have to wear sunglasses while driving so you can see. It's fairly blinding when everything has a fresh coat of white snow on it.

snow on the bight day..is well...really bright!!!

Speaking in game terms, if you think the snow is brighter than it really should be (keep in mind it is supposed to be bright), you can turn down the contrast on the monitor/video card, and/or turn off bloom. Those 2 settings will sometimes make snow reflections in games practically blinding if not tuned correctly.

I don't care if real snow blinds you or can give you sunburns, this is a video game and believe it or not video games don't have to follow the rules of reality and it's possible to allow people to actually go outside during the day. If you even looked at the screenshots you can see how impossible it is to look at anything.



I get these responses quite a lot and, frankly, they are quite stupid. Skyrim is not mountain climbing in Montana in July, the simulator. It is a video game and I should be able to play it without sun glasses.


As far as I can tell there is no option to disable bloom/HDR so my snow will just be brighter than the in game sun forevermore, because apparently people like not being able to play the game from 8am to 5pm.

I can't play the game in most of the regions that I would, normally, consider my favorite (everywhere in between Solitude and Windhelm) because I can't see anything on the ground because of this terrible implementation and can't see anything in the sky because the sun is massive so there is really nothing to look at.

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You seem quite upset over a very easy fix man
Try turning down your BRIGHTNESS in game if that doesn't please you there is always CONTRAST. Search the forums if you would like learn how to turn off bloom, I'm not going to spoon feed you.

Since we're stuck with HDR for now you're gonna have to tweak brightness and contrast.

SkyrimPrefs.ini
[BlurShaderHDR]
bDoHighDynamicRange
[BlurShader]
bUseBlurShader

there they are

It isn't an issue with brightness.

Minimum brightness: http://i.imgur.com/jyAPx.jpg
Default brightness: http://i.imgur.com/z3Tqj.jpg
Maximum brightness: http://i.imgur.com/bGEzX.jpg

As you can clearly see brightness is completely irrelevant and you're just being an idiot.

edit: This was also taken on a cloudy day in game.


As I explained above this is *not* an issue of brightness or contrast.


No effect and no effect on this issue.

edit: I find it utterly bizarre that anyone can play the game like this: http://i.imgur.com/24u5v.jpg. The ground is pure, bright, white (it gets brighter the closer you are to it) and looks terrible.

If these commands don't work you'd have to wait for a mod/fxaa-injector to fine tune bloom/hdr.
at the end this is a question of ones personal taste. white is white and not gray :/

The commands, as quoted, can not be correct.
They are variables (boolean variables even), and need to have a value.
So I think that if it works, the exact syntax should rather be something like:

SkyrimPrefs.ini
[BlurShaderHDR]
bDoHighDynamicRange=0
[BlurShader]
bUseBlurShader=0

Or maybe set them to 1. I have no idea what value means what.

I know, I'm not a complete moron. I just switched the values for both of them from what they already were and then tried every other combination and they did not change anything.



It's not a question of personal taste, it is a question of being able to see anything or just see a vaguely white glow on the ground that blinds you.

it is a question of personal taste (and display settings).
i can see everything there is to see on your screenshots. i see all the small dirtpatches, i can see the the normalmaps, i can see props (gras/plants/trees) all in their blurry lowres beauty ( -.- ). yes it is bright because white is bright by nature, this is not a game related software issue.
if you feel it is displayed too brightly adjust your gfx drivers saturation, gamma, your monitors colors, brightness, contrast and turn of dynamic contrast stuff.

It is not a question of either. I can turn my monitor brightness and contrast to zero but that doesn't change the fact that the HDR is so poorly done that the ground is now permanently in near-vampire vision. I can see the grass and I can see the dirt patches but that doesn't mean I can look at them for an extended period of time without my retinas being burned. This is entirely a game issue that makes it unplayable in some of the most beautiful regions in the game (and that isn't saying much) as attempting to play it when 90% of the screen is just #FFFFFF is not only painful, but ugly. I don't see why they didn't just make it an HTML5 game if they wanted the game to look like this, it would have saved time developing the snow.

It's just one of the things they got right. Snow blindness, look it up.

i actually see nothing wrong with those pictures. They definately dont seem that bright to me, the snow seems brighter in my game.


Perhaps its a problem with your wussy eyes? Tough man eyes like mine dont have a problem.

well, we have a difference in opinion here. i can look at the snow for as much as i want, there's nothing wrong with it being bright. in fact i really much like it the way it is done since it feels natural. it doesnt hurt my eyes or whatever.
you on the other hand don't like it this bright, that doesn't make it an issue which is to be posted in the hw/sw subs. i'd recommend making a mod request.

PS: if your monitor blinds you, turn on surrounding lights (better for the eyes anyway).

I see absolutely nothing wrong with those screenshots. "It's too bright, it hurts my eyes!" If it's too much for you, you either need to: stop playing in a dark room like a basemant troll, or get out more. Snow is like that. But as the others said, you're just gonna have to wait till a mod comes out to "fix" it. OR, you can just wait some in game hours till it's night time. That might help you.

Stop the ganking.
@ OP, it's BethesdaBloom, Oblivion was just as bright and ugly, but you could turn it off. Searched for the TurnItOff setting myself, didn't find it. That's nothing, what you show there, anyway, I was doing a dungeon yesterday with mist in it and fires. Wherever those two meet, it's horrible, it's like the air exploded and stayed that way. Almost bumped into one of those blind Golum things while sneaking because I couldn't see it right in front of me. Guess that's how they got blind too. Dunno how to turn it off, what the poster above said might help, turn on the light in your house, that way your eyes don't adjust for darkness and the bloom might not hurt so much. Otherwise, wait for a mod. As usual. "it's the greatest game ever, mods will fix it"
@ those playing the "realism" card, I created my character with dark war paint under his eyes. That should help against the bloom. It doesn't. In real life I also have eyelids. That I can move. And in game I'm also human with eyelids, just to make sure. So by your logic, it's not done right.

To answer your question OP, no, I'm not having this problem, meaning, it doesn't bother me.

I am from Wisconsin though, so I guess my eyes are just used to it, even in a video game.

To me, it just looks like, well, snow...