Blinded by the Light: Too Many Glow Effects?

djxprime

I was having a decent time running the game until yesterday's update. Now it feels as if the frame rate has dropped everywhere I go (I won't even try going to the sphere for a little while). I've been playing around with the video settings and the only thing that seems to fix it is to take the renderscale settings down at the cost of making everything look more pixellated. It was then that I noticed that there are many objects that are giving off a glow, from console panels and warp nacelles to the details on crates.

Has anyone else been experiencing this problem? And if so, any ideas on how to fix it?

tenkari

if its glowy things causing the problem, try turning your bloom intensity down.

hasukurobi

They do not really slow me down but I do have to agree that glow has gotten out of hand... I can hardly see my ship most of the time when fighting the Voth thanks to them making me light up like a freakin' gamma bomb. I mean seriously? They are not dealing me much damage and yet I get a flash bang in the face constantly.

djxprime

Okay, turning bloom off seems to have an effect; I can move a little better.

But, yeah, I think the glow effects are a bit much. I almost thought that J.J. Abrams had invaded the game. I even saw a setting for lens flare while I was looking.

mirrorchaos

used to fly at planets and the screen when immediately white. have these glow effects reached that far yet?

totenmet

Just put Bloom at 50% or so, and problem solved.

shadowwraith77

Turning bloom off does nothing to resolve the issue for me, and I normally play with the bloom intensity at 10%.

djxprime

Something else I just found out. It looks as if my problem was actually with ambient occlusion. I turned that off and it's running much better now.