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Is it me or have the overlays (like the menus) become darker?
midevilchaos
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Is it me or have the overlays (like the menus) become darker?
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I noticed a thread on Reddit, but nothing since .
I don't log in for as long of a periods as I used to, but I'm feeling the eye strain & considering just taking a break .
Any news on this front ?
Thanks.
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That looks like the normal Fed UI to me. I think somehow your UI theme got changed, so you're getting the Fed one instead of the orange-ish brighter KDF UI. You might try changing themes to another and back to KDF.
No, all my alts have the same UI on purpose. Also, if you read some of the above comments, I am not the only one who noticed the change in darkness. Had I posted my FED character instead, it would have shown the exact same thing.
Do you happen to have a picture of how the UI used to look for you? Your current photo by and large looks the same as what I see on Fed UI checking on older pictures. Unless there's some sort of gamma-correction going on with your photo host, I wonder if you might have had some sort of issue previously that was making things out of spec before the update.
Here's a few months old pic from my end:
No. Why would I? LOL
Besides, others are seeing the same problem. I'm NOT the only one. For things to have either been accidentally changed for a single character could have been possible, but for multiple characters AND multiple players? Impossible.
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I doubt this is related to what STO users are experiencing anyway. But I cannot test it, because I either am not affected by it, or cannot see the difference that you all are reporting. If anyone is brave enough to mess with their settings to see, I think we should empower them to do so.
To that end, this is the “fix” that Sthe91 is mentioning:
>@terramak said:
> Popping in to note that, if I'm guessing correctly, this may be similar to an issue I've been talking to folks internally about.
>If the issue is that the borders of various UI elements (such as text, the squares around powers, etc.) draw too thickly and make it look "darker" because it's more obscured, then you may be seeing a similar issue to one I've been seeing and finally found reproduction steps to, recently. It seems to require having a high-DPI monitor and having scaling on.
>And yeah, the bewildering thing is that it doesn't show up in screenshots, or in videos, so it's hard to prove it happens.
>If your case is the same as mine: You can work around this by entering Fullscreen mode and exiting again. If you don't want that to mess with the size of your open windows / your desktop icon layout, you can instead do the following:
Find your Neverwinter executable (e.g. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Neverwinter_en\Neverwinter.exe")
Right-click on the file and select Properties.
Go to the Compatibility tab.
Click the "Change high DPI settings" button.
Activate the "Override high DPI scaling behavior." checkbox. Then click OK.
This will, unfortunately, make text in the game small, but you can fix that by using the in-game UI Scaling options.
>I hope this works in the short term, while we look into a long-term fix that doesn't require such a weird workaround
And here is the link to the Neverwinter thread:
(Link removed per forum rules. - BMR)
> Really? You are speculating there may be a fix in Neverwinter that is applicable here, but not providing a link or any more information about it?
>
> I doubt this is related to what STO users are experiencing anyway. But I cannot test it, because I either am not affected by it, or cannot see the difference that you all are reporting. If anyone is brave enough to mess with their settings to see, I think we should empower them to do so.
>
> To that end, this is the “fix” that Sthe91 is mentioning:
>
> >@terramak said:
> > Popping in to note that, if I'm guessing correctly, this may be similar to an issue I've been talking to folks internally about.
> >If the issue is that the borders of various UI elements (such as text, the squares around powers, etc.) draw too thickly and make it look "darker" because it's more obscured, then you may be seeing a similar issue to one I've been seeing and finally found reproduction steps to, recently. It seems to require having a high-DPI monitor and having scaling on.
> >And yeah, the bewildering thing is that it doesn't show up in screenshots, or in videos, so it's hard to prove it happens.
> >If your case is the same as mine: You can work around this by entering Fullscreen mode and exiting again. If you don't want that to mess with the size of your open windows / your desktop icon layout, you can instead do the following:
> Find your Neverwinter executable (e.g. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Neverwinter_en\Neverwinter.exe")
> Right-click on the file and select Properties.
> Go to the Compatibility tab.
> Click the "Change high DPI settings" button.
> Activate the "Override high DPI scaling behavior." checkbox. Then click OK.
> This will, unfortunately, make text in the game small, but you can fix that by using the in-game UI Scaling options.
> >I hope this works in the short term, while we look into a long-term fix that doesn't require such a weird workaround
>
> And here is the link to the Neverwinter thread:
>
> (Link removed per forum rules. - BMR)
I am not speculating about this, the core team is responsible for all Cryptic games including Star Trek Online. Therefore when something is changed in the engine it can affect not only the game mentioned but others as well.
I did provide some information and I usually don't provide links but also because crosslinking is prohibited according to forum rules. I never called it a 'fix' but a "workaround" because it does not permanently solve the problem.
Wait, crosslinking links between two Cryptic games can't be done? What type of BS rule is that???
Thanks! Ima look at that later once I'll play STO.
Having experienced this before in another game company that shall remain nameless, the only reason such a rule would exist is to keep one hand knowing what the other hand is doing I am afraid...
Peace...
That makes no sense to me. Perhaps you could clarify how it does?
So... we both agree this is complete BS then?
Peace...
> I don't know if this will be helpful or not, but I had the same problem and I went to display settings in windows and turned off HDR. Night settings was already off. It fixed the problem for me.
That is the most helpful information that has come out of this whole discussion. Someone should let the left hand at Neverwinter know about this too. Maybe it will help them develop a better long-term fix, if the problems are related.
@terramak Please look at this if you have time.
My PC does NOT support HDR. So... that won't work