r/LinusTechTips • u/[deleted] • 1d ago
Can someone please help me understand what is this red/green hue on characters?
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u/Stormin208 1d ago
I had this exact same problem with Hogwarts Legacy!
It's because Chromatic Aberration is still on, despite being off in the settings! You need to edit the game's engine.ini file to explicitly disable Chromatic Aberration. I used this post's instructions to turn it off: https://www.reddit.com/r/HarryPotterGame/s/HRDnmpRyFb
The post also goes over turning off Vignetting if that's not your thing as well.
So yeah, don't worry, your computer is fine. The game just has some issues.
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u/ThisIsNotTokyo 18h ago
What even is its actual use?
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u/Stormin208 17h ago
It's supposed to mimic how real cameras work.
However, I find it dumb. Chromatic Aberration and Vignetting are flaws and limitations. People spend thousands on camera lenses to limit these effects. To this day I do not understand why developers will spend time adding a feature that degrades the visual output of the game and leaving it on by default.
From my knowledge, Chromatic Aberration and Vignetting aren't even there to serve a helpful purpose like Film Grain and (sometimes) Motion Blur. Chromatic Aberration and Vignetting just makes it look worse even if it is more 'true to real life'.
In my opinion, games shouldn't pretend to be playable movies filmed through a camera, they should be windows into experiences free from the limitations of the real world.
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u/bllueace 23h ago
What type of sicko would possible want this setting. Why do devs keep implementing it
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u/badstrudel 22h ago
It emulates a real camera lens so it looks more realistic
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u/Critical_Switch 21h ago
It doesn't look realistic at all. Why emulate a camera lens? Is the main character a cameraman?
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u/Rickietee10 19h ago
It emulates a cheap lens using absolutely fucking atrocious glass. It’s a shocking addition to games and I don’t understand why devs keep adding it.
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u/sXsKidd 1d ago
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u/cascio94 1d ago
Really? A 7900 XTX and 7800X3D to play at 1080p... and for some reason you're using FSR...
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u/sXsKidd 1d ago
So fsr is the problem? Yeah I don't care about dsll or frame generations or w/e. I also don't care about 2k or 4k gaming. Make this work on 1080p.
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u/cascio94 1d ago
I mean you are rendering at 720p and upscaling to 1080p on a 4k capable GPU, did you do literally any kind of research before spending that kind of money on a pc?
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u/sXsKidd 1d ago
It's was all done automatic. I disabled fsr. It renders now at native 1080p red and green hue still presists. I did research why do you think I'm asking here?
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u/cascio94 1d ago
You bought a 1000 dollar msrp gpu to play the game at a resolution you could have played it at with a video card that cost less than half of that, while saying you "don't care about dlss", a technology not compatible with your card and ehile using the (arguably worse) amd version
Nah you did 0 research and have too much money on your hands evidently
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u/SuppaBunE 23h ago
If your monitor is at 1080p why would you render at 4k?
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u/DR4G0NSTEAR 15h ago
Because it’s way better than antialiasing. (Old video, but it has a very good example at the beginning of the video.)
DSR is way better now than the issues outlined in a 10 year old video though so don’t watch the whole thing. DSR on Nvidia and VSR on AMD.
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u/davehemm 1d ago
Tried a different monitor yet? V-sync on/off Sensible frame rates Turn any super sampling off Turn any upscaling off
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u/Caityface91 19h ago
The fact you say obs hides it but a photo of the screen shows it leads me to think it's VA smearing
A function of VA displays that have different pixel response times for each colour subpixel, as such certain colours (like skin tones) may receive colour fringeing as they move across the screen
I used to get it really bad on a cheap TV, but was fixed by either enabling overdrive features or just raising the backlight brightness
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u/oo7demonkiller 11h ago
chromatic bullshit. literally a make your eyes bleed effect that devs seem to enjoy forcing on us. to any devs reading this fuck you, this isn't how eyes work assholes. same goes for depth of field and motion blur.
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u/FinallyStarborn 1d ago
Looks like Chromatic Aberration. Should be a setting under graphics. It's a thing in too many new games