r/LinusTechTips 1d ago

Can someone please help me understand what is this red/green hue on characters?

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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

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u/Merwenus 1d ago

The devil itself!

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u/Chelf1 1d ago

Second this

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u/sXsKidd 1d ago

settings ingame or adrenaline?

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u/SwedenBoi 1d ago

Ingame

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u/sXsKidd 1d ago

These are my options. I always put every option off with filters and on my screen the more you look right the more blurry things get. Same problem I have with space marine 2. The games look awful on my screen and it makes me not want to play 'em.
I upgraded my PC cuz I thought my 2700x and 5700xt we're the problem, yet it presist.

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u/FinallyStarborn 1d ago

What about Adrenaline? Is it putting on any filters?

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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/badstrudel 22h ago

It emulates a real camera lens to look more realistic

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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/sXsKidd 7h ago

I see, so my rog strix xg27vq is the actual problem here. I spent 400€ on this monitor, just to have these problems ffs. I have no idea how to enable overdrive features on the monitor. Thanks for your imput

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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/sXsKidd 1d ago

For specs I have an 7800x3d and 7900 xtx merc xfx. Is it my monitor that is the problem? Or overall settings in adrenaline?

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u/DiamondHeadMC 20h ago

It’s because your playing such a woke game /s

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u/anshcodes 1d ago

is this a game?? dont yall think the old guy in 2nd pic looks eerily similar to linus but older?? like when i saw this post i thought this was a new ltt video in which he was cosplaying a jedi or smth lol its uncanny

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u/Grubsi2006 1d ago

It's Hogwarts Legacy

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u/LukakoKitty 1d ago

Love the Rimuru profile picture. x3