u/AnhiArk

Heyo.

Anyone has any idea what this does?

> Increase “SDR Brightness” / “Corner Uniformity” / “OLED Anti-Flicker PRO” items.

Heyo. Played this game a lot at the start of 2025, think it was just after the 1.0 update.

Don't remember having microstuttering back then, on a AMD 5600x and geforce 3070, 1440p screen.

Now I'm planning on playing more, got a new pc with a 9800x3D and geforce 5080, 1440p ultrawide screen.

On my old save (finished the game), around my big main base, the 0,1% FPS drops to about 30 at times and I feel a little stutter. Don't remember that being the case when I first played, but might be because my average FPS is higher now.

But even if I start a new world, I sometimes get a little microstutter- like once every minute, and the 0,1% fps will drop to 60-ish. 156 FPS cap, which it reaches most of the time.

Is this normal behavior? Tried quite a lot, can't seem to get rid of it. No problems in other games or benchmarks.

Thanks for reading!

They can look stunning for sure, but the brightness is just so inconsistent. Some look way too dim for me, it makes my eyes strain to make out the details in darker scenes. I know they are mastered the same nits as SDR is supposed to be and this way the brightness is "right", but I like to increase the brightness in SDR as well. This is something that doesn't work in HDR because you will raise the blacks as well, and you get overblown highlights.

Reason I post is just a sanity check I guess. Pretty sure everything is configured right, and my setup can display bright scenes correctly (some movies, and things like Planet Earth 3 look gorgeous), but I'm tired of watching a dim movie now and then.

If I got this right, some HDR movies are mastered for 100 nits and others for 200. 100 is not bright enough for me.

Using a MSI MPG 341 CQR x36, set on TrueBlack 500

Edit: Thanks for the replies I guess, but no one talks about the brightness. Is it not true that half of the HDR movies are mastered at 100 paperwhite and the other at 200? 100 is really way too dim for me

They can look stunning for sure, but the brightness is just so inconsistent. Some look way too dim for me, it makes my eyes strain to make out the details in darker scenes. I know they are mastered the same nits as SDR is supposed to be and this way the brightness is "right", but I like to increase the brightness in SDR as well. This is something that doesn't work in HDR because you will raise the blacks as well, and you get overblown highlights.

Reason I post is just a sanity check I guess. Pretty sure everything is configured right, and my setup can display bright scenes correctly (some movies, and things like Planet Earth 3 look gorgeous), but I'm tired of watching a dim movie now and then.

Will keep using HDR for games, it's great when set up correctly and they have brightness sliders.

Am I alone in this?

Playing through Forbidden West for the first time, and in general I'm having a good time (I think some of the lesser things are that most of the side content feels more like filler then actual gameplay, I despise every variation of timed content, and I think they went overboard on the knockdowns) but one thing I really can not stand is the handholding.

Aloy will not be quiet during a puzzle, and blurt out the solution before you even get a chance to look around. If the test audience needed a step-by-step voiced over walkthrough to complete these puzzles, they might as well have removed them all together, because this is not gameplay. This is just busywork.

Reason I wrote this post and felt like ranting was because I just did that part were you have to put in a date, and you know its October, and then a NPC that tags along says "That's the 10th month of the year!" and I facepalmed so hard.

Another example:

"I killed that bandit leader. Maybe I should look what he was carrying"

loot bandit

"Hmm a key, maybe it opens something nearby"

walk towards a chest

"A chest! Maybe I can open it with that key I found earlier"

Ohh come on. I like Aloy and I like Ashly Burch but Aloy talks way too much.

Rant over. Thanks for reading