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bread45

Something about the OW2 engine looks different, causing eye strain

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So since I've been playing the OW2 beta, something about the new engine, filtering/AA, contrast, lighting, depth of field, post-processing... something, I'm not sure what, something looks off about it and it causes a lot of eye strain when playing, something that's never happened in the hundreds (thousands?) of hours I have playing OW1.

It almost looks blurry or something, it's really hard to describe and I can't quite put my finger on it. I think it makes seeing friendly and enemy players a little more difficult to see as well.

Was wondering if anyone else ran into these issues or had suggestions for video settings to tweak? I've tried tinkering with a few settings but nothing has seemed to help. I may try a nuclear option and just set everything to low/disabled and see what it looks like.

Posted May 6, 2022, 9:52 PM UTC

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PoppyspyPixel Tracer•

The sunset in every level has this bright bloom... It's a bit bright at certain angles.

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bullxbullPlatinum•

For me it is the screenshake, everytime the screenshakes my eyes unfocus and refocus, it gives me really bad headaches. The added a bunch of new screenshakes to the game in ow2.

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bread45OPAce of Hearts Ana•

Yeah I noticed this at some point as well and I’ve seen others mention that they’d like a way to disable it. Hopefully they add it as an option.

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Tyra-JadeSupport•

I thought there would be a way to disable it in setting, but I was just too lazy to do it lol. Guess I’m SoL until they (hopefully) add it in.

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kabutomushii•

I hate how the new doomfist makes my screen wobble every time he's near me

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syvkal•

This is the one for me...

I jump a lot and my god the shaking really gets to me. Especially any level with tall buildings where the wobble is even more noticeable.

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ChefK34•

Why are you jumping a lot in OW?

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syvkal•

Jumping and crouching mid-fight makes your head hitbox less predictable.

Also just a habit at this point from other games.

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ChefK34•

Constantly jumping makes you more predictable…sure jump but if you constantly jump any good hitscan will hit that

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MeatCurtain91:Diamond: Diamond :Diamond:•

Hey, try adjusting Your gamma correction to 1.75. It helps with visibility and maybe take a bit of strain from Your eyes :)

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bread45OPAce of Hearts Ana•

Thanks!

I actually just set it to 1.8 which supposedly is more like what it is in OW1, and I think it does help a lot. I also tried setting High Quality Sampling to "Default", as I saw some others recommend. Hard to say if it helped, but maybe a little bit?

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MeatCurtain91:Diamond: Diamond :Diamond:•

If You have problems with blurriness You might also want to try some nvidia/radeon sharpening.

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longgammaEidgenossin Mercy•

Something similar happened to me with Black OP’s 3. I used to play hours on end with Black ops 2, but when CoD moved to the new engine, it caused so much eye strain. I just couldn’t play the game anymore. That’s how I stopped playing CoD and got into OW haha.

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ClemencyArtsHammer swinging and melody singing•

So. Much. Bloom. It hurts.

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Sazy23Ashe•

I have this too since beta. :/

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p0ison1vy•

Whats your FPS? I have to turn my settings down in the beta to get the same solid FPS as in the live game.

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ggbruhs•

Although your issue is with ow2 I'd like to suggest f.lux which you can use to adjust the blue light from ur monitors. You can make it start at boot and has definitely been a staple to my pcs since I first tried it.

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bread45OPAce of Hearts Ana•

I've used flux in the past, and I have blue light blocking glasses, but this is something else. It's not the color, I think it's the image itself and/or the fidelity. Thanks for the suggestion though.

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ggbruhs•

hey man is your light issue still a thing since these last changes?

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bread45OPAce of Hearts Ana•

Do you mean since beta2? I didn’t notice the issue as much in beta2 but I’m not sure if it’d my imagination or not.

I still am more used to the general graphics and sound of ow1

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ggbruhs•

nice! scared to swap over cause my eyes hurt too. hope it stays well for your eyes

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AaronMTPixel Cassidy•

Process of elimination I guess, try disabling things at a time to see if it improves.

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bread45OPAce of Hearts Ana•

Yeah, that's a good point. Going to try that tonight. I think changing High Quality Sampling to "Default" helped a little? I need to mess with it some

What I did was I backed up my Settings_v0.ini file since it is shared between OW1 and OW2 (which makes sense) and I started making changes. That way when I go back to playing OW1, I can use my old settings file.

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SlipperyScope•

I thought this too! I put the contrast up abit and that kinda helped

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RokuTheRed•

The blur came from AMD FSR 1.0, it was enabled by default for me despite what my OW1 settings were. You can change it back to the old AA options and it should look normal again.

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bread45OPAce of Hearts Ana•

Yeah, I think that helped some? Regardless, hopefully others see this and try it as well.

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keremec•

It's probably FSR. Disable it from the graphic settings- resolution percentage section.

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TheBulletBotCassiDEEZ NUTS! :HighNoon:•

Go to video settings and scroll all the way down.

the 3rd option up from the bottom should say gamma correction. lower that down to 1.75

is that better?

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bread45OPAce of Hearts Ana•

Yup, it definitely helps. That and setting FSR to default.

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exhaustx•

I had the same issue, then I increased render resolution to 150% and turned up sharpening, both settings are in the game. I hate the soft/blurry edges that a lot of new games have, and I can say those two changes completely removed the issue for me. Hope that helps

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bread45OPAce of Hearts Ana•

So this is interesting… I hadn’t thought to try this but I will. I was under the impression you wanted render resolution at 100%. Thanks a ton for the suggestion, I will try this out as well. I appreciate all the ideas I’m receiving in this thread.

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CottonKeviTrick or Treat Zenyatta•

I have the exact same issue. I set everything to low and it didn't help in my instance.

And I'd love to see the option to turn off light bloom and screen shake too. Those are absolutely ruining my eyes. Especially the bloom, ever since I've started OW1. It's (somehow) even worse now.

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e_smith338•

There’s significant camera shake. Might be that

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shinigami3•

Maybe it's VSync?

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bread45OPAce of Hearts Ana•

Nah, I've had that turned off the entire time, so it's not that.

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Karol-ATank•

The gamma is automatically higher than in OGwatch, I'd recommend tuning it down slightly

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bread45OPAce of Hearts Ana•

Thanks. Yeah I’d recommend others to put I at 1.8 or 2.0 or so. Seems more like OW1 that way.

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