I’ve already reported this issue multiple times through tickets and your reply is always the same (known issue). You keep insisting you’re aware of this but I can’t find this issue anywhere in your list.
It’s getting frustrating seeing videos on YouTube with the lights working fine while mine look like there’s white tape all over them that happen to glow in the dark. Sometimes I even think proper emissive lights might be unlockable through a DLC or something (sarcasm).
I’m aware this only happens to certain people but it’s an issue regardless and needs to be addressed once and for all.
I’ve tried everything. From decreasing brightness to disabling HDR altogether (it helps but it’s still too bright), changing settings. Nothing worked.
Worth noting I’m using a Gigabyte M27Q 1440p HDR10 (HDR400 Compliant) and 170hz Freesync gaming monitor with an RTX 3070, R7 5800x3D and 16Gb of DDR4 3600mhz (3800mhz) ram.
If anyone is experiencing the same as me PLEASE upvote this topic so that their team can see that this issue affects more people than they think.
It’s frustrating because the game is very pleasing at night but this completely ruins the aesthetics.
Just add a slider so that we can descresse the emissive lights intensity. Something please!
Video: https://youtu.be/9nhpEgY8zd4
The video and image proof were taken with HDR enabled.
I’m also running a RTX 3070 but my taillights are red. One thing I note especially in the first image is your image as a whole looks washed out almost as though your monitor settings aren’t right. My nights are certainly darker than yours.
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I’m using HDR. That’s why it’s not as dark. The taillights are red for you as they are for most people. This issue isn’t affecting everyone as I’ve stated in the post.
My monitor can’t be configured while HDR is on as everything gets locked and greyed out. Besides I’ve tried with windows HDR off and with HUB optimized settings for this monitor and the exact same thing occurs.
Every other racing game I play or have played have accurate tailights, including Need For Speed Unbound and even Forza Horizon 4, therefore I’m 100% sure it’s not a “me” problem. The game seems to simply have an issue with certain panels and/or color spaces.
Horizon 5 is the only game that has this problem.
I have a similar problem only on some cars…properly configured Xbox x in HDR and high end monitor…no issues in FH4. Start a ticket so Dev will know. Cheers, John
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Already sent 3 tickets regarding this. Interesting to know this is not a PC specific issue.
Cheers bro.
IMPORTANT: Okay a quick reminder that this post is aimed for people facing this issue. If you’re NOT EXPERIENCING THIS please don’t bother commenting, unless you are experiencing the same or in case you have experienced it and have found some sort of workaround or solution for the problem at hand. Simply implying it works for you while blaming affected people’s hardware doesn’t help at all. We don’t care if the game is fine for you. It’s not for us, otherwise I wouldn’t have created this topic. This topic is for affected people to vote and make this issue be heard, not for people having no issues to come here and brag about it without providing any sort of solution. You having functional red tailights isn’t going to magically make ours turn red as well.
That said, the infamous “it’s fine for me, it must be you” doesn’t help anyone and it’s extremely annoying.
Thanks.
I have the same issue and it is driving me crazy!!
I do not know why some people are unaffected by this. One guy on discord kindly shared a screenshot on a track I asked with me. And look at this.
My screenshot:
His screenshot:
His screenshot looks WAAAAY better with normal looking tail lights.
Both running in SDR here. Checked in-game settings, driver version and what not. Only meaningful difference is that I am using RTX 4080 and he is using RTX 3070. Howewer there are some people on YouTube that do not have this bug even when using an RTX 4080 as well.
And yes my tail lights look just fine in FH4. Only FH5 is affected
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What are the differences in your settings?
In this screenshot his settings are not fully maxed out, while mine are.
But I also tried copying his settings. Did not help ;(
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Could you maybe post both in here?
Are you using a HDR monitor? I gather this can cause this issue.
Here is his settings:
I tried copying the same - did not help. He also has 8bit color depth on Nvidia settings, I tried copying that too. Did not help ;(
Now what I usually run and in the screnshot is all maxed out expect Ray Tracing is set to Ultra and I use TAA instead of DLAA.
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Yes my monitor is HDR capable. But here I shared SDR screenshots.
The issue happens in SDR and HDR. It just looks even worse in HDR because the tail lights become brighter perceptually.
Thing is if you look at people running this game on YouTube… I’d say 90-95% of them also has this bug in night time. They just don’t notice it seems. But then there are some people who do not have it.
Examples:
This guy is affected by it (at 6:27 you can clearly see white-ish tail lights):
This guy is unaffected by the tail lights bug (his tail lights look red as they should):
Forza Horizon 5 - Touge Battle EVO VI vs R32 - YouTube
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It’s so frustrating. I also have an HDR capable monitor but have been using SDR for months now and the tailights look like poo. I’ve never been able to fully enjoy the game because of this. Which is a shame. Just like you, FH4 is fine. In fact every other game is fine. It’s exclusive to FH5. It’s infuriating.
@T10ManteoMax Please, please help us. We just want the tailights to look proper.
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Took me a long time to find this post. I have this issue. It ONLY STARTED after switching to an HDR display. It occurs in both SDR & HDR. In fact, it looks even worse in SDR. I use an AMD GPU which could be a variable. The tail lights work perfectly in FH4. The worst part about it is the third brake light becomes the only way to watch for brakes. The bright tail lights, shown here, affect my PC using all cars.
So far, there has only been one way I have been able to get the lights to render properly:
- Starting the game on my primary monitor that is HDR and has the fault
- Start driving, turn off primary monitor
- Disable HDR in game, switch from TAA to MSAA and back
- Turn primary monitor on, re-enable HDR and miraculously it is fixed
Before fix:
After:
This car is not a very good example. The brake lights look brighter on screen, but still relatively close in brightness to tail lights. This NSX shows the difference off better:
Sorry for 20 images in the comment, but at least you can see the fix in action.
