On my Series X the game is too bright even with brightness at 0. This means that there is too much fake light in the game and day races look flat while night races are too bright. There is also too much light on the car, making it look like a toy or something.
2 issues I’ve had so far, apologies if this exists or if this is user error 
After first race in practical performance and built for sport game crashed after winning at the second performance upgrade chance. I had the first exhaust installed along with oil cooler and tried togo to exhaust upgrade 2 and the game crashes
Second issue involves us which I think is known cannot get the blackness level low enough to make the black logo disappear even when set to 0.00
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I play FM on my Series X with an LG G3 55 inch OLED TV. Forza Motorsport has an odd gamma or contrast issue which makes it look JUST LIKE I’m playing on an LED back-lit TV. I wish Turn 10 would fix it, because it makes the game look AWFUL. Complaints are abundant all over the internet. Fix the brightness/gamma/contrast. Make it look GOOD on an OLED so everything pops like it should.
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I’ve got the same brightness issue on the XSX, the black F being clearly visible at 0. In fact the entire setting barely seems to change anything.
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The HDR is off for sure. I just can’t get it to look right. Either looks too dull and washed out or too bright. There’s also banding in the sky whenever the sun is low or there’s fog/overcast weather.
HDR needs tweaking for sure.
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For me it’s the other way around.
Even on the brightest setting the black logo isn’t slightly visible…
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Xbox or pc, what tv (and settings are?), sdr or hdr, if xbox then is hdr calibration done?.. a lot of variables
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Me too it’s not enough
I had to turn on dynamic contrast to full, micro contrast to full, hdmi black level set to low and now I can get the black FM logo to barely appear after a bit of picture tweaking.
Still, no matter what you do HDR does not look correct. The vertical and horizontal bands in the sky as the time of day shifts or when you’re driving in completely foggy, hazy and overcast weather is very distracting and you cannot get rid of it.
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Agreed 100%. I’m on PC. Playing in HDR, I can’t even get the dark logo to disappear in the “You should not see a large black “FM” in this box” part when turning the brightness to 0. Peak HDR brightness is correct, and my TV settings are dialed in so I can get any other game I play to look great. Brightness slider needs way more range
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I can’t get the dark logo to appear
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For me too. Lg oled
I do not have HDR display… I am not able to get the dark logo appear in the PC-version. Because of this, I 1st set the brightness way too light and that made the game look really washed out. Setting it to 50% looks much better now.
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Same issue on my LG C2 Oled + Series X
Same for me on Series X with RT mode, Samsung Crystal 2020 4k HDR TV. Other games all look fine…
Confirm 100%.
Ditto. Looking forward to HDR tweaks in the next update.
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It’s important to know that many TVs have tone mapping and will counteract any attempt of adjusting brightness and contrast.
If your TV has an HGIG option (only available in HDR), turn it on. It basically disables tone mapping and lets the console do the adjusting.
Some TVs won’t disable tone mapping even with HGIG on. My Samsung Q80T is such a TV, several reviews point out out that enabling HGIG only reduces tone mapping, not disable it. That basically makes the Xbox HDR calibration screen useless and you have to just know your TV’s peak brightness and set the value to that, ignoring any screens that ask you to make a logo disappear
I sometimes enable HGiG and that seems to get the HDR to look right, reducing color banding in the sky and all, cutting down on the washed out “grey” look of the game but no, it doesn’t correct the HDR values in the game. Those need tweaking for sure. Even FM 5 and 6 with AutoHDR applied looks more eye pleasing. If this were a tone mapping issue then FM 7 and FH 5 would have it too. They look downright incredible.
I understand they’ve gone for a different artistic direction, a more photorealistic one and I appreciate that. But the Starfield like look is kind of disheartening and makes the game old, dated and kind of cheap looking.
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I understand it might be the case. I only suggested HGIG because it can be a compound effect. My nephew’s TV actually does have good HGIG implementation and I need to test the brightness slider on his TV, because I’m not sure if the logo not disappearing at 0% is a bug or just the TV being weird.
Unfortunately, we are used to considering contrast = good. I’ve seen many games with crushed blacks being considered incredible for that. I believe the answer is a middle ground, adjust the game to look more vivid while keeping visuals clear and not just having crushed blacks to pretend visuals are nicer. HDR exists for a reason, it’s so the TV can actually cover a higher range of brightness values. Having crushed blacks defeats its purpose.