Re: ALMOST SOLVED! Brightness/Contrast Bug : Brightness drops after a set piece/goal

Thanks @nikpen97 

Using your recommended match settings I was able to reproduce the issue.  And make it worse!

Previously I had occasionally noticed the brightness drop after cut scenes when playing. It was very annoying, but pausing the game, and unpausing would fix it again.

But, I also think the stadiums / time / weather settings I generally use wasn't showing it at it's worse.

So I tried with Nik's suggested stadium and environmental settings of Bernabeu Stadiim, winter, partially clear, time of 15:30.  The teams used were Liverpool in their home strip, Burnley in their away strip

Immediately after the first cut scene, I got the brightness drop.  It's most notable in the shaded area of the pitch (top half on default camera).

But what definitely was worse was when I tried the pause game trick, it didn't actually clear the issue.

It made it much worse, much worse

The shaded areas got significantly darker almost black.  Impossible to see players, the ball, etc.  The sunny areas were ok, but that top half of the screen was almost black.

if you played on and got another cutscene.  That was so dark you couldn't see it.

And no amount of pausing / unpausing, going in to settings etc would clear it again. Only quitting the match and starting again fixed it. Until you got another cutscene that is.

it also meant that if I got a cutscene and decided to play on, I couldn't pause to make subs, change tactics etc.

Other interesting things.
 
1) Switching the weather to clear, the bug still happens, but now I could pause /unpause and clear it.  So it seems related to weather setting.

2) There's multiple levels of issues.  Using weather clear, when the game kicks off, the shadowed area of the pitch is lightly shadowed.  After a few cutscenes and pause / unpauses, the shadows default to being a bit darker.  The game is still playable though.

3) likewise, if while playing on clear you restart the game with the same teams, the starting shadowed areas are darker.

4) Cutscenes are definitely a much darker average picture level than when playing the game.

Now the really bad news, until EA fix it, there's no workaround which I found.  I tried the following.

A) tried setting the in game HDR brightness calibration to max, min, and settings in between. Just to check if there was one setting where the brightness didn't drop as much or even stopped. Nope.

B) I use an OLED tv and and FIFA on PS5.  in the past some games had black crush bugs where setting the PS5 HDR calibration to one setting above lowest fixed it.  That didn't work either.

C) Finally, I completed disabled HDR on the PS5 and that didn't work either :-(

Sorry that I couldn't find a workaround folks.

Rob