Fourth time posting this. I'll probably get ignored again, but whatever.
I'm on my second play-through of ME2 and I have noticed some kind of glitch that seems to be occurring with the lighting on characters. First off, I'm not one of those weirdos complaining about the lighting being "too dark" in the game - I think it looks awesome. What's bothering me is that almost every time I move around, during both gameplay and cutscenes, the direction of the lighting on characters changes abruptly. It's like it's taking a while to realize that the lighting pattern is supposed to have changed and then it just forces the lighting shift. It not only looks very unnatural and damages the suspension of disbelief, but also makes many parts of the game just really weird to look at.
Here's a short video of my gameplay that attempts to illustrate the issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL97Gt-0WSc&feature=youtu.be
If you look very closely at the lighting on my character, especially at 0:44, you'll notice how the lighting direction goes through multiple changes very abruptly and forcefully. The same thing happens during pretty much every area in the game. This kind of issue has never occurred on any other game I've played, including the first and third ME games; the lighting shift just looks very unnatural on this specific game for some reason.
I've tried changing just about every application setting in Config; Dynamic Shadows on and off (I prefer to keep those off in all three ME games as they just make everything look weird and shimmery), Light Environment Shadows on and off, High Quality Bloom on and off, Spherical Harmonic Lighting on and off, changed the number of cinematic lights, you name it. I've also tried many tweaks in Coalesced.ini and GamerSettings.ini, as well as changing some settings in the Nvidia Control Panel and Nvidia Inspector, and nothing has worked to fix the apparent lighting glitch. I've even re-installed my drivers completely and that didn't do anything.
So yeah, I'd really appreciate some help with this. I don't know if anyone else has noticed this glitch, but it really bugs me.
My specs:
MSI GeForce GTX 960 Graphics Card (all the right drivers are installed and up to date)
AMD FX-8320 8-Core CPU
16gb RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit
DirectX 11
Community ManagerNothing in the video you have posted looks out of the ordinary or broken.
So the way the character lighting glitches at random, which I mentioned is very prominent at 0:44, is completely normal?
Look, if this is something that simply can't be fixed and is in the game by default, then just tell me so I can move on. I'm getting a little sick of not being given either a direct answer or an effective solution.
Community ManagerHaving rewatched the video yet again as I could not see the issue it appears the flickering of the lighting is caused by the light coming through the venting steam. This is actually quite an advanced visual effect.
