Racing at night feels distracting

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@T16R0N wrote:

@pyide_maybeI have answered the working solution in the 2nd post. https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Racing-at-night-feels-distracting/m-p/13216717#M1768

But in your video I still see Anisotropic Filtering at x16.

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That's not my video, and my posts on this stuff from last week have comparisons which shows what disabling AF does and even suggests it as a possible temporary workaround.

It's not one I personally like, since it does kill all the standard texture detail at a distance, that's what reducing or getting rid of AF does in any game on the ground textures. There is absolutely a trade-off in reducing Anisotropic Filtering. Here it just has the added effect of also reducing the way to strong surface mapping which isn't an issue in most games, but the visual noise is still visible at 2x-4x AF, I've already experimented with every setting there. Reducing or disabling AF also looks absolutely awful in darkness + rain on wet roads. It's really bad, possibly worse than the noise and shimmering you get normally.

I personally prefer to turn off the headlights and turn up the game's brightness instead. Then you can still actually see the road textures which lowering AF does away with, and don't get the shimmering pixels like you do with headlights on at night, and doesn't make wet roads look like total garbage. Also, performance is better on some stages without the headlights on.

However, both methods, whichever you prefer, are not actual working "solutions" to this problem. And since this whole deal is not something they've acknowledged yet, a real fix seems unlikely anytime soon. Plus when people present these methods as a "solution" they're probably less likely to do anything about it themselves.