What happened to graphics?

I have the same problem on PC. Game has been working perfect for me up until 1.4.1 patch. Graphics has been amazing, but the downgrade after the patch is nothing short of horrendous! 

Why has there been such change is graphics? All the settings are the same as before the patch but graphics is blurry with totally washed out colors and the overexposure of bright parts/track is significant. 

I’ve probably been the biggest fan of the game in these forums, but the game has lost its fun to drive due to this. There must be an explanation why this radical change was done? And why it wasn’t mentioned in the patch notes? 

Can you please investigate @EA_Groguet ? 

Hey there @MrShield78 and @MessiahShowTTV 

Can you attach some pictures/videos about the issue so that when I report it to the Game Team they can investigate? Thanks!

-Groguet

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@EA_Groguet wrote:

Hey there @MrShield78 and @MessiahShowTTV 

Can you attach some pictures/videos about the issue so that when I report it to the Game Team they can investigate? Thanks!

-Groguet

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Hi again and thank you for your swift reply. 

First of all I think codies is very well aware of the issue :-)

Secondly you need to look at a video to see all the degraded graphics. I’m not an Overlay person so hopefully someone else can provide a video. I have no video/screenshots enabled in games since it’s generally degrade performance. 

But I will try to provide something at least. This is a photo I took with my camera on the screen while standing still. In motion it’s even worse. 

But still you can see they are washed out and the light parts overexposed. And the graphics look really bad. Just look at the road ahead, how are you supposed to see where the road goes when approaching next corner? It’s just a bright blurry mess and now sign of grass on the hill in the next corner etc. And remember I’m standing still here, in motion it’s even worse. Before patch 1.4.1 this section was razer sharp and perfect with enriched colors and road was not overexposed at all and you could see all the environment including grass perfect. 

PC 1440P Ultra on all settings.

Have you tried turning the HDR brightness down? Dropping it down to the 20's makes a huge difference on PS5.

I don't use HDR and please notice, there has been no hardware/software change, this happened when updating to patch 1.4.1, everything was looking perfect before the update when I was on 1.4. All other games still look the same, it's just EA WRC that got this mess after update.