Game is really bright in VR especially road surface. Brightness setting seems to have no effect, you can see the 2D portions before the stage starts are darker but once in 3D it is really bright.

This is a problem in all UE Racing games (e.g. ACC, Rennsport) when using cockpit view.There a 3 parameters to tweak / add in Engine.ini which solve this and I don't know why the developer don't implement this into the brightness menu.In Engine.ini add this Paragraph at the end and change the values to your liking, as always make a backup of the original Engine.ini and edit it with notepad.Type %LOCALAPPDATA% into your windows explorer, find WRC\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\Engine.ini[SystemSettings]r.EyeAdaptation.LensAttenuation=0.45r.Color.Mid=0.50r.TonemapperGamma=2.2Some information:r.EyeAdaptation.LensAttenuation=0.45 // EyeAdaption tweaks the effect from dark to bright (dark cockpit bright track or coming out of a tunnel), lower is smaller amount of brightness adaptionr.Color.Mid=0.50 // Change the generell brightness, lower is darkerr.TonemapperGamma=2.2 // Basic gamma of the game, sRGB default is 2.2, lower is darker

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15 Replies

Peter_Mathen
10 months ago
This is a problem in all UE Racing games (e.g. ACC, Rennsport) when using cockpit view.
There a 3 parameters to tweak / add in Engine.ini which solve this and I don't know why the developer don't implement this into the brightness menu.
In Engine.ini add this Paragraph at the end and change the values to your liking, as always make a backup of the original Engine.ini and edit it with notepad.
Type %LOCALAPPDATA% into your windows explorer, find WRC\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\Engine.ini
[SystemSettings]
r.EyeAdaptation.LensAttenuation=0.45
r.Color.Mid=0.50
r.TonemapperGamma=2.2

Some information:
r.EyeAdaptation.LensAttenuation=0.45 // EyeAdaption tweaks the effect from dark to bright (dark cockpit bright track or coming out of a tunnel), lower is smaller amount of brightness adaption
r.Color.Mid=0.50 // Change the generell brightness, lower is darker
r.TonemapperGamma=2.2 // Basic gamma of the game, sRGB default is 2.2, lower is darker
nando232323
10 months ago
This worked great. Thanks.
kellemann75
10 months ago
Thank you, this really helpt me.
My settings on a Rift S:

r.EyeAdaptation.LensAttenuation=0.25

r.Color.Mid=0.50
r.TonemapperGamma=2.3

The image and the background is way clearer now, the cockpit is a little dark and the menu is very dark, but still much better
moogleslam
10 months ago
Will try this later, thanks.
Devs, please add this as an option in-game!
Thanks
donjezza
10 months ago
thanks so much, that worked really well
Solidus-808
10 months ago
This probably shouldn't be marked as 'solved' as it requires manual editing of the game's .ini file. I'd think 'solved' should be reserved for a patch from EA that addresses the issue or brings those settings into the in-game graphics options.
Greendayle
10 months ago
It definitely shouldn't. VR mode should be take into account that VR FOV is MUCH higher than on desktop and VR players can see way more of the car, which shouldn't be taken into account for eye adaptation, only the outside world should be used.
DR2.0 had the same issue, but there was a mod which reduces greatly eye adaptation "measurement" area to a small area in the middle of rendered view, which made outside world exposed properly.
velcrochicken85
10 months ago
This definitely isn't solved. The provided fix doesn't even really fix the issue just makes it slightly less bad. Needs work.
donjezza
10 months ago
Open up a new ticket then, this is good enough for me, if you're not happy just create a new post
daviserr44
10 months ago
I can't find the file to edit?