Is there a way to disable to very annoying eye effect? I believe it's called HDR? Simply changing the setting on skyrimperf.ini file to 0 does not remove it for some reason. Any ideas folks? Thank you.

Just wondering, how come you want to turn it off? I don't know how. But I think it's a really cool feature, makes the sun seem brighter.

Disabling HDR is the big unicorn right now...everyone is looking and trying but no solution yet. Why is it annoying? Because it sadly tries to emulate the pupil's adjustment to sudden light-extreme changes. Problem is, it is much much slower than in real-life...should be more subtle, or not at all. A trendy, copy of flavour du jour done in a few other games...I wish they spent less time on this kind of crap and more on fixing shadows.

Is that what causes the character to briefly go blind if you create a wall of flames on the ground in front of you, or if a Dragon flamebreaths you right in the face? Yeah, I agree that the effect lasts slightly too long. It can get you turned around easily during combat.

Is this HDR thing what happens when I look at a dark spot of a room/hallway then back to the path and my screen goes from black to ZOMG BRIGHT! If so, then yeah Id love to be able to get rid of it.

I actually like it. It adds a degree of 'realism'. Plus, when you're blinded, you can ease the pain of looking at horrible shadows

I like it too, but I also like having options to disable things.

I also like it. Adds a lot to making light seem more "real".

Actually thx for the laugh! Nice to have some fun while crying about making the game working...

Is this HDR thing also the reason why night time doesn't look anything like night time, in other words it is compensating by trying to brighten the whole image?

No, that's just Bethesda. They don't do dark nights in any game.

You all know you can adjust the contrast of your screen automatically with video card presets right? On the PC of course. If you're a console player I'm afraid you're SOL.

I know i can adjust the contrast in the Nvidia Control Panel, but surely if i use that to make night time darker it will mess up the day time?

Have you tried turning the option for it off in the ini file ??? (0 = off 1=on )

I just tried and the game annoyingly prevents it from working. I tried extreme settings so my windows desktop looked very dark, but when i ran Skyrim it was as bright as usual (at night).

Our eyes are ALREADY doing this while playing, without HDR... Adding HDR just amplifies the incorrect reality which our eyes are already compensating for.

I would at-least like the ability to possibly adjust the HDR intensity... They have horrible, horrible, horrible settings for HDR, which make it fail to function anything like real-life. Not only that, but it only works in the oddest places. Some places, due to fog, are hyper-exaggerated. (They need to do HDR prior to fog, or ignore fog-levels when adjusting the HDR.)

The intensity is over-exaggerated beyond anything realistic. (I NEVER ever ever, had my vision blind me with that much white, when looking at anything other than fresh snow, at noon, on a clear day. On over-cast days, which is 90% of the weather in the game... your eyes never adjust that dramatically. There is too much ambient light holding your iris closed.)

The delays are over-exaggerated beyond anything realistic. (It always seems like every delay is like looking at the sun. But going from dark, to not-dark, should not take that long. Going from sun to dark, should take long. Fire... is NOT bright. It is red, and eyes don't respond to red. They respond to green and blue for the iris.)

The timing kills FPS when it is needed most... When entering a room of fog, lighted, full of enemies... When being blasted by a dragon... When walking into towns... When turning away from any light-source... This is pure over-kill, and hardly artistic.

I can live with the sun casting shadows at night... (That is not the moon, the moon is on the other side of the world. The shadows move to still follow the sun, under the world. Save processing power... no sun-shadows at night!)

This hdr is blindingly bright sometimes.. I too would love to turn it off... It hurts my eyes at times..

HDR is great, but the way Bethesda implements HDR is awful. One second the sky is completely white, and another second completely blue. It's... AWFULLLLLL.

Wait for CK to come. Then we can change the HDR settings.

The auto-brightening is awful - it's extremely slow, over-the-top, and as somebody above posted is unnecessary for arguments of "realism". We already have very real eyes that we look at the game with. And when we look at something bright, after something dark, our very real eyes are already doing a very real adjustment to compensate for the monitor in front of your face throwing out lots of light then suddenly very little light. Adding a very slow, blatant, and "fake" adjustment on top just stands out as silly.

Clearly there are people that like it - but there are those that don't, and those that don't tend to have an extreme objection to it (rather than it being a "It'd look a little nicer if it didn't do it but I don't mind really") - so it should definitely be an option to disable (whether that be with an ini tweak or an option in the launcher settings, either way... the launcher settings are definitely quite slim pickings as they stand for the 'advanced' tab).

I was this -->.<-- close to joining the arrow in the knee club.

When I first noticed this I thought my monitor was dying, it's so bad :/

You can reduce the effects of HDR by making the following changes in your SkyrimPrefs.ini:

[BlurShaderHDR]
bDoHighDynamicRange=0
[BlurShader]
bUseBlurShader=1

This disables HDR and enables bloom instead. The effect is still there but greatly reduced.

Thank you!

Thanks for this. But I didn't notice any reduction of the effect.

You know what is strange? I actually don't see the HDR effect with a vanilla Skyrim. It only happens when I have Boris's enbseries installed. Strange.

Worked for me, Windows 7 64bit OS. Make sure you change the SkyrimPrefs.ini found in the C:\Users\user\Documents\My Games\Skyrim directory, not in the Steam path.

There is a way to turn it off.

You need to download the ENBSeries

http://enbdev.com/download_en.htm

You have to use the following in the enbseries.ini

EnableBloom=false
EnableAdaptation=false
UseOriginalPostProcessing=false
EnableAmbientOcclusion=false