Bloom?

[olaf73]

What is this supposed to do? Or maybe I should say, what does it do? I know what its supposed to do, but it does nothing for me with an X800 Pro and Cat 4.5s. I can turn it on and off in the options, but lighting in-game is unaffected.

olaf

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Bloom is in ? Sweet, I thought I read someone say it got taken out.

[Mr. Perfect]

In Invisible War all it did was blur everything.

[Kildread]

I think it's supposed to be a lightning effect that makes objects blurry when standing in front of a light source.

Like, say, a vase in front of a spotlight would have 'blurred edges' as you look at it.

As someone else said, in IW it just seemed to make lots of things blurry.

[grafixmonkey]

Bloom stands for Blurry Looking Old pOrn Movie. It's done to simulate a camera lens filter to make the lights and colors look more dreamy and ethereal. At least, in T: DS, it's probably been fixed a lot from the way it looked when DX:IW came out. It was really bad when that was first released.

[miek]

it's a cheap way to improve FPS. don't be fooled by it.

[cheese_thief]

Originally posted by miek
it's a cheap way to improve FPS. don't be fooled by it.

No. Don't make comments about things you don't know about. It just makes you look stupid.

Kildread hit it right on the head. It results in slightly slower FPS, but ony about 1 or 2 less than normal.

[olaf73]

Thats fine but what exactly does it look like and why would my setup be ignoring the setting?

olaf

[zmikez]

It just makes bright objects/lights glow a little bit. There is a chance it is working and you don't notice it. Things have like a halo around them. Not that big a deal, but I like it.

[Komag]

I tested it out by looking at some light sources and switching back and forth bloom on/off/on/off/on/off to see the difference.

Basically, all I could see was some cloudy/crappy blurry stuff with bloom on, normal good lighting with bloom off.

My advice, turn it off and get a couple more FramePerSecond performance.

[van_HellSing PL]

Looks like on some systems bloom is causing the fps to drop, while on others it makest the game run better. It was the same with DX:IW.

[BigPimpin]

Originally posted by miek
it's a cheap way to improve FPS. don't be fooled by it.

The ignorance here is amazing.