Hey, thanks for your reply again. I tried your visualSettings but it didn't fix unfortunately, and I also completely deleted mods folder and just installed your visualsettings again but it still didnt work. Here is the diff between our visualSettings. I believe yours is based on an older version of the game or something. https://www.diffchecker.com/oY2hNgou
I also noticed that my rain drop value is excessively high compared to yours, which explains some new drops in FPS i was getting. And other stuff in your visualSettings was useful. I'm assuming the vehicle extras light setting being really high is for ELS, right? (just curious - its been a long while since I did LSPDFR)

Don't worry about specifying paths lol i have voidTools Everything and easily found the files. And same for deleting, I never delete, only move out to another unused folder, usually on my files hdd.

So, I did as you said, and I noticed that although the issue still occurs.. the game adapts itself back after a short amount of time... I actually restored my backup files to check, and the same behaviour happens.

This is what i see (with your visualSettings)

First person:

-- if i change the camera to third person when everything is over exposed, it immediately fixes the issue. So basically, firstperson is too slow to adjust the adaptation compared to thirdperson. The same happens when i switch to night - its too dark, then it slooooooowly gets bright enough. Its too slow though, and when random things like firetrucks trigger it and my game gets too dark when driving at 60mph its annoying

Third person:

Is this what you're seeing? Or does the game simply behave completely normally for you?

Also note that I didn't see an option ingame to make a new save. So I just deleted my entire profiles folder, which then let rockstar launcher let me disable auto save. This made all settings go to minimum by default, so clearly it was restoring an old backup when I didnt delete the entire profiles folder. still, didnt make a difference.

Is it normal for the only options in the main menu to be quit, options and story mode now that i deleted the files though? Before there was online, and some mission stuff... will that return eventually?

It should be noted that I previously tried NaturalVision Evolved. To uninstall it, I ran the uninstaller oiv, then deleted my mods folder, all asi and script files, scripts, inis, everything and reinstalled the openiv asi loader, simple trainer, and scripthookvdotnet.

Still, heres a full tree of my install. Let me know if you see anything unusual like asi, dll https://pastebin.com/raw/UdEMnsx7

Checking my game install with voidtools and ext:asi and ext:dll etc there are no leftover scripts that could be interfering. I also verified game files through steam (this removed asi files like openiv) and it was fine, so im eliminating that factor now.

EDIT: On https://forums.gta5-mods.com/topic/32344/dark-screen-effect/20 i found https://forums.gta5-mods.com/topic/32344/dark-screen-effect/4. Tried setting values to 0.0, but it just made the adaptation issue come back again. I'll play around with the values

(1)

# Adaptation
Adaptation.min.step.size 0.000000001
Adaptation.max.step.size 0.000000001
Adaptation.step.size.mult 0.000000001
Adaptation.threshold 0.0
Adaptation.sun.exposure.tweak -2

Issue persists

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(2)

# Adaptation
Adaptation.min.step.size 0.000000001
Adaptation.max.step.size 0.000000001
Adaptation.step.size.mult 0.000000001
Adaptation.threshold 100000000.0
Adaptation.sun.exposure.tweak -2

Issue persists but is a lot more noticeable

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(3)

# Adaptation
Adaptation.min.step.size 0.000000001
Adaptation.max.step.size 0.000000001
Adaptation.step.size.mult 0.000000001
Adaptation.threshold 0.000000001
Adaptation.sun.exposure.tweak -2

Same as (1)

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(4)

# Adaptation
Adaptation.min.step.size 0.001
Adaptation.max.step.size 0.01
Adaptation.step.size.mult 0.01
Adaptation.threshold -100000.0
Adaptation.sun.exposure.tweak -2

issue persists, no change in behaviour
at this point im pretty sure only the first three value affect stuff

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(5)

# Adaptation
Adaptation.min.step.size 0.00001
Adaptation.max.step.size 0.00001
Adaptation.step.size.mult 5.0
Adaptation.threshold 0.0
Adaptation.sun.exposure.tweak -2

Issue persists but i think it might be less noticeable

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(6)

# Adaptation
Adaptation.min.step.size 0.001
Adaptation.max.step.size 0.001
Adaptation.step.size.mult 300.0
Adaptation.threshold 0.0
Adaptation.sun.exposure.tweak -2

Same as (5)

Also it wasnt less noticeable. its just the random car i spawned had smaller lights.
I think i give up on this issue at this point, im pretty sure its game behaviour, im just gonna have to stick with what i had before and live with it.

How can I enable the ENB adaptation? I ticked the boxes but it doesn't do anything ingame. Does it only adapt enb effects or directly controls ingame adapatation?

Thanks so much for uploading your ENB settings and explaining everything i appreciate that. I tried your inis but my issue wasn't fixed. Looking at the difference between inis https://www.diffchecker.com/qMDsHb5Z there was nothing related to adaptation so i doubt it wouldve fixed anyway.

Not sure what to do at this point other than a full clean install of GTA 5. Also the issue doesnt only happen when changing times of day drastically using trainer, but also when moving between tunnels, under bridges/roofs, when emergency lights are visible (i.e. a fire truck driving up with sirens on turns down brightness, but it doesnt go back up when its gone unless i change views)

I made some changes. Having gotten tired of only being able to use mods like VisualV, NVR when they are uptodate (otherwise bugs, etc), I wanted to customise my game via a more update friendly "portable" way, i.e. ENB for car damage, fixes, lens removal and better MSAA combined with ReShade for simple colour adjustments (thats all i really want tbh, and I understand ReShade better and find it friendlier than ENB)

ENB made a huge fix to the overbright cars (im dumb, i just realise now its cause i managed to disable ingame bloom with it). I have literally everything disabled in ENB (except car damage, MSAA fixes, game fixes & chromatic abberation removal enabled) and ReShade fully disabled right now, but it still fixes it (and only it i.e. it doesnt mess up anything else). Also seems to fix sky being blindingly bright.
before/after: https://imgur.com/a/P6XBU3f | https://imgur.com/a/clsNmK7 | https://imgur.com/a/1Wr90iu

Whole game looks way sharper now. Shimmering jaggies literally magically removed themselves for a 5-10fps hit (i was already at 90+ already in all times and weathers), distant stuff isn't blurry, and the lens effects being removed means i can see stuff clearly finally.

The only issue is, the adaptation getting stuck (too bright day / too dark night) still happens, even with adaptation enabled in ENB: https://imgur.com/a/8ngzrr4

Any specific settigns i need to tweak in ENB for that? Also, i made another discovery, going into firstperson then out fixes it. So its 100% some weird game bug. Really odd that I experience this on fully stock and a63nt-5m1th doesnt.

So the last issue is just that adaption getting stuck, then i need to extend those lod distances where stuff pops in right infront of my car, then im happy

Oh and, even tho i have all effects disabled in enb it still messes with
trees, any idea what to do about that? am i missing a setting https://imgur.com/a/A7rAmRV

as a general noob question, how can i tweak the enb effects? changing stuff in the inis and menus has no effect, yet still, it fixes the bloom issue by itself and changes vegetation. disabling/enabling aa or bloom settings doesnt do anything, where do i find the actual settings to control

also this issue - with enb installed alone, whether or not global effect is on/off, the grass shimmers. its only grass and small vegetation but it flickers a lot. AO is off. any ideas? you need to look closely. https://streamable.com/eu6jv8 might be a dll issue

Thanks for the reply. Thats really odd because im on a 100% stock game. Just deleted my mods folder and tried repasting your values with stock visualsettings, but the issue persists. What game version are you on? If its not too much trouble please could you send your entire visualsettings file? I run my game 100% stock and this is the only fix i ever want.

Thank you for your fast reply. I did that and the effect is minimised by 99.999% so it is simply not noticeable at night unless you stare into your monitor looking for it.

However, it has a side effect in that if I spawn in an interior then walk outside during the day, it looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/fkXqfX6

I'm not sure if this happens if you first spawn outside.

I'm guessing this is not fixable?

I tried setting sun.exposure.tweak to -3, but no avail.

EDIT: Weird, it seems tabbing out of the game and back in fixes it. When I set the time to night however, its too dark. But again, tabbing in and out fixes it. Can't remember if i paused before tabbing out but try that.

EDIT 2: Ok, seems alt tabing only fixes for the current area. When you start driving around or going up hills it slowly gets way too bright again https://imgur.com/a/VWwAXRO

I can live with that, but would you know a way to avoid having to do that by any chance?

Also side note, I'm currently using this with my custom improved spotlight and led setup: https://www.gta5-mods.com/misc/improved-spotlight-and-led-lighting#comments_tab

https://pastebin.com/raw/9eVqFmXg

On all versions of GTA 5 (mostly next gen) be it PS4, Xbox, PC, the default behaviour with the stock game is to dim the entire screen when there is a bright light.

For example, if you're in normal third person view on a completely stock unmodded game driving a car, spam H to turn headlights on/off. you will notice the screen gets dimmer.

I really dislike this cause it makes everything much much harder to see and makes me enjoy the game less.

I tried turning up the brightness of the game a lot, but it doesn't remove this behaviour and that makes nights really non immersive, and all lighting looks flat.

This has been a thing for years. I tried googling and searching forums with many many different wordings of this problem, but I haven't found anyone who's managed to disable this yet.

How can I turn off or alleviate this behaviour?

Thanks in advance. All help is much appreciated.

@emrh77 the objects come with the game, all you need is mentioned linked above. Just to confirm, wasn't explicitly stated.