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    Game slowly gets so dark its pitch black!

    and before you say it, its not just night!

    So I can play for a few minutes until the game slowly gets soo dark I cant see anything apart from fires etc in the distance for example. Its literally pitch black and turning up the brightness to max just gives it a white sheen!

    When it starts to get dark its like god rays are shining onto only me then they slowly fade into pitch black. It strangely seems to be linked with movement for some reason, if I stay still it wont get darker but if i move in any direction it will darken with each step.

    Car headlights wont come on unless i exit the car and get back in again.

    Its making it imposable to play and I cant find any posts on this, any one else experienced this??

    I have it set to Nvidia and have adjusted some of the settings but nothing changes.

    Spec are:

    i7 3770k @ 4.6ghz
    780 sli
    16 gb DDR3
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    I'm having the same problem, I think it might have to do with sli.
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    Day to night cycle

    yes, count me in as well ... GTX Titan SLI, all settings at their maximum and i notice during the transition between day and night , the scenes turn black and i cant see anything ... when the night cycle has kicked in its ok again, BUT i notice people in shadows cant be seen at all

    EDIT: the water during this time also has a purple hue to it ... definitely not my cards overheating, its the way the engine is rendering the water in places
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    Hey guys!

    Be sure you have the most up-to-date patch for FC4. If you do, try messing with the Ambient Occlusion settings within the options menu. Hope this helps! Thanks.
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    Originally Posted by xMiiSTY Go to original post
    Hey guys!Be sure you have the most up-to-date patch for FC4. If you do, try messing with the Ambient Occlusion settings within the options menu. Hope this helps! Thanks.
    By coincidence I just posted a thread about this detailing also another issue.This is purely due to SLI and NOT an ambient occlusion setting, nothing fixes the color/lighting issues besides running single GPU, which is undesireable. This is an issue since patch 1.3.0 combined with the latest nvidia drivers.

    I hope my info helps:

    http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...issues-amp-SLI

    To the OP, please follow my link for further info on the nvidia forums aswell.
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    Makes the game unplayable at night. Turning off SLI is not an option since my computer is getting old, and I refuse to play at anything but fairly good looking settings when my hardware is good enough for mostly ultra settings.
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    Thanks for the update. We'll be sure to pass it to the team. If you are able to do so, please disable SLI in the meantime. Also, please update all drivers as well as submitting your dxdiag and msinfo to the Support team via "my questions" here: https://support.ubi.com. Thanks!
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    After disabling SLI the nights and shadows were back to normal, just can't play it on 1 gtx570 with decend fps.
    I also experience a rollback whenever I restart the game, losing skillpoints and loot in the process, anyone else has these?
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    Originally Posted by Volfbane Go to original post
    Thanks for the update. We'll be sure to pass it to the team. If you are able to do so, please disable SLI in the meantime. Also, please update all drivers as well as submitting your dxdiag and msinfo to the Support team via "my questions" here: https://support.ubi.com. Thanks!
    Will you guys please look in to this? For every SLI user this game is unplayable at the moment.

    Also see this thread: http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...ins-UNPLAYABLE
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