Lightning Effects with Radeon X1900XT

Dear tom's hardware community,

For some time iam experiencing annoying lighning effects.
The lightning effects seem to be a bit buggy. This currently only happens in newer games (had this in Fallout 3 and GTA4). In GTA4 it does make the game unplayable, because the whole game glows with those bugged lights. It happend with Windows XP and with Windows Vista and yes i upgraded my video drivers. I realy have no clue what it could be, never got those problems with counterstrike source or world of warcraft, so i hope you could help. I got a screenshot from gta4, clearly showing the lighning effects above the body. I hope someone can solve my problem.

Thanks in advice

greetings,
sharky

What screenshot?

Try turning HDR (sometimes called glow) off.

Looks normal to me, overdone HDR and bloom are "next generation graphics".

Search the options for something like Bloom, HDR, Lighting effects or similar and switch it.

I had a similar problem in Oblivion once, it was due to bloom, I've never used bloom since.

I think your monitor's brightness and contrast are set too high. I too have an ATI X1900XT 512MB.

I'll probably upgrade when the next generation of video cards are released.