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I just switched to windows 7 from xp and upon reinstalling tdm i cant seem to find the bloom option anywhere, am i being blind or do i have to do something for it show up or what? I had it all working before on xp no problem.

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Because of Performance problems on some systems Bloom isn´t in the menu on the actual TDM version. But it´s still inside:

 

Open the console and type in:

 

r_bloom 1

 

That´s it. If you type

 

r_bloom

 

and than press 'TAB' you can see what is there else related to bloom. I just found out myself that 'r_bloom_contrast_mult' affects the intensity of the bloomeffect. I always thought it is a little bit too much so I decreased this value...

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It was removed from the options menu as it was causing problems for a lot of users (search threads here and TTLG). It was however left functional as an unsupported console variable, because it does work fine for some.

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Because of Performance problems on some systems Bloom isn´t in the menu on the actual TDM version. But it´s still inside:

 

Open the console and type in:

 

r_bloom 1

 

That´s it. If you type

 

r_bloom

 

and than press 'TAB' you can see what is there else related to bloom. I just found out myself that 'r_bloom_contrast_mult' affects the intensity of the bloomeffect. I always thought it is a little bit too much so I decreased this value...

 

to add some little information to this: if you DO want to use bloom by using this method, you can easily change the overall bloom-intensity (without fighting with several sub-settings) by just using different coefficients: "r_bloom X" seems not to be boolean (1 or 0), higher/lower values are possible. i tested lower bloom-intensity by "r_bloom 0.5", as well as higher bloom-intensity by "r_bloom 2".

 

Can't tell, where these values are limited, but this seems to be an easy way to balance bloom to a desired intensity (somebody may correct me, if i am totally wrong here)...

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