Old lighting...

[Reggit]

I've not used it myself - but a friend of mine swears by ReShade for Elite;

 

[Semivivus]

LOL! If you only knew the reality…

If the reality is that strong, maybe it´s time for a documentary. To prove the skeptics wrong.

 

[Semivivus]

In my experience, you don't need any kind of third party tools to butcher how the game looks, although they can make the process easier.

Your screenshots look like they have a lot of bloom as well. Set bloom to ultra in your game options, then copypaste this into your GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsConfig>
    <Bloom>
        <Ultra>
            <GlareScale>0.025</GlareScale>
            <FilterRadius>1.0</FilterRadius>
            <FilterRadiusWide>3.0</FilterRadiusWide>
        </Ultra>
    </Bloom>
</GraphicsConfig>

Those values will reduce (!) the in-game bloom. You want a lot of bloom, so play around with the values a bit and see. I'm very sorry that you have to do a bit of work yourself as I am not at my Elite PC right now.

I had definitely tweaked my graphics xml files quite heavily in the past, but I think this lighting had already been there from the start without my interference. I´ll play around with your codpiece.

My guess for now is that some old configurations tied to the "Ambient Lighting" update continued functioning even after its features were removed/toned down. Once I deleted the config files, the newly generated ones no longer recreated the same lines. Now, if only I could figure out what those settings were.