Is there anyway you can fiddle around with the strength of the fsx light bloom feature, ie make it less noticeable

Yes - see the DX10 forum, Ian.... Steve has an "adjustment" for it.. :wink:

If you can't find it, leave a post and I'll dig it out tomorrow morning (EST)

Thanks again Paul

Nope: sorry, Ian.. I don't see a repeat of Steve's DX10 bloom adjustment code anywhere in any of the .fxh files. :( Given that bloom in DX9 is a frame killer, it's probably better to use the ENB Series mod anyway, so that you can adjust any of the features?

You could ask Steve about it on his blog: - http://stevesfsxanalysis.wordpress.com/ He will answer quite quickly.

ENB is DX9-only. I find bloom to be overdone as the OP does, toning it down would help but some things like the sun for instance just never look right.

These fields in the Display section of the fsx.cfg file will affect the level of light for runway, approach and strobes. Beware these will also affect the brightness when Bloom is off, so you may need different setting when you fly with Bloom off. I myself don't like the Bloom effect, and don't use it.

 

RUNWAY_LIGHTS_SURFACE_SCALAR=1.2

RUNWAY_LIGHTS_VASI_SCALAR=0.9

RUNWAY_LIGHTS_APPROACH_SCALAR=2.0

RUNWAY_LIGHTS_STROBE_SCALAR=2.0