Hi guys,

I noticed a problem in fs2004. In areas with no buildings or lights at night, the textures appear pitch black but you can still see the autogen. Is this normal. I bought ge pro thinking it would fix the issue but it didnt, textures are still black in areas with no buildings or lights. It is as if there are no textures at all! Thanks for the help!

One thing to check is the in monitor settings. If you have some of the "auto" settings on like for movies or gaming in order to suppress lag they are often set out of the box to suppress black. FS itself in driving video appears to use a lower than standard gamma.

 

Turn off the auto features in your monitor such as dynamic contrast. Then you can download a gray scale image (the last on this link) from here to use for aligning your monitor:

http://www.northligh..._1/DL_page.html

to git rid of compressed blacks.

 

You should also set your graphics card driver in curves mode to linear first before messing with the monitor controls. If the monitor controls do not do it completely then in your graphics card driver raise the black level and gamma slightly. That also helps with reading daytime shadowed taxi and runway signage.

 

You can extend your backlight life considerable by limiting the brightness range of the monitor using any econo mode setting of 75% or down to 50% if that works for you. Check your monitor manual.

As Ronzie above, says....

 

I have had some amazing results with modifying my Monitors default settings, which I couldn't achieve with my nVidia Graphics Card settings.

As I always fly during VFR/daylight, mid-Summer/Autumn times, increasing my RGB and Gamma/Contrast settings has brightened up all my FS 2004 Scenery, to appear much more realistically!

(Its also brightened up all my Desktop Icons!)... :biggrin: ...!

 

Its well worth tweaking around with your Monitors settings, to suit your style of flying!

 

Paul...basking in FS 2004 California Summer Sunshine... :Big Grin: ...!