Makes a hell of a difference, at least to me....

 

My "too dark" twilight problem is solved :-)

 

xp10.11 Gamma = 3.5

I found that playing with monitor settings (contrast, gamma, brightness, color) helps a lot too.

The problem with gamma setting is that you wash out the colors. I do exactly the opposite: gamma down, monitor contrast up. Try it.

I use a freeware utility called Gamma Panel to adjust the gamma on the fly. I have one setting for normal flight (and everything else, including photo editing) and another for night flying with a slightly higher gamma. I switch between these with a hot-key combination. I've got several additional gamma settings from very dark to very bright for those times that you need to see things a different way, and there are a couple of settings between the two mentioned above so I can get some fine adjustment during dusk and dawn flights.

 

Normal setting is gamma 1.0, which has also been adjusted and tweaked in my monitor and video driver software to give the closest gamma to 2.2 that I can get. Night flying setting is gamma 1.3. Other settings range from 0.9 to 1.75. The intermediate settings between normal and night are 1.13 and 1.17 and I'll occasionally use 1.2, although you'll have to edit the .ini file to get these precise numbers.

 

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Gamma_Panel_d2796.html

 

The best gamma adjustment page I've found is at

 

http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm

 

Hook

Thx for all of your contributions ;-)

My favorite X-Plane gamma setting: 1.8

 

And this is how it looks in the early morning:

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/389918-beechcraft-duchess-near-metz/

Great shot Georges