Darker nights

[MED1473 18]

Hi all, I'm posting this in this forum because of the high knowledge level and similar requirements that I find in here with my fellow PMDG enthusiasts.

I'm finding more and more FSX at night to be unnaturally bright and the visibility too good at night to be realistic. Is there a way to tweak the settings to make the nights darker with all it means (eg darker terrain, skies, clouds etc..).

I add that I use rex and gsx+utx.

Thank you in advance and sorry for surely duplicating a thread that must have appeared in the past.

[BIGSKY 316]

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/387313-fsx-realistic-night/

 

https://www.assembla.com/spaces/fxaa-pp-inject/documents

[Beardyman 609]

"Some of you may have heard of this already. Its called ENBseries. Its a mod that adds high dynamic range lighting and bloom effects to FSX (or any D3D game i think). Both of which microsoft couldn't do without grinding the game to a halt. The great thing here is that there appears to be almost no performance penalty!

Its free and IMO the best addon out there. Here's the site http://enbdev.com/index_en.html . Its fully configurable and after many hours i think i have found a nice sweet-spot on the setup of night vs day. Here are the installation files http://www.mediafire.com/?jq0ouyd0mnj . Just drop both of these into the main FSX directory and it will work."

 

Using ENB u can adjust brightness levels - also during night time.

[ajpongress 467]

SweetFX > all

 

[MMartinov 48]

Time to change the ENB series?

[hopskip 253]

FSWC + ActiveSky 2012 is what I use.

[Beardyman 609]

Which one is better SweetFX or ENB ?

[mgardiner 4]

I only use ENB, and I like it as it's quite simple to modify.

 

That being said, it is very easy to overdo it. By that I mean I only just noticed whilst flying the NGX yesterday, that I'd made parts too dark and I could hardly see the strobe lights illuminating the ground.

[Beardyman 609]

SweetFX seems to be better because author is still working on it and updating, contrary to ENB - correct me if i am wrong.

By asking, which one is better i was considering system load - fps performance.

ENB has slight impact on performance, how about SweetFX ?

[bjratchf 80]

ENB crashes FSX with black screens. SweetFX is the new stable form of ENB.

[tcas_climb 45]

how about you just adjust your monitor settings a little? maybe its too bright?

[Joseph_Van 7]

SweetFX > all

 

Would you mind sending over your SweetFX settings? because I can't find a good one out there.

[billn53 12]

Second that. I would like to see others' SweetFX settings. I'm having problems finding a sweet spot that gives me dark nights but not too dark day. And yes, I have adjusted my monitor as well.

[justinpilotatc 5]

I have the exact opposite issue. It's too dark. I think it is an issue with the monitors I use though. . Does this addon help with that?

[Jackal. 25]

If it's always too dark/bright all you have to do is change the .ini/.cfg file to your pleasure.