Brilliant aircraft across the board.  Night panel lighting is way too bright.  Is it possible to reduce the lighting?  

 

Thanks

 

Rich Perry

I'd try and reduce my Monitor Contrast/Brightness and Gamma, I do this via the Nvida Control Panel and it works great at night, relly makes the sim look dark, try that let me know
 

Cheers!

Gotta be monitor stuff. Because it looks great and subtle to me.

Brilliant aircraft across the board.  Night panel lighting is way too bright.  Is it possible to reduce the lighting?  

 

Thanks

 

Rich Perry

 

I think the current trend in using over-bright gamma settings might be the culprit here. We worked very hard to provide subtle but viewable lighting, and of course there are other things to consider such as reflections which some users find very distracting. FSX also has a habit of exaggerating light conditions at various times of the day. If you have the sun behind most panels will look over-bright. If you are facing the sun panels can tend to look very dull. We recommend having the panel lights on at all times in order to equalise this effect but keep gamma brightness in check.

 

If you pan left and look over the wings that would be a key thing to do in order to calibrate your monitor. If the wings look "washed out" and you see little detail it is likely your gamma setting is too high. Excessive gamma can have the effect of increasing contrast, but not in a good way. Much better to adjust brightness and gamma so brightness is a higher ratio to gamma.

 

Using addon lighting effects like ENB can also make things so bloomed that nearly everything is either ridiculously dark while lighted portions look way over-bright. I can understand why people do this because FSX scenery can look very bland on normal settings. But if you want balanced cockpit lighting you might have to accept that scenery is a little under-lit.