Display too bright

[LarsA 90]

I really like the new sim, but I have a strange problem: The display is much too bright. Not the cockpits, but the whole scenery and especially the clouds. The clouds don't show any details in the distance, it's only a "very white", bright mass and the scenery is "milky, washed out" and bright greenish during flight. I tried everything (Windows settings, monitor settings), but no success. 

My specs are: 8700k (4.8 Ghz), 32 GB, RTX2800 (3840x2160, no HDR), LG 47". 

Any hint or advise? 

Thanks a lot! 

 

Edited August 22, 2020 by LarsA
Additional information

[Slides 1,552]

Is light bloom on in the settings? HDR?

It's mimicking your eye getting used to light difference.

Edited August 22, 2020 by Slides

[michaelray 236]

Yes it is the eye adaption technique that they use that causes this. I personally think it a little overdone.

I would like to see an adjustment to allow for personal preference.

[LarsA 90]

Light bloom is off. Will try to switch on HDR in Win10, but last time when I tried it, I got a BSOD. The screenshots and videos, made by other users look much better without this white light. Strange....! 

[EDDB2020 35]

Thanks for mentioning this. I'm struggling now for days checking the calibration of the monitor again and again. I've set the monitor to a very soft gamma to avoid this annoying effect a bit. Additionally everything looks way to 'bluish'. I know that we have to keep in mind the atmosphere, the higher you go the more blue it becomes but I think this is also overdone. Taking off with a C172 and after passing 200 ft ASL everything starts to become blue. No.

[LarsA 90]

Do you have HDR turned on in Windows? 

[EDDB2020 35]

No, greyed out. It seems switching light bloom off helps a lot.

[robert young 2,897]

Tip here. If you find the contrast in the cockpit between light and shadows too severe, the best thing (even in the daytime) is to press the L key twice. The lights inside are quite well done, but not adjustable. If you get large black shadows this can cut through the darkness. 

On the OP's subject, I agree the brightness and blindingly bright exteriors are overdone. I have to substantially turn down the standard windows brightness, contrast and gamma values to well below normal to avoid the extreme over brightness.

[desbean 357]

Its the contrast between outside the cockpit and inside that bothers me. The panel is so dark its almost unreadable and the only way to make it visible is to pan or drop down in the cockpit, and then the outside is almost white. When I glance down at the "panel" in my car it isn't black, my eyes instantly adjust, I don't have to lower my head first. Lots of the graphics are set to be like you are looking at everything through a camera lens instead of your eyes. I don't look at the world through a camera lens unless I am taking a photo.

[robert young 2,897]

1 hour ago, desbean said:

Its the contrast between outside the cockpit and inside that bothers me. The panel is so dark its almost unreadable and the only way to make it visible is to pan or drop down in the cockpit, and then the outside is almost white. When I glance down at the "panel" in my car it isn't black, my eyes instantly adjust, I don't have to lower my head first. Lots of the graphics are set to be like you are looking at everything through a camera lens instead of your eyes. I don't look at the world through a camera lens unless I am taking a photo.

As I said, if you press the default L key twice, the cockpits of most of the aircraft light up and the dark shadows.are then not so bad.

[desbean 357]

2 hours ago, robert young said:

As I said, if you press the default L key twice, the cockpits of most of the aircraft light up and the dark shadows.are then not so bad.

Thanks Robert, I did try that but it was in the 172 Analog, so maybe that's one of them that it doesn't work in. It increased the brightness in a gauge only.

[XeroHertZ 3]

I have the same exact problem and my monitor is not an HDR monitor. Not sure what to do, I tried everything from turning off Bloom and changing the Nvidia driver brightness settings nothing worked 😞 It's just too bright for me

 

 

[SirDan 471]

On 8/22/2020 at 11:42 AM, EDDB2020 said:

No, greyed out. It seems switching light bloom off helps a lot.

There is a way to fix that, 

 

workaround:

1. Turn on HDR in Windows display settings (I know, we want to get rid of it)
2. Launch FS (while squinting)
3. Go to settings. Now HRD options are available (on / off)
4. Turn off HDR, save settings, and exit FS
5. Turn HDR Windows settings back off and enjoy!

Edited August 27, 2020 by SirDan

[ThrottleUp 630]

I dont own the sim yet but I have used ReShade in other games (and in Dovetails FSW) for precisely the same reasons. Does ReShade work with the MSFS?

I know not everyone is a fan of it but if you got a powerful system you can play around with it and get some great visuals which you can save as presets.

[SirDan 471]

2 minutes ago, ThrottleUp said:

Does ReShade work with the MSFS?

No injection allowed!!!!!