Hi all

In my Options menu the HDR setting is greyed out but in the UserCfg.opt I have HDR10 1.

I am still using a SDR monitor and HDR is not selectable in Win 10 but in the game I sometimes have the unreal effect that when the view is mainly out the cockpit windows the instrument panel is very dark and when looking in, the world view becomes incredibly bright. Is this a HDR effect on my non HDR monitor or are Asobo trying to reflect "the real world" in which case it is pretty extreme.

I have tried changing the HDR10 setting to 0 but it always resets to 1.

Is there another way to ensure HDR is off or does the fact that it is greyed out in the options menu show that it is off anyway?

Generally I have never used HDR in FSX/P3D as when on the brightness of the scene, especially the sky, looks totally unreal.

Maybe I should upgrade my monitor to HDR?

Cheers

Edited September 11, 20205 yr by dad59

Asobo decided that everything in the sim would be viewed as if through a camera lens rather than through your eyes. So unlike your your eyes, which can glance somewhere dark and immediately adjust (like glancing down at the instrument dash in your car), you have to hunker down in the cockpit away from the windows, and only then will your camera will adjust it's aperture and show the panel as normally lit. As you hunker down everything outside will become blindingly bright. Same as when you are looking at the sun in the sim there will be lens flare, but at least you can turn that off. I have my four keyboard arrow keys set to lower, raise, and move view left or right.

Edited September 11, 20205 yr by desbean

You have to turn off HDR in windows 10 color settings to ensure its off.  I have an HDR10 monitor but HDR in the MSFS was horrible. Very washed out.   Turning if off, the contrast and sharpness is way better. 

This is opposite to P3D which does look a little better with HDR on. Little better only because my monitor only does 400nits.  Bare minimum brightness for HDR.  

31 minutes ago, desbean said:

Asobo decided that everything in the sim would be viewed as if through a camera lens rather than through your eyes. So unlike your your eyes, which can glance somewhere dark and immediately adjust (like glancing down at the instrument dash in your car), you have to hunker down in the cockpit away from the windows, and only then will your camera will adjust it's aperture and show the panel as normally lit. As you hunker down everything outside will become blindingly bright. Same as when you are looking at the sun in the sim there will be lens flare, but at least you can turn that off. I have my four keyboard arrow keys set to lower, raise, and move view left or right.

Take a little here...

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/fix-pixelated-clouds-and-shimmering/260199