I have used an XRite i1Display Calibrator to calibrate my monitor.  YouTube, Netflix, Games ETC look great EXCEPT for MSFS.  The greens especially look cartoonish to the point I will often prefer to use X Plane.

Has anyone had this issue and solved why MSFS can look so bad in areas with lots of green?  I have checked HDR is off as my monitor is not HDR.  Everything else appears ok, textures are sharp, water good.  I found a suggestion to turn off bloom, but that didn't change the colouring.

I posted a recent thread why I find a modded X Plane to look better than MSFS because I perceive the lighting as better.  However, I did some flights in areas without much green colouring and was impressed with the lighting.

Edited July 7, 20214 yr by MrBitstFlyer
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If you're referring to areas where the roads are also green - seems to be a known issue. My biggest area of complaint is Chicago with FSDT KORD installed. The airport looks great with lifelike color but the surrounding area, including roads, is green. It looks terrible.

I was in commercial printing for 30 years and we calibrated all of our prepress monitors. When we closed the company I kept the i1 Calibrator and software so I could us it at home. Works great on the PG279Q doesn't it (I'm assuming that's what you have)?

48 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

I have used an XRite i1Display Calibrator to calibrate my monitor.  YouTube, Netflix, Games ETC look great EXCEPT for MSFS.  The greens especially look cartoonish to the point I will often prefer to use X Plane.

Has anyone had this issue and solved why MSFS can look so bad in areas with lots of green?  I have checked HDR is off as my monitor is not HDR.  Everything else appears ok, textures are sharp, water good.  I found a suggestion to turn off bloom, but that didn't change the colouring.

I posted a recent thread why I find a modded X Plane to look better than MSFS because I perceive the lighting as better.  However, I did some flights in areas without much green colouring and was impressed with the lighting.

This has been reported to Asobo and they know about it.  The Bing data needs to be updated.

ReShade can help greatly with this. There are many many customizable filters in it. For your situation you'd enable the Colorfulness filter and then drag the slider to the left to bring down the cartoon feel.

In my example screenshot of the RS Panel you can see mine is set at 0.50 (the range is 0.0 to 2.0)

0.0 = black & white, 2.0 = max saturation

https://reshade.me

I really didn't like the over saturated almost luminous green everywhere so i turned down the colours on my monitor.

1 hour ago, manageablebits said:

I really didn't like the over saturated almost luminous green everywhere so i turned down the colours on my monitor.

I felt this way too , there are times when MSFS looks just like Flight Sim World to me. MS took some good ideas from that game (parts of the UI, the MAP) but seems they also took the oversaturated bleached feel of it. Not all the time I have to stress its only in some regions of the world where I have to use a filter to reduce the neon highlighter feel of the scenery.

9 minutes ago, ThrottleUp said:

I felt this way too , there are times when MSFS looks just like Flight Sim World to me. MS took some good ideas from that game (parts of the UI, the MAP) but seems they also took the oversaturated bleached feel of it. Not all the time I have to stress its only in some regions of the world where I have to use a filter to reduce the neon highlighter feel of the scenery.

Yeah as you say it's just in certain places the green looks wild. It's incredible a lot of the time also. I think I'll try adjusting with software like you instead of the whole monitor 🙂

3 hours ago, ThrottleUp said:

ReShade can help greatly with this. There are many many customizable filters in it. For your situation you'd enable the Colorfulness filter and then drag the slider to the left to bring down the cartoon feel.

In my example screenshot of the RS Panel you can see mine is set at 0.50 (the range is 0.0 to 2.0)

0.0 = black & white, 2.0 = max saturation

https://reshade.me

Not used Reshade, but would turning down the colour for the neon green spoil the other colours?  I guess it isn't to0 disruptive to change the filter between sessions depending on where the flight is?

51 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

Not used Reshade, but would turning down the colour for the neon green spoil the other colours?  I guess it isn't to0 disruptive to change the filter between sessions depending on where the flight is?

Installed Reshade which is asking me to point to the MSFS EXE file, but that is in a Windows App folder that I cant Access!

21 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

Installed Reshade which is asking me to point to the MSFS EXE file, but that is in a Windows App folder that I cant Access!

Neither do I have the MSFS MS Store version nor Reshade, but I recall having seen this discussed at the official forum, thus I'd suggest looking there (make a search).

Kind regards, Michael

1 hour ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

Installed Reshade which is asking me to point to the MSFS EXE file, but that is in a Windows App folder that I cant Access!

Like you say, the normal ReShade installer will not work with the Store version of MSFS. But there is a solution. I must say it was quite the hassle to get it working, but it does now, it works (albeit only on my monitor in 2D). As I am always flying in VR, it unfortunately doesn't reshade the HMD screens.

https://github.com/MilkyDeveloper/ReshadeForUWP

 

Edited July 8, 20214 yr by Gerwil
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I like cartoons 😄

54 minutes ago, Gerwil said:

Like you say, the normal ReShade installer will not work with the Store version of MSFS. But there is a solution. I must say it was quite the hassle to get it working, but it does now, it works (albeit only on my monitor in 2D). As I am always flying in VR, it unfortunately doesn't reshade the HMD screens.

https://github.com/MilkyDeveloper/ReshadeForUWP

 

Btw, the best shader to adjust colors is imho the

LiftGammaGain.fx

With this shader you can adjust the RGB channels individually. You don't want to desaturate all colors, only the greens. This shader will let you do that in resp. Shadows, Mid tones or highlights.

5 hours ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

Not used Reshade, but would turning down the colour for the neon green spoil the other colours?  I guess it isn't to0 disruptive to change the filter between sessions depending on where the flight is?

You are correct this will reduce the intensity and vibrance of all colours. Give it a try and if you dont like it you can set to default (there is a button for each filter). Try what @Gerwil said, it is a better  approach to target that one colour thats being a pain. 

 

 

 

 

4 hours ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

Installed Reshade which is asking me to point to the MSFS EXE file, but that is in a Windows App folder that I cant Access!

 

3 hours ago, Gerwil said:

Like you say, the normal ReShade installer will not work with the Store version of MSFS. But there is a solution. I must say it was quite the hassle to get it working, but it does now, it works (albeit only on my monitor in 2D). As I am always flying in VR, it unfortunately doesn't reshade the HMD screens.

https://github.com/MilkyDeveloper/ReshadeForUWP

 

That is such a drag, it is one reason I bought the game on Steam. I was hearing a lot about this. There are some other options you can try. The first is that if you have an nVidia card download their GForce Experience app. In there are some filters that are just ReShade. 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/geforce-experience/download/

There is also GShade which is built on ReShade but I do not know if MSFS is on its list. You might have to dig around. I have never used it, just seen it mentioned by others on gaming forums.

https://gposers.com/gshade/

Finally check to see if your monitor has a Game Mode. Some Game Modes allow drill down setting where you can play around with color levels. 

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Gerwil said:

Btw, the best shader to adjust colors is imho the

LiftGammaGain.fx

With this shader you can adjust the RGB channels individually. You don't want to desaturate all colors, only the greens. This shader will let you do that in resp. Shadows, Mid tones or highlights.

A good idea and better than my suggestion that would affect all colors. 

There is an option in your user cfg file to turn off the excess saturation the game applies.

You need to set  colorgrading = 0  (instead of =1)

Edited July 8, 20214 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick