Hi All

 

I have encountered this problem since the dawn of MSFS 2020. My graphics are extremely bright and glary, especially at higher altitudes.

I believe it has something to do with HDR. However on my computer I cannot access HDR. In windows settings I have Stream HDR = no  Use HDR = no  Use WCG Apps = no

I am running two 1080 i Graphics cards with 3 x 4k monitors.

I have watched other peoples videos of their flights, and it looks wonderful. However with me, it is like always flying with the sun in your eyes, and very hazy.

I have tried to change cloud settings with no success.

Has anyone got any graphic options or suggestions to solve this. I was led to believe that this was going to be resolved with an update, has this happened yet.

I would just love to fly with deep rich landscape colours and clear horizons, rather than brightness and glare.

Your help would be appreciated.

 

Regards  Paul Hursey

I managed to reduce it using the Nvidia colour changing thing which name has just left me. Alt+F3 brings up the menu while in the sim 

Interesting...  I always think the sim is too dark with much more than few clouds.

I will say changing from a crappy old asus 23" 1080P to a nice LG 27" 1440P HDR has made a big difference.  I don't get the blown highlights which I think you are referring to.  But the darks are fairly dark...  overcast in rain seems like nighttime in the sim.

What happens if you set your season to Summer at 12 noon?  The sun should be high in the sky illuminating everything nicely.

Edited March 8, 20224 yr by ryanbatc

Me it's a bit different when using HDR.

When I am looking at the clouds, their brightness is nice, the cockpit is a little bit dark, just a notch

When I am looking at the cockpit, the brighness of it increase by a tiny amount, but the clouds become burn and can make you blind.

Any mod or change I can use to reduce this effect, it's happening when I am moving around the cockpit

I'm new here so me giving advice to you guys is weird.🤞

I struggled with the same over blown skies and dark cockpit until I stumbled on G Force Experience Filters.

Mess around with Brightness/Contrast    Color    Details....You can have all 3 of them or more and assign the filter to #1. Once you hit the + sign to add the filter make sure you also hit its drop down menu to move the sliders. Moving them with your mouse is troublesome so all you have to do is click on the item and then use your arrow keys to make adjustments. Have your plane on a runway or in the air while you make your adjustments.

You can then add a new set of values for #2 and then #3. The off button is useful to see before/after.

I realize some, maybe more than I would like to think will consider this manipulation just plain wrong.....But, for me, it was night and day and made the sim way more enjoyable....Good Luck and please excuse me if this has already been discussed.

Have you got EyeAdaption off?  I had mine off for over a year after advice at the time.  Even though I had many GEForce filters on the ground was always too dark under clouds.  I turned EyeAdaption back on and was able to remove all GEForce filters and get a very realistic landscape with no brightness issues.

On 3/8/2022 at 2:58 PM, MrBitstFlyer said:

Have you got EyeAdaption off?  I had mine off for over a year after advice at the time.  Even though I had many GEForce filters on the ground was always too dark under clouds.  I turned EyeAdaption back on and was able to remove all GEForce filters and get a very realistic landscape with no brightness issues.

Please explain...  EyeAdaption off? Thanks 🙂

15 minutes ago, Rockliffe said:

Please explain...  EyeAdaption off? Thanks 🙂

EyeAdaption in Usercfg.opt set to 1 is on, 0 is off.

Edited March 9, 20224 yr by MrBitstFlyer

2 hours ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

EyeAdaption in Usercfg.opt set to 1 is on, 0 is off.

Mine is already off and I find the sim way too bright, especially when look at the horizon. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

I use a combination of Reshade tweak settings (several Gamma/Exposure tweaked presets) and a nifty Shadow/Mid-range/Sky preset in which you can almost completely eliminate the baked in eye adaption overkill which causes the sky white-outs when focusing on the panel and panel black out when focusing on the sky. It is a  improvement but still far from perfect.

BTW on my system eye adaptation still happens whether or not I have it switched on/off in the useropt cfg file.

35 minutes ago, robert young said:

I use a combination of Reshade tweak settings (several Gamma/Exposure tweaked presets) and a nifty Shadow/Mid-range/Sky preset in which you can almost completely eliminate the baked in eye adaption overkill which causes the sky white-outs when focusing on the panel and panel black out when focusing on the sky. It is a  improvement but still far from perfect.

BTW on my system eye adaptation still happens whether or not I have it switched on/off in the useropt cfg file.

Mind sharing please?

5 hours ago, iFlySimX said:

Mine is already off and I find the sim way too bright, especially when look at the horizon. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Turn it on for a more balanced brightness.  I wasted so much time with filters and reshade over the past year when EyeAdaption on gives a very good result without the need for filters.

8 hours ago, robert young said:

BTW on my system eye adaptation still happens whether or not I have it switched on/off in the useropt cfg file.

Yup, this has also been my experience in the past.

21 hours ago, iFlySimX said:

Mind sharing please?

I'm reluctant to share because it is such a personal thing. But mainly I use a shader which divides the available tweaks between shadows, mid-range and sky (ie highlights). I heavily dim the sky and boost the mid and shadow range to compensate. I also play between exposure and gamma to get a balance between over-suppressed exposure and over-bright wash out. There are numerous shaders available with reshade and the gamma/contrast/brightness ones broadly do variations on a similar theme.

I get what people mean when they say they are fine with the eye adaptation in MSFS but I find it far too extreme. Essentially the clouds are way too washed out at their brightest, which is most of the time. All that is needed is a simple slider to reduce the whites of the clouds. To an extent you can do this by increasing the density of clouds, but I find that too way over done and you end up with ugly streaks of black among the white portions of clouds. Completely unrealistic to my eyes.

Hi,

Me too I would like to reduce the glare and brightness. 

I had EyeAdaption in Usercfg.opt set to 1 (ON) and I have just set it to 0 (OFF). There is a tiny improvement for the outside view (less bright), but the trade-off is a darker cockpit.

Like the OP, on my computer I cannot access HDR. In windows settings I have Stream HDR = no  Use HDR = no  Use WCG Apps = no

I'm not knowledgeable in 'Reshade tweak settings' and alike. And I don't want to mess things.

Any news or other method identified to reduce the Glare and Brightness, since last March?