9 hours ago, Adamski_NZ said:

The only thing I could do was use Reshade to brighten up the shadows *slightly*. This impacts the scenery as well but, if you're careful, you can improve the VC a little without over-lightening the scenery. A decent Reshade filter that gives you separate control over shadows/mid-tones/highlights helps. I use Reshade anyway, so it was relatively easy to do - but installing/using Reshade (especially on the MS Store version) can be a little complicated for the uninitiated.

Some posters here claim that eye adaption (the culprit) has been significantly turned down (because of problems with VR) but I maintain that it's been disabled completely - having tested in DX11 and DX12, with adaptation set on and off (in the .cfg file). I can see no difference whatsoever - at least on my system, with the latest nVidia drivers.

Same here, there is no longer any Eye - adaption effect just an overly dark panel, it makes zero difference if my eyepoint is down in the cockpit of looking ahead, its just dark.

David Mills. I havnt updated my GPU Driver in months, I have an old 1070 card and am a believer of 'if it aint broke dont fix it'

My driver version is 30.0.15.1215

 

It seems to be something  Asobo did, but its just odd that its only affecting a few people in this way, though most agree there has been some sort of change relating to eye adaption and cockpit brightness.

I normally dont get too bothered with minor graphical changes, but panel/instrument visibility is such  a fundamental thing, makes no difference how pretty it is outside

Edited October 2, 20223 yr by Pathfinder633

1 hour ago, Pathfinder633 said:

 I havnt updated my GPU Driver in months, I have an old 1070 card and am a believer of 'if it aint broke dont fix it'

I think you absolutely *DO* need to update to the latest nVidia driver in this particular case - as there are specific tweaks for MSFS SU10 added by nVidia.

2 hours ago, Pathfinder633 said:

Same here, there is no longer any Eye - adaption effect just an overly dark panel, it makes zero difference if my eyepoint is down in the cockpit of looking ahead, its just dark.

Strange. For me it does seem to make a big difference if I tilt the view down slightly - cockpit brightness increases significantly. Whereas with mostly external in view, the cockpit is fairly dark usually.

However, this effect does not seem to apply to all aircraft in the same way.
Yesterday, I found three different levels of this effect on three different aircraft:

B787 - normal brightness as always
HondaJet - slightly darker but still OK(-ish)
Longitude - much too dark

I am on an iMac with AMD graphics.

Weird, I just did another test after updating Drivers, didnt make any  difference to Eye adaption in cockpit view, but I just noticed I actually have the eye adaption feature happening in outside view but not in cockpit, how strange

 

(I imagine it was like this before driver update, I just dont use outside view much so probably hadnt noticed it working there)

Found this thread  - did we find any solutions to these very dark cockpits ?

Tried the NCP colours but to no succes.

 

Thanks

Michael Moe

On 10/7/2022 at 3:45 AM, Michael Moe said:

Found this thread  - did we find any solutions to these very dark cockpits ?

Tried the NCP colours but to no succes.

 

Thanks

Michael Moe

Geforce Detail Filter does the trick handily--just play with the drop down controls in it, plus adjust your desktop colors in NVCP--very pleased now w/ cockpit brightness.

44 minutes ago, Noel said:

Geforce Detail Filter does the trick handily--just play with the drop down controls in it, plus adjust your desktop colors in NVCP--very pleased now w/ cockpit brightness.

Thanks tried it a bit via Alt+F3 but it does also effect outside VC.

Any settings to try out? Lots of options there.

Michael Moe 

2 minutes ago, Michael Moe said:

Thanks tried it a bit via Alt+F3 but it does also effect outside VC.

Any settings to try out? Lots of options there.

Michael Moe 

Keep trying it I've been able to balance these.

I notice when going from fullscreen to window mode with default MSFS the brightness is brighter for a second then its back to darkness. Same vice versa to full screen again.

For now i only change HDR in G.E. Great to change value on the run. Maybe shaders should be cleaned more often?

Its great we have that option as well like we have with Chaseplane on P3DV5.

Still on DX11 ,havent tried out DX12.

Michael Moe 

 

Edited October 9, 20223 yr by Michael Moe