Hello, flying in MSFS2024, I'm finding that the darkness of flying at night actually looks milky, or like I'm looking through fog.

In the C-17 I tried turning on the dome light and that got rid of some of the milky fog in the cockpit but of course no impact for the external views.

I tried to take a screenshot but the screenshots don't show the issue, it actually looks how I would expect the sim to look.  If I open the .jxr screenshot file it will temporarily look like what I'm seeing before quickly reverting to a nicer, dark screen shot.

This is not an issue I had in MSFS2020.  It almost seems like an HDR issue...my monitor (TV) and MSFS are both set to HDR.  I feel like it looks like what SDR games sometimes look like in dark settings with HDR enabled...any thoughts?

Edited November 29, 20241 yr by regis9

I have this same problem.  It feels like the clouds are entering my cockpit at night lol.  I also get this milky look in my cockpit at night.  Not sure what is going on.

Adjust your monitors.

Find the gamma or black level settings for your model monitor. That is the only way, but it works. When you exit the sim, you can set it back to what it was. Gigabyte Aorus FO48U OLED has a settling called black equalizer. I only took it down three notches to get proper night time black levels. I'm sure almost every monitor has their own trademark black or gamma level adjustment.

Edited November 29, 20241 yr by vyper883

There is a Windows HDR Calibration utility (from Microsoft) that you can download from the Microsoft Store. Worth giving it a shot if you haven't tried it:

https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9N7F2SM5D1LR?ocid=pdpshare

Thanks for the answers, I had done an HDR calibration but I’ll try changing the actual monitor settings next.

Hopefully some changes are coming to the aim around this, it wasn’t an issue in 2020 and I’d hate to have to make monitor changes every time I use MSFS.

It seems much worse up above the clouds than on the ground, almost like the emissive light from the Milky Way or stars is way overdone?

Asobo overdid the sepia mask again. They never learn. 

11 hours ago, vyper883 said:

Adjust your monitors.

Find the gamma or black level settings for your model monitor. That is the only way, but it works. When you exit the sim, you can set it back to what it was. Gigabyte Aorus FO48U OLED has a settling called black equalizer. I only took it down three notches to get proper night time black levels. I'm sure almost every monitor has their own trademark black or gamma level adjustment.

This was great advice, thank you.  On my Samsung TV the settings in question are shadow details and gamma, both of which I set as low as they would go and everything at night looks great now.  The daytime looks good too, no ill effects that are immediately obvious.

I haven’t tried these settings with any other games but at least FS24 is settled. 

6 hours ago, B777ER said:

Asobo overdid the sepia mask again. They never learn. 

They sure did, among other things that I'm sure will get corrected in the next 4 years, until it's time for a new one. 

Thanks for the help.  I tried to calibrate my monitor with the built in Windows 11 Calibration tool (not the HDR Calibration app which you can download from the store) but nothing I did during the calibration would work.  I opened Nvidia Control Panel and noticed override to reference was checked.  Unchecked that and was able to correctly calibrate my monitor.  My gamma was way off.  Looks good now.