gcrimmins Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 HI all, Hope this is the right place to post, can't see an english sub forum for support. All the lights in game are extremely washed out and sometimes redundant. An example would be the night mission in the F16 Red Flag, the vegas city lights are almost non existent. Changing the gamma doesn't work either, this affects cockpit lighting too. It works great at night but dusk or dawn it just is very weak. Any ideas or tweaks to code i could do? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draconus Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Give us some screenshot and gfx settings. Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX3060 Rift S T16000M TWCS TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcrimmins Posted February 26, 2021 Author Share Posted February 26, 2021 Hey @draconus How do I do the GFX setting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draconus Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 You do screenshots by pressing PrtScn key in DCS. The images are created in %userprofile%\saved games\dcs\screenshots PNG files can be big, so open in MS Paint and save as JPG - upload those to the forum post. By gfx settings I meant your current graphics settings in DCS like this: https://forums.eagle.ru/uploads/monthly_2021_01/DCS.thumb.PNG.dadb4521b5598a591441c8f6cce8f199.PNG and any settings you might have changed from default in your gfx driver and control panel. Sharing your system specifications might help too. Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX3060 Rift S T16000M TWCS TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcrimmins Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 Hey @draconus These are all with full lights on, can't even see the HUD in some cases RTX 3070 16GB Corsair RAM AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3WA Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 (edited) One thing I would do - Turn off all the bells and whistles in DCS Settings - Set all graphics to low (keep your correct Resolution of course), but turn everything else to off or low. Now take a look at it all. Then start turning things higher, and On as you go up, seeing how things change. Also, there should be HUD lighting dials to turn up the brightness of your HUD. I don't have the F-14 module, so couldn't tell you where it is. The lighting in this game can be kind of harsh (i.e. realistic). So, you might want to change things with your graphics card and monitor settings as well till you get what you want. Edited March 2, 2021 by 3WA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcrimmins Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 @3WA Hey man thanks for writing back to me. I will try the DCS Settings for sure. Been flying the cat for a few years now and it seems to be a newer issue for me with all my planes. Awful ground lighting and cockpit lighting. No idea why, it is insanely frustrating. One of my favourite things in the 18 used to be cranking up those beautiful green lights all the way and they just look so washed out now. How does the resolution work? That's not something I have ever played with or know anything about. Be keen to hear about that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parisek Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 (edited) Reduce gamma to 1.5-1.6 Edited March 2, 2021 by Parisek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draconus Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Looks normal. For the HUD there is HUD BRT knob on the left of VDI. Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX3060 Rift S T16000M TWCS TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3WA Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, gcrimmins said: @3WA How does the resolution work? That's not something I have ever played with or know anything about. Be keen to hear about that Resolution is just like 1080p or 4K. You want to keep that the same as whatever is native for your monitor. The rest of the settings you can fool with. You might also try different light settings on your monitor. Mine has about 6 different view settings. And yeah, your screenshots look normal to me as well. You need to just turn up the brightness on your hud. If you look into the DCS Sun and it looks bright, then it's right. It's faded looking at times, because of strong sunlight. It washes out everything, just like IRL. Turn your plane until you get strong shadows, and you'll see the console lights glow brightly. I have mine on all low settings right now, with all graphics effects off, so I don't get any of that. It's kind of all the same lighting (cartoonish). Things may have changed, because they changed something in the graphics driver update. I've had that happen to me. Drove me crazy for a while, until I managed to adjust it all back to what I wanted. Had to change my monitor setting in the end from "Standard" to "Theater". That worked well. Edited March 2, 2021 by 3WA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcrimmins Posted March 3, 2021 Author Share Posted March 3, 2021 Thanks fellas, the one thing I think is weird is that the HUD brightness is up all the way. Seems like this is normal anyway, might be worth noting that I am using VR. Wonder if anything there may help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcrimmins Posted March 3, 2021 Author Share Posted March 3, 2021 @3WA@draconus If you see the lights on this post in VR, the differences are evident. Can't get any of the red to show at day which is the reason to believe that maybe i screwed up settings somewhre @3WA@draconus If you see the lights on this post in VR, the differences are evident. Can't get any of the red to show at day which is the reason to believe that maybe i screwed up settings somewhre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draconus Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 (edited) The pics are from May 2020 - there were a lot of light changes in DCS back then. Also did you turn your instrument lights wheel to the max? It's #9 here: http://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/cockpit.html#master-light-control-panel Edited March 3, 2021 by draconus Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX3060 Rift S T16000M TWCS TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcrimmins Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 @draconus Yeah fully up. It's the jet i have the most hours in DCS so I noticed the difference when it happens/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draconus Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 That's just how it is currently. Full lights are dull during a sunny day and bloom at night. Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX3060 Rift S T16000M TWCS TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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