Battle of Moscow brightness

[Praetorious]

Hey guys hope everyone is doing great, i haven't played the game in a couple of months however Ive had this issue since i purchased the game and i might have posted this before and forgot about it, if i did i apologize, i also apologize if i put this question in the wrong section.

 

My problem is this game is so bright i almost have to wear sunglasses to play it,i had tried to explain this to someone before  with little success,I'm not sure what the name of this condition is , gamma?? i have tried all the adjustments i can and nothing has helped so Ive played the game as is and i love it i just wish i could "darken it" a bit.  i just fired up the game a minute ago and its really hard to see what I'm doing,you ever been in the snow when the sun is really bright and you get snow blindness? thats about what I'm talking about,i may add so all this makes sense, it mainly happens in the winter maps,in the summer maps there is a bluish tint in the distance that I'm not too fond of either,not a huge issue but wasn't sure if i could do something with maybe my video card?  i have a AMD RADEON R7 200 series, thank you much for any help, i appreciate it!!

[Finkeren]

You can set the gamma in the graphics options down to 0.8 and if you edit it directly in the config file you can set it even lower, although the game starts to look strange below 0.6.

 

If you feel the need to set gamma even lower you really should check the settings on your screen.

[Praetorious]

Ill check that, i thought this game had a lock and key and you couldn't access anything, ill try the gamma there,thank you, i dont think its my screen,i have messed with it before with no results (should have said that) plus it only happens with this game,i think radeon did something awhile back and they deleted this menu they used to have on their cards where you could control brightness,again thank you and i will check the con file!

[Praetorious]

BTW what would be the best way to get to that config file? i accessed the BOM menu and all that but i cant find it, is it under a different name? thanks again

[Praetorious]

I think i found it, is it under a menu called "startup" ?

[Finkeren]

Yep. That would be it.

[Praetorious]

Much better, i set it to 6 and I'm happy with the results, now i can use my sunglasses to drive again,lol, thanks again!!

[ShamrockOneFive]

If it's really that bright then maybe your monitor isn't ideally calibrated in general.

 

There's tons of articles out there on how to do it (and additional products you can buy if you're really fanatical about it) but even running some of the basics can get your monitor set to a good place

 

http://lifehacker.com/5882632/how-do-i-calibrate-my-computers-monitor-for-the-best-picture

[Jade_Monkey]

Yes, i agree. If the config files are not cutting it, your monitor is probably not callibrated.

 

I used to have the opposite issue in an old CRT monitor where the max brightness was still too low no matter how much i cranked it up in the software.

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

If you not playing on VR
you really need reshade to FIX the Muted European Colours Pallet thats ingame.
this very old setting profile i was using but still shows the problem with default colours.

Edited July 19, 2017 by =TBAS=Sshadow14

[216th_Jordan]

Monitor calibration is the first thing to do. Most monitors run 200 - 300% brighter than they should be run. When I calibrated my Monitor using a Spider 5 in a rather bright room I needed to lower my brightness to 39% (180cd - note that this setting is nonlinear though, therefore you cant just devide your max monitor cd and scale it with percentages).

 

Actually even though I already reduced my monitor brightness before I needed some days to fully adept to the now low brightness of a fully calibrated screen. My eyes were thankful a few days later though and are not as dry as before anymore also.

[AndyJWest]

If you not playing on VR

you really need reshade to FIX the Muted European Colours Pallet thats ingame.

...

 

Whether you 'need' it or not is a matter of opinion. And messing about with reshade before properly calibrating the monitor would be inadvisable.

[blitze]

At the moment the problem I find is HDR and bloom blow the brightness levels out of the park.  This on an Colormunki calibrated display with brightness set to almost lowest levels.

 

HDR should not be about blinding people but more about the difference in light perception between a shaded area and a unshaded area.  i.e looking out of a window on a sunny day, one should still discern bightness and colour of the interior unlike in conventional photography where you either get the light levels right for the interior blowing the outdoor light on photo or you get the outdoor light right with very dark interior light.

 

I have turned bloom off in startup.cfg and tried HDR with gamma setting of 0.8, I will try 0.7 and see how that looks.  It will be interesting to see how the next patch changes things.

 

That being said, on my 8350 with AMD390 at 1440p I am getting good frame rates with hud in 80+ and without above 100 with full setting minus AA which I have set by AMD to 2x.

[ShamrockOneFive]

They really shouldn't be doing that IMHO. HDR should help with the range of colours that you see depending on brightness (though IL-2 does tend to wash out a bit) of the environment and bloom should affect specific things like reflections from the sun and the like.

 

Curious.

 

How many of you have IPS panels how many have TN panels? Does that make the difference.

[blitze]

Using a Benq XL2730Z which I think is a 10bit TN panel, gives approx 105% sRGB calibrated.

Brightness is down to 7%, Contrast is 50%.  It's a bright panel ))

 

With bloom on the clouds seem to glow like they have been seeded with Aluminum.  I have that turned off and gamma set to 0.7

[MrNoice]

If you not playing on VR

you really need reshade to FIX the Muted European Colours Pallet thats ingame.

this very old setting profile i was using but still shows the problem with default colours.

 

HEy dude can you give us an  new version of the preset ?

[blitze]

If you not playing on VR

you really need reshade to FIX the Muted European Colours Pallet thats ingame.

this very old setting profile i was using but still shows the problem with default colours.

Reshade to me just looks like a yellow tinge filter overlaid on the default screen.  I could see it being useful for a non calibrated monitor that will be running more Blue in the RGB spectrum.

 

Adjust your monitor to a warmer colour setting and voila - reshade, and your eyes will thank you for general computer usage ))

[dburne]

Or just throw on a pair of sunglasses, like the real pilots did.

 

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

Reshade to me just looks like a yellow tinge filter overlaid on the default screen.  I could see it being useful for a non calibrated monitor that will be running more Blue in the RGB spectrum.

 

Adjust your monitor to a warmer colour setting and voila - reshade, and your eyes will thank you for general computer usage ))

No depends on the shaders and stuff you use..

 

Reshade can only add 1 effect or many lol depends on what you choose.

Its most important parts are proper anti aliasing/gamma correction and so on.

 

Also my Monitor is properly Calibrated.

[blitze]

No depends on the shaders and stuff you use..

 

Reshade can only add 1 effect or many lol depends on what you choose.

Its most important parts are proper anti aliasing/gamma correction and so on.

 

Also my Monitor is properly Calibrated.

Well,  not using reshade here myself and I see how the August update turns out but I turned Bloom back on as it makes spotting easier of aircraft but I am experimenting with Gama at around 0.68 to 0.7

 

Trying to get the right light.  I find 0.7 a bit bright at 2k midday with clear sky.  I think the normal gamma settings in game could use a little more adjustability in game with maybe a system similar to how FPS's deal with setting gamma, dark image and bright with one setting it so dark is hardly visible against background etc.

 

Time to fly again ))

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

i still force bloom off.
Never can stand any of the heavily faked effects (Bloom, Depth of field, Motion blur)
 

[ZachariasX]

Usually screens are just way off in their brightness/contrast settings. Over time, the panel gets darker further adding to mixed up settings.

 

It is a good idea to occasionaly check whether the display is actually still showing all colors an hues. High contrast images (like office work) really masks screen deficits plus our eye is highly adaptive to "worng" colors.

 

You can check here first:

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

(or comparable images)

 

and then start to play with your game settings.

 

A screen calibrator tool is very nice. Just too bad that Windows 7 has a broken way of reading *.icc color space files and current v4 *.icc files will result in Windows pic preview showing images too dark (rest works though). MS will not correct this flaw (wonder why?). But unless you have a calibrated monitor, on each PC you will require different gamma adjustmnets for the same game to make it look to your liking.

[Uufflakke]

It might also be a monitor preset issue.

On many monitors in the right bottom corner there are some buttons for all kind of settings like colours, contrast, audio etc.

In my case the monitor does have a few presets: Standard, Game, Cinema, Scenery and Text.

With set to Game everyting is blinding bright and set to Text or Standard everything is a tad darker and more pleasant to watch.