Latest beta - still very bright and almost washed out in clear weather. In my case it is cockpit and the scenery.
Glass cockpit in 3rd party aircraft is like a light beam, the EFB tablet should have better brightness control…
The solution is simple - go back to MSFS2020 standards or gamma slider in the settings.
Ufff, just tried todays 1.3.22.0 SU1 beta of today, after being out-of-beta for 2 weeks.
What the heck guys… how am I supposed to read those intruments?!
Direct beta-uninstall once again…
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What is that “dynamic vibrance” option and where did you find it?
Or do you mean HDR?
It is in the nVidia app. I can’t remember if it is in the old Control Panel as well
Ah ok thanks. No it’s not that - in my case I’m on AMD
Oh ok. It’s not that then 
Hope you find a solution
The lighting in general is a bit of a joke right now. Everytime when its full daylight liveries that are white just get burned to crisp that no details can be actually seen from the livery, when you look down on instruments it just gets super bright…please Asobo let the user decide.
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I agree it is plain “wrong”.
During late afternoons, early mornings and evenings especially, you look almost fully down on your aircraft in chase cam, and it gets really bright - you see all the details on the ground. Move the camera back towards the horizon, and it gets really, really dark, almost as if the sun disappeared completely.
Another example: look down on your cockpit dials when the sun’s position is low, the cockpit exposure brightens a lot. Look back up at the horizon or away from the dials and everything starts to darken as if you turned the backlight down on your TV or someting.
This is really odd behaviour. They should leave the HDR auto exposure or adaptive brightness, whatever it is called, untouched. It’s absolutely fine in the public build, why was it changed? Clouds look overpowering and too overexposed during bright and sunny times.
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Why is this still not fixed?
This has been a clear regression since the very first beta?
This auto exposure is still completely wrong.
It is way too bright inside the cockpit.
Do the devs not know how to fix this?
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Instead of devs endlessly tweaking eye adaption which will never make everyone equally happy, i don’t understand why there isn’t a sort of slider to allow the user to just tweak it to their own liking?
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…to include “OFF”
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Yep it just needs turning off completely. It is absolutely unrealistic.
Just doing a flight now.
Looking forwards it’s like dawn with good darkish levels in the cockpit, you look down and then it’s as if it is glaring midday sun.
This artificial effect just needs to go.
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Sure, off as a setting and more granular control for those who still want it
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Agreed. The sim still looks awfully overexposed in the daytime.
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This! I pointed the exact thing either in this post or some other post about a graphics discussion, I don’t recall. But anytime you look down on the cockpit dials or go to chase cam and look almost completely down on the aircraft, it looks superbright and overexposed as if its noon (even if TOD is dawn or dusk).
Why are they even tinkering with things that need no tinkering? So bizarre.
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Maybe it doesn’t show well on compression on here, but it is so over-exposed in the sim, it looks awful.
They can’t release this current beta as SU1, this massive exposure regression has to be fixed.
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New beta today.
Let’s hope this horrible regression is fixed. Cant help but feel like getting dangerously close to the public release and the exposure is still horrible.
2020 looks so so much better in this regard.
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So I just tried the new SU1 beta 1.3.24 (from 28.02.2025).
Nothing was mentioned in the patchnotes, but I can definitely see an improvement with the overexposure issue.
Tested G2, C172, A400 so far, and for me it is now looking quite good in most situations. Not quite perfect, e.g. in C172, but very usable so I can finally test the beta. Also the illuminated buttons don’t hurt my eyes anymore.
That is a unexpected positive surprise
AMD 7900XTX graphics card on Win11 Steam
EDIT:
G2 good in Free Flight but like THIS still in career?
What is going on? How can career look different to the free flight???
EDIT 2:
So I now found out it is NOT the career mode causing this.
The difference is cold/dark (displays unreadable) vs. start on runway (displays OK)…
EDIT 3:
OK, when starting Cold/Dark the instrument knob is turned completely on low now (located bottem right in front of PFD). If you turn it up fully, it’s fine
No the auto exposure issue is still absolutely there as bad as ever.
Just look out of the windshield, and then down to the floor of the aircraft and you can see the exposure changing.
It is so obvious, I don’t know why they can’t fix it.
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They don’t want to change it, they think it looks good.
Asobo, let us decide
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