The days are too dark

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The “darkness” presentation and perception is highly subjective and depends on:

  1. Your monitor settings.

  2. Your graphics card settings (like in the NVidia control panel).

  3. The in-game settings.

The scenery does not control the weather or lighting system, so this is either:

  1. An Asobo issue (in which there would probably be many more complaints).

  2. Something you can adjust in your sim, monitor, or video card control panel.

SUGGESTION #1 – Use a monitor reference image

Check out this web site. It has reference images that will help you verify that your monitor and graphics card settings are correct. If the reference images don’t look right on your monitor, it will tell you what to adjust.

SUGGESTION #2 – Take a screenshot and get feedback

  1. Take a screenshot that demonstrates the “too dark” scenario. Make sure it’s during the day and not morning or night when the ambient light is weak.

  2. Post it here and e-mail it to yourself.

  3. Look at it on other devices (your phone, iPad, another computer, etc.).

  4. Ask others in this forum if they think it’s too dark.

What you’ll probably find out is that it will look just fine on your phone, and that many on the forums think it looks fine, too. The reason? You may need to adjust your monitor and video card settings.

OTHER NOTES
Most people do not spend an arm and a leg (a lot of money) on reference monitors or the bests TVs. And even those that do – for work as a photographer or graphics artist, for example, know that you must pay for a calibration device to keep them accurate as the “burn in” and age.

Normal monitors and TVs often have trouble getting blacks to be black enough – they will appear dark gray, for example. Or they have trouble getting whites to look white – they’ll be kind of gray, pink, blue, or yellow, etc. Or the blacks and whites look okay, but tones in the middle will be too dark (I’m guessing this is your case) or too light.

That problem of too dark or too light is called “gamma” – the “gray” point. Gamma adjustments don’t affect the dark blacks or the bright whites, they affect the in between tones. For instance, if you can’t see enough detail in the shadows, gamma must be adjusted higher. If the shadows look “blown out” and you see too much noise, gamma must be adjust lower.

So hopefully, this post will help you identify the problem you’re seeing, and hopefully your hardware supports making the adjustments you need. I have pretty good stuff (I do a lot of graphics and photo manipulation in my job), but I’ve had to adjust the gamma on my flight computer, too.

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