The sim tends to look worse around the middle of the day with the sun positioned in the middle. Do I need a monitor/TV with HDR support to fix the issue? The sim does look amazing around Dawn and Dusk.
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We need a Control for brightness and saturation. P3D V5 is technicolor up beside this sim.
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Midday colours tend to look a bit washed out in real life.
If you have a Nvidia card, have you tried bumping up the “Digital vibrance” value under “Display->Adjust desktop color settings”. I have mine at 55% which seems good on my display.
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The NVIDIA setting doesn’t change anything, I’ve tried… the colors are washed out.
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That’s strange. That slider makes a significant change for me.
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Yes but not as washed out as in the sim though. I was playing with Nvidia Digital V couple hours ago. Makes the sim look like candy land.Turning it up a bit helps but not a by a lot.
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See same washed out colors.
In addition to a slight increase in digital vibrance what I found reduced the nearfield haze is turning gamma down, and contrast and brightness up.
I agree, it looks way to bright during the day in the sim but at dawn and dusk it’s very nice.
Not too bright during the day. Why do pilots always use sunglasses.
So they need to give us virtual sunglasses like x-plane, or just turn the brightness down a bit, same same.
How is that realistic? Light should be rendered as it looks to the naked eye and that all.
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Putting on sunglasses is not realistic? It’s pretty much mandatory to do so when flying above clouds in the day. Do you expect me to wear sunglasses when looking at my monitor too?
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If you want a realistic experience, maybe yes. 
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And you can simulate that in Xplane, its a default feature, so why not in MSFS
Ok as an optional feature but not a mandatory feature where its imposed upon us.
Flight Simulator 2020 has excellent lighting.
I played X-Plane for a long time and one of the first things I hated was is this grey filter and depressingly dark cockpits as if the player was having cataracts.
It has ansoluteky believable colors during almost all situations. Sometimes during directly sunlight it gets a bit oversaturated, especially white areas. But there are ultimate limitations to computer graphics, both software and hardware wise.
Of course you could make it darker but then you will see that it gets infuriatingly dark at other times, which is much worse. Play a bit X-Plane to see what I mean, the inside of cockpits often looks like a room with shutters down during a bright day. It’s terrible.
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I can’t confirm that. All looking good here, nothing is “washed out”. Post your monitor specs.
Ah that helped in some way. Maybe its time I consider a better monitor
Have you tried the NVIDIA Game Filters in GeForce Experience? I’m still playing with them to try to find the right balance but here’s where i’m at currently.
Color
- Tint Color 86%
- Tint Intensity 0%
- Temperature .5
- Vibrance 64
Brightness/Contrast
- Exposure 0%
- Contrast 6%
- Highlights 9%
-Shadows 9% - Gamma 10%
Sharpent
- Sharpen 25%
Details
- Sharpen 41%
- Clarity 100%
- HDR Toning -46%
- Bloom 0%
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