So further testing the brightness dials and mfd buttons only affect symbology and do not affect any sort of image or video that is displayed on either the MFDs or HUD (DMT, TPOD, MAP, MFD FLIR, HUD FLIR, IRMV).
Thought I'd quickly chime in here as I thought the MFD day/night buttons were broken as well. To everyone reading this PRESS RIGHT CLICK ON THE DAY/NIGHT MFD BUTTON. I thought that it was broken because I was left clicking on the night part and nothing was happening. Zeus maybe this could be implemented better seeing as everyone thought this was broken?
Also at the moment the day/night buttons only affect the symbology. The moving map is not affected by any brightness settings including the rotary dial. (Tested on Openbeta Night Training Missions)
When I start the game the patcher pops up and disappears with nothing further happening. Checking task manager shows DCS.exe running with 30% cpu usage. Have tried repairing the installation and restarting but that did not change anything. This problem starting occuring today and last time I was on DCS was a week ago.
PC specs are:
CPU: i5-3570k
GPU: GTX 680
Memory: 8 GB
OS: Win 10