Has the lighting been changed?

[VpR81]

Hello gentlemen,

 

I've got a small question about the lighting at night. I'm not sure if this is a bug, a VR issue, related to my settings, or already reportet. I couldn't find anything in the forum, so i'm posting this here. I recently discovered the lighting at night isn't properly displayed on my headset without zoom. I cannot see the runway lights at 5nm or further away without zooming in. And when i'm about to touch down, the light at the beginning on the runway is very dimm, while at the end of the runway it is totally bright. Same for cities and villages. I just flew (online) over Beirut at night and at 30k feet there is no light visible without zoom, the city is completely dark. In general without zoom, the light is only visible in a very small bubble around the aircraft, wich was definately not the case for me prior to the 2.7 OB update and i didn't change any settings. Does anyone else experience that, or is it just me? The fact, that i couldn't find any reports about it realy made me a bit nervous, but one of my buddies has the same issue. Apologies if this has already been reported but the search function didn't came up with anything for me. If this has already been adressed, a mod may feel free to delete this thread.  

 

I'm on the latest open beta and my system specs are I7 6800K @ 4.2GHz, RTX 3090, 64GB RAM, Reverb G2 and DCS is installed on a M.2 SSD. I doubt this to be important, but maybe it helps...

 

Cheers

Edited June 27, 2021 by VpR81

[Danny_P]

Oh night lighting.... I would say what you described is what I was seeing prior to 2.7 as well. A while back, ED appeared to add some sort of scaling to the sprites attached to the lights, which would increase based on distance... Hence you're seeing lights that are much stronger at the end of the runway.

 

The lighting engine has much work needed to be done on it, especially if ED are shifting their focus to campaigns that last for days, where you can join flights at anytime you want.

[rayrayblues]

I hope they will also address this issue:

 

[KoN]

Seems like this bug has returned . night flying is also killing my fps . 

[fab.13]

Hello

 

I posted a problem on Syria Map : 

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/274441-syria-map-gamma-setting-problem-too-much-high/?tab=comments#comment-4695843

But everything is ok at night on CaucasusMap or PG Map

Did you try other map than Syria ?

[Ramses]

 

Something has really gone wrong with the night lighting and reflections (supposed to be a very dark night) 

Edited June 30, 2021 by Ramses

[Aurora juutilainen]

Getting the same issue as Ramses above me

[Flappie]

This lighting issue is a known bug. It happens randomly. No solution so far.

[VpR81]

Thanks for the clarification.