Quest Pro Local Dimming just stopped working in missions

[Dugulus]

I was playing some night missions a couple of days ago, and all looked good. The local dimming in my Quest Pro looked nice and dark as I am use to. Today, I started a night mission and noticed that the local dimming doesn't appear to be working once in the mission. The Quest Pro gives off a brownish glow around the edges when Local Dimming isn't active. 

This is with PCVR Link cable. I checked that local dimming is enabled in the debug tool. And I can also tell Local Dimming is working when I switch to PC Link. 
 

Any ideas? Night missions don't look that great without the local dimming enabled in the Pro.

 

thanks!

Edited August 6, 2023 by Dugulus

[slughead]

I think what you are seeing is not related to local dimming. The brownish glow/orange haze is something many people have brought up in other forums; some have returned their units and had worse replacements. It's just how these headsets are redesigned sadly. Have you tried to turn down the overall brightness in the headset settings?

[freehand]

17 hours ago, slughead said:

I think what you are seeing is not related to local dimming. The brownish glow/orange haze is something many people have brought up in other forums; some have returned their units and had worse replacements. It's just how these headsets are redesigned sadly. Have you tried to turn down the overall brightness in the headset settings?

He said he did not have this problem before but as you say maybe he bumped the headset brightness up for some reason.

Edited August 12, 2023 by freehand

[Dugulus]

Thanks for the reply. But yes, that ugly haze is definitely there when local dimming is not being applied, such as in the Meta Home Screen.  But when I switch to my PCVR link cable, I can tell it is working and black colors get dark, even at the edges of the headset.  Something changed...could be me, DCS, Meta...anything is possible. I have been away for a week and will try again tomorrow to see if any change has occurred.

[freehand]

15 minutes ago, Dugulus said:

Thanks for the reply. But yes, that ugly haze is definitely there when local dimming is not being applied, such as in the Meta Home Screen.  But when I switch to my PCVR link cable, I can tell it is working and black colors get dark, even at the edges of the headset.  Something changed...could be me, DCS, Meta...anything is possible. I have been away for a week and will try again tomorrow to see if any change has occurred.

Mine also is fine unless I look for it as for change not sure will go fly a night mission.

[Dugulus]

Did you notice a difference? The title of my post should actually be that Local Dimming on the Quest Pro seems to have stopped working in all of DCS. I can tell even at the main menu, Local Dimming is not working. Again, when I am in the PC Link main screen, I can see that local dimming IS working. It's unfortunate as I remember when Local Dimming was turned on in DCS, the night missions looked great and dark.

[slughead]

DCS has no control over local dimming. It is unable to turn it on or off.

How are you able to tell it is working on the "PC link main screen" when that isn't a dark screen? You need an almost full dark screen to tell if local dimming is running or not. Same question with the "DCS main menu".

[slughead]

There is a huge thread on this brown/amber/orange haze here:

Solved: Meta Quest Pro has a yellowish / brown haze in top... - Meta Community Forums - 994480 (atmeta.com)

Oh, and it isn't solved despite meta tagging it as solved.

[slughead]

I've been playing about. There is a contrast setting in the accessibility section of the headset settings. It is set to minimum by default it seems. If you increase it, blacks are much blacker in DCS night missions but at the same time, you lose a lot of lighting. So for me that isn't a good option.

Then I thought that perhaps the gamma setting in DCS could be causing this. I've not yet tried to adjust mine. I don't believe I have ever changed it and it is currently set to 1.8. What is yours set to?

[Dugulus]

So, I have been trying a bunch of settings today. I can confirm that Local Dimming IS working. But the blacks in the loading screens are much darker, and without the brown haze around the edges then once in a mission. Maybe it's the headset. Or something else...or possible just me! Ha. I don't recall it being as bad just a few weeks ago. I have messed with the brightness, and the gamma. Oh well. I guess I can live with it. Thanks for all the replies. Oh, and my gamma is set to 2.1. I have experimented with different settings there and that seems to work well for me.

Edited August 12, 2023 by Dugulus

[slughead]

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