Dialing back the glare, haze and dust effects

[Lasko]

Can someone suggest what I'm doing wrong to have the glare and haze effects be so bad?  I understand the idea of trying to adjust the effects for direction, sun ,etc. but now it feels like 1/2 the time I am flying blind in the fog.  Now with the added dust effects it is almost impossible to operate near the ground facing anywhere near the sun.

I fly real airplanes all the time in the daylight and am never blinded to the point that I can't see clouds and terrain.  This seems like I either have something set wrong, or is just so broken that I can't even fathom.

Appreciate any suggestions.

 

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[Hotdognz]

I get the same, its been a DCS issue for a long time, its worse in helicopters more than planes though and especially the KA50, its a lot more over exposed in 2.9 than it was in 2.8

Edited October 26, 2023 by Hotdognz

[Moxica]

I appreciate the huge dynamic area in DCS. 
Sometimes I reduce gamma to 1.5 for a more pleasing image.

[swartbyron]

I think the rotor dust is still work in progress.

Reshade works nicely to remove the washed out look for me.

[Lasko]

Thanks, I'll try both of those.  It has been increasingly frustrating since 2.8.  I finally figured out to fix the light-switch brightness issue by running MT, and wasn't sure about playing around with gamma.  Definitely worth a shot.

[Lasko]

17 hours ago, Moxica said:

Sometimes I reduce gamma to 1.5 for a more pleasing image.

This is what I've been missing.  I saw something about 2.2 being the recommended setting, but after changing it to 2.0 it is much better.  It could definitely go lower I feel too.  And reshade sounds even better when I get some time to set it up properly.

Thanks again for the suggestions.

ETA: I stumbled across this thread too that had good suggestions.  Tweaking the Nvidia control panel to Brightness, Contrast and Vibrance 60, along with gamma 0.95 made a huge difference.

 

 

Edited October 27, 2023 by Lasko