BS2 cockpit lights

[marrow]

I've trouble with cockpit lights in BS2. Flood light or the bluish NVG light doesn't work. The only cockpit lights working are the instrument lights. All lights work in BS1.

 

I've tried different driver settings and game graphics settings but nothing seems to help. I've Radeon 5850 with latest drivers.

 

Any ideas what's going on?

[Spyre]

*bump* I have the same problem. Any feedback?

[Nate--IRL--]

Interesting, could you provide your DXdiag report and show the in game DCS settings you use.

 

Nate

[Spyre]

Here we go. DxDiag and screenie of ingame settings attached. :)

DxDiag.txt

[Spyre]

Ok I played around and realised I had not played any night missions yet. After which I discovered the lights ARE working...however they are just feeble in comparison to Black Shark 1.

 

I took some screenies of examples in both Black Shark 1 and 2 in the same mission "Shooting Range".

 

In each screenie rar file, I have 3 screenshots, firstly with no lights on, secondly with only the cockpit light on, and finally with only the night nav light on.

 

You can straight away see that the cockpit light in Black Shark 1 makes a massive difference compared to Black Shark 2 on the same mission (which isn't even visible).

 

The third rar collection entitled BS2_VisibleLights.rar just shows that the cockpit light does work on a low lit mission, if only just visible.

 

So...any way of increasing the effectiveness of the cockpit and night nav lights? They are are fairly useless on missions during dusk or dawn. :(

BS1_ShootRange.rar

BS2_ShootRange.rar

BS2_VisibleLights.rar

[Spyre]

The Lighting Brightness Control Panel only gives the states of either on or off for the instrument panel lights. It does not give any level of brightness inbetween.

[Nate--IRL--]

This is known, not sure if it will be fixed though. IIRC BS1 has the same problem.

 

Nate

[Spyre]

Eish... Well I can fly during the day I guess. :) I know I had a similar issue in a-10c, but I generally flew day missions in that.