Anyone else think the A350 screens are too dim in bright light ?

[SAS274]

For a plane developed specifically for MSFS2024, I find that the screens in full sun brightness are too dim, even when no sunlight is directly falling on the screens. 

Anyone else finding this ? Is it just an MSFS2024 issue ?

 

Inibuilds A350 (ignore the slightly washed out color, that's from HDR, color is fine, brightness is not):

 

Real:

[8848phone]

I raised it a long time ago. They said it was a problem of sim. Improving the brightness will affect the night flight.

[Atul]

I think it's because of the bloom in MSFS 2024 that you can't change turn on or off unlike in MSFS 2020. It creates some sort of hazy appearance within the cockpit especially and I personally feel it too strong even on 4K OLED monitor. What I did was increased the contrast to some 40 units and shadow to 20+ (depending on your preference) in Nvidia overlay app. The brightness, exposure, etc. were set to zero. This way I was able to reduce that hazy bloom a little bit and have a bit more of the screen's brightness. Just my personal feeling though. You can try and see if that helps. 

[Steven Latham]

Atul - would you mind letting me know how to do the change? Been a while since I played with the overlay.

[Atul]

Sure. Need to allow "overlay" under settings of GeForce experience app first and then start the sim. Once you're in the sim, press ALT+Z and it should take you to the overlay window. I'm at work now.... 😬 let's me pull out some screenshots for you tonight with my settings. But here's a screenshot of what I had posted for another topic in the forum a few days back. The screens are dimmed a bit as it was a bit bright for me in the night time. But you might notice the reduced hazy bloom.

 

 

[Atul]

 

Also, sorry I missed SAS274's acknowledgement of "washed" colors coming from HDR followed by 8848's message. Looking at the screenshot led me into thinking it was more of "bloom's" problem. Regardless, sharing here what helps me a bit. 

Step 1: Open NVIDIA Experience app and turn NVIDIA Overlay "on" under settings. Sim must be closed while turning this on.

Step 2: Load the sim and once you're in the cockpit, press ATL + Z. This will launch NVIDIA Inlay at the left hand side of your screen.

Step 3: There's an option in that window called "Game Filters".

Step 4: Choose "Profile 1" under profile caption box and select "Brightness/Contrast" filter from the list of available filters.

Step 5: Adjust the values of "contrast", "shadows" to your likes. I suggest leaving the rest of the items' value to zero under "Brightness/Contrast" filter.

Step 6: Close NVIDIA Inlay with ALT + Z. This saves the applied filter automatically.

I apologize as I simply couldn't capture the in-sim screenshot with inlay UI deployed. For some reason, it always saved the screenshot without inlay UI. Hence, just words. However, this is before and after pic with and without inlay filter. This also reduces bloom around exterior landing light which otherwise is way too intense in my opinion.

Before:

After:

Hope this helps.

Edited March 4 by Atul