Way too bright

[RedeBarone]

The screen is way too bright.

I've turned off HDR in the settings and set the gamma to the lowest level (0.5).

It's still way too bright.

How can I adjust it so I can actually see something?

 

Intel Ultra 7 265F, Nvidia RTX 4070 Super, 64 GB RAM, Win 11 Home

Edited June 25 by RedeBarone
Added system specs

[Peregryn]

I have the same problem, the game is so bright with HDR I can barely see anything besides clouds.

I had to turn off HDR in windows in addition to disabling HDR in the game settings to solve the issue.

[SymbianRulez]

I have the same problem with the latest version from Steam.

Monitor: Asus PG32UCDM3 properly configured in Windows 11 as 1000 nits peak

HDR enabled both in Windows and in game. Whether HDR is enabled in game or not everything looks really overly bright and can't read almost anything.

I'm an avid gamer and I've tried dozens of HDR supported games including FS2024 and none had this issue, so clearly there is something with the game. On the meanwhile I have to turn Windows HDR off to be able to play.

[Mrpink7]

Hello, I play on a big HDR OLED tv capable of very high nits. Problem is in IL2 Korea there is no way to adjust HDR settings and even turning off HDR ingame settings have no effect. 

This is a problem because the default settings are scaled extremely bright and the whole image during daytime is overexposed, only night and evening looks correct.

I literally have to wear sunglasses to play this game as the game outputs like 2000 nits for everywhere the sun is hitting.

Usually in HDR games you set max nits in the settings and the game will scale the image to it, so example if you set nits to 1000, then the brightest object, eg the sun will be 1000 nits but the ground will be example 200 nits. Currently almost the entire image is max brightness.

I tried fixing using reshade but then you can not play online.

Please look into this and let me know if you need help.

[Dash,Polder]

Did you do the game bar registration of the game as a HDR recognized game?  

Windows + G when the game is running, go to settings and set it as a HDR game.  It's to new and not yet in Microsloths recognized HDR compliant list.

[Husar]

10 hours ago, Mrpink7 said:

Hello, I play on a big HDR OLED tv capable of very high nits. Problem is in IL2 Korea there is no way to adjust HDR settings and even turning off HDR ingame settings have no effect. 

This is a problem because the default settings are scaled extremely bright and the whole image during daytime is overexposed, only night and evening looks correct.

I literally have to wear sunglasses to play this game as the game outputs like 2000 nits for everywhere the sun is hitting.

Usually in HDR games you set max nits in the settings and the game will scale the image to it, so example if you set nits to 1000, then the brightest object, eg the sun will be 1000 nits but the ground will be example 200 nits. Currently almost the entire image is max brightness.

I tried fixing using reshade but then you can not play online.

Please look into this and let me know if you need help.

I'm flaying on HDR monitor, calibration made with windows 11 calibration  app (made two profiles true HDR- 400 nits and 1000 nits ) and deleted all other SDR profiles, looks nice. I can turn Windows HDR and also auto HDR , but when I switch to Rtx HDR colors are washout. Try turn off RTX HDR from Nvidia filters.

Edited Sunday at 10:05 PM by Husar

[Mrpink7]

15 hours ago, Husar said:

I'm flaying on HDR monitor, calibration made with windows 11 calibration  app (made two profiles true HDR- 400 nits and 1000 nits ) and deleted all other SDR profiles, looks nice. I can turn Windows HDR and also auto HDR , but when I switch to Rtx HDR colors are washout. Try turn off RTX HDR from Nvidia filters.

Yes. Please note that hdr is working in il2, my only complaint is that there is no brightness controls and the default settings are way too bright. Even the loading screen images are blinding and set to max nit output