When I first tried the new patch I must admit I was a bit iffy about the colours but I spent a good evening playing with both nVidia control panel adjustments, the hardware adjustments on my monitor and even some third party calibration software and I have to say I am now pretty impressed.

I take MadTommy's point about PC use although you can set up various profiles or note settings to return things for other use. I set mine up purely for Clod and I think it looks terrific. The landscape perhaps errs a little towards emerald greens but there is a fantastic range of colours, browns, yellows and greens which give a very natural and convincing look compared to the original bland lime green offerings. The much darker trees help a lot.

A clever thing which is noticable with the colouring is that the colour range used for the landscape is very different from that used for the aircraft. For instance the English landscape is a slightly cooler emerald whereas the aircraft are a much richer and warmer pallet plus they have rather more contrast with stronger shadowing. This means the aircraft stand out from the ground in a really quite striking way and goes a long way towards compensating a monitor view compared with real life.

The water is now quite stunning and I'm sorry Tvrdi but I think the green is pretty spot on. The English Channel, especially around the Dover Straights carries a lot of sediment and a vaste amount of algae, particularly in summer. The sea there is never blue always brown or green. If you want blue go to the Med or the Pacific, forget the English Channel. Stand on Brighton Seafront on a bright blustery Summers day and you will see what I mean.

As an Englishman who loves his countryside and coastline I have to say that for Johnnie Foreigners and Russians to boot the developers are making a pretty good fist of it given the limitations of video games.

Sadly, for various reasons, I don't get much chance to set up a joystick and controls and fly CloD properly at the moment but I quite happily fire up the game, fly on auto pilot and take screenies.

Careful mate, you'll incur the wrath of Alpha and Dano. ;)

so let me understand
to be able to enjoy the game
i have to play with my monitor settings
and with my Nvidia control panel
:confused:

1+...I think we could all go on till the end of time on colors. It has much to do with things the devopers can't control, like your monitor settings. I think the colors are fine and enjoy fine tuning with my nvid sliders. I would like to see the dev team move on to FM, AI, SP content, etc. I the game is visually pretty stunning.:grin:

We all know about the bugs yes. But we have to make sure that some of the bugs get high priority .That's why some bugs needs to be mentioned again and again and again. It's ridiculous with 1 million threads on color while AI and Comms are hardly mentioned. And what have they been working on?...COLORS...while comms and AI is still not working.

Leave the sounds and other fixes but please put the colors back to before patch. The cocpits look like a console game now, not a sim.

What I did was use nVidia control panel to put all values back to default. I then used a calibration utility to calibrate the monitor because the latest driver doesn't seem to have one included.

I then fired up the game and got a quick mission going on auto pilot. I then brought up the actual monitor adjustment menu to see if I could make the game look any better for me.

I found making changes on the fly made major improvements and in some respects it was almost jaw droppingly stunning. Of course the last part is purely subjective and perhaps not to everyones taste and can mess up how the rest of your apps and desktop look. The idea was not to set the monitor up to some universally acceptable standard as you would for photo editing but to see if I could make the game look better according to my personal criteria.

For instance my monitor has several settings like User, Text and Cinema. I also started with various temperature and gamma levels and then played around with the brightness, contrast and colour levels to see what sort of output I could get.

In the end I was getting deep, rich colour without any garishness and good contrast between planes and ground. As I said, water looked particularly good.

I am not sure if there is any point posting a screen shot as everyones settings are different so the colours would not look the same.

flyingblind thanks
but i doubt if i'm going to do all that
just to cure and make the image better:rolleyes:
salute mate
thanks again

Does anyone have some screenshots of the cockpits? I'm traveling at the moment and am curious about the beta changes.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...t=26787&page=2
At the bottom you have comparison shots.