About all these rants on new patch colours

[Hunden]

Originally Posted by flyingblind

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.

+1

[CWMV]

What sort of color calibration software are you all using?

[6BL Bird-Dog]

This shot is from google earth English Countryside.jpg
This is how the English countryside always looked to me.
Seems the SAS guys have got the closest in appearence .