"Patches"" of color rather than shades.

[Pfeil]

It's a long shot, but are you sure IL2 is running in 32bit color mode?

It can't be set from inside the game, only in il2setup.exe. Either have a look at that or check this in your conf.ini:

[window]
ColourBits=32

If that value is 16 instead, that's likely to be your problem.

[greybeard1]

Originally Posted by Pfeil

[window]
ColourBits=32

If that value is 16 instead, that's likely to be your problem.

That section of my conf.ini reads:

ColourBits=32
DepthBits=24

[Pfeil]

That looks correct. I did say it was a long shot.

[EJGr.Ost_Caspar]

Sometimes its only your monitor. Most of payable actual monitors lack technically in enough color depth (although they call it 32bit), which leads to a bad display of color, especially in the dark to very dark range.

Your problem sounds much like that case.

Do you see stripes on this pic or is it a smooth blending?


Thats the reason, why I haven't thrown away my old CRT yet BTW...

[greybeard1]

Originally Posted by EJGr.Ost_Caspar

Do you see stripes on this pic or is it a smooth blending?

Well, it makes no sense, indeed, since this is a laptop I use just for the Internet while I play IL-2 on a different one, not connected.

I think it's purely matter of graphics, though; would attach here a screenshot, but can't load from my HD.

[vpmedia]

Dont worry Graybeard, I get the color banding ingame but not in Photoshop hence its not the monitor! Its the nvidia driver 100%!!
Even in 24 bit you got 16,7 mio colors so why would that break a blue to lightblue sky gradient?

[greybeard1]

Thank you all for kind help.

Cheers,
GB