User Files

Realism is a pre-set  I have made for Reshade to make it looks as real as possible. run your gama from 1.8 - 2.2 its personal preference and feel free to edit it to how you like it mine is just a base.

This is continuation of my pursuit for more authentic visual experience, closer to what one expects my observing the surrounding with a naked eye. However, there are two major changes with this Reshade profile.

First, this one is made to work best with a color profile for your color management, as presented in the uploaded screenshot. This should make it much "lighter" on overall performance, as Reshade does less of the heavy lifting. I think i managed to drop the FPS performance hit on my machine, from 3-4 FPS to 1-2 FPS.

Second, this is a more all around solution. That is, while the previous preset, was more extreme and punchy, it also didn't work as well in more exotic lighting conditions, such as twilight or storms. No amount of tweaking could make the end result what i wanted to be under all conditions. So for this iteration, i went for a more mild adjustment, but one that works equally well under all conditions tested.

Third. this presets works with DCS gamma setting of 2.8

I dubbed this  Reshade setting not "photo-realism" but "eyeball mk1" ????
Here are the initial results of observations made at different times of day and different atmospheric conditions. This is of course all made to fit on my screen as watched through my eyes, but still conforming to the DCS standard of 2.2 gamma (thus the name eyeball).

Goal: try to model and design a preset that simulates scattering, reflections, eye adaptation and other eyeball specifics that photography or video are hard to capture. So no photos or videos were used during the tuning of the settings. Just observations. Hope you guys like it.

Perfect for people that are sick and tired of an all-grey DCS.

Great way to start tinkering yourself, just seeing what looks better for you while starting of with this .ini as a base. I seem to like vibrancy some days, than other days I'd like a more realistic look.

This Makes DCS more vibrant, sharper and makes shadows better, gives them more depth!
WARNING: MAKES YOUR FPS DROP AROUND 3 FPS. I'll be making lighter version of this one, which i'll be using myself, because dcs is pretty
heavy on your system as is.