ACCEPTED Ambiance - A Vanilla(plus) Ambient Lighting Overhaul (by TheMilesO)

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8 hours ago, Bushranger said:

I have only changed to Azurite Weathers this week, before that I was using Cathedral Weathers in the Step Guide and Relighting Skyrim + Ambiance was just as dark in places like Frozen Hearth screenshots I've posted before in 2025 are all with Cathedral Weathers. Also when I said that If I change the Graphics Driver gamma to 2.2 it became blown out I wasn't just talking about in Skyrim, everything was blown bright then. I took a screenshot of the Graphic Driver settings because it was washed out when I adjusted the settings.

My Monitor is the ASUS ROG Swift PG329Q and I've found today that it does not have uniform brightness that many recommend using when a monitor is calibrated. There are several suggestions around the internet which preset to start with and then adjust the RGB to what they recommend (which always seem random to me because it's often very different person to person). Because I don't know what I'm really doing, and because I find it looks reasonable, I've been using the RTS/RPG GameVisual preset with Normal Colour Temp.

What makes me extremely confused is that when I set the Graphics Driver gamma to 2.2 and took screenshots of what the monitor shown was washed out driver settings and the Frozen Hearth, those Screenshots then looked nice when I set the Graphics Driver gamma back to 1.  Also while Shadow Boost with Dynamic Adjustment seems to not place the Frozen Hearth bar in such gloomy shadow it also makes the smoke particles in the Loading Screen worse.  I'm starting to think almost all of this is because of the monitor.

Well then gamma should probably be 1.0 in your graphics drivers then. Try disabling customization of colors/lighting via drivers. Mess with your monitor gamma instead, and try using a color profile specifically for your monitor.