[RESOLVED] Lost sun light, how to recover?

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Emile
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[RESOLVED] Lost sun light, how to recover?

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Hello,
I made a mistake, I do not know what is my mistake BUT I have lost the SUN light , I see NO sun in the sky (of course during day time) . I changed the season , the time ...
I use PTA.

Any recommendations?
Thanks in advance.
Emile EBBR Z590 Aorus Elite, i9-11900K 3.5Ghz Nvidia RTX 3060, 16 GB Mem, SSD 1Tera + other HDDs, Dual Boot . Win10/Win11 Pro X64
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Re: Lost sun light, how to recover?

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Hello Emile

Complete the following 3 steps......

1) Delete your Shaders folder located below

Location: Local Disk (C:) ► Users ► you ► AppData ► Local ► Lockheed Martin ► Prepar3D v3 Shaders


Navigate to your Prepar3D v3 download folder.........

2) Right Click on Install_Client.msi Click Repair

3) Right Click on Install_Content.msi Click Repair

Launch Prepar3D and test
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Re: Lost sun light, how to recover?

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Hello Poppet,
Repair will remove the modifications I have done in some folders, no?


If so I need to take a backup of these folders and restore afterwards.
Which Folders?

Thanks for helping.
Emile EBBR Z590 Aorus Elite, i9-11900K 3.5Ghz Nvidia RTX 3060, 16 GB Mem, SSD 1Tera + other HDDs, Dual Boot . Win10/Win11 Pro X64
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Re: Lost sun light, how to recover?

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Hi
My solution was : brightness of 0.65 is way too low for HDR... try 1.20 for starters.

Thanks for helping.
Have a nice day
Emile EBBR Z590 Aorus Elite, i9-11900K 3.5Ghz Nvidia RTX 3060, 16 GB Mem, SSD 1Tera + other HDDs, Dual Boot . Win10/Win11 Pro X64
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