Hey everyone. When I play Skyrim it is really bright at night. Is there a way to darken it up at night but keep it still bright during the day. I am on the Xbox so I have no mods available.
Thnx

You could try toning down the brightness on your TV.

Turn the brightness down at night, and turn it back up during day. Or you can just adapt to the dark day time, menus, etc.
Other than that I have nothing.

Cool, I will try that.
Thanks for the fast replies.

Out of the box, the game is brighter than it needs to be. Couple that with most TV's being set for Store Display and not adjusted for in home use being way too bright, it is not surprising that nights in this game are too bright for some.

I have adjusted my TV's for proper black levels and brightness and with some tweaking to the in game gamma settings I can make the nights dark and shadowed areas are shadows, not just more gray.

Yeah its kinda lame that there NOWHERE dark enough to actually require the use of a torch or magelight.

for me theres plenty of spots i need a light to see. It must be my tv because night feels right to me and so does darkness

I think some of you have your brightness set too high.

I always have that 'light' spell on in dungeons. Your TV is just too bright.

^I think so....holy cow I can't properly loot a falmer cave without looking like the ghost of Christmas past---thank goodness for Candlelight spell

My game is the opposite. It's dark at night but It's also so much darker inside dungeons. It is so dark that I can't even see in some places at all, I have to use a torch to see anything which is awesome. I tried adjusting the brightness/contrast but it doesn't really help me see in dark areas. So I have to use a torch to see clearly.

I cranked the brightness all the way down on my game and it's pretty passable now.

Now we just need to get rid of that awful effect that makes the screen dim and glow depending on what you look at.

There are some parts in caves, where I'll use the candlelight spell for. It depends on the dungeon. Falmer dungeons are usually dark enough, as those guys alwas sneak up on me in the dark.

As others have mentioned, adjust the brightness on your tv.

I remember Oblivion being the opposite, in that dungeons were incredibly dark. My Imperial Battlemage kept an enchanted night-eye ring for dungeon raiding.

There's a mod, realistic lighting i think, that makes the nights and caves *much* darker.
However, the days are way to over-exposed and there are some glitches with the grass display.
It has a gazillion settings to play with but i was too lazy to try to make it work so i uninstalled it again.

Too bad since i really like the idea of dark nights and dungeons ...

It's dark enough on my tv.

Yes, it's called Realistic Lighting. You can just use it with the Imaginator mod to change the contrast, brightness, color and bloom of the day and night settings. All without the performance hit of that ENB mess.

Plus I opt to not select the additional rain and textures. Just run the default RL and use Imaginator.

You get dark nights and caves as well as brilliant colors to the daytime, with no ini files to mess with. The Imaginator is an on screen / in-game menu so you see the adjustments as you play with them.

You can make it ALLOT better by adjusting the TV and in game video settings, but it will always have a weird disparity between night and day.

It's PC I know but I use RL and an ENB and it's SO dark that on occasion the screen is completely black.
It's Awesome.

I agree. I was surprised to see the thread title. I have the in-game brightness cranked up, and I use a higher backlight setting on my TV for this game than I do for bright and cheery games. And I still need magelight in many places.

A tv has to be calibrated


exactly. If you don't have the opportunity to do a professional calibration just avoid the preset "briliant/shop" of your tv,set the "cinema" or "game" mode to avoid any intervention of the hardware (better input lag) and search on the net for some pattern that let you adjust the basis regulation like contrast,bright etc..(i.e.Hcfr,Avs Forums..) to obtain the best result in terms of black and shadow detail on dark and bright scenes.

Of course the game isn't properly balanced either and you have to adjust even the in game settings (brightness) for that purpose like CCNA said.

There are all kinds of places I can't see without some kind of light spell or torch.

I find there's no one perfect tv brightness or contrast setting for all conditions. My best method is to go into a dark dungeon that is supposed to be properly DARK, no torches or reflected light whatsoever - then adjust the brightness until the screen just goes totally black. Of course, the other method is just to go into the wilderness at night and adjust the settings until you are comfortable with whatever ambient light remains - simulating a bright moonlit night when viewing mid to far distance works well for me. IRL, a moonless midnight in the country side is unbelievably black (sithis be praised), like you can't see fingers waved inches from your face - but in a game environment thats pretty useless...........

If you're on PC and don't have the Realistic Lighting mod then I highly recommend getting it. Playing as a non-magic character can be tough though as you will always need a torch in one hand.

A tv could be calibrated with day/night settings and in accordance to the contents/equipment you use (i.e. with a determined color space for Blu-Ray,Gaming or standard view)

However,the problem is primarily of this game settings in its case,as previously stated

This. Personally, I don't have a problem with Skyrim's sky at night. It's the dungeons that are too light, in my opinion. But to correct this, I have a 1-button push on my TV remote to darken up those dungeons if I'm going under
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