Sweet FX

[ironbird 1]

Ok, so I played a while with switching on and off video settings between my ATI Catalyst and the internal FS9 display setup. Didn't manage to get a difference. Then I realized that there should be something else making the problem and found this is the sharpening - the Luma Sharpen in SweetFX particularly. After decreasing the strength of the effect and playing for a while I got to a good result and now Im satisfied. I will post some more good pictures soon.

 

 

Can you give your config please? 

 

 

Not a problem. Here is what effects I have enabled.
 

// Set to 1 for ON or 0 for OFF
#define USE_SMAA_ANTIALIASING 1 
#define USE_FXAA_ANTIALIASING 0 
#define USE_CARTOON       0 
#define USE_ADVANCED_CRT  0 
#define USE_BLOOM         1 
#define USE_HDR           0 
#define USE_LUMASHARPEN   1 
#define USE_TECHNICOLOR   0 
#define USE_DPX           0 
#define USE_MONOCHROME    0 
#define USE_LIFTGAMMAGAIN 0 
#define USE_TONEMAP       0 
#define USE_VIBRANCE      1 
#define USE_CURVES        0 
#define USE_SEPIA         0 
#define USE_VIGNETTE      0 
#define USE_DITHER        0 
#define USE_BORDER        0 
#define USE_SPLITSCREEN   0 

SMAA Anti-aliasing settings

#define SMAA_THRESHOLD 0.10           
#define SMAA_MAX_SEARCH_STEPS 96      
#define SMAA_MAX_SEARCH_STEPS_DIAG 16  
#define SMAA_CORNER_ROUNDING 0        


// -- Advanced SMAA settings --
#define COLOR_EDGE_DETECTION 0        
#define SMAA_DIRECTX9_LINEAR_BLEND 0

Bloom

#define BloomThreshold 24.25 
#define BloomPower 2.546     
#define BloomWidth 0.142    

LumaSharpen

#define sharp_strength 0.30  
#define sharp_clamp    0.135


// -- Advanced sharpening settings --
#define pattern 3        
#define offset_bias 1.0
                           
// -- Debug sharpening settings --
#define show_sharpen 0  

Vibrance

#define Vibrance 0.35

 

Full config here - http://pastebin.com/8GPrHyVH

 

 

[jacock01 0]

I tried this and with nothing selected my frames dropped from

27 to 9 which was quite unacceptable so I'll just have to stay

without it. Seems the dll's don't agree with me.

 

 

I've an old system by todays standard:

 

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Processor 3.5GHz

BFG GeForce 8800 GTS

Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4GB SDRAM DDR2 1066

 

--Jim

[WingZ 547]

I have a pretty similar computer - GeForce GTS 250 is the only major difference it looks like - and I have no such issues.

You may have some software issue, like ENB Bloom trying to run in the background.

(It's a pig to kill once on your system) 

[jacock01 0]

No, I don't have ENB bloom, but I will look for what else may

be running. I'd thought I'd cleaned that up but evidently not.

Thanks,

Jim

[basa 0]

Nice this SweetFX, but it only works for me in windowed mode.

 

How can you get it to run in full screen ?

 

Thanks

[WingZ 547]

Not knowing what your system is...

 

The SweetFX bits need to go in the FS root folder, if that's any help.

 

I have WIN XP SP3 and nVidia nHancer and it ONLY works fullscreen.

Windowed it produces a "Solarised" effect as the Windows drivers kick in.

Interesting but not something I'd want in the sim.

[basa 0]

Not knowing what your system is...

 

 

 

HP G62 Notebook

 

Intel Core i3 M350 2.27 GHz

 

RAM 4 GB

 

Windows 7 SP-1 64 bit

 

ATI Mobility Radeon Premium Graphics Direct X 11

[metalmike 34]

Nice this SweetFX, but it only works for me in windowed mode.

 

How can you get it to run in full screen ?

 

Thanks

Hey man, today I was just having the same problem.

 

I unchecked anti aliasing in FS9 settings and that seemed to fix it. Don't know why that is?

[basa 0]

 

 

I unchecked anti aliasing in FS9 settings and that seemed to fix it

 

You got it !!

 

It is now working in full screen.

[alexvs 2]

Hi,

 

I installed it, with a suggested setting from this topic, and it works great. Crystal clear and sharp pictures. FS9 is re-alive. Smooth and no FPS hits.

[WingZ 547]

Glad it worked for you... it changed my sim completely.

 

Digressing slightly, the way light is handled makes a huge difference to the look of the sim, as this topic suggests.

Apparently P3Dv2 uses the same dreadful "washed out" texture set as Effeh Sex, but uses different injectors in post-processing to make it look absolutely amazing, out of the box. 

[Humpty 751]

What the !

 

please give me SweetFX settings i will run it in FS9 , those shots on the previous page looks just great.

 

See the freaking clarity

 

 

how does he do that ? it's mentioned sweetfx.

[ghiom 2]

Interested in FS9 settings as well. When I tried dome while back, I was getting random OOM at dawn and sunset.

[alexvs 2]

What the !

 

please give me SweetFX settings i will run it in FS9 , those shots on the previous page looks just great.

 

See the freaking clarity

 

 

how does he do that ? it's mentioned sweetfx.

Hi,

 

I used the settings of Ironbird (see post before). FS9 for me is as new as it gets. Will post a screenshot later.

[Jeff H 63]

Just upgraded from 1.4 to version 1.5.1.  I have to say, I'm impressed with the improved performance.  FS9 looks even better now than it did yesterday.  Thanks for this great little utility!!

 

Cheers,

Jeff