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VC shadows jagged edges and external aircraft lights issue in DX10 mode

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Hi guys it's more than few weeks I constatly fly in DX10 with very good result on performance and quality. I love too much VC shadows that bring FSX close to real cockpit life, but I get jagged edges shadows and don't know if I have to modify something in my Nvidia Inspector or is better to wait for Steve Fixer, here are my NI settings:

 

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1600/b0r4.jpg

 

 

Another issue are aircraft external lights, strobo and beacon as you can see:

 

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/9130/fu3l.jpg

 

 

is there a way to fix them or wait for the fixer as above, does Steve's fixer solve this issue?

 

Many thanks for your help,

Riccardo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Riccardo

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Wait for Steve - it's just a few more day, Riccardo!


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Thanks Paul, I'm waiting........

Riccardo

OS: Windows 10-64 bit, CPU: i7-7700K @4.20 GHz, GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 8GB GDDR5, RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 32GB 3000MHz, MB: MSI Z270

Some interesting reading about the VC shadows and why tubeliners are particularly bad here:

 

http://stevesfsxanalysis.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/vc-shadowing-continued/

 

http://stevesfsxanalysis.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/jet-shadows/

 

Nothing simple you can do about it, but Steve seems to have it nailed.

 

DX10 lights fixes for addon aircraft can be quite pesky (esp. when they're buried in the MDL file rather than exposed in the aircraft.cfg). There are a few in my system that are pretty sad at the moment - really interested to see how expansive the fixes are in Steve's app for this problem.

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Had red that docs, thanks anyway.

 

Just now increased to 8xS mi NI settings and seems jegged edges go away.

 

So I didn't understand if with Steve fixer I can use 4xS (as before) and cut away jegged edges or is mandatory to increase AA to eliminate them even with Steve fixer.

 

Can someone explain better this point?

Riccardo

OS: Windows 10-64 bit, CPU: i7-7700K @4.20 GHz, GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 8GB GDDR5, RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 32GB 3000MHz, MB: MSI Z270

Had red that docs, thanks anyway.

 

Just now increased to 8xS mi NI settings and seems jegged edges go away.

 

So I didn't understand if with Steve fixer I can use 4xS (as before) and cut away jegged edges or is mandatory to increase AA to eliminate them even with Steve fixer.

 

Can someone explain better this point?

For me 4 X MS works very well.

Mark

 

 


Had red that docs, thanks anyway.

Then apparently, you didn't get the gist of it. The fix has little to do with filter settings or NI. Its about altering the shadow mask algorithm FSX uses to create the shadow layer projected into the VC.

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Here's one I haven't seen before....A2A 172?

Little "Snow Flakes?"

 

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Jeff Trozzo

hmm...i have the 172 and I don't get those snowflakes...ill check again but i am fairly positive.

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