Autogen popping up or not? Make my day!

[Aamir 2,913]

 

 

Thanks for the info. Funnily enough I was mainly thinking about upgrading to a GTX780 because I want those buildings and trees shadows LOL…! What happens if you turn them on? Fps drops a lot or a little?

 

I'll get a comparison up for you, hang on.

[Aamir 2,913]

Okay, so, just ran the test, difference is extremely obvious. 

 

Without Terrain, Building and Foliage shadows: 45FPS

With Terrain, Building and Foliage shadows: 19FPS

 

Settings:

 

 

Shadows as I have them set:

 

 

All shadows on:

 

 

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Hope this answers your question!

[Guest]

Thanks for the info and all the screenshots!!! I like your settings LOL!

 

This evening I noticed that I can enable Vegetation and Buildings (Cast only) and still get good performance with autogen at Very dense. That's with Shadows at Medium. I also use a lot lower water settings than you do. But after seeing what I can get with my GTX80 after some fooling around, I do believe a GTX780 will really improve things even further!

 

BTW I turned FXAA off today which really improved the graphics: FXAA only blurres everything. MSAA is far more important (I have that one also at 8x). You might want to give that a try too.

[Aamir 2,913]

I do believe a GTX780 will really improve things even further!

 

Ah that's a given 

 

 

 

BTW I turned FXAA off today which really improved the graphics: FXAA only blurres everything. MSAA is far more important (I have that one also at 8x). You might want to give that a try too.

 

I'll give that a try tomorrow, thanks!  ^_^

 

 

I like your settings LOL!

 

Realistically though, once Aerosoft's Airbus X Extended comes out and I get FTXG loaded up, I'll probably turn down the settings so I get 30FPS no matter what.

Probably turn it down even more for the PMDG birds, if I want to squeeze in some AI.

Fingers crossed, anyway..

[Dazzlercee23 68]

Yes it is an improvement, but where is the 'alpha fade' that has been mentioned on many occasions?  Maybe it didn't make it to the release version.

I've had it confirmed from LM that the alpha fade of autogen was left out due to performance issues.

[Japo32 52]

I've had it confirmed from LM that the alpha fade of autogen was left out due to performance issues.

 

But they could leave the option to choose or not.. To our desire! I don't understand why the didn't.

 

Do you want to see heavy popup scenary? Pick the F35.. put it full power.. fly. YOu will see heavy pop ups and also some autogen in the sky.

[simmerhead 885]

 

 

BTW I turned FXAA off today which really improved the graphics: FXAA only blurres everything. MSAA is far more important (I have that one also at 8x). You might want to give that a try too.

 

The nice thing about a good TV is that you can make a custom profile for it. I have tuned colors, gamma, contrast and sharpness on the TV after tuning the settings in P3D, and use SONY's motionflow tech to get a smoother image. I just press one button on my remote and I'm in flight sim nirvana, then pus the button again when I return to ordinary Windows usage. I really like FXAA, and it costs little in terms of fps.

[Oliver Ooi 85]

It looks like the autogen trees 'grow' from the ground rather than pop in/fade in:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4tueiZX9ag

 

[simmerhead 885]

Yep, trees does look better, but buildings act almost the same.