LOLOL

 

Correct title..'Here's a million dollar performance tip....blah, blah...'   I hate small tab keyboards!

 

Ok...seriously,   turn off Wide-View Aspect Ratio EVEN if you are using a wide-screen monitor.  You will pick up almost 7-9 FPS, (33 percent performance gain in most viewing scenarios), and you use the - or + key on your keyboard, to bring yourself forward, or back yourself out from the instrument panel. A few clicks on the '- ' button will give you back the 'look' of the Wide-view aspect in the cockpit or out the side window...BUT...you will see a most impressive FPS gain, as your CPU/GPU will not have to render such a large amount of data...and the tighter focused look out the left side of the cockpit window is easily adjusted to, sooner than you think, ...as your stutter and/or micro-stutter is very much reduced, and the tighter look,...is not all that unpleasing.  I have used this in FSX and P3D for the longest time...and THAT is why I can maintain pretty much 30 FPS, even in those very cloud-intense scenes posted yesterday in my Hawaii screen shoot (that is now in the Screen Shot Forum).  Have a look again at those shots...they are all taken with Wide-aspect View Ratio not enabled.

 

Each to their own needs of course, always in play, here.  As I said in the last post in that thread, I want BOTH...I am greedy.....Max settings...with Max FPS output.

 

If you can live without the Wdie-aspect View Ratio turned on...you will have both, well,as much as your particular CPU/GPU config can offer you...

 

Cheers!

 

Mitch'er

I have never used WideView as I find it way too zoomed out and fish-eyed. I use it set to false and a zoom between .4 and .5 depending on the aircraft.

I have tried both in my past, and wideciew aspect ratio turned on gives more performance for me than off. Even despite in many cases it doesn't make a difference. I guess it must have something to do with other settings that differ from setup to setup.

I have never used WideView as I find it way too zoomed out and fish-eyed. I use it set to false and a zoom between .4 and .5 depending on the aircraft.

Total agreement!   One chap on my Hawaii post...said that my plane doesn't look 'right'. WHa???????

 

Oh well...again, each to their own needs, but without it on...and yes...the world looks just FINE on a wide-view monitor without this feature enabled.

 

I did a little test just before I posted this thread.  I dropped on average, nearly 7 FPS...and severe stutter was introduced. I un-checked it...and went right back up 7 FPS, and micro-stutter was almost eliminated. I need my sim pretty much maxed out on all sliders for my 'needs of immersion'.  With this feature not checked, I can pull that off.....

Huh...didn't know there was that much of hit with that setting. I've always run with it off because of the fisheye effect

Interesting tip. I will give it a try. Thanks.

Huh...didn't know there was that much of hit with that setting. I've always run with it off because of the fisheye effect

Same here.

I'm the "chap" who said your plane doesn't look right, and it doesn't. In fact, it looks horrible, the gauges are oval instead of round and everything looks "squeezed" and distorted as we can see in these pictures:

 

Ovel gauges: http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2014/09/02/HKWpm.png

 

Plane squeezed: http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/tRg

 

But if you are ok with it, who am i to tell you not to use it. But i can guarantee you the plane is not like that in real life and it looks horrible to someone who is used to the looks of that plane.

Can't do it with a 3 screen setup everything is zoomed in too close and the zoom function will only allow you to go back so far.

Just might have to do with the zoom level initially. You may see an improvement but once you bring in more of the outside world, you are back where you started.

Surprising some get an improvement. Does not make sense to me but I am no expert 

 

Bob

Checked or unchecked, the Wide-View aspect ratio makes no difference in fps at all in my setup. On my widescreen 27" 1440p monitor, leaving wide view unchecked makes everything look distorted. I agree with the "chap" Alvega and I'll stick with Wide-View aspect ratio on.

I'm the "chap" ...gauges are oval instead of round and everything looks "squeezed" and distorted as we can see in these .

Sorry but I don't know which picture Is which; could you just simply label them wide aspect on and wide aspect off ?

Also, sitting in the left seat, looking at right-most gauges, SHOULD look more or less oval depending on the cockpit width, ...

 

Thanks! I'd like to understand what you're saying.

 

Chas

Sorry but I don't know which picture Is which; could you just simply label them wide aspect on and wide aspect off ?

Also, sitting in the left seat, looking at right-most gauges, SHOULD look more or less oval depending on the cockpit width, ...

 

Thanks! I'd like to understand what you're saying.

 

Chas

 

 

Chas, the screens i posted the links are both Sesquatchoo's screens with wideview aspect off. That's why they both show the deformed panel and plane.

 

This is what it should look like with the right view aspect set:

 

http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img908/2545/q5y2yS.jpg

 

http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img540/4708/zZbMkT.jpg

 

Compare these with his images and you will clearly see the difference.

 

Cheers

 

I'm the "chap" who said your plane doesn't look right, and it doesn't. In fact, it looks horrible,

 

Looks fine to me..

"Horrible" is in the eyes of the beholder I guess, I can't see where there's a nickel's worth of difference. Alvega would really have a heyday with my screenshots, I use WVA=false and I zoom all the way out to .30 :o !