March 25, 201511 yr Here's my argument. I've been flying full P3D for about 2-3 weeks. One week with my GTX970. As I have reported around some other post I am getting superb performance. For example I am flying right now JFK-PUJ on the NGX. In FSDT JFK and the NGX and 45% UT2 AI traffic I was getting 2 4AVG frames. Using ASN for weather. The thing is, I have not seen any weather scenario where I can see Volumetric Fog being used. I have flown in less than optimal weather about 3-5 SM Vis, Yet Volumetric fog was not actively used. Instead I had a cloud overcast layer and then haze around the airport. Back to my current flight. Just for giggles I turned of Volumetric Fog in the settings. I gained about 4-5 FPS and it was not even being used! The weather at JFK was Clear skies 10+SM Vis. So why have it on for that one day that it will be used but might not even get generated if its costing me performance? I am excited to read your thoughts! Follow me on : Instagram See my Trailer: A Year Of Flight
March 25, 201511 yr I'm curious about an answer as well, I've been flying DFW-MIA-JFK-YYZ and have yet to V Fog...maybe its ASN? Ron Hamilton "95% is half the truth, but most of it is lies, but if you read half of what is written, you'll be okay." __ Honey Boo Boo's Mom
March 25, 201511 yr Author Thats what I am thinking. I dont thing ASN uses VFog for anything. Today I had an overcast layer arriving at KATL at 5000 and 5SM visibility. I had a bunch of 3D clouds and then I had haze at in the horizon. Never did I see Vfog. Yet I turned it off and gained 5FPS instantly. With no visual impact. Follow me on : Instagram See my Trailer: A Year Of Flight
March 25, 201511 yr ASN definitely uses volumetric fog. However it's difficult to notice if the layer doesn't intersect with terrain (like hills, valleys, mountains etc) I feel the performance trade off for volumetric fog is quite worth it. It's one of the things that really separates P3D from FSX visually.
March 25, 201511 yr I agree with molleh! Best regards, Jim Young | AVSIM Online! - Simming's Premier Resource! Member, AVSIM Board of Directors - Serving AVSIM since 2001 Submit News to AVSIMImportant other links: Basic FSX Configuration Guide | AVSIM CTD Guide | AVSIM Prepar3D Guide | Help with AVSIM Site | Signature Rules | Screen Shot Rule | AVSIM Terms of Service (ToS) I7 8086K 5.0GHz | GTX 1080 TI OC Edition | Dell 34" and 24" Monitors | ASUS Maximus X Hero MB Z370 | Samsung M.2 NVMe 500GB and 1TB | Samsung SSD 500GB x2 | Toshiba HDD 1TB | WDC HDD 1TB | Corsair H115i Pro | 16GB DDR4 3600C17 | Windows 10
March 26, 201511 yr aHHH I see what you guys are saying now. Ron Hamilton "95% is half the truth, but most of it is lies, but if you read half of what is written, you'll be okay." __ Honey Boo Boo's Mom
March 26, 201511 yr Author I see it too. Thanks! Follow me on : Instagram See my Trailer: A Year Of Flight
March 26, 201511 yr Moderator Just as a side note for some that complain about blurry scenery - be SURE that what you are calling "blurry" isn't just the terrain being slightly blurred by the VF. I've noticed that in certain situations with VF, it can make the terrain less sharp - which is what you would expect from fog, it's just that sometimes it is so subtle you don't realize the effect is working. Vic RIG#1 - I9 14900K MSI Pro z790 RTX 5070Ti 40" 4K Monitor 3840x2160
March 26, 201511 yr I turned it off and got 15% more fps... On my 3 monitor system I now can use SGSS and have the same framerate as before with VF , but without SGSS ... 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
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