Why does clouds crush your system! Its the only thing i'm struggling on.

I use just 3 layers, looks good and doesn't impact FPS. 

I use just 3 layers, looks good and doesn't impact FPS. 

 

Are you referring to cloud layers in ASN ?

Ok i've set 3 layers in ASN

Almost no impact to frames with Opus and Soft Clouds.

Whats the difference with soft clouds and REX4D? I'm using the latter

What kind of GPU do you have?

GTX780

Are you referring to cloud layers in ASN ?

 

Yes

Soft clouds are far better,there just what they say on the tin.

 

When people say clouds hit fps that's normally because there using Inspector for AA a big NO unless you have a 980+

 

I have ASN at 5 levels better overcast etc and with 780 6gb have no problems with fps.

I don't use NVCP or inspector. Only set prefer maximum performance.

Yes

 

Thanks

Whats the difference with soft clouds and REX4D? I'm using the latter

 

REX4 is capable of installing 4096px cloud textures which will impact FPS a lot in heavy cloud cover. As near as I know Soft Clouds are limited to 512px so if you have "Low level clouds" set to 4096 (Ultra High resolution) in REX4's main configuration page you'll likely see a big performance difference when you install a soft clouds set. If you have 512 (low resolution) selected you won't see any difference at all performance-wise. I personally think high res cloud textures are overkill, I resize mine to 256px manually, they look fine. The default P3D3 low level cloud texture is 256px incidentally.

Bit pointless having softclouds if you have REX4D as you can set 512 res clouds

Staring at a computer monitor for hours at a time pretending to be flying an airplane is a bit pointless too but we still do it, lol.