Found this on the Org forums

 

"It gets a whole lot better by turning off the fog.  Open X-Plane/Output/preferences/X-Plane.prf with a text editor and change the 1 to 0 and save."

 

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I did it on mine and it didn't seem to make a difference.  But some posted shots over at the org forums and it made it look like XP10.  I'm not sure why it's not working for me.  

 

 

Found this on the Org forums

 

"It gets a whole lot better by turning off the fog.  Open X-Plane/Output/preferences/X-Plane.prf with a text editor and change the 1 to 0 and save."

 

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renopt_volume_fog 1

I did it on mine and it didn't seem to make a difference.  But some posted shots over at the org forums and it made it look like XP10.  I'm not sure why it's not working for me.  

You sure it's saving?

Yeah it's saving.  Hmmmm.  Does it work for you?

Yeah it's saving.  Hmmmm.  Does it work for you?

 

I'll try it once I get home in about 6 hours.

Found this on the Org forums

 

"It gets a whole lot better by turning off the fog.  Open X-Plane/Output/preferences/X-Plane.prf with a text editor and change the 1 to 0 and save."

 

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renopt_volume_fog 1

I did it on mine and it didn't seem to make a difference.  But some posted shots over at the org forums and it made it look like XP10.  I'm not sure why it's not working for me.  

These sorts of things should be in some advanced settings. It's gone from totally configurable more or less to hardly configurable in the graphics settings. This will alienate a lot of hard core X-Plane users including myself that like to tweak their graphics settings. Hell even in BF1 I have a plethora of settings I can change to suite my graphics setup.

This is just disabling a rendering path for the volumetric fog ... Its not the cure, its just a workaround. As such it should not be the long term solution ...

Simply put: Laminar needs to tweak the settings here to optimize the effect.

Found this on the Org forums

 

"It gets a whole lot better by turning off the fog.  Open X-Plane/Output/preferences/X-Plane.prf with a text editor and change the 1 to 0 and save."

 

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renopt_volume_fog 1

I did it on mine and it didn't seem to make a difference.  But some posted shots over at the org forums and it made it look like XP10.  I'm not sure why it's not working for me.  

There's also one for scattering in there.  Make that 0 as well.

Yeah it's saving.  Hmmmm.  Does it work for you?

Didn't work for me, either.   They are going to have to give us back control over this stuff...or there's going to be an XP mutiny!

This didn't work for me either. Hopefully this will be a configurable option to control the amount of fog

there's going to be an XP mutiny!

There's a more effective method to decrease haze without side effect, but you need to edit a specific dataref. For now though, I think publishing these kind of hacks is too early since we're in early beta, and the haze issue is one of the most common complaints. So if people start messing with hacks, I think this only multiplies headaches for those at Laminar. :smile:

There's a more effective method to decrease haze without side effect, but you need to edit a specific dataref. For now though, I think publishing these kind of hacks is too early since we're in early beta, and the haze issue is one of the most common complaints. So if people start messing with hacks, I think this only multiplies headaches for those at Laminar. :smile:

 

Agreed, anyway within the final release it would be enough to have the haze customizable bewteen : 

 

No haze

Low

Mid

High

Insane

 

As simple as that  :smile:

I played around with the MaxxFX settings and found a rather acceptable spot to decrease the haze while increasing the contrast and colors but without loosing to much lights in the VC. Happy to share the preset if anyone is interested.