LOD_RADUIS is it more CPU or more GPU bound?

[fluffyflops 1,847]

13 hours ago, pads103 said:

Just my 2 cents:  After lots of trial and error, I found that the wave effects caused a lot of my stuttering problems in certain areas, like those mentioned above.  It was especially noticeable at KTPA.  If you want to remove the wave effects, go into the terrain.cfg file and comment out (put // in front of each line) all entries that have a wavecontroller effect-there will be many entries.  If you have Orbx files, there will be several terrain.cfg files and you will need to do it in each file.  I was amazed at the difference it made to the smoothness.  Note - there are different entries, such as "wavecontroller", "lakewavecontroller", etc.

so do we have do both the wavecontroller", "lakewavecontroller entries ??  or just wavecontroller

 

thanks 

 

 

[F737MAX 5,551]

I've used find and replace to edit out all effects that have 'wavecontroller', 'lakewavecontroller' and even Orbx's 'Cntrl_Orbx_oceansurf' and 'fx_HS_FSX_oceanwavecontroller'.

I don't like seeing the wave effect and the fact it could be hurting performance makes me like it even less.

 

[fluffyflops 1,847]

thank you

Edited May 31, 2019 by tooting

[Christopher Low 5,336]

Thanks for making me aware of that "find and replace" option. Manual updating was going to take some time!!

[pads103 37]

haha, find and replace is a godsend.  You just need to comment out the line with the effect.

[paj 21]

If your text editor supports regular expressions you can easily prepend // to the front of every effects line with something like this:

FIND: ^Effect(.*)wave(.*)$

REPLACE:      //$0

 

Edited June 1, 2019 by paj

[paj 21]

I've just commented out all effects involving waves from the various terrain*.cfg files but unfortunately, in my instance, I didn't see much improvement in stutters whilst flying into the Los Angeles basin (which is my main torture test scenario). I guess I was hoping the wave effects might be the miracle cure.

 

Edited June 1, 2019 by paj

[fluffyflops 1,847]

38 minutes ago, paj said:

I've just commented out all effects involving waves from the various terrain*.cfg files but unfortunately, in my instance, I didn't see much improvement in stutters whilst flying into the Los Angeles basin (which is my main torture test scenario). I guess I was hoping the wave effects might be the miracle cure.

 

there isnt a heard of wild animals thats going to stop that stutter fest i'm afraid

Edited June 1, 2019 by tooting

[F737MAX 5,551]

57 minutes ago, paj said:

I've just commented out all effects involving waves from the various terrain*.cfg files but unfortunately, in my instance, I didn't see much improvement in stutters whilst flying into the Los Angeles basin (which is my main torture test scenario). I guess I was hoping the wave effects might be the miracle cure.

 

18 minutes ago, tooting said:

there isnt a heard of wild animals thats going to stop that stutter fest i'm afraid

Have you tried this?

Not a miracle cure either, but moving those airport objects and turning off one or two options in SCA's control panel, such as Power Lines, can make a difference between unusable stutter fest and flyable with only occasional stutters. YMMV, but worked for me.

 

[fluffyflops 1,847]

I think im doing it wrong as when i go to save the terrain.cfg it tells me about ansi characters ?

[Mace 1,902]

4 hours ago, tooting said:

I think im doing it wrong as when i go to save the terrain.cfg it tells me about ansi characters ?

You might want to edit / save your files with an editor like Notepad++  (it's freeware) with UTF-8 encoding -- if I'm remembering right.

[pads103 37]

Yes, I use notepad to make the edits, but you have to make sure that you have full rights to the file.  Right click on the file and check the properties. 

[fluffyflops 1,847]

2 hours ago, Mace said:

You might want to edit / save your files with an editor like Notepad++  (it's freeware) with UTF-8 encoding -- if I'm remembering right.

cheers rHETT that worked.

[BrettT 63]

I have recently had an interesting observation regarding LOD radius while setting up a new system.    My system is a 9900K at 4.9GHz 2080ti and 32 Ram at 3200 and CL 14

What I noticed is that when I had the LOD radius pulled back a couple notches thinks would get a bit choppy.  When I had it all the way to the right it became smooth and the frames kicked up a bit as well.

This leads me to believe that RAM may have a bearing on the function with it allowing a greater amount of data to be preloaded thus making it smoother.  Just an observation.  All I know is I am very happy with the overall performance of my system

[paj 21]

2 hours ago, BrettT said:

I had the LOD radius pulled back a couple notches thinks would get a bit choppy

   😀

Edited June 2, 2019 by paj