Turn off the forced sharpening filter for a cleaner image.

[smoothchat 99]

1 hour ago, Gomoto said:

Yes tested twice, the edited changes stay also when you change something in the ingame options. The other guy talked about it "seems" like the edit gets overridden.

Well, in my case, when the sim runs, it overwrites this file and resets the values. It happens every time.  I would be interested to know why it does this in my case.

[Dirk98 354]

Well, I must say I like this sharpening filter, works better than the internal sharpening, thank you Colonel.

Cheers.

 

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

20 minutes ago, smoothchat said:

Well, in my case, when the sim runs, it overwrites this file and resets the values. It happens every time.  I would be interested to know why it does this in my case.

Same here..

[JonP01 104]

On 8/30/2020 at 11:05 PM, overt said:

I don't know how you can possibly see this as an improvement, it looks terrible, like I dropped my resolution down a notch. Maybe in 4k it looks better.

It is because you have been used to it being artificially sharpened. Like getting used to too much salt on your food. Then you stop the salt and after a while wondered why you ever salted your food to begin with.

[highflyer2020 607]

Are there before/after screenshots of this being done?

[Snuffleupagus 327]

On 8/29/2020 at 1:38 PM, Colonel X said:

Update: Getting rid of the sharpening also kills the shimmering/aliasing on buildings. Seems like this bolt on sharpening works completely against the TAA, which is absolutely brilliant with sharpening off. Also, the clouds become smoother, the dithering/noise which in some circumstances plague the clouds is gone!

Dang, I was hoping this was the case but it didn't change any of the shimmering for me.

[Colonel X 1,428]

12 minutes ago, pvupilot said:

Dang, I was hoping this was the case but it didn't change any of the shimmering for me.

What render scale are running and do you run TAA?

[Gomoto 31]

For those users, where the file gets overridden. Are you using this path?

C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache

[bbking 80]

Well, i have changed the number from 1 to 0 and it really looks a lot better! No shimmering or weird dark spots! And the file remains untouched after starting up the sim. I have the premium version from MS store and yes i am using TAA. So i am happy i changed this setting!

Thanks Colonel X!!

[Lurk 3]

At this point I'd be curious to know why the setting wideviewaspect=1 resets to 0 every time, even after setting the file to 'read only'.

[Baber20 1,438]

My sim looks 2x better now. All that ugly shimmering and weird artifacts gone. Thanks !

[Paraffin 2,197]

2 hours ago, smoothchat said:

Well, in my case, when the sim runs, it overwrites this file and resets the values. It happens every time.  I would be interested to know why it does this in my case.

Happens here too. It's weird that this works for some people and not others. Are some of you running MSFS in Administrator mode (I'm not)?

I'm not going to mess with the read/write status of anything in the official folders. 

[ryanbatc 12,770]

I don't accept tips from X planers!

 

 

 

 

(Kidding). Thanks a lot I'll have to try this for sure.  My sim looks like word not allowed at 1080P.

[BMW969 126]

11 minutes ago, Baber20 said:

My sim looks 2x better now. All that ugly shimmering and weird artifacts gone. Thanks !

Please show me the screenshots. We want to compare how much better it looks.

[Cpt_Piett 4,491]

3 hours ago, Gomoto said:

Yes tested twice, the edited changes stay also when you change something in the ingame options. The other guy talked about it "seems" like the edit gets overridden.

It does.

File is locked and saved changes don't stick when reloading sim.