8K cockpit shadows for 1080ti/2080ti users.

[Colonel X 1,430]

43 minutes ago, James Callan said:

Thanks! With a 1660 ti with 6 gb, I stayed conservative, using 4096.  What a difference! My cockpit shadows in VL3 were crazy serrated vibrating messes.  Now I have a crisp realistic shadow from direct sun in the cockpit.  Have to try out other aircraft now.  Thanks again.

Yeah it's inconceivable to me they only included 2048 in the "slider".

[JimBrown 596]

Not working for me. I edit the file as instructed and save it. Start MSFS and during the loading process, it is changed back to 2048. I do recall that it worked prior to patch 2. I'm guessing something was changed in patch 2 with regards to this.

Bummer. It looked very nice on my 2080 Ti.

...jim

[mmaxx72 9]

Thank you very much for this tip, ColonelX 😉

 

[bobcat999 8,477]

8192 is working great for me.  I don't think the cockpit shadows could be any better now actually.  So I won't try 16384. 😁

This is with a 1080Ti at 1440 and 120 scaling.  Seemingly no performance hit (although more likely to consume VRAM as the Colonel says).

UserCfg.opt is also holding the shadow settings without getting overwritten.  Sharpen is also holding at 0. 

Does anyone know what 'Fringe' does in the Config file?

I am trying the NVidia filters.  I haven't found a setting I really like yet, but I will keep experimenting.  I currently have sharpen at 75% and grain at 50%.  I notice a lot of artifacts are now gone which is great.  

If only I could sharpen a bit more without getting what looks like extra bloom on the cockpit instrument text, I would be happy.  Aberration is fun on lower settings and seems to give the image extra depth or character somehow - not sure if I will keep it.

Thanks Colonel for the heads up on this! 👍

 

PS.  I wish the hotkey wasn't Alt-F3.  One tap on Alt-F4 by mistake and the sim is gone - I never knew you could quit so quickly LOL! 

[777 340]

9 hours ago, James Callan said:

Thanks! With a 1660 ti with 6 gb, I stayed conservative, using 4096.  What a difference! My cockpit shadows in VL3 were crazy serrated vibrating messes.  Now I have a crisp realistic shadow from direct sun in the cockpit.  Have to try out other aircraft now.  Thanks again.

Brilliant... will be trying 4096 on my 1660 Super. 😁

[777 340]

9 hours ago, James Callan said:

Thanks! With a 1660 ti with 6 gb, I stayed conservative, using 4096.  What a difference! My cockpit shadows in VL3 were crazy serrated vibrating messes.  Now I have a crisp realistic shadow from direct sun in the cockpit.  Have to try out other aircraft now.  Thanks again.

Brilliant... will be trying 4096 on my 1660 Super. 😁

[simon747 185]

Good info; does this just alter the VC shadow texture resolution, or all the shadows, such as outside, clouds, etc etc?

Thanks for any help,

Simon

[Carts85 1,203]

What software is everyone using to open UserCfg.opt?

[bobcat999 8,477]

3 minutes ago, simon747 said:

Good info; does this just alter the VC shadow texture resolution, or all the shadows, such as outside, clouds, etc etc?

Thanks for any help,

Simon

Not completely sure, but the only ones you really see at close distance are in the cockpit/flight deck, and maybe a bit out on the wings, so this is where it has the desired effect. 👍

[Humble Jim 51]

4 minutes ago, Carts85 said:

What software is everyone using to open UserCfg.opt?

It's a text file.  I used Notepad++ but l'm guessing plain old Notepad would work just fine too.

[mmaxx72 9]

8 minutes ago, Carts85 said:

What software is everyone using to open UserCfg.opt?

notepad 😉

[bobcat999 8,477]

9 minutes ago, Carts85 said:

What software is everyone using to open UserCfg.opt?

Just Notepad will do.

[simon747 185]

17 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

Not completely sure, but the only ones you really see at close distance are in the cockpit/flight deck, and maybe a bit out on the wings, so this is where it has the desired effect. 👍

Ok, thanks for the response, I have my shadows set at a low setting at less than 713 or something in the ui; I use 4k, do you know if this hurt performance at 4k? I have a 2080ti.

Thanks.

 

Simon

Edited September 22, 2020 by simon747

[bobcat999 8,477]

36 minutes ago, simon747 said:

Ok, thanks for the response, I have my shadows set at a low setting at less than 713 or something in the ui; I use 4k, do you know if this hurt performance at 4k? I have a 2080ti.

Thanks.

 

Simon

I am using 8192 shadows on a 1080Ti at 1440 and 120 scaling, and it doesn't seem to affect my performance.  More likely to eat into your VRAM apparently.

[UAL4life 237]

On 9/21/2020 at 9:20 AM, JimBrown said:

Not working for me. I edit the file as instructed and save it. Start MSFS and during the loading process, it is changed back to 2048. I do recall that it worked prior to patch 2. I'm guessing something was changed in patch 2 with regards to this.

Bummer. It looked very nice on my 2080 Ti.

...jim

Did you set the file as read only? If not it always resets... at least for me. 

Edited September 23, 2020 by UAL4life