Clouds are very pixelated and grainy - Asobo listen please

[CFIJose 5,485]

21 hours ago, BijanStudio said:

 

You SIR are a genius! Thank you for fixing my clouds.

Jose

[mtr75 653]

On 11/26/2020 at 6:08 PM, janda said:

I wonder why nobody talk about it here....

The clouds after patch 6 are unacceptable, they looked very nice and on high standards from released day.., currently most of the clouds formations look very grainy and pixelated, especially when you fly through them and overal around you... and most on the fluffy one..

the quality has droped very drastically, making it impossible to enjoy the view and cut immersion of fly ....

I try like others everything, settings , change "film grain" to 0 ...etc, etc nothing can bring looked like before

I talk on ULTRA Setings only - have everything on Ultra

The problem exist and is very common...

take a look here also, includes photos...   https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/cloud-textures-pixelated-and-grainy/179116

So Asobo you said on last Q&A that you dont made any changes to the clouds...... but however, something is broken and it need to be fix...

Did you report this to Zendesk?

"No..."

[BijanStudio 896]

13 hours ago, janda said:

this clouds after messing in settings still don`t even looked as good as before....sorry, far from that

and IMPORTANT NOTICE - if you change anything in the settings graphics in the sim after launch- all yours corrected files such as - "film grain" or "Sharpen" are back to its original values - !!!

No, you are very wrong. If you read my post, I said after you change the sharpen to 0, change the file  to read only. It will not change back again. There is no issues with clouds whatsoever.

Film grain doesn't fix it. It's the sharpen.

[BijanStudio 896]

53 minutes ago, DJJose said:

You SIR are a genius! Thank you for fixing my clouds.

Jose

Welcome. Glad it worked out for you... Some don't follow directions and blame it on the sim.

[jpe828 624]

2 hours ago, BijanStudio said:

No, you are very wrong. If you read my post, I said after you change the sharpen to 0, change the file  to read only. It will not change back again. There is no issues with clouds whatsoever.

Film grain doesn't fix it. It's the sharpen.

I can't find that file with the Steam version... not the same path. 

[nosaj_armstrong 10]

Works like a charm! Thank you!

 

 Do you have to do this after every update?

[pstrub 998]

9 hours ago, BijanStudio said:

No, you are very wrong. If you read my post, I said after you change the sharpen to 0, change the file  to read only. It will not change back again. There is no issues with clouds whatsoever.

Film grain doesn't fix it. It's the sharpen.

The "read only" setting was necessary after the first or second update because MSFS kept overwriting the sharpen setting with the defaults. However, it seems this has been fixed in one of the following updates. I removed the "read only" flag and the config settings stay as they should.

I prefer to avoid the "read only" if not absolutely necessary, who knows what side effects this may bring in with one of the future updates...

Edited November 28, 2020 by pstrub

[pstrub 998]

6 hours ago, jpe828 said:

I can't find that file with the Steam version... not the same path. 

On my Steam installation it's located in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator

Good luck with fixing the clouds!

Edited November 28, 2020 by pstrub

[Keirtt 590]

Anyone else just disappointed with the fact that the clouds all look the same? I feel like they don't have the variety that I saw in ASCA HD.

[Flyfaster_MTN002 412]

This edit did not work for 'high' setting clouds. Maybe Ultra would be more pronounced?

[Maxis 1,886]

17 hours ago, pstrub said:

The "read only" setting was necessary after the first or second update because MSFS kept overwriting the sharpen setting with the defaults. However, it seems this has been fixed in one of the following updates. I removed the "read only" flag and the config settings stay as they should.

I prefer to avoid the "read only" if not absolutely necessary, who knows what side effects this may bring in with one of the future updates...

This is why i have never applied this fix. I may consider it now.

[pstrub 998]

10 hours ago, Maxis said:

This is why i have never applied this fix. I may consider it now.

Nothing wrong with trying... it may or may not be enough to resolve the graininess issue for you, it's a subjective issue and may also depend on system, screen resolution etc...

[CFIJose 5,485]

I've been using the tweak since I discovered it with zero issues.

[Maxis 1,886]

1 hour ago, pstrub said:

Nothing wrong with trying... it may or may not be enough to resolve the graininess issue for you, it's a subjective issue and may also depend on system, screen resolution etc...

No no this isnt a massive issue for me and i know what is needed to fix it. Ive already turned down sharpening on my monitor and within my nvidia settings so its manageable. I think the best fix is to modify the config but i dont like playing around with cfg files. Or rather not yet for this sim.

Edited November 29, 2020 by Maxis

[Pat_vpdc 1]

The only thing that worked to get rid of the shimmering grainy, pixelated textures of the clouds was to disable the sharpen filter and film grain but the one that made the biggest difference for me so far.... disable ray tracing in the same user folder as the other two. Setting ray tracing to 0 made a huge difference for me. Try it for yourself if not satisfied seemed to solve my problems

Edited November 30, 2020 by Pat_vpdc