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Grainy and pixeleted clouds

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So why asobo have broken the clouds? They seems now very ugly after 5 months from release. 

C. Uygar

Aircraft Maint. Engineer. at LTFJ

you may raise a ticket through MS zendesk and ask them. it has been discussed here intensly already but nobody here will have an answer but just guessing

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They are being reverted to the original ones at the next update (tomorrow), as some people with older cards are having problems with them flashing also.

Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

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You could try turning off post process sharp. For my case it worked quite well. There is info around how to do that, or click here (at the bottom of the article) : http://www.estassinos.com/flight-simulator-settings/

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53 minutes ago, earthdog said:

You could try turning off post process sharp. For my case it worked quite well. There is info around how to do that, or click here (at the bottom of the article) : http://www.estassinos.com/flight-simulator-settings/

Yes, this does work, but then it made my instruments a bit less sharp. ☹️ 

The real answer is for Asobo to fix it, and hopefully they will tomorrow by reverting back to the 'old' clouds.  Although some people say they had grainy clouds to start with, so we will have to wait and see.  Sometimes I think our expectations are a bit higher than they can achieve with the current hardware (to keep a decent frame rate).  

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Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio.

Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's.  Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.

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Just now, bobcat999 said:

Yes, this does work, but then it made my instruments a bit less sharp. ☹️ 

The real answer is for Asobo to fix it, and hopefully they will tomorrow by reverting back to the 'old' clouds.  Although some people say they had grainy clouds to start with, so we will have to wait and see.  Sometimes I think our expectations are a bit higher than they can achieve with the current hardware.  

Yeah, on the other hand i prefer them to stay as they are instead of loosing FPS ...

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2 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

They are being reverted to the original ones at the next update (tomorrow),

Where did you hear that?

4 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

Where did you hear that?

Update road map 

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Anyone tried anti aliasing transparency - supersample (4×) via ncp? At official forum some users had tried this and said it was worked. I ll try when back home...

C. Uygar

Aircraft Maint. Engineer. at LTFJ

1 hour ago, spitzer45 said:

Anyone tried anti aliasing transparency - supersample (4×) via ncp? At official forum some users had tried this and said it was worked. I ll try when back home...

I have this disabled in NCP, but super sampling actually works in the sim now.  I have it set at x6 (along with AF x16) and it reallty straightens out the runway lines in the distance, whereas AF on its own only does half of the job.

Unfortunately though, SS x6 doesn't get rid of the grainy clouds completely.  I only see the graininess in certain conditions and light levels (normally when the sun hits the clouds face on I think), but it is one of the minor issues I find easy to overlook.

I also find clouds at 'high' rather than 'ultra' look better to me.  On ultra they look too lumpy.  

It must be tough for Asobo with so many differing opinions out there! 😁

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Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio.

Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's.  Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.

Those blurry clouds have been with us since the Alpha...the only fix I've seen that actually works is setting sharpening to 0 config file.

But this comes at a price...it makes some parts of the sim not as sharp.

It was mentioned, that the cloud pixels will only be fixed with DX12 coming with the XBox release in about 6 months. Sharpening to 0 helps a bit, but not really on my end....

Most of what is said on the Internet may be the same thing they shovel on the regular basis at the local barn.

10 minutes ago, Silicus said:

It was mentioned, that the cloud pixels will only be fixed with DX12 coming with the XBox release in about 6 months. Sharpening to 0 helps a bit, but not really on my end....

The sim reverts it back to 1 as soon as you restart so you need to make sure the file permissions are also changed to make the file read only this way the setting is preserved after.

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5 hours ago, highflyer2020 said:

The sim reverts it back to 1 as soon as you restart so you need to make sure the file permissions are also changed to make the file read only this way the setting is preserved after.

In my case stays 0 without having the file read only...

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no change with new update. closing sharpen filter reduces this uggly appearance.

 

post process sharpen filter have been added after patch(cant remember which), just disable it and happier now.

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C. Uygar

Aircraft Maint. Engineer. at LTFJ

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