With the upcoming perf increase, I would be tempted to touch the scaling slider but I never understood what it is for...

I leave mine on a default value of 100 and the sim look very good on a 1080p monitor.

Have some of you put it to a higher value in 1080p? For which reason? And what are the objective results?

Edited July 6, 20214 yr by Noooch

On 7/4/2021 at 7:04 PM, cobalt said:

experiencing perfectly smooth flight at 30 FPS

30fps is perfectly fine when you can't achieve 60fps, the latter would be the cherry_on_the_cake if you ask me. There is a huge difference in smoothness @ 60fps compared to 30fps, I would go as far as to say that consistent vsync @ 60Hz IS the sweet spot for any sim.

33 minutes ago, Noooch said:

With the upcoming perf increase, I would be tempted to touch the scaling slider but I never understood what it is for...

I leave mine on a default value of 100 and the sim look very good on a 1080p monitor.

Have some of you put it to a higher value in 1080p? For which reason? And what are the objective results?

same here. same setup. same question. did not touch it though, either. 

On 7/3/2021 at 12:41 PM, Kilo60 said:

I can't wait to get 100 more FPS in major add-on airports, in 4k, at all Ultra settings, with the PMDG 737 NGX!!!!

If this doesnt happen then.....NO BUY!!!

59 minutes ago, Noooch said:

With the upcoming perf increase, I would be tempted to touch the scaling slider but I never understood what it is for...

I leave mine on a default value of 100 and the sim look very good on a 1080p monitor.

Have some of you put it to a higher value in 1080p? For which reason? And what are the objective results?

Resolution scaling is mostly down "downward", so for example, if you have a 4K screen but not quite the GPU to run it at native resolution, you could try running it at 80% or so.

In the other direction, if you upscale it from 100% 1080p on a 1080p screen, the effect will be similar to good antialiasing. Might be worth a try. Of course, you don't actually get a higher resolution, but the GPU will work with a higher resolution internally, with some limited benefits to image quality.

Edited July 6, 20214 yr by Der Zeitgeist

I'm usually getting around 45-60 fps in rural areas, and 30-45 fps in urban / complex areas on 3440x1440 resolution. I mostly fly the Carenado Mooney.

That's with everything on Ultra, Glass refresh at Medium, both LODs at 200 and 100% scaling, no fps lock, but G-Sync on. 

So I will attempt to get stable 60+ fps in urban / complex areas. 

11 minutes ago, Der Zeitgeist said:

Resolution scaling is mostly down "downward", so for example, if you have a 4K screen but not quite the GPU to run it at native resolution, you could try running it at 80% or so.

In the other direction, if you upscale it from 100% 1080p on a 1080p screen, the effect will be similar to good antialiasing. Might be worth a try. Of course, you don't actually get a higher resolution, but the GPU will work with a higher resolution internally, with some limited benefits to image quality.

To add to this a few users (Myself included) who do not fly with the sim locked at 30, have 1440p or 1080p monitors and have 6800xt/6900xt or RTX 3080/3090 GPU's may increase the render scale to improve GPU utilization and thus reduce stuttering due to the increased probability of limited by main thread scenarios if the card is left with not much to do at the lower resolutions. (Better to be GPU limited than CPU limited so let the card work by increasing the resolution).

The added secondary benefit is a better looking image even though your monitors native resolution is fixed.

I prefer this method than hard locking the frame rates at 30. Not knocking it. I just prefer this approach.

I will enjoy the world peace it will bring and watching all my dreams come true. Or not, we'll see...

1 hour ago, CarlosF said:

30fps is perfectly fine when you can't achieve 60fps, the latter would be the cherry_on_the_cake if you ask me. There is a huge difference in smoothness @ 60fps compared to 30fps, I would go as far as to say that consistent vsync @ 60Hz IS the sweet spot for any sim.

I don't seem to be able to get my point across, for some reason. Let me try again. I can get 60 FPS at times, but since I do not see any difference between 60 and 30, I lock my FPS at 30, as this will free the sim to do other tasks better (advice I learned a long time ago in flight simming). If you see a difference between 30 and 60 I am happy for you, but I do not. Can we just leave it at that?

 

 

 

Apparently, they say in controlled video tests people cannot identify between 30 and 60 fps clips, because in those carefully arranged tests that is the only single difference, the frame rate. But in real life computer video games on today's consumer equipment the difference is there to see at 60 fps. The higher performance allows more headroom behind the image display and in one way or another keeps things looking smoother, better.