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Major increase in drawing distance and performance

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Hi,

I'm quite surprised and just curious if you are experiencing my results too. Since Sim Update 5, I am getting drawing distances I have never seen before since release.

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Notice how buildings are still being drawn even at 30000 feet, I am sure that was not the case in Sim Update 4. Is there anyone experiencing similar visual improvements with Sim Update 5? I am getting a lot more pop in when I pan the view, but it is really worth for the significantly higher drawing distance and performance.

My terrain LOD and objects LOD are set to 200, Terrain Vector Data, Buildings and Trees to set to Ultra, as usual.

Edited by BiologicalNanobot

PC specs: i5-12400F, RTX 3070 Ti and 32 GB of RAM.

Simulators I'm using: X-Plane 12, Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) and FlightGear.

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What can you tell about loading times compared with pre-SU5?. Thanks

Cheers, Ed

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Just now, edpatino said:

What can you tell about loading times compared with pre-SU5?. Thanks

Significantly shorter. It is the best update to MSFS so far, too bad that it is riddled with so many bugs.

PC specs: i5-12400F, RTX 3070 Ti and 32 GB of RAM.

Simulators I'm using: X-Plane 12, Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) and FlightGear.

Wow that looks so much better. Definitely did not see that before. This makes me more hopeful about SU5!

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No need for 400/400 on object and LOD terrain then!

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Read the official forum. You're trading off for culled scenery assets. Look straight head then pan left. You can see the scenery pop-in. Go back forward, scenery pop-in. The scenery appears to not actually exist until you look at it

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1 minute ago, styckx said:

Read the official forum. You're trading off for culled scenery assets. Look straight head then pan left. You can see the scenery pop-in. Go back forward, scenery pop-in. The scenery appears to not actually exist until you look at it

I am aware of the difference in rendering method, but no one does that in a normal flight. I am perfectly happy with getting a lot more drawing distance and performance in expense of pop-ins.

PC specs: i5-12400F, RTX 3070 Ti and 32 GB of RAM.

Simulators I'm using: X-Plane 12, Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) and FlightGear.

1 minute ago, espent said:

 

Beautiful! 

Former Child, Current Adult

2 minutes ago, BiologicalNanobot said:

I am aware of the difference in rendering method, but no one does that in a normal flight. I am perfectly happy with getting a lot more drawing distance and performance in expense of pop-ins.

I just find it odd that for most of FSX's life people worked to avoid pop-in.

Now MSFS intentionally adds in scenery pop-in as a "feature" and some are fine with it.

Weird 

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8 minutes ago, espent said:

 

Just out of curiosity- is this a patched DC6 from PMDG or is it still working with the new update?

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Just now, JaseMelbo said:

Just out of curiosity- is this a patched DC6 from PMDG or is it still working with the new update?

This is 2.0.33 that was just released.

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I use TrackIR and this pop-up thing when I look around is going to ANNOY the HELL out of me. 

They gotta fix that. 

Ron Hamilton

 

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2 minutes ago, espent said:

This is 2.0.33 that was just released.

Ahh - brilliant.  I'm at work and wasn't sure if they had released the patch for it or not.  Thanks mate.

Jaseman. Lovin it up here........

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