3 hours ago, Nemo said:

 Sun and clouds reflections on water seem to be reduced in quality a bit again.

Agreed; I noticed the water reflections right away; glad someone else noticed a change; I am trying the 172 with floats; so I am looking at water more.  The loading is much improved and appreciated.  It seems brighter rendering somehow too in VR.  The 172 engine sounds beefier. I was ok with the original sounds 😮

Edited July 28, 20214 yr by simon747

35 minutes ago, Nyxx said:

Once we stop the people wanting attention, and try it out ourselfs its amazing what rubbish is put on these forums.

Like LOD 400/400 only drops your FPS from 75 to 70....OK lets try that. With no tree mods or anything.

The hardest place I know is Orbx EGLC with Orbx London, so lets test...

LOD 200

LOD 400

London at LOD 400

At LOD 300/300 I find my FPS to be just the same as before the update. But I gain LOD 300/300 and at that setting no matter what I do with my TrackIR i see no poping/redraw. Or its so small I just dont notice it. My M.2 might be helping?

The new update give 15% to 22% FPS increase in FPS over my old test done yesrterday moring. I could keep that bump or use LOD 300/300....thats up to me 🙂 I will lock FPS at 30 or 40 not sure ATM. I think I will stick with 30 and enjoy LOD 300/300.

So dont believe all the above or what anyone else says. Do your own tests and see how it works for you. One guy on here was about it have an heart attack at how "bad" it was going to be, and then I read his post saying now he tried it "its great".......what a forum this is sometimes.

people with issue seem to use snapview, and thats understandably cause some popups,

so it has to fdo with how you use the sim too.normal use np.

59 minutes ago, Nyxx said:

The new update give 15% to 22% FPS increase in FPS over my old test done yesrterday moring. I could keep that bump or use LOD 300/300....thats up to me 🙂 I will lock FPS at 30 or 40 not sure ATM. I think I will stick with 30 and enjoy LOD 300/300.

So dont believe all the above or what anyone else says. Do your own tests and see how it works for you. One guy on here was about it have an heart attack at how "bad" it was going to be, and then I read his post saying now he tried it "its great".......what a forum this is sometimes.

Sounds good, do you see much differences in terms of draw distance between 300/300 and 400/400? 

And the second question, do you need to restart the sim whenever you change the LOD or restarting the flight is enough?

 

Thanks,

1 minute ago, omarsmak30 said:

Sounds good, do you see much differences in terms of draw distance between 300/300 and 400/400? 

And the second question, do you need to restart the sim whenever you change the LOD or restarting the flight is enough?

 

Thanks,

I restart the sim when testing and doing config changers.

Yes I saw a diffrence. At 400/400 the FPS was a big hit and It was the only time a saw a stutter. 300/300 was the same FPS for me before the update, very smooth normal loooking around with TrackIR stoped any redraw even with very quick looks. So for me 300LOD seems the sweet spot.

But like everyone you need to test on your PC. 

LOD 200 before update.

Notice how the deafult builds are not the same in update, I dont care I only use paywear airports but test at a default airport EGNX.

New update with LOD 300, FPS are lock at 30 as you can see.

 

@Nyxx This I find very interesting (not only because EGNX is my local field). I presume the reduced detail on the buildings is LOD at play. and they improve up close as they look rather simplified? The whole colour of the scene has changed, apart from it generally being warmer the textures for the runway and taxiway are completely different.

10 minutes ago, ckyliu said:

@Nyxx This I find very interesting (not only because EGNX is my local field). I presume the reduced detail on the buildings is LOD at play. and they improve up close as they look rather simplified? The whole colour of the scene has changed, apart from it generally being warmer the textures for the runway and taxiway are completely different.

Hey, its my local. Yes it looks very diffrent. 

Definite improvement in frame rates, but I have put G Sync back on and locked mine back to 30fps and have noticed both CPU and GPU running a lot cooler than before, whatever they have done both CPU and GPU do not seem to have to work so hard. Sim looks good in 4k and very smooth, it will take time to get used to the new look graphics though.

Edited July 28, 20214 yr by Scimiter

I dont know why, but my LOD when i setup 400/400 cant be save. Every time when sim is loading, the .cfg back to 200/200

What I`m doing wrong?

1 hour ago, Nyxx said:

I restart the sim when testing and doing config changers.

Yes I saw a diffrence. At 400/400 the FPS was a big hit and It was the only time a saw a stutter. 300/300 was the same FPS for me before the update, very smooth normal loooking around with TrackIR stoped any redraw even with very quick looks. So for me 300LOD seems the sweet spot.

But like everyone you need to test on your PC. 

LOD 200 before update.

Notice how the deafult builds are not the same in update, I dont care I only use paywear airports but test at a default airport EGNX.

New update with LOD 300, FPS are lock at 30 as you can see.

 

Clearly obvious how they're getting some of that performance gain - buildings have no details and look like concrete blocks.

@rutra Set the file read only after making your changes, otherwise MFS will change it back! Remember to remove read only flag when updating or changing settings in the MFS UI

Edited July 28, 20214 yr by ckyliu

3 hours ago, Nyxx said:

 

 

let's take a moment to reflect that this is a screenshot of a sim that is available to us all right now on our home computers which runs with amazing FPS

it might put the pop-in "issues" into some context for now

4 hours ago, Nyxx said:

Once we stop the people wanting attention, and try it out ourselfs its amazing what rubbish is put on these forums.

Like LOD 400/400 only drops your FPS from 75 to 70....OK lets try that. With no tree mods or anything.

The hardest place I know is Orbx EGLC with Orbx London, so lets test...

LOD 200.............it might only drop a few 5-10 FPS in the middle of nowhere....but! this is a real test.

At LOD 300/300 I find my FPS to be just the same as before the update. But I gain LOD 300/300 and at that setting no matter what I do with my TrackIR i see no poping/redraw. Or its so small I just dont notice it. My M.2 might be helping?

The new update give 15% to 22% FPS increase in FPS over my old test done yesrterday moring. I could keep that bump or use LOD 300/300....thats up to me 🙂 I will lock FPS at 30 or 40 not sure ATM. I think I will stick with 30 and enjoy LOD 300/300.

So dont believe all the above or what anyone else says. Do your own tests and see how it works for you. One guy on here was about it have an heart attack at how "bad" it was going to be, and then I read his post saying now he tried it "its great".......what a forum this is sometimes.

Nice shot David. How do I set the LOD to 300/300 or 400/400? It's been a while. 😀

BTW, I just started downloading the latest update. Almost half way to complete.

1 minute ago, DJJose said:

Nice shot David. How do I set the LOD to 300/300 or 400/400? It's been a while. 😀

BTW, I just started downloading the latest update. Almost half way to complete.

mine is

C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache

UserCfg

{Terrain
        LoDFactor 3.000000
    }
    {ObjectsLoD
        LoDFactor 3.000000

1 minute ago, Nyxx said:

mine is

C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache

UserCfg

{Terrain
        LoDFactor 3.000000
    }
    {ObjectsLoD
        LoDFactor 3.000000

Thanks brother!

1 hour ago, somiller said:

Clearly obvious how they're getting some of that performance gain - buildings have no details and look like concrete blocks.

The building details is tied to object lod. If there are no details turn up object lod

Edited July 28, 20214 yr by devgrp