14 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

This is getting messy now. Back to the old days of nvidia control panel, and now reversing in game settings?

It is a no thanks from me. Good luck to those with the time to mess about with it all.

Agree, and hope we don't have to keep going this way.

If you're using your G2, give it a go. You've got the horsepower 😄

 

 

Edited August 4, 20214 yr by dogmanbird

1 minute ago, captain420 said:

Sorry, yes Texture Resolution set to Low. Before it was on Ultra.

Yes you are right. Seems some of the settings are backwards mainly texture resolution. I can confirm too. I set mine to ultra and restarted and when I checked the cfg it was set to 1. If I change it to low and check cfg it's 3. I think it only affects the ultra preset because on high it sticks and that's the preset I've been using 

Just now, Alpine Scenery said:

I am not understanding, didn't you just say it only affects cockpit textures?

Texture Resolution: cockpit textures (restart required)

- affects the resolution of the extra texture channels (normals, metallic etc...) and below a certain level (I think it is MED) it also changes the albedo resolution.

Synthetic Textures: ground details overlays (no restart required)

- affects the LOD ring distances they are displaying. ULTRA = full details kept farther away, LOW = full details only a few meters away.

The only 1 change I did was change the Texture Resolution from Ultra to Low and I can clearly see the textures and all the minor details on the buildings which I couldn't before. Photogrammetry, and ground textures look absolutely crystal clear now after that change. Before this my sim was much blurrier, definitely does not look like how it does now after the change. I think that setting changes the scenery outside of the cockpit.

Not sure exactly what it is that made such a big difference in the overall quality on my end then? That one setting pretty much fixed most of my problems, except for the washed out colors.

Edited August 4, 20214 yr by captain420

I really recommend trying to increase anisotropic filtering through NVidia control panel, if MSFS is somehow not holding the setting. Anisotropic filtering has a profound effect on visuals - without anisotropic filtering everything looks extremely blurry at a distance. The difference is obvious when textures are stretched unevenly, which is almost always the case at a distance due to perspective projection. Anisotropic filtering takes care of this by compensating for the unevenness, hence the name anisotropic.

Edited August 4, 20214 yr by BiologicalNanobot

Texture Resolution Low, after a restart. No magic tricks here, what is shocking is that Ultra or Low are basically the same, what leads me to believe that we are ,in fact ,with almost if not the same  graphic configuration possibilities as an Xbox.

My Nvidia Anistropic is set to 16x, it may help but i didn't do a comparison. Comparisons are a lot of trouble.

I restarted the game, I looked at my own buildings that i hand rendered, no difference.
I looked at dry runway textures, no difference.
I looked at procedual ground textures, no difference.
I looked at textures without a normal map, no difference.
I looked at textures with a normal map, inconclusive.
I looked at a wet runway, yah so it appears maybe a differnce, but it isn't going to fix anything.

It appears to only affect the shading on a wet surface to be honest, but I don't care about that.

Edited August 4, 20214 yr by Alpine Scenery

AF=16 in Nvidia CP gives me reproducible CTDs when I load a flight

5 minutes ago, Aristoteles said:

Texture Resolution Low, after a restart. No magic tricks here, what is shocking is that Ultra or Low are basically the same, what leads me to believe that we are ,in fact ,with almost if not the same  graphic configuration possibilities as an Xbox.

 

I was under the impression that texture resolution only affects the cockpit textures of the aircraft?  (See RXP's post above). In which case the terrain resolution wouldn't change between Ultra and Low?

6 minutes ago, Aristoteles said:

Texture Resolution Low, after a restart. No magic tricks here, what is shocking is that Ultra or Low are basically the same, what leads me to believe that we are ,in fact ,with almost if not the same  graphic configuration possibilities as an Xbox.

Asobo must rectify this immediately.

8 hours ago, jarmstro said:

For me the the blurry cartoon textures on that ridiculous rhino loading screen says all you need to know about SU5 really.

Now see I was amazed at just how crystal clear that is.

2 minutes ago, JYW said:

 

I was under the impression that texture resolution only affects the cockpit textures of the aircraft?  (See RXP's post above). In which case the terrain resolution wouldn't change between Ultra and Low?

I am not sure, it's hard to test when I am sitting in a recliner and getting cramped hands doing it, but as far as i can tell it might have some effect really close up or to wet textures (maybe), but it's hard to tell with having to reload the game every time, when not reloading the game, I will check again later after my hands stop cramping on me.

 

12 minutes ago, captain420 said:

The only 1 change I did was change the Texture Resolution from Ultra to Low and I can clearly see the textures and all the minor details on the buildings which I couldn't before. Photogrammetry, and ground textures look absolutely crystal clear now after that change. Before this my sim was much blurrier, definitely does not look like how it does now after the change. I think that setting changes the scenery outside of the cockpit.

Not sure exactly what it is that made such a big difference in the overall quality on my end then? That one setting pretty much fixed most of my problems, except for the washed out colors.

Can you please show us some screenshots before and after to make sure is not a placebo effect ?

1 minute ago, Alpine Scenery said:

it's hard to test when I am sitting in a recliner and getting cramped hands doing it, but as far as i can tell it might have some effect really close up or to wet textures (maybe), but it's hard to tell with having to reload the game every time

I can clearly see a difference between MED and HIGH/ULTRA on the cockpit seat textures for example, and on the top of the dashboard when the sun position is showing some secular light. I can see this affects the texture details (hence this is lowering the resolution of the non albedo channels)

11 minutes ago, Alpine Scenery said:

My Nvidia Anistropic is set to 16x, it does help but i didn't do a comparison. Comparisons are a lot of trouble.

I restarted the game, I looked at my own buildings that i hand rendered, no difference.
I looked at dry runway textures, no difference.
I looked at procedual ground textures, no difference.
I looked at textures without a normal map, no difference.
I looked at textures with a normal map, inconclusive.
I looked at a wet runway, yah so it appears maybe a differnce, but it isn't going to fix anything.

It appears to only affect the shading on a wet surface to be honest, but I don't care about that.

I did it and yes its  a pain.

MSFS idea of 16x, it did work upto now

With NCP 16x