17 minutes ago, Nemo said:

Looks pretty nice, what did you change, David?

 Monitor preset>Nvidia CP, Gamma, contrast.

But come HF Friday or monday it will not be needed.

7 minutes ago, Alpine Scenery said:

That will reduce your visuals though, 8x or 16x is best depending on your PC. That is strange you get shimmering with it on, sounds like it is combining with some other setting to not work properly. I am not sure, just guessing.

Texture Filtering is the bad guy, the one you almost always want to turn off.

I see Texture resolution  (high)  Texture supersmapling    2X2    and Texture Synthesis   Medium. 

 

No Texture filtering in MSFS

8 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

I see Texture resolution  (high)  Texture supersmapling    2X2    and Texture Synthesis   Medium. 

 

No Texture filtering in MSFS

Right, Texture Filtering is only in NVIDIA settings. The settings I posted for you earlier were NVIDIA CP related, not in MSFS itself. My bad.

 

2 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

What's with the top image, had you dropped your phone while it took the shot?

No, Bob, that is an actual screenshot from the game. The 2nd pic was with my phone. After doing that I could understand why some of you guys were complaining about the washed out look and blurriness but I wasn't seeing it. The 2nd pic is what I was seeing except without the camera moving and the weird checkerboard looking artifacts. 

23 minutes ago, Alpine Scenery said:

That will reduce your visuals though, 8x or 16x is best depending on your PC. That is strange you get shimmering with it on, sounds like it is combining with some other setting to not work properly. I am not sure, just guessing.

Texture Filtering is the bad guy, the one you almost always want to turn off.

In the Nvidia control panel I see four texture filtering entries - anisotropic optimisation, Negative LOD bias, quality and trilinear optimisation.  Which of these four do you recommend to turn off?

11 minutes ago, Alpine Scenery said:

Right, Texture Filtering is only in NVIDIA settings. The settings I posted for you earlier were NVIDIA CP related, not in MSFS itself. My bad.

 

Oh, OK... I don't use the Nvidia control panel at all. 

18 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

In the Nvidia control panel I see four texture filtering entries - anisotropic optimisation, Negative LOD bias, quality and trilinear optimisation.  Which of these four do you recommend to turn off?

Anisotropic Optimization is the bad guy, for the others...

You can try Texture Filtering at Quality or High Quality.
Trilinear On or Off.

I think Texture filtering might override Trilinear even though it's a separate setting, I forget.

I don't think the Negative LOD Bias has any effect, I believe it is ignored, maybe not in VR though...
Turn anti-aliasing off in Nvidia, but on in MSFS to TAA or similar.

Threaded Optimziation (Auto  - Global)
Triple Buffering: off

Set max frame rate: off (set frame rate in MSFS only)
Low Latency: off

Setup V-Synch in MSFS and disable in Nvidia
(but it varies depending on monitor type and what not)

Edited August 4, 20214 yr by Alpine Scenery

1 minute ago, Bobsk8 said:

Oh, OK... I don't use the Nvidia control panel at all. 

You should check your Nvidia CP settings, as that can really mess with MSFS quite a bit.

10 minutes ago, Alpine Scenery said:

You should check your Nvidia CP settings, as that can really mess with MSFS quite a bit.

OK. will do, just found it now.  

Edited August 4, 20214 yr by Bobsk8

45 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

Anisotropic filtering. I don't even know what it does, but the shimmering is gone. 

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Ansio is for viewing things at an oblique angle.  On a taxiway things at the far end will look sharp if set to 16x.

bs

48 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

Anisotropic filtering. I don't even know what it does, but the shimmering is gone. 

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It makes textures when viewed at an angle less blurry

Edited August 4, 20214 yr by Tuskin38

For those who missed it:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/regarding-your-feedback-upcoming-hotfix/436063?fbclid=IwAR1VFUxix3IZfmFVn9kJ0C3I7GUeDteyrtoj957It7cU3sz6o-X3iSvKWyA

I could live with all the issues and then some if they get Dev mode working like it was in SU-4.
Though I'm glad they are fixing these other things though.

Edited August 4, 20214 yr by Alpine Scenery

3 hours ago, DylanM said:

Interesting info - thanks. Perhaps this is a bug rather than intentional (hoping anyways). Someone on the team must be knocking back one too many glasses of Bordeaux when coding…

And turns out it was indeed a bug - at least this is what they are saying right now:

"Volumetric Lighting is Missing – This was a shader bug and will be addressed in the upcoming hotfix."
"Washed out Graphics and Cloud Appearance – Attempted improvements to the cloud appearance introduced an overexposure of the world. This will be addressed in the upcoming hotfix. We are planning on a brightness slider for an upcoming Sim Update to allow visual customization of your sim."

It looks like they have changed the tonemapper (and/or subsequent post-processing stages) to make clouds not look like volcanic ash, just like I've guessed. However somehow they haven't noticed the effect of those changes on rest of the simulator.

I really don't believe in the "they are ruining visuals for Xbox" conspiracy theory, Series X has a CPU equivalent to Ryzen 7 3700X and a GPU equivalent to RTX 2080, I wouldn't be surprised if majority of the simmers have lower hardware than that. It sounds more like the usual sloppy coding from Asobo.

Edited August 4, 20214 yr by BiologicalNanobot

10 minutes ago, bean_sprout said:

Ansio is for viewing things at an oblique angle.  On a taxiway things at the far end will look sharp if set to 16x.

bs

Seems if I turn it off or on 2X, the lowest setting, the shimmering is gone in my scenery. 

 

PS, flying along and adjusting it, and now I have it on 8x and don't see the shimmering either. Need a voodoo doll to adjust the settings in this sim. 

Edited August 4, 20214 yr by Bobsk8