Telling it like it is..

[Bobsk8 12,735]

 

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

He makes great videos

[Virtual-Chris 682]

He raises some good points. Their own release notes for this patch are pretty damming of their QA process (non-existent?). I still wonder why they bother with a beta period. They clearly ignored it. 

[Maxis 1,865]

I only wished he had more exposure and this had more eyeballs in front of it on the level of full fledged press. Surprise surprise just like myself. He works in IT

[mobeans10 197]

I posted his recommendations for using studio drivers on the driver/video card forum earlier. Hopefully might help some people.

Edited August 5, 2021 by mobeans10

[Mace 1,927]

My thought on the usercfg.opt tweaks are, if a hotfix drops Friday or Monday, we may not have to do those things he mentions around 2:30 of the vid.  (?)

In other words, the Raytracing 1 thing, may not be needed come Friday/Monday?  I guess I'll just have to see what happens with that file.

[Flypops 50]

Well guys, I just followed Overkill's video and made the suggested changes, including the driver change to Studio and it made a world of difference. I just had the smoothest and best looking flight that I've had since SU5. I'm not sure if it was pre SU5 graphics quality but it was not far off, and the smoothness of the entire flight was certainly the best I've experienced.

I've been very vocal about my displeasure with the train wreck that was SU5 and in fact ended up getting temporarily silenced on another (I won't mention but I'm sure you can all guess) forum. I've also been (begrudgingly) making various changes to the cfg.opt file with mixed results. However the past couple of days things only became worse and I really can't put my finger on any one thing but between the exceedingly annoying graphics degradation and the occasional CTD and I was also losing FPS I was really not too excited to fly. The flight I just finished is one that I've been repeating in an attempt to regain some of the glory I'd experienced before. KPDX --> KSEA. I takes me by several mountain tops and over very well defined terrain and at 10,000' I was very happy with what I was seeing, all the way into Seattle and the live sunset Seattle skyline was magnificent.

I tried several graphics settings while enroute but settled on High End as I saw no noticeable difference between that and Ultra and seemed to take a slight FPS hit on Ultra. I also tried PG on and off while on approach and the terrain and buildings on Seattle, while not perfect, looked quite good with PG on.

I feel that Asobo will eventually get these issues ironed out although I scratch my head in wonderment as to how they can break so much when they are supposedly making progress but that's a discussion that's been beaten to death. However I don't want to wait while they try and figure it all out. If another Hotfix (#2) drops tomorrow it will take less than 2 minutes to put the cfg.opt back to what it was last week. The same with re-installing a new driver if that needs to be done but honestly, as it is right now and at least for this one flight I'm very much happy with it and I can continue to fly while they try and figure out why the patient's shoes are untied. (Loved that comment he made.)

[Nyxx 6,993]

19 min and  2 things.

1) Set setting and then set to "ready only"

It doesn't appear to do any good to set this file to read only , if you are into file editing. The reason for this is that 
if you look at that advanced settings under file permissions, you will see that win10 allows system changes to override
permissions. It seems that MS2020 has the ability to make changes to this file at a system level.

2) Studios drivers! 

Right!

Edited August 5, 2021 by Nyxx

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,317]

6 hours ago, Virtual-Chris said:

They clearly ignored it. 

🤐😉

[March Hare 720]

Come out and say "you don't know what's causing CTDs"? Hmm. I understand his frustration, but I would guess they do know. The fact they have specifically said CTD should be fixed in update 6 implies they know exactly what the cause is, and they know it's something integral to the work they're doing for that specific update. If they didn't know, they'd be in no position to issue that statement.

[Swe_Richard 1,172]

Yeah I'm definitely with him on the CTD issue. It is insanity that this is not priority number 1, 2 and 3. The sim is unusable for me in this state and I doubt it will ever be fixed.

[omarsmak30 4,068]

Actually for the CTDs thing, I am pretty sure, they are really have no idea what are the causes of these CTDs which is fine and he raised a good point, then just say you don't know what is the cause and you will continue to investigate, not just promise. 

[March Hare 720]

Thing is, you can't say they are choosing graphics over stability. Different team members work on these different things. The graphical bugs are a priority for the devs working on the graphics, and the particular areas of the graphics they are tasked with. The core system engine and its stability is a priority for the ones working on the core engine -- but it's going to take more work to resolve than the graphics coders need to do on their side.

They have already issued a hot fix for CTDs -- at least some of them -- proving that they are doing something about it. That fix has worked for me so far *touch wood*

Edited August 5, 2021 by March Hare

[omarsmak30 4,068]

@Bobsk8 I want to thank you for this video. That Nvidia fix has almost eliminated my issues with SU5! My V-Sync wasn't working, my windowed mode was buggy with camera jumping around,  I had some weird shimmering surrounding any light source plus my annoying CTDs. All these issues (not sure about the CTD, so far I have got no CTD since I switched Nvidia driver but I will need to test further) have been resolved by completely reinstall the Studio driver. Thanks again!

[Bobsk8 12,735]

2 hours ago, Nyxx said:

19 min and  2 things.

1) Set setting and then set to "ready only"

It doesn't appear to do any good to set this file to read only , if you are into file editing. The reason for this is that 
if you look at that advanced settings under file permissions, you will see that win10 allows system changes to override
permissions. It seems that MS2020 has the ability to make changes to this file at a system level.

2) Studios drivers! 

Right!

It has always been that way, read only most of the time doesn't work.