1 minute ago, Flyfaster_MTN002 said:

Is the consensus to HDR on or off? Just turned it on for first time and some amazing effects, but looking awfully dark at times also? Did not seem to impact FPS at all?

It depends how HDR is implemented on your panel.

bs

18 minutes ago, bean_sprout said:

It depends how HDR is implemented on your panel.

bs

Its a 49" Monoprice (same as the Samsung panel)

21 minutes ago, Flyfaster_MTN002 said:

Its a 49" Monoprice (same as the Samsung panel)

If my Samsung looked good I'd use HDR but it is nasty. 🤢

bs

1 hour ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

You have always had the ability to increase LOD beyond the 200 the sliders give

This is not my point. That's clear enough. Nothing new.

If I want to use a higher LOD, I just want to do it using the sliders, not by modifying the UserOpt.cfg file, which I think is not a proper way to do it. If MS/Asobo sustain the sim has now better performance capabilities, they should have included the possibility to use higher settings for those sliders, which seems not to be the case with SU5.

8 minutes ago, edpatino said:

This is not my point. That's clear enough. Nothing new.

If I want to use a higher LOD, I just want to do it using the sliders, not by modifying the UserOpt.cfg file, which I think is not a proper way to do it. If MS/Asobo sustain the sim has now better performance capabilities, they should have included the possibility to use higher settings for those sliders, which seems not to be the case with SU5.

They said they are considering allowing the sliders to go further in the next World Update.

There seems no technical reason to not do it. 

The original reason to stop at 200 seems to be that 200 is "good enough" for most people and the risk of allowing bigger LOD numbers is that idiots with mediocre machines will wind it up to the new max and then swamp the forums with claims the game is rubbish because they only get 10 FPS .

20 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

They said they are considering allowing the sliders to go further in the next World Update.

There seems no technical reason to not do it. 

LOD 900 here 😎

It's stunning how real this sim looks now. It makes me wonder sometimes that the virtual world is looking better than reality. Pretty soon we won't even know what's real and what's not. Crazy!

I think LOD 900 is an absolute waste of system resources. I have done testing at 300, 400, and 500... and don't really notice much difference at any once you go above 300. Especially after HF2 now.

1 hour ago, Greazer said:

LOD 900 here 😎

This is stupid, never will be needed, i think max. 400 at LOD and you are more than good to go..

cheers 😉

Seems like the majority of the community now are really happy about this hotfix, unlike the last hotfix where people were still bashing Asobo pretty hard, lol.

Good to see that most of us are happy about this hotfix.  Now all we need is the slider to control the culling and pop-ins which is coming in World Update 6. With the slider to control the culling and pop-ins, then we will have everything we actually wanted from SU5.

Edited August 7, 20214 yr by abrams_tank

Just launched MSFS after the update and indeed it looks much better...too bad I have a word not allowed 1920x1080p monitor with no HDR

Is it a good time to upgrade my pc or wait???

 

 

 

30 minutes ago, abrams_tank said:

Seems like the majority of the community now are really happy about this hotfix, unlike the last hotfix where people were still bashing Asobo pretty hard, lol.

It turned out Asobo dumbing down the graphics for XBox is a fake news after all 😄

8 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said:

It turned out Asobo dumbing down the graphics for XBox is a fake news after all 😄

I'm not sure why people believe in that silly conspiracy theory 😄.  Microsoft/Asobo know that X-Box players are very casual simmers.  After one month, most X-Box players will get bored of MSFS and move on to the next game.  Since Microsoft/Asobo intends to make money from the MSFS marketplace sales, steady income from the long run for the MSFS marketplace will obviously be coming from PC users of MSFS, who are the more "hardcore" simmers.  Over the years, it will be PC users of MSFS that will keep MSFS alive and keep the money flowing in the MSFS marketplace.

X-Box is like a short term revenue surge for Microsoft (albeit, a very nice short term revenue surge if they sold a lot of copies on X-Box).  Much of the longer term revenue will come from the MSFS marketplace.

Assuming the next X-Box won't be released for another 5 to 7 years, it's kind of silly to keep MSFS locked down to X-Box Series X graphics.  5 years from now in 2026, the PC graphics cards and CPUs will be running laps around X-Box Series X - it doesn't make sense to keep MSFS locked to X-Box Series X graphics from 2021, when we are in 2026.

Edited August 7, 20214 yr by abrams_tank

4 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

You have always had the ability to increase LOD beyond the 200 the sliders give.  This is not an SU5 thing.

The only issue with it is the game will commonly reset it back to 200 the next time you start unless you make the config file read only.

Most people think the reason they limit it to just 200 is that a lot of people (including reviewers) are obsessed with "Ultra" settings regardless of what that Ultra setting  actually is. People just want the street cred of saying I can run game xxx at max settings and get yyy FPS. Making the LOD go to say 500 on so will kill performance on mediocre systems.  This is compounded by the fact that a lot of people with a 3 year old 8GB/i7/1080ti rig mistakenly think it is still "high end" and should handle max settings in game at 4K, whereas by modern standards that sort of 3 year old rig is now definitely mid-range.

Nothing bad will happen to your game or PC if you try it at say 300. if it causes too much of a performance hit just reset it to 200.

This is not necessary. You have only to set the Graphics Preset to Custom in the UserCfg. This will keep your manual LOD settings untouched as long as you do not move the LOD sliders itself.

{Graphics
    Version 1.1.0
    Preset Custom
    {Texture
        MaxAnisotropy 16
        Quality 0
    }
    {SuperSampling
        SuperSampling 3
    }
    {Terrain
        LoDFactor 5.000000
    }
    {ObjectsLoD
        LoDFactor 5.000000
    }

...

I run HDR on my LG OLED. 

And it looks great!