...I mean fronm the internal settings menu.

The caching setting added to the menu has been a major success I believe, at least for people with high spec machines, but it appears even people with lower spec machines have benefited.

Asobo say they like listening to us, and they did respond with this adjustment for us, so I am thinking maybe there could be a graphics adjustment wish list over on the official forum if it is worth it, as some people are still editing the user config file to get the best out of the sim, and even using the Nvidia Control Panel (NCP).  The issue with this is that you have to quit the sim and restart to see you adjustment.  In game sliders would be great!  

My start to the list would be:

1. The vegitation distance slider (already promised)

2. Eye adaptation on or off, as some people really don't like this feature (I like it).

3. Sharpening.  Not just on or off like in the config file, but 10 percent increments, similar to NCP..

4.  Gamma, and Saturation sliders.  All titles should have this really.

5.  Maybe a transparency super sampling setting like in NCP.

What are your thoughts?

By the way, if anyone really knows what the new raymarching setting does, please tell!  Maybe it is for an upcoming DX12 setting.  I am surprised Asobo released it without any explanatory notes.

 

Edited September 12, 20214 yr by bobcat999

One of the common grumbles from simmers about FSX & P3D was the amount of time they had to spend tweaking. It would seem that some folks miss that part of our hobby.

 

7 minutes ago, ndoug said:

One of the common grumbles from simmers about FSX & P3D was the amount of time they had to spend tweaking. It would seem that some folks miss that part of our hobby.

 

I think that was more about tweaking to try to get the performance they needed, which was a pain admittedly.  But I am on about convenience options, not that. Nobody is forcing you to 'tweak'.  It is only if you want to.  It seems that some folks also miss being critical over nothing. So, I am sorry if asking for extra choice and options for people hurts your feelings in some way. 

Edited September 12, 20214 yr by bobcat999

Your start list 1-5 is you requesting to be able to tweak MSFS. Whose feelings are hurt?

8 minutes ago, ndoug said:

Your start list 1-5 is you requesting to be able to tweak MSFS. Whose feelings are hurt?

Not mine.  Sorry if I am not understanding this conversation at all.  I see you are relatively new.  Do you have anything to add to the wishlist or not? Or are you just trying to shoot it down for some reason?  It is true I may have misunderstood a genuine attempt at humour! 

Edited September 12, 20214 yr by bobcat999

I want one that can read my mind and maximise my settings to my liking without any further input from me. I just want to fly really, not endlessly tweak. For some people I think that is 90% of the attraction - not for me. I did that in FSX and it killed my enjoyment of it in the end. It's already wordnotallowed good in my opinion. I don't want to ruin it by getting into the mindset that it could always be infinitesimally better. 

Edited September 12, 20214 yr by 6297J

All of what you've already listed (although I'm not sure if transparency supersampling can work in modern games), and also:

1. Chromatic aberration toggle or slider.

2. Separate sliders for terrain mesh and photogrammetry.

3. Autogen buildings draw distance.

4. Render scale with TAA (not TAAU), preferably with FSR.

36 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

By the way, if anyone really knows what the new raymarching setting does, please tell!

It's the same Reflections setting with a new name. The screen-space reflections already used a ray-marching technique (according to Sebastian it's what makes them look grainy).

FidelityFX Super Resolution would be a great addition.

2 minutes ago, BiologicalNanobot said:

FidelityFX Super Resolution would be a great addition.

Is that for AMD cards?

1 minute ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

It's the same Reflections setting with a new name. The screen-space reflections already used a ray-marching technique (according to Sebastian it's what makes them look grainy).

Indeed - this is a universal issue with ray-marched reflections. Sample size is usually kept low to reduce performance impact, but low sample size results in really annoying banding artifacts. In order to address this, developers add something called blue noise, which hides banding artifacts in expense of grainy look. Here is blue noise, I am sure it will look familiar:

6 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

Is that for AMD cards?

No, it is open source and can be implemented in any game, for any graphics card, at least theoretically. Currently it only supports RX 500 and GTX 1000 series and above.

Edited September 12, 20214 yr by BiologicalNanobot

Just now, bobcat999 said:

Is that for AMD cards?

Officially it works on all AMD GPUs from Polaris and later, and NVIDIA GPUs from Pascal and later. However, it also works on GPUs as old as Kepler, and several Intel iGPUs (not sure which ones specifically). In some cases it looks better than the simulator's TAAU, and it has a much smaller performance overhead.

For anyone who would like to see it implemented, please vote here: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/add-support-for-amd-fidelityfx-super-resolution-fsr/406595

3 minutes ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

It's the same Reflections setting with a new name. The screen-space reflections already used a ray-marching technique (according to Sebastian it's what makes them look grainy).

Thanks! A sensible and non-cynical response at last! 

All good suggestions. And thanks for the explanation. I hadn't realised the normal reflections setting had gone missing and was replaced by this new terminology.

2 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

Is that for AMD cards?

It works for all GPUs, Nvidia, AMD and Intel. 

FSR and DLSS would be great.
And a Contrast / Saturation slider. I find after SU5 the lighting became whitewashed. 
And trees slider of course, but that's on your list. 

I would just like to be able to adjust the gamma in MSFS, set contrast and black levels.