37 minutes ago, pmb said:

They were mentioned, however I could hardly get an essence  out of the reply beyond "we're continually looking into it". But this may be the language barrier from my side (plus the acoustical quality of the stream).

Could anyone extract more definite information on this point?

Kind regards, Michael

Starting at minute 57, the LOD level changes are causing the morphing and moving the terrain slider to 400 will minimize this effect by moving the morphing further away 

Of course that might tank the FPS, we'll see after SU6 is out

Edited September 29, 20214 yr by peroni

forgive my ignorance.  can someone explain the DX12 transition and why it may be optional.  what is it exactly, pros and cons?   can i use it?

The wish list for MSFS will always be a long one. Far better to sort out the bugs and have a better foundation to work with on future desires. The game is probably in the best playable state it has been since launch. Asobo need to incrementally build on this now at the right pace. 

17 minutes ago, fogboundturtle said:

That happens when no one go to zendesk and report the issue. He mentioned it like a gazillion time. So go report.

I think when some people have a problem they expect the folks at Asobo to be mind readers. 

3 minutes ago, pobee10 said:

forgive my ignorance.  can someone explain the DX12 transition and why it may be optional.  what is it exactly, pros and cons?   can i use it?

Not everyone has graphics cards that can take advantage of it

 

Was there any discussion regarding the bug some of us are seeing with extreme stutters on takeoff and landing?  Zendesk responded to me this morning saying they can't replicate it, but would log it as a bug.

8 minutes ago, MikeyOnTheFlightDeck said:

The wish list for MSFS will always be a long one. Far better to sort out the bugs and have a better foundation to work with on future desires. The game is probably in the best playable state it has been since launch. Asobo need to incrementally build on this now at the right pace. 

Good news, they specifically said that this IS the plan.  SU8 will be devoted solely to fixing outstanding bugs.  

This is not to say they arent doing so in all the fixes, but if you listen to the Q&A Jorg has a good explanation for why they might hold back on an all out bug smash for updates that introduce new features and why an update focused exclusively on older outstanding bugs would remove this restriction.

15 minutes ago, peroni said:

Starting at minute 57, the LOD level changes are causing the morphing and moving the terrain slider to 400 will minimize this effect by moving the morphing further away 

Of course that might tank the FPS, we'll see after SU6 is out

Thanks, so this is effectively what some people (including me) are already doing, just not via the UI. It doesn't tank fps on my system, I just loose a very few fps under 2D. VR is another story, I can't go higher than 200 there, at least not with my system.

Reduces morphing but doesn't completely eliminate it.

Kind regards, Michael

17 minutes ago, pobee10 said:

forgive my ignorance.  can someone explain the DX12 transition and why it may be optional.  what is it exactly, pros and cons?   can i use it?

Basically the sim has been ported to DX12 already for XBox. The same team who did that job will port the PC version to DX12. 

But Jorg said that they had learned from SU5, basically admitting they should have spent more time testing and fixing bugs before launching. In addition to that, people have been requesting the option to stay on certain versions for longer before updating to a new one.

So this time they want the switch from DX11 to DX12 optional, at least until all issues are ironed out in the DX12 version. 

DX12 is a different somewhat more optimized version of rendering the sim / game. It also adds some optional features such as DLSS down the road. We shouldn't expect a magical increase in performance, but my personal belief is that it might actually make the sim more stable and somewhat smoother. It will also improve graphical fidelity in some areas such as reflections. Right now in the DX11 version some reflections are grainy, that can be fixed with DX12. They mentioned that they have looked at DLSS, but for now they don't see much improvement for it, but they will revisit DLSS when the DX12 version is 100% stable and the DX11 version is no longer needed.

Edited September 29, 20214 yr by Republic3D

2 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

Weather system update coming in Sim Update 7. Meteoblue will be injecting METAR data into their weather at airports, it will try and blend METAR and Live weather together.

Finally!  Yes...  Routine weather is so important on aviation.

58 minutes ago, MattNischan said:

I mentioned it in the stream, but the G3X will also get the WT treatment. So, we'll be tackling the G1000, G3000/5000, GNS430, GNS530, and G3X, on the Garmin front.

-Matt

Heck yeah!!  Thanks for your hard work!

15 minutes ago, Republic3D said:

We shouldn't expect a magical increase in performance, but my personal belief is that it might actually make the sim more stable and somewhat smoother. 

I would be careful here. From my experience with Prepar3d, DX12 indeed offers more possibilities and, maybe, performance optimizations. But on the other hand it is potentially more prone to GPU memory management issues which Prepar3d is suffering since the transition to DX12, although they have been minimizing them to an extent now.

Kind regards, Michael

Edited September 29, 20214 yr by pmb

25 minutes ago, pmb said:

Thanks, so this is effectively what some people (including me) are already doing, just not via the UI.

How do you do it? Does it cause stuttering? 

19 minutes ago, pmb said:

I would be careful here. From my experience with Prepar3d, DX12 indeed offers more possibilities and, maybe, performance optimizations. But on the other hand it is potentially more prone to GPU memory management issues which Prepar3d is suffering since the transition to DX12, although they have been minimizing them to an extent now.

Kind regards, Michael

That's interesting, I was trying to be a bit careful with the statement. But like Asobo said, they will polish the DX12 version until it's flawless, and only then will they remove DX11. So that's good.

1 hour ago, GSalden said:

Nothing on Multi monitor ?

They talk about multi monitor around the 48 minute mark in the video.  It’s a WIP they said,