My computer can manage 300, even 400 with GA aircrafts in the countryside, but with airliners at bigger busy airports I get significant fps drops, so I decide to settle at 200 with airliners and switch to 300 with GA.

Edited October 22, 20214 yr by Ixoye

Hehe I actually set mine to ultra at 2k in the boonies.  Doesn't work in PG areas though.

On my 2K monitor with render scale 100 there is absolutely NO visual benefit from 200 to 400.  The night lights look just as good at 200.  Yes you can see the objects (except roads) drawn out further, but at the mid levels 200 shows just fine as your low enough.  At altitude you don't need it to go out any further because you'd still see where it stops.   The performance drop is almost 20FPS from the ground up.

300-400 also causes significant camera panning stutters inside and outside.

Try switching back to 200 and see if you really see a difference.

My preference is to leave it at 200 for now and have smooth panning and more overhead, like I said in another thread.  Other peoples mileage might vary with smaller monitors and/or lesser setups.

 

Edited October 22, 20214 yr by Jeff Nielsen

1 hour ago, Jeff Nielsen said:

On my 2K monitor with render scale 100 there is absolutely NO visual benefit from 200 to 400.  The night lights look just as good at 200.  Yes you can see the objects (except roads) drawn out further, but at the mid levels 200 shows just fine as your low enough.  At altitude you don't need it to go out any further because you'd still see where it stops.   The performance drop is almost 20FPS from the ground up.

300-400 also causes significant camera panning stutters inside and outside.

Try switching back to 200 and see if you really see a difference.

My preference is to leave it at 200 for now and have smooth panning and more overhead, like I said in another thread.  Other peoples mileage might vary with smaller monitors and/or lesser setups.

 

Kind of amazing that there seemingly is no difference to the smoothness @ 200/400 regardless of computer specs

8 minutes ago, Flyfaster_MTN002 said:

Kind of amazing that there seemingly is no difference to the smoothness @ 200/400 regardless of computer specs

I think you got that wrong.  Big time stutters from 250-400 when panning.