Scenery Flickering Seems Entirely Gone in New Beta!

[David Mills 4,752]

One of the best features I've discovered thus far in the just-released public beta is that flickering of the ground scenery, especially around buildings, now appears to be almost entirely gone. I made no adjustments to my settings, so I'm ascribing the vast improvement to the quality of the update. I didn't realize what a difference this would make to immersion. But it does. Good job, Asobo. Elsewhere I've posted about the cloud-altitude problem. But I felt the positive news -- and there's much of it -- deserves a thread of its own.

[MrFuzzy 2,118]

7 hours ago, David Mills said:

One of the best features I've discovered thus far in the just-released public beta is that flickering of the ground scenery, especially around buildings, now appears to be almost entirely gone. I made no adjustments to my settings, so I'm ascribing the vast improvement to the quality of the update. I didn't realize what a difference this would make to immersion. But it does. Good job, Asobo. Elsewhere I've posted about the cloud-altitude problem. But I felt the positive news -- and there's much of it -- deserves a thread of its own.

You mean the shimmering? That was most probably a manifestation of the reduced color depth which is crucial for a good antialiasing.

[AerOdyssey 240]

7 hours ago, David Mills said:

I've discovered thus far in the just-released public beta is that flickering of the ground scenery,

I noticed same thing i thought it was my nvidia driver update 👍

[bobcat999 8,465]

3 hours ago, MrFuzzy said:

You mean the shimmering? That was most probably a manifestation of the reduced color depth which is crucial for a good antialiasing.

Yes, my thoughts exactly, as the effect seemed to appear around the same time as the lower colour depth / colour banding in the clouds.  All good anyway!

For the beta testers (which isn't me, yet), a good way to test the colour banding issue is to look at the reflection of the sun in calm water.  
Last time I looked it was really bad, like the sun had a rainbow halo around it in reflection.  hopefully it is gone or very much reduced now. 

[MrFuzzy 2,118]

51 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

Yes, my thoughts exactly, as the effect seemed to appear around the same time as the lower colour depth / colour banding in the clouds.  All good anyway!

For the beta testers (which isn't me, yet), a good way to test the colour banding issue is to look at the reflection of the sun in calm water.  
Last time I looked it was really bad, like the sun had a rainbow halo around it in reflection.  hopefully it is gone or very much reduced now. 

Yes absolutely. The halo around the sun is not there anymore and the sky color degrades from blue to white/yellowish/orange (depending on the time of the day) gradually without bands.

You can see that the color banding is gone from the sun and its reflection even on the world map.

I am talking about SDR of course, in HDR the issue was not there anyway.

If you have space on your SSD and want to join the beta testing you can buy a Game Pass for 1 $ and join the testing from the XBox insider app.

Edited December 7, 2021 by MrFuzzy

[Dominique_K 10,137]

2 minutes ago, MrFuzzy said:

you have space on your SSD and want to join the beta testing you can buy a Game Pass for 1 $ and join the testing from the XBox insider app.

A Steam user buying a One Buck GP to test the beta, I call that playing beyond the call of duty (yes there might be a pun here) 😄

[cianpars 1,165]

how long until the public beta becomes an official hotfix?

[MrFuzzy 2,118]

2 minutes ago, cianpars said:

how long until the public beta becomes an official hotfix?

Nobody knows, it depends on the feedback of the beta testers.

It seems there are still issues with TrackIR so I don't think it will be released very soon.

[MrFuzzy 2,118]

3 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

A Steam user buying a One Buck GP to test the beta, I call that playing beyond the call of duty (yes there might be a pun here) 😄

You know, I kind of regretted buying the sim on Steam... doing it the other way not only could I enter the beta testing more easily, but I would have given all the money to MS which developed the game.

I am trying to sell my Steam account now, but it's not easy...

[Moria15 950]

6 minutes ago, MrFuzzy said:

You know, I kind of regretted buying the sim on Steam... doing it the other way not only could I enter the beta testing more easily, but I would have given all the money to MS which developed the game.

I am trying to sell my Steam account now, but it's not easy...

Selling a Steam Account is also completely against the Terms you signed up for and will lead to the sold account being locked as soon as someone tries to make a purchase on it.

[virtuali 4,421]

6 minutes ago, MrFuzzy said:

I am trying to sell my Steam account now, but it's not easy...

Be careful because, if you ever bought anything on the MS Markeplace using the Steam version of the sim, you'll have to buy it again in case you switch to the MS Version of the sim.

[Moria15 950]

17 minutes ago, MrFuzzy said:

 

It seems there are still issues with TrackIR so I don't think it will be released very soon.

No issues here.. TrackIR for me is back to where it was pre SU7.. so it seems are the majority of people on main forums.. only seen one dissenting voice, and they seem to be having the same problem both with and without TrackIR which implies, it's not a TrackIR issue.

Edited December 7, 2021 by Moria15

[Moria15 950]

7 minutes ago, virtuali said:

Be careful because, if you ever bought anything on the MS Markeplace using the Steam version of the sim, you'll have to buy it again in case you switch to the MS Version of the sim.

Andddddd that why I never buy from Marketplace so my two installs can use the same addons, all from one place using addon linker 🙂  I have one installation on Steam, one is straight M/S so I can also participate in testing when they don't allow steam accounts.   Currently my MS install is being funded by a $1 gamepass, so it's only taking up space.. never cash 🙂

Edited December 7, 2021 by Moria15

[Greazer 1,320]

55 minutes ago, cianpars said:

how long until the public beta becomes an official hotfix?

Feedback has been good on forums. Ship it to the www.

First GOTY now Santa edition 🎅

[captain420 3,099]

Does this mean we can back down the resolution scale? I currently have it set to 130. Hopefully I can bring it back to 100 now if the shimmering/flickering issues have been resolved.