Pixelated Clouds Again

[Zimmerbz 168]

Is anyone else experiencing pixelated / grainy clouds again?  If so, were you able to find a fix for them?

[Bdub22 1,611]

I've always had them since, I want to say, around SU5. Before then, they looked gorgeous, but I think something with the XBOX update destroyed them. Also, when I'm flying out of them, they have this terrible tone/color banding that happens. Feels like you're flying through a digital cloud. I don't have many complaints about MSFS, but thats definitely one of the few. 

[Zimmerbz 168]

19 minutes ago, Bdub22 said:

I've always had them since, I want to say, around SU5. Before then, they looked gorgeous, but I think something with the XBOX update destroyed them. Also, when I'm flying out of them, they have this terrible tone/color banding that happens. Feels like you're flying through a digital cloud. I don't have many complaints about MSFS, but thats definitely one of the few. 

Yes.  I agree completely 

[Silicus 880]

Yap, I have them on 'High', 'Ultra' makes it a tiny bit better, but comes with a huge fps cost, at least on 4K....

Hope they address this soon.... It is one of my pet peeves with the sim, they did many things right, but not the clouds. 

[Flyfaster_MTN002 412]

Yes and have been there forever aside from 1 update where they disappeared, but returned with the performance update.

[Dominique_K 10,143]

I see very little pixelization, at the edge only, under some lighting conditions and when rather close. No banding.

 I wonder whether this is not related to drivers.

 

[CarlosF 1,239]

I concur with what Dominique says, only when close and going through them.

[stefanwa 19]

I already posted this screenshot in another thread, but this one is more on topic. Maybe someone has similar experiences. A lot of the time clouds look good, but sometimes they look horrible, like in the screenshot (PC, Radeon 5700, latest AMD 21.12.1).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JJCLubZn5TdPppFspBmc3mHgtah6EzRV/view?usp=sharing

[Zimmerbz 168]

24 minutes ago, stefanwa said:

I already posted this screenshot in another thread, but this one is more on topic. Maybe someone has similar experiences. A lot of the time clouds look good, but sometimes they look horrible, like in the screenshot (PC, Radeon 5700, latest AMD 21.12.1).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JJCLubZn5TdPppFspBmc3mHgtah6EzRV/view?usp=sharing

Yep... This is exactly what I am referring to.  Sometimes it looks good, and sometimes like your pic or worse.  I don't know why this happens but hopefully there is a fix or solution to it soon.  

[cianpars 1,165]

Making sure that sharpen is turned off in your graphics driver and in the user.cfg can help with this.

[Turpentine 375]

Same here, but they have disappeared since I downloaded the SU7 hot fix beta from Steam and installed the newest Nvidia drivers (I know, I know, I should not have done both at the same time...).

[Zimmerbz 168]

40 minutes ago, cianpars said:

Making sure that sharpen is turned off in your graphics driver and in the user.cfg can help with this.

How do i do this in the user config?  I have never messed with that before.  I also don't see Image Sharpening in my Nvidia settings.. I see Image scaling, but not sharpening.  Where do I find that?

Edited December 16, 2021 by Zimmerbz