Sim Update 10 beta is out!

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

15 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

It's something you have to turn off in the Nvidia control panel I think.
It's not something enabled by the sim.

  

It only appears when DLSS is on which is why you would have never seen it before.

Thanks much Ill look now

[Ricardo41 5,954]

3 hours ago, David Mills said:

I've seen a lot of comments here about how DX12 is working smoothly on 3000-series GPUs. Please know that DX12 is also working beautifully on my old 1070 from 2015. Up until yesterday's release of SU10 beta, DX12 was unusable on my system -- a total slideshow. Now I'm getting a steady 30fps at 2K resolution with all settings on High and a couple on Ultra. Also, my main problem prior to SU10 beta was degraded performance on the ground at large, handcrafted airports. This problem has also vanished completely into vastly-improved takeoff and landing performance. The clouds are also spectacular now. The clouds look both more realistic and don't kill performance during turbulent storms like they used to. Also, I love how, even when set to Clear Skies, there's still a hint of upper-level cloud formation, instead of just solid blue. Thus far, I'm extremely impressed and pleased by the SU10 beta.

NOTE: I've read a couple of comments from users who claim their performance has worsened with the SU10 release. Please remember that the sim may have reset some of your graphics settings. It did with me. Check your Render Scale. Mine had always been set to 60 (using 4K). When I first started up SU10, performance was poor. I soon discovered my Render Scale had been reset to 100. Once I restored it to 60, performance was better than ever. So keep this in mind.

Yup, us guys with "old potatoes" are laughing all the way to the bank. 

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

50 minutes ago, David Roch said:

Rich, this label is not part of the Beta. Check your graphic card tools or other background prog 😉

Tried everything Dave label is still there if I put it on TAA its goes away - so looks to me its in beta no biggie it will sort its self out over time I would assume

There is an overlay tick box in image scaling setting in nvidia control panel but that does nothing also - made sure there wasnt anything left over from g-shade program also

Edited July 9, 2022 by Richard Sennett

[MDFlier 2,031]

3 hours ago, xenonsk said:

Did you install xbox insider from store and joined beta?

press the Windows key and type "Xbox". You should see 2 Xbox applications. The "regular" one, and one called "Xbox Insider". Click the Insider one and it will let you join the beta.

[bbsmitz 132]

I wonder if the OS makes a difference as to whether folks are seeing an improvement with DX12 vs DX11.  @Seth2021, @Ianrivaldosmith, are you guys on Windows 10 or 11?

[David Mills 4,773]

6 minutes ago, bbsmitz said:

I wonder if the OS makes a difference as to whether folks are seeing an improvement with DX12 vs DX11.  @Seth2021, @Ianrivaldosmith, are you guys on Windows 10 or 11?

I'm on Windows 10 using an old 1070, and DX12 has made a significant improvement for me with SU10. DX12 was previously unusably slow for me.

[Tuskin38 6,529]

43 minutes ago, Richard Sennett said:

Tried everything Dave label is still there if I put it on TAA its goes away - so looks to me its in beta no biggie it will sort its self out over time I would assume

There is an overlay tick box in image scaling setting in nvidia control panel but that does nothing also - made sure there wasnt anything left over from g-shade program also

It’s the overlay from the graphics card. Make sure it’s turned off. Someone had the same issue on the beta forums 

[Mace 1,928]

17 minutes ago, David Mills said:

I'm on Windows 10 using an old 1070, and DX12 has made a significant improvement for me with SU10. DX12 was previously unusably slow for me.

This is good news, DX12 probably isn't fully optimized yet and it's only in beta AND it's helping a 1070 system.

[David Mills 4,773]

1 minute ago, Mace said:

This is good news, DX12 probably isn't fully optimized yet and it's only in beta AND it's helping a 1070 system.

Yes. Performance on the ground at handcrafted airports is especially improved. Much smoother, both inside and outside the cockpit. Clouds look far better too, also with superior performance. My 1070 has only 8GB of ram. So Asobo appears to have handled DX12 memory management far better than LM did with v5 of P3D.

[March Hare 720]

2 hours ago, Keto Ketchup said:

Back to the topic of DX11 vs DX12, is it Asobo's goal to eventually phase out DX11 for DX12? While I have games that offer a choice between DirectX and Vulcan (or even OpenGL), I can only remember one other game long ago that offered a choice between versions of DX. I don't understand the purpose of providing both if one is inherently better than the other, unless there are hardware reasons (if say, DX12 requires newer hardware to really shine).

DX11 will be replaced, eventually. After all, the Xbox version has been fully DX12 since launch.

[MarcG 2,998]

Second Impressions (VR), this time a proper 1hr flight along the Italian/French Riviera with a few mods installed.

• Performance practically identical to SU9 which is a shame as pre-SU9 was better (lowered a couple of graphics things post flight to eek out a bit more)
• Stutters and "lagging" at times still present
• Aside the above it was a 95% smooth flight with no real dramas
• Atmospheric effects seem to be better (could be a placebo), looking towards the low sun looked very cool
• G1000NXi as default; had to play with the Options of the GARMIN to get it back to how I liked it, it's a great piece of kit and once again Thank You to Working Title for everything, so happy it's now in the base sim properly.
• Gusts are a bit more lively, I didn't do much free flying mainly AP but she moved about quite a bit over some of the low level hills & mountains.
• Take Offs and Landings seem trickier, I'm by no means a good Pilot but I could tell the difference between this and SU9 - I needed a lot more concentration on both aspects in this flight!
• DLSS is not for me in VR, there is no performance gain, the Quality setting looks worse than TAA so I'll be sticking with that.

Overall nothing bad to report (aside the stutters & lagging but that could well be on my end and something I may need to look into), so far no regressions, a few minor issues I hope they fix before full release and disappointing that the obvious VR Toolbar Bugs have still not been fixed since SU7 - but apart from that niggle this could well be a Step Forwards Update with no Step Backwards - which is nice!

[ryanbatc 12,859]

1 hour ago, Ricardo41 said:

Yup, us guys with "old potatoes" are laughing all the way to the bank. 

I know you're running on ultra at 4k as well.

 

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,317]

1 hour ago, bbsmitz said:

I wonder if the OS makes a difference as to whether folks are seeing an improvement with DX12 vs DX11.  @Seth2021, @Ianrivaldosmith, are you guys on Windows 10 or 11?

11

[Alvega 2,124]

Anyone else getting patches of grass on some runways and aprons with DX12? 

[bbsmitz 132]

29 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

11

Thanks. I'm a bit nervous that the DX12 gains are going to be heavily slanted towards windows 11 and I'd rather not upgrade.