I've noticed after one of the updates, there is a setting called AMD FIDELITYFX Sharpening.  What does this do and what is a reasonable setting?  It was set at 200 but I don't notice anything from before so I am curious as to what this does.  I am also running DX12 so maybe that has something to do with it. 

Also, based on my system specs in my sig, what would be a good setting for anisotropic filtering and texture supersampling?  I never understood what those should be set to in the sim and the nvidia inspector.  As always, thanks for your help! 

36 minutes ago, Zimmerbz said:

I've noticed after one of the updates, there is a setting called AMD FIDELITYFX Sharpening.  What does this do and what is a reasonable setting?  It was set at 200 but I don't notice anything from before so I am curious as to what this does.  I am also running DX12 so maybe that has something to do with it. 

Also, based on my system specs in my sig, what would be a good setting for anisotropic filtering and texture supersampling?  I never understood what those should be set to in the sim and the nvidia inspector.  As always, thanks for your help! 

I also do not notice any sharpening with fidelityfx. Could be you would with dlss and not so much with taa.

I guess that depends on what you fly. We have basically the same specs. I fly mostly the baron g58 and run anisotropic filtering at 16x and supersampling at 8x8. Tlod 400 at 4k and can keep 30 fps everywhere.

Edited November 4, 20223 yr by Maladoror

Resolution: 2560x1440
(Having a 4k display looks better, but the actual added resolution in MSFS doesn't help much, the upscaled version looks almost the same)

Anti-Aliasing: TAA
Anistropic: 16x (max setting)
Texture SS: 6x6 or 8x8
DirectX: DX 11

Terrain LOD: 200-400 (mine is at 300)

(Depends where you are flying, some people even bring TLOD down to 100-150, but that is kind of low)

Everything else pretty much Ultra.
Render Scaling 100
AMD Fidelity FX Sharpening 10
V-Sync (this is more complicated,but for now) = If you have 60hz, use full, if higher hZ monitor - use half.

With a 3080 TI, you can pretty much crank everything up to Ultra, but it totally depends where you are flying. The main setting to adjust is Terrain Lod, just lower it when you go to bigger busier airports. Keep things at Ultra when flying in smaller locations or more rural areas. I have water waves at high instead of ultra, but ultra is fine. 

I turn shadows down and a couple other things, everything else is Ultra.

The official statement is, AMD FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS) provides a mixed ability to sharpen and optionally scale an image. The algorithm adjusts the amount of sharpening per pixel to target an even level of sharpness across the image.

I only use it at 10, anything else on my display looks a bit too noisy.
 

Edited November 4, 20223 yr by Alpine Scenery

1 minute ago, Maladoror said:

I also do not notice any sharpening with fidelityfx. Could be you would with dlss and not so much with that.

I guess that depends on what you fly. We have basically the same specs. I fly mostly the baron g58 and run anisotropic filtering at 16x and supersampling at 8x8. Tlod 400 at 4k and can keep 30 fps everywhere.

It will make the terrain exhibit too much noise on my setup, some settings in the menu cancel it out, that's probably why you aren't noticing it.
I do not recall what all settings cancel it out, but for me it's VERY overdone past 10.

26 minutes ago, Alpine Scenery said:

Terrain LOD: 200-400 (mine is at 300)

Do you really get good FPS on big hubs with TLOD = 300? For my 13600K, this is too much, have it on 200...

1 hour ago, AnkH said:

Do you really get good FPS on big hubs with TLOD = 300? For my 13600K, this is too much, have it on 200...

Not that great, nah, I lower it to like 200 as well when flying into large hubs, but it just depends.
I think the real killer is having PG right around the airport + FSLTL enabled.
 

Edited November 4, 20223 yr by Alpine Scenery

Thanks!

I think I read that increasing the sharpening helped some users getting blurry glass cockpits using DLSS.

Mine is set to 100 as default and I've not noticed much, if any difference at 0 or 200.