Please share your graphics settings! There are so many options! I'm struggling to find the best balance between performance and quality. Thanks in advance!

With that system? How about all sliders to the right? 😆

1 hour ago, sd_flyer said:

Please share your graphics settings! There are so many options! I'm struggling to find the best balance between performance and quality. Thanks in advance!

I have the same system and will fire through my settings after work... safe to say you will get good smooth performance...dont worry about the FPS counter...just look at the sim....

49 minutes ago, Rimshot said:

With that system? How about all sliders to the right? 😆

That what I thought but it's not appear to be a case LOL

3 minutes ago, vonduck said:

I have the same system and will fire through my settings after work... safe to say you will get good smooth performance...dont worry about the FPS counter...just look at the sim....

I'm not worry about fps but I do get heavy stutter close to the ground in urban areas like Fly Tampa Las Vegas strip. It's very odd it happens in some places and doesn't happens in other.

4 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

That what I thought but it's not appear to be a case LOL

So has it not meet your expectations?

Just now, FBW737 said:

So has it not meet your expectations?

Kind of 50/50. I'm in process of conjuring my config as you can see LOL

48 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

That what I thought but it's not appear to be a case LOL

You can have everything maxed out aside from the TLOD slider. That still absolutely hammers the CPU and will cause stutters even on a 130900K. I have a 13600K/4080/3440x1440 with everything maxed out and TLOD set to 150 and I get 80-100 FPS on the ground at Verticalsim's KBOI with the Fenix and FSLTL. 

I'd say max everything and then mess with TLOD to see what works for you.

Lol, go full Ultra. The only thing that might affect performance and cause some stutters is Terrain LOD. Just do everything Ultra and keep TLOD at like 150-200? Also cap your frames? Like 60 max.

Edited December 21, 20223 yr by reignman40

2 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

I'm not worry about fps but I do get heavy stutter close to the ground in urban areas like Fly Tampa Las Vegas strip. It's very odd it happens in some places and doesn't happens in other.

Even if you have a 4090 in sli, you´ll have those stutters, I am sure is a fail of something from MS-Asobo servers side, while loading textures or who knows. You can watch when near ground how the Sim stutter badly while is loading the photogrammetry etc. despite my 600MB fibre. Go to London and enjoy the brutal stutter fest flying close to ground.

3 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

Please share your graphics settings! There are so many options! I'm struggling to find the best balance between performance and quality. Thanks in advance!

You're kidding, right?  9900K@5gHz, 3080Ti, all ultra, liquid smooth performance in the PMDG 738 into any airport anywhere any time of day.  You're struggling?  Something's gravely wrong then w/ that hardware or how you're setup.

I think we briefly talked in the other thread but I'd go ULTRA for everything except set terrain LOD at 300 if outside of big cities or 200 in them.  (object lod is fine at 200).

Terrain LOD is the biggest CPU killer of a setting so if you load FSLTL live traffic and have tons of AI, with payware airports and Fenix A320 etc....  you might find you set the slider to 150 or something.  As you've found out even with a powerful PC you probably cannot max everything if using addons.  You might be able to but you won't get 30 fps at 4k in the heaviest of scenarios.

I also dislike Motion Blur and Bloom so I disable those.

Also with the 4090 don't forget to enable HAGS, set a max frame rate via Nvidia Control Panel (my monitor supports 144hz so I'm setting 143 because I read something on the internet about 1 less than the max refresh rate).  Also enable Gsync if that's possible. I was having some flickering when I ran full screen and windowed so for now I've set full screen only.

I use TAA anti aliasing for sharper glass cockpits but I just found out now in VR if I run DLSS it's a lot less shimmery and the fps are quite a bit higher (45 instead of 33-35!).  In 2D I'd recommend TAA only.

Here's my NCP settings for the sim itself (Low Latency to ultra and Prefer Max Performance seem important):

NCP_2D_settings by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

 

Goodness ! Its always the same. 

When I have almost convinced myself to give away my old jalopy to a good soul  (my wife) and to buy a superduper computer, always comes a fellow simmer complaining that his new (superduper) box doesn’t run the sim as expected, almost worse than mine, ruining my newly built confidence in an acquisition !  😆

All settings are set for ultra, or highest available setting in that category.  Objects LOD = 200/Terrain =300. DLSS- Quaility.  Cars and boats are at 60. Performance over cities like New York are well into the 110 range, other areas less intensive like my home in Indiana are still a decent 140 to 160.

Edited December 21, 20223 yr by FrankR409

1 hour ago, Noel said:

You're kidding, right?  9900K@5gHz, 3080Ti, all ultra, liquid smooth performance in the PMDG 738 into any airport anywhere any time of day.  You're struggling?  Something's gravely wrong then w/ that hardware or how you're setup.

There are different resolutions vs settings configuration. Each new PC I spent some time figuring out which setup work the best. I'm running native 3840x2160. What about you?