I've noticed glass is blurry in XP12 - seems to be worse the further you zoom out.  Unless I zoom real close the text is quite fuzzy.  I'm on a 4080 so a new powerful card won't really change anything for sharpness.  If I were you I'd go for the best card you can afford.

I have alternative proposal for the user richjb2.
"Don't spend anything now, leave your 2060 card 6gb on board... and wait."
Wait patiently for XP12 to get better in the next few months, because now this simulator it's buggy, not performance-optimized, Vram-hungry, and AA that sucks.
These bugs affect naive users by unknowingly prompting them to spend huge sums on hardware and graphic cards.
It doesn't have to be the user who solves the problem by spending money buying rich man hardware.
It is Xp12 that has to fix the problem by optimizing its engine.

If, on the other hand, you really want to buy a new video card, make sure you don't exaggerate with the money because any video card you buy today doesn't completely solve the problems mentioned, especially the poor optimization and the painful AA.

 

On 1/24/2023 at 2:11 PM, efis007 said:

I hope you made the right choice. 🤝

The dubious issue is about blurring.
The 3060TI is 30% faster than the 3060.
But your post doesn't mention speed, you don't have low frame rate problems, you have blurry textures problems caused (most likely) by the low Vram of your card "saturated".

Your previous card is 6gb Vram.
The new 3060TI is 8GB.
Only 2gb of leeway between old and new.
Will those extra 2gb be enough to completely fix the blurs?
I don't know.... I hope so for you. 🤔

If I had been in your place I would have chosen a card with double Vram compared to the old card, at least I have the guarantee that I'm not playing on razor's edge.
From 6gb to 12gb the margin of Vram saturation is large.
From 6gb to 8gb the margin of Vram saturation is narrow. 🤞

You have an excellent point!  That's why it was such an agonizing decision.  I do very, very much appreciate your comments about the 3060 and its 12GB of VRAM.  I was going over an over these two options because of the VRAM issue.  

There two things that swayed me.  First, unless you are in the 4xxx series RTX cards, the 3060 is the only Nivida card that has more than 8GB VRAM.   If 8GB of VRAM were an issue, then we'd be hearing more about that problem from the owners of the 3070, 3080, and 3090 series cards.  Thus far, I have not heard anything.  The YouTuber Flightdeck2sim runs a 3070Ti card and has not mentioned VRAM, including on a recent 2 hour plus Felis B747 stream using XP12.  I couldn't even get past connecting EXT PWR to that beast at JFK before I was running into blurry texture issues.  There has to be something else with my current RTX 2060 card that influencing the blurry textures as well.   

Second, it's just not XP12 that will be flying.  I split pretty evenly between MSFS and XP12.  Both sims have advantages and disadvantages. From what I read, I'm bigger boost in MSFS with the 3060Ti card over the straight 3060. 

I'm rolling the dice.  No question!  I do thank everyone for their comments.  They were all carefully weighed in this decision!

Thanks!

Rich

 

Don't settle for lower video RAM and you will regret it later. Get the 12 GB card or just wait until you can.