Hi folks,

I posted on here a few weeks ago saying that there had to be something wrong with my setup because the Xplane 12 image quality was so unbelievably poor, it looked like it was being run on a BBC computer from the late eighties. Things got a bit heated (not by me, I should add), as they so often do, and I rather lost touch with the thread. I read it back last night and full credit to @mSparks, who said it was most likely the screen. Well, it was the screen - I've been using a screen that is really a television, and one of the videos that mSparks put up in that thread showed that if you change the output name on the TV source menu, the quality vastly increases back to normal resolutions you'd expect from a TV monitor. I hadn't noticed a particular problem in MSFS or P3D, but the Xplane output was abysmal, and seeing A320SimPilot and Q8Pilot and the like, who have really rather lovely image quality, I knew, even after the post-rendering things that Youtube does, that they were getting a much better visual experience in the sim than I was.

It is apparently a sort of vigilante mode that the TV goes into - it thinks you're watching a pirate video or such, apparently, and so downgrades the image quality. Once you tell it it's a PC you're connected to, it works fine.

I thought I might just post on here, firstly to thank @mSparks very much indeed; I had been tearing my hair out over this. And secondly as a bit of a warning to anyone who is getting atrocious XPL12 visuals and can't understand why. Finally, I can get back into the Toliss A20N again and start enjoying it a bit more.

Thanks folks

So @mSparks was right! 😁

Well I upgraded to a 1440p monitor and I still get flickering scenery, so you're in luck, this time it's X-Plane at fault 😂

Oh I’m not saying it now has Caravaggio-esque beauty, but that’s a different discussion/argument/fist fight that I don’t want to get into. On my setup the visuals in XPL were horrifying and I knew there had to be something amiss - many thanks to @mSparks for that pointer. I’d never have got it otherwise, as it’s too obscure a point.

Edited July 1, 20232 yr by rondon9898

Thanks for taking the time to come back and let us know the solution. 
@mSparks deserves credit.