8 minutes ago, History said:

Displacement Mapping sometimes turns off by itself even I dont use Dynamic Settings. Could it be AutoFps? I dont think so. 
And yes, it eats VRAM quite a lot and the difference is not really significant above 500ft

I see AutoFPS can toggle it off but I'm not using AutoFPS so it stays on if not manually disabled.  Fortunately VRAM is good here but wow what a nice bump in headroom I was able to increase TLOD and even render scaling I'm stoked!

The latest 0.4.4.8-test version of AutoFPS can turn Displacement Mapping off if either turn on auto settings reduction and your FPS stay below target for too long and you have selected it as a setting to reduce. If can also turn off if VRAM + protection is enabled, by having GPU-Z running in the background, and VRAM overflow is impending. If it does turn it off, it will not turn it back on again unless performance limits have improved and until > 100 ft to avoid ground texture corruption issues. Regardless of any changes AutoFPS makes to any setting, it restores them all to original on exit.

Edited April 7, 20251 yr by Reset XPDR

2 hours ago, Reset XPDR said:

The latest 0.4.4.8-test version of AutoFPS can turn Displacement Mapping off 

Isnt switching displacement mapping on or off working properly only with a sim restart?

55 minutes ago, AnkH said:

Isnt switching displacement mapping on or off working properly only with a sim restart?

Not in my testing. It turns off no problem but turning back on when on the ground can create all sorts of bumpy ground textures within a few hundred feet radius of your aircraft, hence why I have AutoFPS configured to not turn it back on unless you are > 100 ft where you are normally moving fast enough for it to clear itself very quickly if it does occur.

The only graphics setting that requires a sim restart to enact is Texture Resolution.

best displacement map ever, left a deep impression:

 

Edited April 7, 20251 yr by turbomax

Displacement mapping I believe also effects the default airport ground textures, for example it renders the depressions between the cement tiles. But I could be wrong, I can't test ATM as I'm in the air.

Edited April 7, 20251 yr by Tuskin38

7 hours ago, Reset XPDR said:

Not in my testing.

I saw what you mentioned re the bumpy surface when reenabling DM.  If I recall correctly as mentioned in my testing was that the frame rate did not restore to the much higher rate when on the ground and turning DM from ON to OFF.  At the moment it doesn't matter because I've had such a jump in frame rate with it off I'm now able to sustain at least 60FPS-native everywhere + at least 10% headroom over that.  I will look again on this issue of whether or not a relaunch of the sim is required to get the big FPS increase.

3 hours ago, turbomax said:

best displacement map ever, left a deep impression:

 

For sure, but it's a super expensive effect.

6 minutes ago, Noel said:

I saw what you mentioned re the bumpy surface when reenabling DM.  If I recall correctly as mentioned in my testing was that the frame rate did not restore to the much higher rate when on the ground and turning DM from ON to OFF.  At the moment it doesn't matter because I've had such a jump in frame rate with it off I'm now able to sustain at least 60FPS-native everywhere + at least 10% headroom over that.  I will look again on this issue of whether or not a relaunch of the sim is required to get the big FPS increase.

what about if you're like at FL380 does it make a difference?

2 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

what about if you're like at FL380 does it make a difference?

Dunno, but what I do know is demand on the ground is nearly always the greatest, right?  Sure.

23 minutes ago, Noel said:

Dunno, but what I do know is demand on the ground is nearly always the greatest, right?  Sure.

But does it really have an FPS effect if you sit e.g. on KLAX from Inibuilds? 

2 hours ago, AnkH said:

But does it really have an FPS effect if you sit e.g. on KLAX from Inibuilds? 

Have no idea as I haven't tested that there.  And as you know there is interplay between all the players determining how much 'effect' something like this will have, all the players including CPU/GPU/VRAM etc.  What I do know is now I'm able to easily maintain at least 60FPS native so I am super stoked.  In the exact same scenario I would barely have been able to sustain 58FPS and have had to dial back expectation to 50FPS and sometimes less, now it's north of 70 or even 80FPS which is ginormous!  

Addendum:  it def has less of an impact at a large airport and that too may have to do w/ how much 'displacement' gets mapped.  At LFPG just now in the 787X the impact was around 12%.   The airport where I first noticed this was a small regional airport with fields off of the tarmac that had some relief for sure, therein might be the difference.   It might matter at a big terminal if you're on a runway bordered by terrain with lots of displacements.  And apparently as the control states it applies to 'close' terrain or something like that.

Edited April 7, 20251 yr by Noel