Which setting is most important for terrain textures?

[Langeveldt]

I'm driving myself crazy with tweaking around, different builds, and want a comprehensive answer! There are just so many variables going on at the moment.

The most important thing for me when flying is fidelity and clarity of terrain.   I don't mind if the carousel in terminal 1 at EHAM is looking a bit blocky.  I actually don't even need to use third party airports.  I like sharp, defined mountains and clear scenes below.  

However, when looking at sharpness, clarity of the terrain below, which setting is most important?  Is it TLOD?  Is it texture resolution?  (I've heard people say texture resolution only affects things like aircraft and airports).  

Thanks!  

Edited Wednesday at 10:44 AM by Langeveldt

[Farlis]

13 minutes ago, Langeveldt said:

  Is it TLOD?

Yes.

[Adamski_NZ]

You might want t do yourself a favour and try AutoFPS. It's free - and allows you to tweak the various LOD settings in real time. Basically, it allows you to ramp up all your sliders because you're favouring either terrain or objects (buildings etc.) at any given point.

[Langeveldt]

1 minute ago, Adamski_NZ said:

You might want t do yourself a favour and try AutoFPS. It's free - and allows you to tweak the various LOD settings in real time. Basically, it allows you to ramp up all your sliders because you're favouring either terrain or objects (buildings etc.) at any given point.

Thanks.  I actually use dynamic LOD but will give AutoFPS another try.  

[CarlosF]

2 hours ago, Langeveldt said:

However, when looking at sharpness, clarity of the terrain below, which setting is most important?  Is it TLOD?  Is it texture resolution?  (I've heard people say texture resolution only affects things like aircraft and airports).  

Posting your hardware specs helps.

[Fielder]

When the issue is high settings causing stutters, there seems to be a cliche that turning OFF fauna in msfs2024 improves performance, which allows higher graphics settings. I see that "tip" on YT videos from time to time.