20 hours ago, mspencer said:

You're just tricking your brain into thinking it looks better - it's not improving tile loading/etc. The correct fix is cranking up TLOD and taking the significant performance hit.

It was never suggested it would improve 'loading' or terrain detail those are different issues.  It addresses edge sharpening and there is no brain-tricking, it's that edges become sharper.  Other techs are used to do this and this particular one may or may not be better at it than other approaches.  And when one tags an approach as "over" sharpened this implies sharpened to the point of creating unwanted side effects or artifacts and those will be perceived differently by different brains.

Another program I use is the map enhancement mod.  It seems to give distant mountains a crisper, more defined texture.  I find it's a blurry mush at distance sometimes, even with decent LODs without the enhancement mod.  

11 minutes ago, Langeveldt said:

Another program I use is the map enhancement mod.  It seems to give distant mountains a crisper, more defined texture.  I find it's a blurry mush at distance sometimes, even with decent LODs without the enhancement mod.  

A LOD of 400 will have sharp textures out to the horizon.  The Enhancement MOD is not required for sharp distant textures.

4 hours ago, Noel said:

I appreciate sharpening or put conversely, detest blurry/fuzzy.  I def will check this out as soon as this flight's over!  Thanks!

I thought I would give this a try.  I opened the Nvidia Control Panel to see I already had Sharpening - no need for a registry edit. Maybe this is a later driver default setting?  I tried the settings but found far too many artifacts at 4K resolution.  I turned down the setting from .65. to .55 and a much nicer effect.  I turned sharpening off in game.

I thought this would be another flop suggestion, but I very much like the sharpening it gives.

28 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

I thought this would be another flop suggestion, but I very much like the sharpening it gives.

I'm finding it's a decent substitute for the Details filter and it may impact performance less.  Details can have a subtle effect on panning quality but it's subtle. I'm in one flight now w/ this NCP form of sharpening and have Details off and it's decent.  One positive attribute of Details filter is that its various sliders adjust effects during flight whereas w/ this method that's not the case you would have to relaunch the sim to manifest a change I'm pretty sure.  Details can also create some odd artifacts in certain clouds in certain lighting but it's infrequent so I will look for this in this NCP method and see if that improves as well.

1 hour ago, Noel said:

I'm in one flight now w/ this NCP form of sharpening and have Details off and it's decent.

I have completed a few flights now and I'm sold on this technique.  At 4K I had to go down to .50 sharpness setting  to eliminate obvious white halos around objects and scenery.  A setting of .50 for me gives excellent sharpness to everything without artifacts.  Best sharpening I have seen in 2024.

Edited May 12, 20251 yr by MrBitstFlyer

2 hours ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

A LOD of 400 will have sharp textures out to the horizon.  The Enhancement MOD is not required for sharp distant textures.

A LOD of 400 brings my system to its knees because it's also rendering buildings and trees much further out.  

The mod only makes textures sharper, so the performance drop is a lot less.