Hardware: 9800X3d, RTX 5080, 1440 x 256 G-Sync monitor, water-cooled, 32 GB DDR5 6400, and Meta Quest 3 VR.
Software: Windows 11, MSFS 2024 Premium Deluxe, PMDG 737, Beyond ATC, and Orbx London and Paris sceneries.

I'm looking for the best scenery and cockpit visuals possible. I'm more interested in visuals and not so much in performance. FPS of 30 and above is ok. 

Can you recommend set ingvalues for the following:
1. Exposure Compensation EV
2. AMD FidelityFX 
3. Frame Generation (do I need this)
4. Frame Rate Multiplier (do I need this)
5. Offscreen Terrain Pre-Caching
6. Raymarked Reflection
7. TLOD
8. OLOD

Anything else? Thank you.

1. Exposure Compensation EV: BIAS the exposure value, making pictures darker or brighter: Up to your liking.
2. AMD FidelityFX: Contrast sharpening: again up to you, just set it what you think looks best, so a bit trial and error.
3. Frame Generation (do I need this): I would say yes if you aim your settings for a steady 30 FPS. It will bring your FPS up to 60 and the sim will feel a lot smoother. 
4. Frame Rate Multiplier (do I need this): x2 is just fine
5. Offscreen Terrain Pre-Caching: i have set this to high in a hope it would deal with occasional stutters, thinking it got caused by stuff that gets streamed along the flight but it didn't help  
6. Raymarked Reflection: I have everything turned off for fancy graphical stuff. Honestly, i have a hard time to see any difference with it turned on so i turn those things off. 
7. TLOD + 8. OLOD: Either set it fixed (with your target FPS in mind) or set Dynamic Settings to on and let it fluctuate working to the set FPS target or use AutoFPS to get more manual control.  

ChatGPT provides a good start or you could try default and gradually ramp things up until you start to lose performance.

Another option is to start with the settings recommended by the Nvidia App.

I can't tell you what to use for VR but your rig is capable of running everything at ultra settings for non VR flight.

Personally with a decent rig, I tend to set everything to max and gradually turn things down until the performance becomes smooth enough for my liking.  I have a small number of test areas I use where I know performance is close to the edge.

Ask 100 people and they will give you 100 suggestions. Mine would be that there is no set ideal and trial and error is the only solution. My 'ideal' changes over time, different hardware setups and the changes every SU brings. 

Edited January 1Jan 1 by St Mawgan

1 hour ago, Matt Sdeel said:

3. Frame Generation (do I need this)

Doesn't work in VR.

Just set ultra preset and TLOD200 (is go higher if you have no stutters)

 

10 hours ago, MarcG said:

Doesn't work in VR.

Thanks for this info.

10 hours ago, cianpars said:

ChatGPT provides a good start or you could try default and gradually ramp things up until you start to lose performance.

Another option is to start with the settings recommended by the Nvidia App.

I can't tell you what to use for VR but your rig is capable of running everything at ultra settings for non VR flight.

Personally with a decent rig, I tend to set everything to max and gradually turn things down until the performance becomes smooth enough for my liking.  I have a small number of test areas I use where I know performance is close to the edge.

Thanks for the tip on the Nvidia App.  I'll check it out.

11 hours ago, Lange_666 said:

1. Exposure Compensation EV: BIAS the exposure value, making pictures darker or brighter: Up to your liking.
2. AMD FidelityFX: Contrast sharpening: again up to you, just set it what you think looks best, so a bit trial and error.
3. Frame Generation (do I need this): I would say yes if you aim your settings for a steady 30 FPS. It will bring your FPS up to 60 and the sim will feel a lot smoother. 
4. Frame Rate Multiplier (do I need this): x2 is just fine
5. Offscreen Terrain Pre-Caching: i have set this to high in a hope it would deal with occasional stutters, thinking it got caused by stuff that gets streamed along the flight but it didn't help  
6. Raymarked Reflection: I have everything turned off for fancy graphical stuff. Honestly, i have a hard time to see any difference with it turned on so i turn those things off. 
7. TLOD + 8. OLOD: Either set it fixed (with your target FPS in mind) or set Dynamic Settings to on and let it fluctuate working to the set FPS target or use AutoFPS to get more manual control.  

What are YOUR graphic settings?

6 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

Just set ultra preset and TLOD200 (is go higher if you have no stutters)

 

Good idea. What is your setting for TLOD and OLOD?

Optimal TLOD and OLOD vary by what your personal preference is for the tradeoff between detail and performance. And what software (if any) you use to reduce those settings if/when performance is degraded.

I have 9800X3d, 4090, and I use AutoFPS. My fps are locked at 60. I don't use frame gen.

TLOD is 400 on the ground, 800 in flight, and 100 at night when you can't see much anyway.

OLOD is always 1000.

 

 

Edited January 1Jan 1 by prolixindec

4 hours ago, prolixindec said:

Optimal TLOD and OLOD vary by what your personal preference is for the tradeoff between detail and performance. And what software (if any) you use to reduce those settings if/when performance is degraded.

I have 9800X3d, 4090, and I use AutoFPS. My fps are locked at 60. I don't use frame gen.

TLOD is 400 on the ground, 800 in flight, and 100 at night when you can't see much anyway.

OLOD is always 1000.

 

 

Didn't know TLOD and OLOD can be that high. I'll try them. Thank you.

32 minutes ago, Matt Sdeel said:

Didn't know TLOD and OLOD can be that high. I'll try them. Thank you.

AutoFPS will allow these kind of numbers. 

11 hours ago, Matt Sdeel said:

What are YOUR graphic settings?

1: Exposure Compensation EV: 0
2: AMD FidelityFX: 0
So I'm happy with the default.
For TLOD and OLOD i use AutoFPS with and FPS cap so these values change during flight.
FPS: set to 30 to create an overhead (and to prevent my 3080Ti sounds like a jet) and then framegen to bring it op to 60.

PS: Running at 1440p

Edited January 2Jan 2 by Lange_666

I have weather set to clear skies in summer time and clouds to about 5-10k ft. At altitudes below the bottom cloud layer and in external view of the aircraft at an altitude of about 3000 ft I still see haze or fog on the scenery below and in the far distance.  How do I remove this?

I think I read somewhere that the view below is realistic but I'm not after realism in this case. I just want to take a postcard perfect picture of the scenery like that shown below to use as a Windows wallpaper. But how?

(I have a 9800X3D gpu and enough RAM memory.)