ggiarda

Months ago I came across a couple of funny FSX videos (made by the same author), which, with great visual impact, teased on fsx videos' cliches: framing and composition, wise use of fading and motion blurs, the perfect the choice of music. Everything subtitled with description painted on the aircraft! Now that I'm struggling to make my first FSX I would like to follow some of those cliches. Can anyone help me finding the links of those videos? Thanks in advance

I appreciate very much your suggestion and I'm actually changing both Lod_radius and visibility values in my fsx settings. I do achieve some significant improvement with these settings and I'm right now trying to push on some other tweaks to to take advantage of all my system's power. Thanks to everybody!

I don't understand what you mean with "visibility". If you refer to "Level of detail" I already tried to lower the value in the Scenery FSX settings section to LOW and MEDIUM. The only effect produced is that mountains distant scenery gets even less detailed than the one in the images I posted. As you easily can notice the level of detail in those images is way too low even if Level of detail = LARGE!

This morning I've discovered something new. I must anticipate that another scenery I've installed is Tuscany&Elba by Maurizio G. This is the usual aerial image for Lod_Radius=4.5... Ok! Now I found out that around my aircraft there is really a "circle of definition" (inside the Lod_Radius perimeter)... and really too small if you consider my hardware. In the following are a sequence of shots that explains this (coupled respectively bird's view and VC just in front of cockpit). Screenshots have been over-exposed in order to enhance the visibility (hope you can see it!). Don't you think the size of this "circle" is way too small???

Thanks F70 but that change in my fsx.cfg file does not improve mesh definition (and obviously neither does on autogen building pops). By the way, tha changed value is still there when I restart FSX! :huh:

Hello everybody! I'm here because I've ran out of useful tips & tricks on autogen problems with my FSx+Acceleration version. Problem: Autogen elements popup and mesh increases definition only at a small distance from my aircraft, like in a virtual small circle. Please find explanatory screenshots attached. First of all here are my specs (PC is 6 months old): M/B: AsRock Z77 Extreme 4 CPU: Intel I7-3770K (non-OC) PSU: BeQuiet! Straight Power Modular 580W RAM: 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance 1833MHz Graphic card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX670 HDD: WD 1Tb 6Gb/s 7200rpm Monitor: DELL U2711 at 2560x1440 (32bit) Overclocking: usualy I prefer to no OC (3.9GHz), but I reached a stable system up to 4.3 GHz. I read a lot about this kind of problem and I think I've tried everything (including switching from a wonderful Sapphire Radeon 7870 to my actual GTX 670) and obviously all kind of tweak. No results! Let me share something abount the tweaks. For my configuration they are almost useless! I found out that Bojote's, Nick's, Word Not Allowed, and others tweaks, simply do not make my fsx run smoother that a clean fsx.cfg. And of course none of these tweaks have helped for the sayed Autogen and definition problem. HIGHMEMFIX=1 POOLSIZE=up to 100000000 rejectThresol=... TextureMaxLoad=12 SmallPartRejectRadius=4 and many others; even trying to find out which combination of tweaks could improve my performance! In addition I found out that nVidia Inspector (with common settings derived from forum reading) has a significant hit on the smoothness and provides very poor improvement from the trilinear (or anisotropic)+antialiasing fsx visualization (e.g. without nVidia Inspector, at unlimited Frame rate, I reached 60-70 FPS; with nVidia Inspector, I reached less than 35 FPS - both very variable that make me prefer Framerate locking). So, when I see all those youtube fsx videos ("As Real as it gets", guitargamery vids, Cessna154 vids, and so on), running at 40 FPS, smooth as silk with building and terrain crisp till eye's reach, and after reading a Pc configuration much older than mine, I just want to smash my beatiful PC down the stairs, it's getting real frustruating! :angry: On some posts I read that FSX performance is strictly related to each kind of PC configuration... so, do I have to face the reality? Have I built a useless system to reach those levels of performance? Or is there a way to exploit the power of my system which is well above those of whom have published FSX movies of unquestionable quality? Just finding out a way to resolve my autogen and mesh definition issue would really make me happy! PLEASE... HELP!