@CptLucky8, OK, I did some reading of your stuff, and it’s good. But I got to the point that instead of reading, I just decided to “do”.
So I followed your instructions to the letter that can be found here. I ended up going with 100 on OXR, and whatever came closest to the actual physical resolution of my G2s in the Render Scaling option in MSFS. I also made a few tweaks to your in-sim settings, probably with the most notable being that I went with 6x6 on the texture supersampling (and I really wanted to go 8x8, but I figured I’d experiment with 6x6). I did that because I find that the farther away you get from 8x8, the less the runways look like runways from a distance.
The results overall are positive. I saw basically no change in framerates (except at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, that place is huge, looks absolutely amazing, but I think there’s not a computer in existence that can run it very well. I was getting single digit framerates just taxiing around, and I think I taxied like 5 miles to get to my assigned runway. Plus there were some scenery glitches on some of the overpasses that were so bad, I literally almost crashed my aircraft unless I hit them at like 2 knots.)
But that’s Asobo’s issue, unless someone wants to create a freeware or payware replacement for it. I might use the freeware if it was good, but I don’t see myself using the airport enough to justify paying for it.
Anyway, back to VR, like I said I was steady at about 31 fps with your recommendations (and by steady, it’s almost like I was LOCKED in on that rate, both as an upper and lower limit, except for the CDG airport), but both the inside of my cockpit, the outside world, and even the smoothness of the motion all seemed noticeably improved.
But now I have a question. Before I go through your repro settings and try all that, should I? Is it better than non-repro? Different? Or is it just a different route that ends up in the same place?
Thanks for your insight into all of this, I think you’ve done really good work here overall. But I do hope future updates and optimizations makes your research and recommendations both obsolete and unnecessary at some point, and sooner is better.