Engine Exhaust Heat Blur Looks Like Balloons

[Warthog647190]

I’ve had this issue before, but it hasn’t shown up until recently. In short, engine exhaust heat blur looks like big bubbly balloons (see screenshot from PMDG 737-700). It doesn’t matter what aircraft (it all looks the same). While flying they look like a trail of balloons, which then disappear. Looks the same on the APU exhaust too.

Today the heat blur effect looked normal after engine start, but quickly turned to what you see in the attached screenshot - like a big exhaust balloon bubble.

I’ve tried both DirectX 11 and 12 within the sim, doesn’t seem to matter. Seems rather random too because yesterday heat blur looked normal. Today, not so much. I’m stumped and haven’t messed with Nvidia graphics settings at all from yesterday to today (Geforce RTX 3080Ti by the way, latest driver 528.02 installed).

I’m maxed on graphic settings (3440x1440 resolution), using Nvidia DLSS Super Resolution on the Quality setting. Runs acceptably well under these settings.

Any suggestions on where to look for a solution?

Thanks in advance.

[ccrbc]

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Curious exhaust gas jet

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[Warthog647190]

Yup, that’s the same thing.

Mine is on PC though, not XBox. Obviously I’m not the only one it’s affecting. I should make a correction, though, and state that it’s happening on the PMDG 737-700. I thought it happens on everything but apparently not right now. I’ll try other addon planes and see if it’s limited to just those (I only have three addon aircraft). I know it doesn’t affect the default 747 because I tried one of the activities with that airplane and it didn’t show up (landing activity that starts in the air with engines already running). Very strange. I’ll try and reproduce on other default aircraft and see if it shows up. Maybe something with the graphics card settings? I don’t know.