I’ve been doing a lot of flying under different conditions lately, and I can’t help but notice that the cloud quality seems lower since SU5. In many situations they seem repetitive, generic, fading into one another. For those of you who did some cloud tweaking in X-plane, we had overdraw control, and it seems like there’s something similar in here now.
Maybe it’s just me because I haven’t flown much during SU4, but something just looks different. Has anyone else noticed this too?
At Q&A session, Jorg will say: “people are asking to bring back clouds from SU2, but we did not change them since”
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When asked about lightining, he will say “we are aware some players are facing it, but we did not see any”
This is what I see more often than not in the sim…people can all show the perfect pics of the perfect flight, but by and large, this is what we get.
clouds got such a downgrade, i’m not saying this just to whine or vent.
the grain was actually gone before, clouds had more fidelity.
whatsup with this? i even tried deleting my cfg and remake it, set graphics to low preset and back to ultra.
does it have to do with the TAA method being changed again??
I’m on 3840x1600 native res render scale 125 to 4800x2000 @ ultra with a 6800XT
I’m with you. The clouds are terrible for the most part. I can find a preset, set the time of day to the golden hour and take a great screenshot. But when flying normally, 90% of the clouds look ridiculous.
I guess I’m not seeing this?
Hi All,
I too am seeing grainy clouds bit only in some conditions. I have 3090 card and 10900 processor with 64Gb ram. Every setting is at max. Sometimes the clouds are amazing, i.e. soft, fluffy, mist are all great. Perhaps I am expecting a bit too much. here are some examples of where there is more grain. I am using a 2016 LG 55inch Oled as a monitor.
Regards
Josh
I have just completed a flight from Munich to Istanbul. Weather at Munich was pretty rainy and stormy. Once I was climbing trough heavy clouds it looked worse then ever. Pixels everywhere ! Please listen us. We have been noting this issue more than 6 months. Whatever the issue please find the main cause and fix it. In addition shadows are quite far from quality. In cockpit shadows and building shadows on ULTRA 4K looks very bad. Plus we have anti aliasing not working properly and even on 4K100 I can clearly see jaggies. Please focus on PC now. XBOX release messed up our sim !
DX12 - AA - Shadows and Clouds are really urgent to be fixed / implemented.
Perhaps so, for many of us are seeing shimmering and or aliasing on distant objects like the tops of buildings, especially when they are lit in the sun and this wasn’t like this before or at least not in such an abundance. Would perhaps explain the grain…
A solution I found was turning sharpening to 0 and in the file userconfig.opt -
{PostProcess
Enabled 1
EyeAdaptation 1
ColorGrading 0
Sharpen 0
Fringe 1
LensDistortion 0
Dirt 1
LensFlare 0
FilmGrain 0
Vignette 1
LensBlurMultiplier 1.000000
FringeMultiplier 1.000000
Then next you want to go the file properties and turn it to “read only” otherwise MSFS will override the file and turn on ■■■■■■ clouds.
Next you want to go to Nvidia Control panel and 3d settings and turn off sharp and make sure that in program settings Flight sim has sharp also turned off.
It seems that if one or the other is turned on it will not look good.
Would you happen to have a screenshot comparison by any chance?
I do also have same problem unless i set Sharpen & FilmGrain 0 in the userconfig file…
This is what it now looks like, this is a significant improvement to what I previously had (my clouds were the stereotypical grainy texture with distortions present inside the cloud. Now the distortions and grain are limited to the edges.
They are by far not perfect, but they are considerably better now.
Backlit clouds don’t show the problem so much.
hello,
where did you find this option (sharp off) in Nvidia control panel?
thx
Okay what you want to do is -
Go to Nvidia control panel
Manage 3D settings
Global Settings
Go down to Image Sharpening - and turn this off.
I also enabled Antialiasing enhancing the application setting to 8x and it seemed to help somewhat
Go to program settings - go down to Mircosoft Flight Simulator and check whether it is also off here.
I found this didn’t fix the problem entirely but some of the grain was gone, which is better than nothing.
(It seems to improve close up view of the clouds more than far views)
yeah, but this is how placebos used to work
Clouds are soooooo bad right now. They were soooooo good before. It’s really depressing flying IFR flights up high these days. The joy of breaking through was absolutely ruined.
Take a look at this ■■■■… I know the compression is bad but the flickering and banding is 100% there at the original resolution and this is captured at full ultra on my 3090. Clouds used to look far far better at medium on my old 5700xt.
Yeah something has happened to the clouds, don’t look bad from far away, but close to they are terrible, cloud surfing used to be great, now awful.
Why, why, why does everything keep getting downgraded, it’s unbelievable?
