Possible fix for improving the graphics after SU5

[K3HrN]

But turning up the LODs should at least bring your GPU to its limit.

[SanMan140579979]

Going to experiment more tonight after work

[gordongreig]

@aerovin88

As far as the object LOD is concerned, i went with the default max 2.0.

This can definitely be pushed higher with relatively minimal impact on performance, although YMMV. See this post:

SU5, before....and after

OK, here’s HKKI for me In cockpit, I can see the tower [image] In drone view behind the plane, I can’t - just the light [image] It must be right on the cusp of being visible. Here is where I can first see it from the drone [image] and here’s the plane behind me (just rotated 180) so actually it’s odd I can see it from the cockpit but not the drone when at the windscreen position [2021-08-02 (56)] This is all with 200/200 on the sliders If I edit the config file to put 200 on the ter…

The tower on the field on the left goes from visible here (Object LOD 2):

to here (Object LOD 4):

to here (Object LOD 9 - NOT RECOMMENDED just for illustration - and it is tiny in this pic so you may not be able to see it without zooming the pic in):

[xlStuartlx87]

Ryzen 5900X
Rtx3090
64GB ram @ 3600mhz
All drives are m.2 very fast drives

[K3HrN]

In my opinion just missing data from bing maps. Happens from time to time.

[KubiG37]

I agree the Post processing effects are (as is usual in games) greatly exaggerated and spoil the image more than they improve it. I’m just mad you can’t tune these things directly in the game setting and have to resort to some shady config file tuning, an unpleasant experience from the early 2000s.

[seattleman66]

This is my issue. Limiting memory usage is a very big deal, especially for those of us who are graduates of the FSX 32 bit days. If memory usage will be permanently limited to Xbox specs Asobo was, in my opinion, duty bound to say so in advance. All of us who were maybe starting to trust their process a little bit now have a very good reason not to.

[VioletKnight255]

its not its just a way of keeping us quite they posted one in wrong temprature thread a few days ago

[Xpress690]

Despite all the promises and all the positivity around SU5 that where advertised I (and a lot more of us) feel like we´ve been robbed out of our loyalty for MSFS/ASOBO.
As first costumers and big spenders we where told one thing and got the short end of the stick.
I´m hopping that there´s someone seating on the HIGH CHAIR of the Sim kingdom looking at all this mess.

[VioletKnight255]

where in the world is that am gonna be sick

[mobbe123]

Well I tried this and I think this is very good.
I use 3 for LOD, I tried 5 and that didn’t work at all, stutters everywhere!!
Thanks for the tips!!

[MLTAVIATOR99]

Seems like they are capping the amount of ram and vram.Its no longer taking fully advantage for anyone that has 32 or 64gb.
3 is introducing stutters for me a bit as well. Some areas I don’t get them.

[Xpress690]

I was sick the first time I saw this. My home town, Azores, it´s bad.

Look up
LPAZ
LPPD- exception, they have ORBX airport
LPLA, mine (the pictures)
LPGR
LPPI
LPSJ
LPHR
LPFL
LPCR

9 Wonderful Islands in the middle of the Atlantic that have been forgotten (like a million other places, I recon) but non of the airports are correctly implemented (except the ORBX one)

A shame in short.

[GamingCat2130]

Does someone know how to modify these values to maximize shadow rendering distance?

{Shadows
	MaxSliceCount 4
	Size 4096
	DLightContributionCullingThresholdS0 0.250000
	DLightContributionCullingThresholdS1 0.250000
	DLightContributionCullingThresholdS2 0.250000
	DLightContributionCullingThresholdS3 0.250000
	OmniContributionCullingThreshold 0.000000

I don´t know if the number must be higher or lower to significantly enhance the drawing distance for scenery shadows to give the visuals extra-depth and realism…

[MegaRiceBall734]

The RAM/VRAM limitation has another reason - Garbage Collection. Lionel from Asobo mentioned the stutters we experienced in earlier versions are largely contributed by the GC process on large chunk of unused data in RAM. The more RAM/VRAM are used, the longer the GC process takes which would result in stutters

I think they need to figure out a better GC process that is suitable for PCs with large RAMs. In addition, future XBOX Series XXXXXXX may have 32GB or 64GB of memory

[xxYUNIORxx]

I laugh when people say they going back to X plane because the graphics are bad now. As if though X plane’s graphics are better. Smh!!

Even with the degraded graphics in MSFS, they still look 10x better than X plane with it’s minecraft graphics.

[Cygnifick]

Best thing to do is make a Zendesk bug report and include pictures of the bugged areas. Just checked and it’s the same here.

[TenPatrol]

@aerovin88

NOTE: IMPORTANT!. Once you have modified the file, save it, then right-click the file and select readonly option.

No need

@aerovin88

Also DO NOT change any graphics settings on the sim, this will override any changes you have done on the file and you need to restart the sim in order to get it back.

Correction.

Do not touch LOD slider and volumetric clouds settings

[GarrisIiari]

As someone who uses both sims, I am mostly on XP while this is all worked through. XP didn’t become useless the minute MSFS dropped.

As someone who, like many of us, bought more powerful hardware to be able to run MSFS in all its glory, this has been deeply disappointing…

[xxYUNIORxx]

I understand. But if you are someone who has used both sims and have been using XP for a long time, then you would know that issues like this are very common in the flight sim world. No sim has ever been fully optimized from it’s start. We are only one year in with MSFS. How long has it taken XP to get where it is today? Years!!! Hell, even with Vulkan, they still have issues. There are still some that suffer CTD on XP.

Point is, MSFS will be a glorious sim, but it will probably take a few more months or even a year or two from now until we get to see that.

All of us that have been in flight sim for over 15 years know that this is nothing new.