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Brief description of the issue:
The sparkling effect on water is gone with any of the Anti-Aliasing modes enabled. It used to work.
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Anti-Aliasing: Off
Anti-Aliasing: TAA
Testing all AA modes
Real sun glitter
Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:
Watch sun reflection along shores. Sparkles can be seen only with AA disabled.
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Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
1.27.21.0
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Thanks for the comparison and noticing that itâs tied to the anti aliasing modes.
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Is it just me or is there something not quite right with the water?
I canât explain it or put my finger on it. Is it lack of detail in the waves?
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Could be the cache of the previous version.
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Hmmm⊠probably.
But from certain angles waves are still visible.
In the evening flight in the harshest thunderstorm anyone has ever been in with the Fenix (every GA plane would simply explode just like in some cheap action movie when being confronted with such weather condition only a Airbus can survive thanks to her perfect microprocessor-controlled computer-FlybyWire!) we will see how well the waves are animated in the newest update.
Could you give us a scenario youâve encountered this? Xbox or PC?
The sparkles of the sun reflections on the waves have been removed.
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If you are using DLSS, then it doesnât handle water well and creates some distortion. Most noticable at lower levels and is present even when using the Quality DLSS setting. The only solution at present is to use TAA. Luckily TAA appears not to have adversely impacted by SU10 changes.
DLSS on - water texture is distorted
TAA on - water is normal
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This is on PC. Havenât tested xbox yet. I normally start off in the Florida keys and test out the water but it just looks a bit âoffâ.
I have some screens somewhere from a few weeks back on PC.
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I think thats it. The textures of the foam and the lack of sparkle. The foam looks dulled and lacks some whiteness and theres no sparkle definitely. Im using DLSS though.
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Exactly same happens to me. DLSS quality option, and water looks just not ok. Will provide pictures when possible.
Read in the Devlog that they have implemented âwind gustsâ with SU10. As a yachtsman I can tell you that wind gusts are visable as a cluster of different waves, (dis)appearing suddenly. So, that could be the case in picture #1.
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Nah, itâs not. DLSS just doesnât know what to do with the water shimmer, especially with a low sun.
I hope NVidia can optimize their DLSS algorithms for the water.
It does the same thing when youâre on the ground with snow on the grass. I just gets confused.
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Good theory, but I donât think this is correct. The distortions of the water texture only occur with DLSS enabled. They are totally gone when using TAA. It seems unlikely that wind gusts would only appear when DLSS is used.
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I noticed this too. Had to stop using DLSS because of this water distortion.
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I was flying (on XSX) along NYC today and thought the water looked off. Maybe the live weather was just making it look weird at that time of day. but it almost seemed⊠I guess the best way to describe it is that it looked more like video game water and less like real water, if that makes any sense. Iâve been using MSFS since April and have never felt that way about water in the sim before. Iâve always been blown away by the look of the water. Maybe Iâm wrong and it was just the live weather playing with my mind, but itâs interesting coming here and seeing this topic.
If so, this is heartbreaking, because if they took away from the water effects to fix stability, weâre probably not going to see great looking water again.
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I noticed the same with clouds. They look a bit grainy.
For me DLSS has to be one of the biggest disappointments of MSFS, over promising and then under delivering. On my RTX 3060 ti it gives only a few FPS benefit in any situation and a whole lot of disadvantages, like the water distortion and instrument blurring (even at the highest DLSS setting). None of the different DLSS settings make much difference to FPS, even though some significantly degrade the quality. There is much talk that the next Nvidia driver should improve things, but this is probably unlikely. As I found that using the newer Nvidia studio driver (or DX12) didnât make any difference. For me DLSS takes away more than it gives. I am just thankful that DLSS hasnât resulted in any degradation to TAA, so we havenât lost anything.
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