Fuzzy text with extreme resolution - fixes?

[Anxu]

Hello,

 

I just bought the Corvalis yesterday and found that the text label on 2D and 3D cockpit fuzzy and hard to read.  In fact they gave me head-ache.  I am using 2560x1200 resolution (30 inch) monitor ans extreme texture resolution.  My system is a i7-2700K OC to 4.8 GHz, 8 GB of RAM and a GTX780 with 4 GB of VRAM.  Also I found the frame rate low: 20-21 with avionics off, which is bizarre:  my rendering setting are populated tree, default objects, tons of road and at the default KORD airport with no building.  I tried looking in the manual but there is nothing in there.  So far this plane is the worse, performance wise.  Are there any suggestion?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Vu Pham

[Orcair]

Is text compression on? I am not sure but I believe that is what fixed the problem with the FlyJSim Q400 for me.

[john82088]

I have that plane and it is definitely not the plane. My computer is not near as good as yours and I get great FPS. Unfortunately, I am not sure what is causing that. Hopefully someone can respond back with an answer.

[Mario Donick]

I just bought the Corvalis yesterday and found that the text label on 2D and 3D cockpit fuzzy and hard to read.  In fact they gave me head-ache.  I am using 2560x1200 resolution (30 inch) monitor ans extreme texture resolution.

 

X-Plane EFIS displays are often a bit hard to read on high screen resolutions, because the displays have very low resolutions. A real G1000 has 1024x768 resolution per display, while the Corvalis' G1000 has 480x365 pixel resolution (which you can measure by making a screenshot of the 2D panel and opening it in a graphics editor).

 

With your screen resolution, the displays use a very small area and of course are hard to read then. I can say that in 1920x1080 resolution, the 2D cockpit works very fine -- both displays next to each other, and both quite readable, but the resolution should not be higher. 

 

In the 3D view, readibility of displays in X-Plane is often disturbed by anti aliasing, and it is worse if you are in HDR mode. You then need to decrease your FOV to come nearer to the displays, but of course this limits overall visibility.

 

 

Regarding the framerate, this plane is from 2010 and back then some techniques for frame rate improvements where not yet available. Also, the topography view of the MFD may have a frame rate impact (for me, in 3D cockpit, the topo view decreases frame rate by 10 FPS).

 

In the end, you need to experiment a bit and find a compromise that works for you. I would suggest switching anti aliasing off, both for improving frame rate and for increasing readability of the displays.

[Keith Smith]

Check the FSAA settings. Try some different modes. Try toggling HDR on/off and note the difference.

Edited September 3, 2013 by Keith Smith

[Anxu]

Thanks all for responding.  I found the two Garmin windows fonts and installed them, this steps should be in the manual somewhere!.  This helps with the text crispness issue.  I don't know what text compression setting is, any pointer to where it is?  I am still new to X-plane 10  As for the low FPS, it seems to be happening at the default KORD, which does not have any building but seems to have traffic (mine was set at Chicago suburb, I guess it was really at Chicago, LOL)  Anyway, I now have 30+ elsewhere.  I elected to turn off HDR and use 8x AA instead that also seems to help.  Btw, I keep hearing HDR is a must at night, why is that?  Also I keep hearing that LR has not worked out all the performance issue with HDR yet. Is that true?  The doc says don't use HDR unless your modern graphic card can handle it.  Mine is a GTX680, not ultra modern, as in the latest but not too shabby either.  What's give?

 

Anyway, back to the plane:  so far with the right setup it is a beauty.  The MFD and the flight plan is a huge mile ahead compared to the default 430 GPS (when will they fix that?  Coming from FSX, the default GPS is just horrible)

 

Thanks

 

Vu

[Mario Donick]

I found the two Garmin windows fonts and installed them, this steps should be in the manual somewhere! 

 

 

What do you mean by that? Which fonts did you install there? 

 

Depending on your other settings, HDR is no problem. I use HDR with a very old GT530 chip, which is some kind of mobile chip, BUT I have NO anti aliasing (I switch it on only for screenshots), and also NO shadows. On the other hand, I have extrem texture resolution.

Edited September 4, 2013 by Mario Donick