canox Posted November 28, 2013 Report Posted November 28, 2013 Hey guys, before I post any pictures Ill post my comp specs and my SMP settings.My hope with this thread is to show you how amazing SMP can look and to help tweak your settings so its run well on your comp. My current setup is an i5 4670, MSI GTX 760 4gb, 8gb ram and I use a 1080p 144hz monitor. Xplane 10.25 64 bit on Windows 7.For Xplane settings I use Very High textures, HDR with 4x (2x when SMP gets heavy), draw distance Very High. I use OSM which uses a bunch of FPS.. but no HD mesh or orthophotos. This is my standard setup which gives me solid FPS in most situations. Since SMP is new I am still tweaking all the time. For SMP settings the only things I recommend are Cirrus reso med/high, and Overcast on med. God Rays usually off. Tweak the rest to your visual liking. Also experiment with the different cirrus textures.. I found using Real Weather settings is really brutal if there is a lot of overcast. Ive been using Random weather and then tweaking like adding a nice cirrus layer. Turning off HDR is the only thing that makes this gross overcast look slight better, but I still get massive FPS drops. I just avoid flying in this type of weather. If you want to do IFR and fly with no vis, might as well just disable SMP for that flight. This was my first flight with SMP and what got me so excited about it. Many more pictures to come I promise Culiacan to Manzanillo at 33 000 with the 727. SkyMaxx is really impressive when you get it tweaked right.Hey AtomicFrog what shadow and Aliasing settings do you use? Those exterior shots of the C90 are really slick 2 Quote
canox Posted November 28, 2013 Author Report Posted November 28, 2013 The F16 series: Took her up to 40 000 around Zurich I thinkClick to enlarge! 6 Quote
canox Posted November 28, 2013 Author Report Posted November 28, 2013 727-100, experimenting with the God Rays 4 Quote
JohnMAXX Posted November 28, 2013 Report Posted November 28, 2013 (edited) Seriously though you have a great eye for screenshots!....... Edited November 28, 2013 by JohnMAXX 3 Quote
canox Posted November 28, 2013 Author Report Posted November 28, 2013 Nice to Lugano in the ATR 2 Quote
canox Posted November 28, 2013 Author Report Posted November 28, 2013 Seriously though you have a great eye for screenshots!.......Thx lol, but its YOU who made this thing dude! 1 Quote
canox Posted November 28, 2013 Author Report Posted November 28, 2013 Little bit of GA love.. the beautiful Carenado C90B skimming the clouds over beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland!The depth the clouds add for VFR flying is great, better feeling of altitude. 3 Quote
Colin S Posted November 28, 2013 Report Posted November 28, 2013 ...tears of joy roll down my face,as I experience screenshots of an ace. John's right, you have a knack (and a computer capable) for taking screenshots. Beautiful work. What are your shadow settings? 1 Quote
canox Posted November 28, 2013 Author Report Posted November 28, 2013 (edited) Glad you like the shots! Not sure if I have said this yet.. but all the shots so far have been using the Tropical Paradise colour set. Umm, mostly overlay settings. Ive still been experimenting.. I cant tell how much of an FPS hit the shadows take. Its mostly OSM buildings and flying very close to big clouds that sucks frames(which is weird, why is drawing a blank grey texture so taxing?). Trying to find a balance that works in good and bad weather has been my goal. I still cant decide if using Extreme textures is bad or not.. I have a 4gb card so I have plenty of VRAM left over..but would my card be working harder to smooth those higher reso textures? Edit: Anything you guys would like to me to try and get some shots of? Bad weather? Certain planes or airports? Right now Im just doin random altitudes, time and weather lookin for those sweet shots. Edited November 28, 2013 by canox Quote
mtaxp Posted November 28, 2013 Report Posted November 28, 2013 hey,when i saw thoose shots i said WOW!Could you please post a picture inside a vc of a "heavy addon aircraft",above of a heavy area (big city or somthing) with thoose clouds,at about 3000ft?I really want to see how much FPS this card can give with this kind of mix situations,as im planning to buy a new PC soon so I want to compare it to other cards Quote
canox Posted November 28, 2013 Author Report Posted November 28, 2013 Like a big airliner? Ill see what I can do?In hindsight I might have gone for a better card or the overclocked CPU.. but they are much more expensive. Quote
mtaxp Posted November 28, 2013 Report Posted November 28, 2013 An aircraft with a complex VC,such as CRJ 200 for example...Yeah I well buy somthing better i guess,i just want to make this comprasion Quote
canox Posted November 28, 2013 Author Report Posted November 28, 2013 (edited) Alright, Ive got some good VC shots from the Q400 over Zurich. Give me some time to upload them. Any cities you'd like to see? Anything but Paris... its too big and all the OSM buildings are a killer. Edit: Would you want to see the Jetstream? its the most taxing VC i have Edited November 28, 2013 by canox Quote
canox Posted November 29, 2013 Author Report Posted November 29, 2013 (edited) Alright heres what and where we were flying, Q400 over the Zurich area with OSM buildings. HDR 2x. I have objects set to 'A lot' and roads to 'Tons'.. no cars.Cloud detail 50%, draw distance 100%, no god rays. med textures. You said 3000 in your post so were low.. hope you didnt mean 30 000 aha Edit: FYI I switched to the True Blue colour set for these pics. 10 000 feetA little bit of weather!Right through a cloudNo problems on approach.. except my heading lol Edited November 29, 2013 by canox 2 Quote
mtaxp Posted November 29, 2013 Report Posted November 29, 2013 This really helped me!thanks so muchp.s. I think the previous sky colors were bette Quote
canox Posted November 29, 2013 Author Report Posted November 29, 2013 (edited) Yup, with the setup I have you will get pretty stable rates all the time when using 2x. Any overcast layer though just kills it, no matter how much I dial down all the settings. Something seems up with the cumulus overcast layer. More pictures comin... I agree I went back to tropical paradise colours Edited November 29, 2013 by canox Quote
JohnMAXX Posted November 29, 2013 Report Posted November 29, 2013 Is your overcast layer set to high or med in the sm uiMed is preferred but if you can't run that you may need to switch to low... Quote
canox Posted November 29, 2013 Author Report Posted November 29, 2013 Its set to medium.. but I put the overcast at like 5000 when I was up at 30 000.. couldnt even see any clouds down there and my FPS was still 20. Even with mass amounts of broken or scattered cumulus its always fine, as soon as I add any type of overcast it plummets. Even the stratus layer where its completely grey doesnt drop my fps.With low overcast I get that flat white thing. Quote
mtaxp Posted November 29, 2013 Report Posted November 29, 2013 BTW,can you please post how much VRAM XP10 is using when you are in the situation like the last pictures? Quote
JohnMAXX Posted November 29, 2013 Report Posted November 29, 2013 My next suggestion would be to turn the cloud detail all the way down and decrease the draw distance... Quote
canox Posted November 29, 2013 Author Report Posted November 29, 2013 More beauty at 40 000, that cirrus tho.. 2 Quote
canox Posted November 29, 2013 Author Report Posted November 29, 2013 VRAM is average 1500-1800.. Less in situations like above. Over 2000 in city areas. Ok thx JohnMaxx I will try that Quote
Tom Knudsen Posted November 30, 2013 Report Posted November 30, 2013 Almost died watching Canox first picture due to a heartattach, if this was the only post it would be pornSent from my iPad using Tapatalk 1 Quote
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