simnut

I am flying the latest version of X Plane 12, running it on a i9-12700k computer and a Samsung Oddesy G9 Neo. Monitor refresh rate is 240hz. Here are a few things I've done to have seamless, smooth flying. Monitor: Turned OFF VRR. Turned OFF Adaptive Sync I know, this does not allow me to use G-sync but it works best for me. Nvidia Control Panel All program settings to default except for: Anisotropic filtering to 16x Antialiasing - Transparency to Multisample Low Latency Mode to On Power management to Maximum performance Preferred refresh rate to highest available Texture filtering to allow Vertical Sync to on My in game settings are: Texture Quality to Max Ambient Occlusion to Low Rendering Resolution to Off Anisotropic Filtering to 1x MSAA to 4x MSAA FXAA Antialiasing - unchecked. Cloud Quality to Maximum Shadow Quality to Aircraft Only Rendering Distance to Max World Objects to Medium Vegetation Density to Medium. Zink and enable 3d veg to off Just thought I'd through this out there...

I'm old, I'm retired...I like quiet!

And I'll add on to this 10 year old thread with my opinion lol. I was just banned from the .org forum for mentioning that a reply to a new member from a community leader was a little bit rude (in my mind it was actually quite rude) and they banned me. I have no use for that forum over there also. I enjoy the store part and have kept them in business for the past few years. Brett is one of the biggest culprits over there, no sense of haha in that one.

Yea....I'm happy with SMP 5 with volumetric deselected. I am flying now with FSGRW though...and am enjoying the weather depiction

I just enabled overcast volumetric....and have the same frame rate. There's not much for overcast right now in this flight...but......mmmmmm

After some testing, it appears I can run clouds on volumetric but not the overcast....might be a good compromise though. Additonally, I set my Nvidia Control Panel settings for XP to default, changing only the "maximum power" setting. Seems to run the smoothest!

At this point, I can fly flawlessly with SMP 5 (latest version) but volumetric disabled. To me that is ok, I love the cloud representation using the cloud art. Here are a couple examples....

Well, update not so good for me. Down to 20 or so FPS. I'll see if I can find the change that caused the issue.

It's still a smooth transition using just RWC but it becomes noticable with FSGRW. It was noticed on a flight from CYZT to CYVR. I've just downloaded and installed the latest update....will see how that goes sir.

Devs..one thing I notice using FSGRW is a definite reload of weather when approaching a new weather station. I do have the "do not change visible weather" under RWC....is there another setting I should be looking at? When not using RSGRW, I don't get that weather loading....a bit smoother. I'm also getting this on my approach to CYVR. Any ideas? Only issues I have now with SMP 5.....what should I look at?

One added bonus for me....I can now use FS Global Real Weather to inject weather into XP, something I couldn't do with SMP 4 as it killed my frame rates. So, another paid software I can use now! And at 30,000 draw radius as opposed to 10,000 draw radius. Take a look at the frame rates Although, I was getting pretty nice weather/cloud depiction with SMP 4 and RWC also

Well then, I'm using SMP5 to it's full potential then

Hey! Not in the trenches anymore sir! Up on a mountain top now!

I have an issue.......new one. I have to leave my beloved SMP 4 behind! The new update fixed all issues with my system...can fly with my plugins and am enjoying great cloud work!

THEY got it sorted! The new update fixed all my issues. Am just doing a flight from KLAS to CYVR and quite enjoying the SMP 5 experience In volumetric clouds am getting 50 FPS which is a switch for me. I have reduce cloud textures to 1024 resolution....not sure if volumetric uses those exact ones but I've given that a try first. Once I'm tidlyed all up here I'll try the original cloud art resolution. Flying into clouds is a whole new experience now....and yes, I did change it to original sky colors T123NE.