Cubemap Reflections Setting

[MrFuzzy 2,140]

17 minutes ago, Nyxx said:

Thanks Fuzzy for the gif, could not help LOL when people say they could not see any diffrence(eye test time).....256 looks great, thanks again.

You can't see the difference until you see it 🙂 Then you cannot unsee it!

[MrFuzzy 2,140]

18 hours ago, JimBrown said:

For those that really want to play with the setting (maybe increase it past 256 or less than 96) the UserCfg.opt line is "ReflectionProbe"

512 looks great, and still no performance impact! I will leave it at 512.

I actually set 1024 in UserCfg.opt but it's 512 in the graphics options menu. I think 512 is the max setting allowed.

 

Edited October 20, 2021 by MrFuzzy

[Nyxx 6,996]

23 minutes ago, MrFuzzy said:

How can the underside of the wing be reflecting the clouds when on the ground? If you follow the refections of the struts it should lead you to ground relections not clouds?

Edited October 20, 2021 by Nyxx

[David Roch 2,027]

Good question, David!
😄

[Nyxx 6,996]

1 minute ago, David Roch said:

Good question, David!
😄

Looking at the last page Gif's ...again the refection of the clouds is wrong? or tell me am wrong!

Clouds refections in water=great the underside of wings refection clouds when none are below?

[sightseer 895]

isn't that reflection off the window of the sky above?  does the aircraft have a transparent roof?  not sure what aircraft that is.

[Nyxx 6,996]

1 hour ago, sightseer said:

isn't that reflection off the window of the sky above?  does the aircraft have a transparent roof?  not sure what aircraft that is.

Dont think so if you look closely its like the "refection" is a transparency, like its fake. 

Look close at how the cloud runs into the wing, 

Even worse now look at the leading edge of the wing and note the cloud and how it runs into the "wing" once you see it..your cannot unsee it.

Where there is a small "bright" cloud  poking out, put your hand over all below and watch....Its like the wing is not there.

Look at the window frame at the front were it meets the wing....sorry I think its fake. You can see the movement of the cloud like the wing is not there.

Edited October 20, 2021 by Nyxx

[sightseer 895]

the GIF actually further solidifies my point.  at the higher cubemap reflection setting, a line become visible just below the faint cloud reflections.  this would be where the right wing joins the roof.  Also, the reflections are moving down as the actual clouds are moving up.

its the reflection in the window.

[DylanM 1,069]

the new setting looks great here @ 256. Might just be angles of the pics but it does reflect well in the sim...hah

[MrFuzzy 2,140]

40 minutes ago, sightseer said:

the GIF actually further solidifies my point.  at the higher cubemap reflection setting, a line become visible just below the faint cloud reflections.  this would be where the right wing joins the roof.  Also, the reflections are moving down as the actual clouds are moving up.

its the reflection in the window.

Yeah, it must be the window because I don't think the wings reflect the clouds in MSFS. At least in external view I have never seen cloud reflections on the upper side of the wings. Why would the lower side reflect them? 🙂

Edited October 20, 2021 by MrFuzzy

[Republic3D 1,236]

Yes it's from the window. I think that's a Cub and it's got a window on top. 

I have seen reflections of clouds on wings, but only the top side like Fuzzy said.

So you guys are saying 512 and no performance penalty? Might have to try that.. 🤔

[RJC68 827]

20 hours ago, David Mills said:

My system too defaulted to a value of 64 immediately after the update. Now, however, there is no way to reset the value to 64. The lowest is 96. 

Mine too,

I am seeing a performance degradation with the exact same settings I had pre update. Not sure if this setting has an effect but it would be nice to be able to drop it too 64 and see if that is creating my GPU to be up at least 10%

Before SU6 once in the air my GPU settled around 88% & CPU 60%. Now I am seeing GPU pegged at 100% & CPU 66% with live weather. The clouds do look better but they are killing my GPU

[MrFuzzy 2,140]

20 hours ago, David Mills said:

My system too defaulted to a value of 64 immediately after the update. Now, however, there is no way to reset the value to 64. The lowest is 96. 

 

5 minutes ago, RJC68 said:

Mine too,

I am seeing a performance degradation with the exact same settings I had pre update. Not sure if this setting has an effect but it would be nice to be able to drop it too 64 and see if that is creating my GPU to be up at least 10%

Before SU6 once in the air my GPU settled around 88% & CPU 60%. Now I am seeing GPU pegged at 100% & CPU 66% with live weather. The clouds do look better but they are killing my GPU

You both have Geforce 1080 and 1080 Ti. Great cards for their time, I had both, but in 2021 they are just old... 😞

With the update to SU6 and an RTX 3090 I am seeing the opposite actually: the sim is much more often main thread limited even with all settings maxed out and resolution scale at 120. Hopefully DX12 implementation will use multicore CPUs more efficiently.

[Republic3D 1,236]

9 minutes ago, RJC68 said:

Mine too,

I am seeing a performance degradation with the exact same settings I had pre update. Not sure if this setting has an effect but it would be nice to be able to drop it too 64 and see if that is creating my GPU to be up at least 10%

Before SU6 once in the air my GPU settled around 88% & CPU 60%. Now I am seeing GPU pegged at 100% & CPU 66% with live weather. The clouds do look better but they are killing my GPU

I also saw some degradation in performance, but I think it's just the sliders doing some things differently after this update.

I cleaned out my Rolling Cache and rebuilt it, then set Graphics to Ultra, applied it, then adjusted the sliders a bit. 

Now performance is back it seems like. 

But I'm also seeing the opposite with my GPU, it used to be at 100% most of the time, now it's going at 75-95% after SU6. But your GPU going at 100% isn't a bad thing, it just means it's using all of your GPU resources. If it's chugging along at 88%, it's not giving you the best performance.

Either way, you can set a max frame rate limit in Nvidia Control Panel to bring it down to what you're comfortable with. 

[RJC68 827]

3 minutes ago, MrFuzzy said:

 

You both have Geforce 1080 and 1080 Ti. Great cards for their time, I had both, but in 2021 they are just old... 😞

With the update to SU6 and an RTX 3090 I am seeing the opposite actually: the sim is much more often main thread limited even with all settings maxed out and resolution scale at 120. Hopefully DX12 implementation will use multicore CPUs more efficiently.

I get my 1080 TI is an old card but Pre SU6 the clouds may have looked a little worse but the performance was fluid. 

Have you tried to buy a RTX card lately ! I am not about to drop $3000 for a 3090

I get that Asobo are catering for those that have the latest hardware but give those that don't the option of adjusting the settings that suit their hardware. !