Graphics Options

[dresoccer4]

Hi All - 

 

I'm curious if there's documentation on what these highlighted graphics options do exactly and how they affect performance. Can someone either explain the difference or point to a good explanation? Thanks.

[unknown]

The only new option is SSAO, the other two options are already in since months/years(SSLR/SSAA) and documented in the DCS manual page 25.

For SSAO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_space_ambient_occlusion

[Canada_Moose]

Forest Detail Factor and Scenery Detail Factor are both new as well. Does the manual cover these options?  (haven't had chance to look)

[Supmua]

The rendering in 2.7 looks so good with all these extra options, especially SSAO and cloud presets.  Though already visually more pleasing in VR, it's even more breathtaking on a 4K flatscreen where you can appreciate the tiniest details, which can also be further enhanced via Reshade filters.

[Spetz]

6 hours ago, Canada_Moose said:

Forest Detail Factor and Scenery Detail Factor are both new as well. Does the manual cover these options?  (haven't had chance to look)

Forest Detail - From my tests, paused in my Hornet above a forest, looking down, it simply changes the detail, slight increase to amount and fullness of trees. Didn’t see any FPS hits on either minimum or maximum. Up high, can’t see the detail change. It did not change visibility distance of trees and that’s a different slider.

 

Scenery Detail - same test. It changes some building shapes from smaller to a bit bigger, either adds or removes detail such as roof top A/C units, and adds or removes building side details such as brick work or fencing. Also saw a few shadow detail changes. No FPS hit noted between full left or right. Oh, and changes airfield antennas from actual antennas beside vehicles on high, to red and white safety columns on low. 

Edited April 15, 2021 by Spetz
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[Wychmaster]

vor 4 Stunden schrieb Spetz:

Forest Detail - From my tests, paused in my Hornet above a forest, looking down, it simply changes the detail, slight increase to amount and fullness of trees. Didn’t see any FPS hits on either minimum or maximum. Up high, can’t see the detail change. It did not change visibility distance of trees and that’s a different slider.

 

Scenery Detail - same test. It changes some building shapes from smaller to a bit bigger, either adds or removes detail such as roof top A/C units, and adds or removes building side details such as brick work or fencing. Also saw a few shadow detail changes. No FPS hit noted between full left or right. Oh, and changes airfield antennas from actual antennas beside vehicles on high, to red and white safety columns on low. 

 

I guess those are  just parameter that controls the distance when the LOD of an object is reduced to save processing power. So it heavily depends which part of your GPU is the limiting factor. If  vertex processing isn't a problem, then you won't notice any frame differences. This should be the case for the people with up-to-date hardware.

[Skysurfer]

Has anyone done some tests with SSAO? Haven't really felt a performance or even noticeable visual difference. 

[Ala12Rv-watermanpc]

1 hour ago, Skysurfer said:

Has anyone done some tests with SSAO? Haven't really felt a performance or even noticeable visual difference. 

 

 

No pictures at the moment, but I can confirm it is working correctly just the effect is waaaayyyy too subtle. It should be much more evident (darker AND bigger radious).

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

 

if you hover your mouse over the option you should see a tool tip with a description of the option

 

thanks

[DucS2r]

1 hour ago, BIGNEWY said:

Hi, 

 

if you hover your mouse over the option you should see a tool tip with a description of the option

 

thanks

Thanks but that doesn’t work for me. Am I missing something?

[BIGNEWY]

12 minutes ago, DucS2r said:

Thanks but that doesn’t work for me. Am I missing something?

 

Apologies, it looks like it did not make it into open beta yet, soon you will be able to hover over the options to get a description of the option, you can see an example in gameplay settings in current open beta, it will apply to the main settings page in a future patch

 

[BIGNEWY]

for a future update 

 

SSAA

SSLR

 

SSAO

[hreich]

And what are differences between cloud options /standard vs ultra?

[Canada_Moose]

1 hour ago, hreich said:

And what are differences between cloud options /standard vs ultra?

 

In VR it appears to make zero difference what this slider is set at. 2D is a different story......

[hreich]

@Canada_Moose Can  you explain?

[S. Low]

Hey newy it’d be pretty nifty if those pop up tool tips said which thing it affects more, CPU or GPU.

 

I like that you’re including in the SSAO tip that it’s a “big” gpu hit. 
 

helps people figure out what settings they need to adjust 

[audiodistortion]

SSAO looks very nice - for me it's about a 10% performance drop.

ULTRA clouds - only about a 5FPS drop compared to normal.

 

I can live without the SSAO for the performance, but the ULTRA clouds are well worth the small drop.

 

Overall, what an update, wow.

 

 

Old i7 980X CPU @ 4.4

Nvidia Titan X Pascal (12GB)

24GB RAM

3440x1440

 

 

 

 

Edited April 16, 2021 by audiodistortion

[unltd]

Is SSAO working in VR?

[RosyPlays]

On 4/14/2021 at 11:31 PM, dresoccer4 said:

I'm curious if there's documentation on what these highlighted graphics options do exactly and how they affect performance. Can someone either explain the difference or point to a good explanation? Thanks.

If you want more information on the graphic options and how they impact performance check out my post.