Good Quality and Good Performance Guide - NVIDIA
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As many guys often have/had problems with proper GFX settings i´ll be sharing mine.
(With intonation on SHARP / CLEAN 3D picture / great VISIBILITY and good FPS)
1) INGAME - CRUCIAL (Multisampling OFF - “Quality Level 0” and “Advanced Options” MUST BE SAME). We will be “enforcing” those over the nVidia Control panel later.
2a) Configuration (better Systems)
2b) OPTIONAL Configuration (better FPS for low-end systems)
- Cloud Reflections … and
- Focus Object Relfection
- Shadows on Smoke
you can optionally disable. Some people reported FPS impact (drop) on those.
- High Resolution Texture aswell - tbh. i dont see major visual differences. Disabling it just saves “memory” and “load”.
IF your FPS is still too low (under 50 FPS), also disable “HDR Lightning”3) nVidia CONTROL PANEL - create a profile for the FalconBMS.exe first.
Edit: Start with 4x Anti-Aliasing and 8x Anisotropic Filtering
Note: - Maximum Prerendered Frames you can try “1” - experimentally! << Edit: bad idea, causes artifacts
4) Benschmark and examples. Made with 2a) Configuration . Test-System: (i7 2600K - 570GTXDCII - 8GBRam)
TGP & Mav WPN
TGP & Mav WPN - HDR Lightning OFF in configurator - as comparission
Around 20FPS more… generally HDR Lightning is a FPS eater… matter of “taste” and system capability as such.
Sidenote:
Under 50 FPS i “eject” (no matter what sim). I can CLEARLY feel the smoothness in the flight-model and the TrackIR movement above (and under) 40-50 FPS.
Even if i have to reduce GFX settings and compromise, but 50+ FPS is just a “must” for me. Once you get used to over 50 FPS you really dont go back.For me “tactical and graphcial accuracy” (being able to see things clearly) is much more important than special- and pseudo-cinematic graphics effects, because i use it as tactical simulator, not as graphical entertainment game. BMS runs quiete good - set up right. Clean sharp picture, tactical visibility nice, and few fancy FX on top of it - if desired…
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Great timing, I just started playing with a bms-specific profile this week. I had noticed my game was micro-stuttering because I have a g-sync monitor, and that setting it to ‘off’ fixed it. Then I started playing with the other settings and its like a new game - better looking and smoother!
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Great thanks! I hope you can share your IL-2 settings also!
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thanks A.S for sharing your setting.
my system is i3 o/c to 4ghz with gtx970 and 8gb memory.
however, it seems I get worse fps than yours,
even though all my setting is exactly the same as your low-end setting.
what mission do you use for making the screenshots?I use the TFR training mission 8 for my testing,
when I start the mission in runway I get around 55fps,
after take off, then after I turn on FLIR on MFD, I get 48fps,
then I turn on FLIR on HUD, I get 36fps,
then I turn the aircraft back to Kunsan, when the airport is in HUD, I get 24fps.do you know what is wrong here?
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i3
I used the “AGM65” (bad weather) and “AGM65 Cavok” trainings mission.
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Same for me!No differences between settings no matter if full settings or limited following your conf.rig i5 6500 ,16g2g ddr4 , GTX 960 2GB and two extended monitors one for MFD’s ,DED,RWR extraction.
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This may sound like a dumb question but how do you turn on the frame rate counter?
In my setup, BMS 4.33.3, it says Alt c : f What key is that…? Alt c is cockpit lights I press, hold alt c then f can’t get it to work…?
I use 4x AA and 8x AF in the nvidia control panel like the OP says, it does improve image quality.
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ALT-C, release, then F.
If ALT-C for you is something else, then you’re using a changed or obsolete keyfile. You can look for the description “SIM: Display Frame Rate - Toggle” in your keyfile and try to figure what the key press is set to.
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ALT-C, release, then F.
If ALT-C for you is something else, then you’re using a changed or obsolete keyfile. You can look for the description “SIM: Display Frame Rate - Toggle” in your keyfile and try to figure what the key press is set to.
OK thanks just checked I must have changed the sim key combination key without realizing duh. Got it working.
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Same for me!No differences between settings no matter if full settings or limited following your conf.rig i5 6500 ,16g2g ddr4 , GTX 960 2GB and two extended monitors one for MFD’s ,DED,RWR extraction.
I am sorry to hear that. I know it helped many so far. Maybe you can step by step disable certain things and fly the same mission in order to find “your” weakspot setting.
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Not remarking on anything else other than this:
“(With intonation on SHARP / CLEAN 3D picture / great VISIBILITY and good FPS)”
Intonation is the wrong word here. You may want to change that to “emphasis” or “focus.” Intonation is a musical term.
Edit: Actually you should also change your first BMS config screen to not show the Dogfight Self-Cancel box as being checked. Some might believe that is a setting you are suggesting, when for most people that will not be an option that works for them.
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- “intonation” - might be due to the fact, that i do create music. my bad.
- he who mistakes the Dgft self-cancel box as a gfx advice - go to 3)
- :rtfm: first
:mrgreen:
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And yet most of these settings are easily understood, or searched-for.
So you can’t say that your thread is intended for anyone other than beginners who have exceptionally limited technical knowledge. The very same class of people who might suspect that they should copy all of the settings you display.
Take it or leave it, but if you intend your thread to be read by those who do not know any better, then cleaning up that photo may avoid creating some problems instead of trying to solve them.
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I have faith in humanity (this community) to posses common sense and the ability for reasonable and retroductive thinking - instead of being “repeating parrots”
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@A.S - have you found any way to avoid making the 2D text blurry? I noticed, at least with my settings, that its a bit harder to read after setting the nvidia profile, presumably b/c the anti-aliasing is happening there instead of just in the 3D pit.
I am guessing there’s no real way around this since settings are being forced at the nvidia level instead of selectively by the game, but figured I’d ask. Any advice?
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“Blurry” 2D text i only get if i enable FXAA, which a bad thing with FalconBMS anyways. Not sure what is going on on your end.
Check maybe the monitor “ratio” 1:1 or not. Remember UI is in 1024x768 and 3D at best at your native screen resolution. -
@A.S:
I have faith in humanity (this community) to posses common sense and the ability for reasonable and retroductive thinking - instead of being “repeating parrots”
that’s the spirit of this community for years, If it works to you, share it
Personally that part on Nvidia Panel did’nt work for me, got worse FPS, compared to internal FXAA and Anisotropic filtering. But that part on the configs realy gave me substatial more FPSResults can vary from people to people as we know BMS is not GPU intensive, but CPU intensive yet Ive got better GPU than you and worse CPU than you and you got realy impressive FPS.
Dont stop trying. You can find our holy graal.
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I wonder, if some people don´t set-up their BIOS properly sometimes.
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For some reason, these settings cause a CTD for me. Deleted dx9display and yada - yada but still the same result. But when I delete the profile, I’m good. Will report back when if/when I figure out why.
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@A.S:
“Blurry” 2D text i only get if i enable FXAA, which a bad thing with FalconBMS anyways. Not sure what is going on on your end.
Check maybe the monitor “ratio” 1:1 or not. Remember UI is in 1024x768 and 3D at best at your native screen resolution.I had FXAA enabled, thanks, turning it off fixed it!