Solved Looking for new graphics guide to 4.35?
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I see some from older versions but want to get the best eye candy and want to know what graphics game settings and nvidia control settings I should be going with to get the highest quality.
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@maverick_667th said in Looking for new graphics guide to 4.35?:
Alienware 38" 3840x1600 res main display Gsync enabled 144ghz
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Looking to get the best video quality over 50fps. Currently getting between 160 and 220 but feel I could get better qualityIf you are currently getting that performance, I’d not change your monitor refresh rate at all - just enable a sync option to lock it down to your monitor refresh rate, and you’re golden. You’re definitely dropping frames if you are getting between 160-220FPS, much higher than your monitor can keep up with (a better problem than the opposite), and since your GFX card and monitor have the technology, use it!
I’d also check out guides specific to your gear if you can find them, could save you a lot of time manually testing things yourself. On that note, it’s best to try changing ONE thing and then testing in-game, which can get tedious and take a long time, but it’s worth it to learn what the settings in Nvidia Control Panel do, as well as in-game settings and/or overrides/enhance settings through the Nvidia CP for those same settings. Guides can make that a lot less painful, but equally less educational if you want to apply this knowledge in future for different sims or version, or gear.
Another fun thing you can do is apply color enhancements (which can be reverted when not flying, for use in desktop). With the proper settings here and maybe also on your actual monitor config menu controls, you can achieve the look of some photoshopped screenshots of BMS in real time. Since the fidelity of BMS only gets so high, this is a final step you can take to really make the sim look impressive and realistic compared to the more saturated look that 3D sims/games typically have when displayed on monitors:
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So many variables. I have a lot of advice, but it’s hard to write down because it’s entirely different advice if your system is old and busted, vs new hotness…
And what refresh-rate your monitor is, vs what minimum fps you’re wanting to achieve…
And if your monitor is g-sync/freesync … and/or if you’re running multiple monitors…
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@airtex2019
I’m running a
I7 8700k Oc’d to 4.4ghz
32 gigs of DDR4 ram
RTX 3070 Gigabyte Aurous Graphics card
Sabrent Rocket M2 1tb SSD
Sound Blaster Xtreme Gamer Sound card
Warthog Stick and Hotas, Saitek Combat Rudders, Thrustmaster MFD’s
Alienware 38" 3840x1600 res main display Gsync enabled 144ghz
Dell 24" touchscreen with Helios & Extractions.Looking to get the best video quality over 50fps. Currently getting between 160 and 220 but feel I could get better quality
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Yeah personally I find ~75hz to be the point of diminishing return, for flight sims. 60hz totally fine… 50hz acceptable… below 50 starts to feel clunky. Especially when banking/rolling quickly, with a wide-screen monitor.
Your rig is more OP than anything I own, tho, so not sure I can offer much guidance. Turn on all the things! (Except shadows-on-smoke probably… not sure what that even looks like, tbh.)
Nvidia console settings…
I recommend leaving most of these as “application controlled” or “off”, and adjust eg. the antialiasing value, within BMS setup screen.
(Note there is also a
g_nAnisotropicValue
value in thefalcon bms.cfg
file… I think it defaults to “max available”, but doublecheck that. You can set it to 16 if in doubt.)G-sync or not? That is the big question… my system has some stutter, with g-sync enabled. Hopefully yours doesn’t.
So, my “Plan A” would be to follow the advice from blurbusters.com… enable G-sync, and set “Max Frame Rate” to about 5% below your monitor refresh rate. (So eg. set your Windows desktop / monitor to run at 60hz, then set max fps ~57 in nvidia console.)
The idea is to keep your monitor in a consistent “timing mode” and not oscillate back and forth from v-sync to g-sync timings.
(Be sure to set “G-sync for fullscreen and windowed” in the Nvidia console – btw I am assuming/advising you run BMS in “Borderless” mode… there’s almost no reason not to.)
If you experience any stutter or other problems with that, my “Plan B” would be 60hz fixed refresh rate and enable v-sync (within BMS setup screen).
The risk here is, as your cpu frame-time gets closer and closer to 16.7ms, or above, you will begin “skipping” or dropping frames … which will essentially give you moments of 30fps.
If your monitor has a 50hz mode, and if 50 is enough for you, that can help mitigating that risk.
If that doesn’t cut it (and it might not, in foul weather, in a campaign…) then my “Plan C” would be turn off g-sync, also turn off v-sync, and turn ON triple-buffering (within BMS setup screen) and set a fps cap in Nvidia console about 1.4x your monitor refresh rate – I get good results with 83 max fps, for a 60hz refresh rate.
This completely decouples your CPU+GPU from your monitor… it will make your rig run 40% hotter than it needs to… but it really smooths out any microstutters, and transitions smoothly from >60fps to <60fps conditions.
HTH
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@maverick_667th said in Looking for new graphics guide to 4.35?:
Alienware 38" 3840x1600 res main display Gsync enabled 144ghz
…
Looking to get the best video quality over 50fps. Currently getting between 160 and 220 but feel I could get better qualityIf you are currently getting that performance, I’d not change your monitor refresh rate at all - just enable a sync option to lock it down to your monitor refresh rate, and you’re golden. You’re definitely dropping frames if you are getting between 160-220FPS, much higher than your monitor can keep up with (a better problem than the opposite), and since your GFX card and monitor have the technology, use it!
I’d also check out guides specific to your gear if you can find them, could save you a lot of time manually testing things yourself. On that note, it’s best to try changing ONE thing and then testing in-game, which can get tedious and take a long time, but it’s worth it to learn what the settings in Nvidia Control Panel do, as well as in-game settings and/or overrides/enhance settings through the Nvidia CP for those same settings. Guides can make that a lot less painful, but equally less educational if you want to apply this knowledge in future for different sims or version, or gear.
Another fun thing you can do is apply color enhancements (which can be reverted when not flying, for use in desktop). With the proper settings here and maybe also on your actual monitor config menu controls, you can achieve the look of some photoshopped screenshots of BMS in real time. Since the fidelity of BMS only gets so high, this is a final step you can take to really make the sim look impressive and realistic compared to the more saturated look that 3D sims/games typically have when displayed on monitors:
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