Heat Exhaust aliasing

[marcocom]

Hi guys, i have a small graphics issue that was hard to search for and find on forums (maybe lacking correct terms).

I have great performance and graphics throughout all aspects, including smooth MSAA on all angled surfaces. however, the Exhaust-heat-blur is totally aliased/pixelated and just distorts without any post-filtering, blur or AA applied to it and looks bad enough that i turned it off.

Is this common perhaps? any ideas on which setting i maybe have wrong? i kind of max-out everything in graphics and aim for high-quality over performance, and maybe i am overdoing it in nvidia or falcon settings? could i have something set too high maybe?

thanks in advance for any helpful insight

[Aragorn]

@marcocom

Arty had a nice fix for this.

If he doesn’t pop in, perhaps you could PM him…?

[airtex2019]

@marcocom can you paste a screenshot of what you’re seeing?

[marcocom]

@airtex2019
Thanks for your attention to my issue. SS attached.
I have been disabling exhaust the past few weeks , and this has made me wonder if AA is altogether a problem for me. Even though the cockpit and aircraft / buildings all AA correctly, just the runways/taxiways and jet exhaust seem unblended.

[marcocom]

Note how even the pavement aliases correctly , until the exhaust distortion (to the left of the jet queued ahead of me).

I almost feel like this is some kind of nvidia overriding or maybe a lack there of?

[airtex2019]

@marcocom Ok now let’s take a look at your NVidia settings.

I think these are the 2 most relevant…

[marcocom]

disable FXAA. thats unintuitive to me, mayte thats the issue. ill try it now and report back. thanks again for your attention to my issue, sir!

[marcocom]

Hmm, well I didnt really see a difference in AA, im sorry to report.

You know, its odd how nvidia CP doesnt really see or detect BMS. i browse to find the falconbms.exe file to make the settings-profile for nvidia. is that what you have as well?

Its just so strange how the AA is half-applied like this. I remember that all lines on pavement were aliased , for the past decade, but then i see people post screenshots and videos without that issue, so it was worth trying to figure out.

I appreciate your effort to help. thanks

[ericfa2a]

Hi @marcocom, for me it was always like this and i can tell even in the first iterations of BMS with heat exhaust enable in the configuration tool.

So i think it’s the effect that is coded like this for the moment and there isn’t any anti-alias that can smooth the distortion for the scenery behind the effect.

Best,
Eric.

[jayb]

If you look through a blurry cloud of heat, I suppose it is fair that whatever is behind the cloud is non-crisp/blurred as well?

[airtex2019]

@marcocom Sorry… at least it was easy to test.

Yeah I mostly just modify the global settings. I don’t have any other games installed that need different/special settings.

I’m not sure if there’s some registry key that BMS is supposed to “publish” itself to Nvidia or DirectX, upon install, to show up in that dropdown list.

[marcocom]

@airtex2019

Hey i just wanted to follow up and report that this issue has been resolved. Oddly, i think it might have been my usage of 8x AA . since changing my nvidia AA settings to Override Application and bumping it down to 4X , im suddenly getting gorgeous results!

to note: i actually did a clean reinstall for the new .2 patch and had it still looking really bad. the two changes above simply solved it. i cant really explain why 8X would have issues. perhaps its my higher resolution at 1440px vert.

Anyways, thanks for the help all. --Whistler

[Seifer]

can you show how it looks now? Im curious to understand what the problem is.