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May I please try again with questions I asked a couple of days ago. I have
edited them a bit.

Now that I have upgraded my system, I am trying to get the best settings,
and I have two queries.

1. When taxiing, mesh fences and tree leaves dance about/flicker but settle
down again when I stop. When I rev up, with parking brakes on, the
flickering starts again. Thinking that sound may have been affecting the
picture, I set sound quality low but it made no difference. Could sound be
affecting the graphics? Is there anything I can do that might help?

2. Should any particular item (or items) have priority when I
adjust sliders for texture quality, terrain mesh complexity, terrain texture
size, autogen density, scenery complexity, effects detail? I am not asking
what the settings should be. I know I need to try different settings, but
is there a pecking order? Is it better to start low and work up, or start
with all to the right and work down?


I am running FS2002 with Motherboard AMD S939, AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 1024 MB
RAM, Radeon RX300SE 128 MB.

JohnSP

 

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Should any particular item (or items) have priority when I
adjust sliders for texture quality, terrain mesh complexity, terrain
texture
size, autogen density, scenery complexity, effects detail? I am not
asking
what the settings should be. I know I need to try different settings,
but
is there a pecking order? Is it better to start low and work up, or
start
with all to the right and work down?

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Start low and work your way up until you hit a level of performance
that bugs you. Then back off a little. Also, decide for yourself what's
important to you. Some people like looking at clouds, and will
sacrifice ground detail. Others -- me -- get bugged by blurry ground
textures, and will cut back on other things to make them sharp.

Things that make a big difference fast: high AI percentage, 3d cloud
percentage (or cloud coverage), terrain resolution. Here's a tip on
terrain: 96 looks just as good as 100 and gives better performance.

As for saying something wrong: not that I've noticed. It's likely that
everyone waited for something else to say something, and as a result
your initial query just fell to the bottom of the "pile." Welcome to
the forum!

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>May I please try again with questions I asked a couple of days ago. I have
>edited them a bit.
>
>Now that I have upgraded my system, I am trying to get the best settings,
>and I have two queries.
>
>1. When taxiing, mesh fences and tree leaves dance about/flicker but settle
>down again when I stop. When I rev up, with parking brakes on, the
>flickering starts again. Thinking that sound may have been affecting the
>picture, I set sound quality low but it made no difference. Could sound be
>affecting the graphics? Is there anything I can do that might help?
>
>2. Should any particular item (or items) have priority when I
>adjust sliders for texture quality, terrain mesh complexity, terrain texture
>size, autogen density, scenery complexity, effects detail? I am not asking
>what the settings should be. I know I need to try different settings, but
>is there a pecking order? Is it better to start low and work up, or start
>with all to the right and work down?
>
>
>I am running FS2002 with Motherboard AMD S939, AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 1024 MB
>RAM, Radeon RX300SE 128 MB.

For #1 what are your AA and AF settings in the video drivers? This is
what you need to investigate and try to reduce shimmering
(Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering)

#2: you will have to test for yourself to find the settings that
satisfy both your preferences and your system capabilities...

===
All the best!
Katy Pluta

 

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Thanks. Flying with the new system is so smooth compared with the old one
with scenery better. One particular bonus is that I can use my local
(addon) airport at Warnervale, NSW. But it was also one instance that
showed up the flickering of the trees and fences.


"David Wilson-Okamura" <David Wilson-Okamura@forums.simradar.com> wrote in
message news:1126063017.26532@forums.simradar.com...
>
> ___| reply |__________________________________________________________
> Should any particular item (or items) have priority when I
> adjust sliders for texture quality, terrain mesh complexity, terrain
> texture
> size, autogen density, scenery complexity, effects detail? I am not
> asking
> what the settings should be. I know I need to try different settings,
> but
> is there a pecking order? Is it better to start low and work up, or
> start
> with all to the right and work down?
>
> _____________________________________________________________________
>
> Start low and work your way up until you hit a level of performance
> that bugs you. Then back off a little. Also, decide for yourself what's
> important to you. Some people like looking at clouds, and will
> sacrifice ground detail. Others -- me -- get bugged by blurry ground
> textures, and will cut back on other things to make them sharp.
>
> Things that make a big difference fast: high AI percentage, 3d cloud
> percentage (or cloud coverage), terrain resolution. Here's a tip on
> terrain: 96 looks just as good as 100 and gives better performance.
>
> As for saying something wrong: not that I've noticed. It's likely that
> everyone waited for something else to say something, and as a result
> your initial query just fell to the bottom of the "pile." Welcome to
> the forum!
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Posted via the -Web to Usenet- forums at http://forums.simradar.com
> Visit www.simradar.com and try our Flight Simulation Search Engine!

 

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"JohnSP" <petriejj@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks. Flying with the new system is so smooth compared with the old one
> with scenery better. One particular bonus is that I can use my local
> (addon) airport at Warnervale, NSW. But it was also one instance that
> showed up the flickering of the trees and fences.

I get the same thing with some of my add-on airports. I think it's to do
with the priorities that get assigned to the various scenery layers. Start
the sim, go in to Scenery options, and move your add-on airport to the top
of the list and see if that helps.

Si