P3D and Nvidea Inspector

[CHUCK79]

I have a small anti-aliasing issue with P3D. I can't get it to look as crisp as FSX. I believe this is due to P3D not allowing Nvidea Inspector to override P3Ds' AA settings. If anyone is in the know about this issue (perhaps there's a patch in the works) a heads up would be appreciated.

Chuck

[Capt_Cronic]

no patch avail.
AA setings in nvidia inspector are still not fully supported
here are the p3d and NI settings that work best for me

Prepar3d.cfg

[Display]
MSAA=4
SSAA=0
VSYNC=1
FXAA=1
TRIPLE_BUFFER=1
UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=30

Nvidia Inspector

[papituwall]

P3DV2 has a conflict with Antialiasing, so that you can neither cancel nor improve the application settings, which are in some cases ineffective. So far as LM is reporting that is a DX11 problema and Nvidia are out. The result is that the image "clarity" is worse than in FSX (and FS9, his grandfather). Maybe with a NASA computer there is not a problem but with mid level computers it is. P3DV2 has inherited from FSX the dubious ability of having a different behaviour for each PC.

There is a setting in Nvidia Inspector that solves the problem and as per today (as far as I know) the only possible for improving the application setting:

EXTERNAL ADJUSTMENT: SGSSAAx4 this is: AA_MODE_REPLAY_SGSSAA_4X . This value can be set effectively with Nvidia Inspector, and the image is improved, perfect in VC, great external views, and IMPORTANT, MSAA should be also 4 in P3D

FXAA: Without hesitation OFF, With ON the numbers of the gauges are blurred. This implies that the external views and runway lines have less quality, but are improved with the previous setting.

[Daube]

Indeed, as written by the other members, it's almost impossible to get a good AntiAliasing in P3D.
The issue is exactely the same as FSX in DirectX10 mode, by the way.

A summary of the situation is: P3D and FSX DX10 will totally ignore the settings you set in NVidia Inspector, excepted the transparency antialiasing.
The Transparency AA will give you some smooth picture. Unfortunately, it will totally KILL your FPS as soon as anything transparent will appear on the screen, may it be smoke effects or clouds. That basically makes the sim unusable.

I prefer to stay with bad AA and keep enjoying a smooth flight in cloudy weather.
All of the P3D community is waiting for LM or NVidia to act on this issue, but there has not been a single step forward in years.