FSX Depth OF Field

[Bob70]

Seems to me that since installing SP1 that the depth of field is a lot less than before. Features don't come into sharp focus until you get a lot closer. Use to be able to spot the airport

[Keep It Simple]

You are correct in your observation.
One of the ways SP1 gets more frame rates is it seems to reduce the radius of detail. This was a bad trade off IMO

We can hope that it will increase with the DX10/content patch.

[Wingo]

Is it possible to create your own setting for the LOD Radius? Just had a quick look in the fsx.cfg and found the section called lod_radius=3.50000 It could be possible to increase this number.

[Ashton Lawson]

[quote]Seems to me that since installing SP1 that the depth of field is a lot less than before. Features don't come into sharp focus until you get a lot closer. Use to be able to spot the airport

[DizZa]

While fsX does not have depth of field, I know what you mean.

Question:
Do the ground textures go blurry when you're flying around? Or when you load the flight?

[ATI_7500]

It could be possible to increase this number.

SP1 made it possible to change this one.

High settings (10 and more) kill every PC, so 8 would be the upper limit. I run it at 6.5 and it works just fine.


Beware 'though, that this setting gets set back to 4.5 if you change something in FSX's display options.

[Keep It Simple]

It could be possible to increase this number.

SP1 made it possible to change this one.

High settings (10 and more) kill every PC, so 8 would be the upper limit. I run it at 6.5 and it works just fine.


Beware 'though, that this setting gets set back to 4.5 if you change something in FSX's display options.

Is anyone even shure that changing this value has the

[DizZa]

Yes it does help. I run mine at 6.0.

[Daube]

Yes it does help. I run mine at 6.0.

Same here, I switched it to 6.5 and I could REALLY notice the difference, especially in the distant blurries, which were...like... more distant
And I think the autogen was displayed more far away as well.

[ATI_7500]

MipBias only introduces shimmering.

[Keep It Simple]

MipBias only introduces shimmering.

Not really.
Remember the standard tweak in FS9 was to set mip mapping to "4" because any higher would induce tree shimmering?
It's much the same with FSX. 4 is a good compromise. Some sys will have shimmering at lower levels while others will tolerate higher.

BTW, I believe PTaylor has somewhat of a cure for nVidia sys that exhibit shimmering.

[ATI_7500]

Remember the standard tweak in FS9 was to set mip mapping to "4" because any higher would induce tree shimmering?

It didn't even work back in FS9 times for me.


And the "cure" for shimmering is basically setting your anti-aliasing to 8*S (Supersampling), which is a combination of 8*Multisampling and transparency anti-aliasing.