Suggestion for the model visibility

[SharpeXB]

I think both our screenshots show how visibility in DCS is far from reality. At that distance you should be able to spot the plane at glance.

 

Here's the screenshot from 1.5.1 using Medium MV (Su-27 10km away):

Yeah I can hardly see the plane in your screenshot either. The shots made by the game are jpegs and they get compressed. I think if you use .bmp or something else you can actually enlarge it and see the pixels. Screenshots don't really convey how games look live. In my case I can actually see the other A-10.

[SharpeXB]

Well there does seem to be a clear advantage for people with 4K monitors and they are the ones who are saying that everything is easy to see.

 

This feature is clearly not for them.

Most of my opinions about spotting came from before I had this display. I've only had it for maybe 6 months. Flight sim games play very well at 1080p

The only test I ran for myself with both monitors was to see how far away I could spot an Su 27 in a merge. In both cases it was about 10 miles. The 4K screen wasn't a huge advantage there like you might imagine. I can't see stuff 4x as far away.

If the graphics for these games are designed correctly, they'll play very well at 1080p because they're designed to. Rise of Flight is fantastic in 1080p. You can count the wing struts on the planes even far away in order to ID them. In BoS planes that look nearly identical like WWII planes tend to, you can still make out the radiator placement viewing them head on. In terms of just sharpness and antialiasing DCS 1.2 is still very good. I think it suffers from limited contrast in some situations and that's where it gets difficult. I played these games in 1080p for a long time just like everyone else and they work really well.

 

Also if you want to see my screenshots in 1080p just look at them on your monitor. That's what you'll see. You can't see a 4K image on any other screen. You'll only see your native res.

Edited November 12, 2015 by SharpeXB

[grunf]

Yeah I can hardly see the plane in your screenshot either. The shots made by the game are jpegs and they get compressed. I think if you use .bmp or something else you can actually enlarge it and see the pixels. Screenshots don't really convey how games look live. In my case I can actually see the other A-10.

Valid point, I guess. The movement also helps. Still, a few more pixels wouldn't hurt. :)

[vicx]

Also if you want to see my screenshots in 1080p just look at them on your monitor. That's what you'll see.

 

I absolutely see the aircraft more clearly in your screenshots than when I am running the game. There does seem like there is a large advantage to having a 4K monitor.

 

Sharpe you should install DCS World 1.5.1 Openbeta and test it out. Maybe see if DCS World 1.5 looks different to DCS 1.2.

Edited November 13, 2015 by vicx

[SharpeXB]

I absolutely see the aircraft more clearly in your screenshots than when I am running the game. There does seem like there is a large advantage to having a 4K monitor.

 

Sharpe you should install DCS World 1.5.1 Openbeta and test it out. Maybe see if DCS World 1.5 looks different to DCS 1.2.

If you look at that image on a 1080p screen you're by default fitting the image to your resolution i.e. down sampling it. you're seeing the equivalent of 1920x1080 with 4x AA