blurry textures

[Baz000]

Anyone know what might be causing my center line runway textures to be blurry? And how to fix it?

 

attached 2 screens showing what I see and what my video settings are

[Baz000]

In particular, the area of concern is when you look far down the runway... All the lines are blurry... The solid and dashed white lines

[Art-J]

If your aniso filtering in-game is already maxed out, which it is, then you might try cranking up the relevant options in gfx card panel and see it if they help (you didn't write what card you use, but for Nvidia these would be "anisotropic filtering" and "texture filtering quality").

[Baz000]

I have a Nvidia 970gtx

[Baz000]

tried changing GFX card panel settings and it is still blurry

[Baz000]

anyone got any ideas? BigNewy you usually have helped in the past with technical issues I have had.

[Esac_mirmidon]

Use AFx16 inside Nvidia Control Panel for a DCS.exe profile like this pic.

 

[Baz000]

tried that and it still didn't fix it, I am running the steam version

[Baz000]

I even did it in global settings of nvidia panel and still no different

[Lixma 06]

Same here.

 

It looks like DCS's 16x AF is only actually 8x.

[Esac_mirmidon]

I dont know what to say. For me is working.

[MonnieRock]

Baz000

 

 

Please try this:

 

Go to nVidia control panel

Manage 3D Settings

Top Tab "Global Settings"(This will apply to everything 3D)

 

If you set up Digital Comabt Simulator: Black Shark (DCS.EXE) in "Program Setting" Top Tab, make sure it says "Global Setting" or change to the values below

 

There are Four settings for Texture filtering, assign as following:

Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample Optimization: OFF

Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias : CLAMP

Texture Filtering - Quality: HIGH QUALITY

Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization: OFF( When you select "High Quality" this is automatically disabled but still make sure set to off)

 

 

Happy Simming,

Monnie

[Baz000]

still blurry out to a distance

[petsild]

What I remember is blurred already from the old version DCS 1.2, otherwise the consent that the effect looks like AF 8x.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi thanks for the PM

 

take a look at my settings for 1.5, see if it helps

 

my shadows are off here as I turn them off for MP, this is what I use for maximum fps in 1.5

[Baz000]

I'll give them a shot and let you know how it goes

[Baz000]

made it alot more worst because of turning off AA

[Art-J]

With NV cpl settings like MonnieRock mentioned above, plus in-game aniso 16x and MSAA 4x, the same runway on my PC looks like in attached screenshot, so a little better (I use Mustang's terrain mod, but it shouldn't make a difference in the issue discussed here). Since we both use NV cards, you should be able to get similar results.

 

That being said, I would suggest just getting used to it, because it might actually get worse when we move to updated 2.5 map. Filtering is already much worse on Nevada map, with its very agressive algorithm of lowering clipmap details on surfaces further from camera and no aniso filtering in the world can fix that. Since updated Caucasus is very likely going to use the same terrain rendering method, I expect similar deterioration of image quality there...

[firmek]

As mentioned above. For best results,

 

1. Use 16x Anisotropic filtering setting in game.

2. Set in NVidia control panel.

Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample Optimization: Off

Texture Filtering - Quality: High Quality

Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization: Off

 

For modern GPU's this should have close to none performance impact while significanlty improving overall texture filtering quality.

The "Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias" setting works only with OpenGL - which is not DCS case.

[javelina1]

Texture Filtering - Quality: High Quality

Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization: Off

 

How do you get Trilinear Optimization to stay off?

 

When I click on High Quality, it does not allow to shutoff Trilinear.

 

I've gone to a Quality setting, and then I can set Trilinear to off. But once I go back to High Quality, it shows a faded out "on" in Trilinear.

[Esac_mirmidon]

High quality disables any other filter optimization.

[javelina1]

High quality disables any other filter optimization.

 

gracias!

[Baz000]

well, I can see the runway centerline more clearly out to a distance now... But it still gets blurry towards the other end of the runway.

[Baz000]

No idea what is causing this problem, and I have no idea how to fix it either

[firmek]

If what you can see is close to screenshoot attached by Art-J then your settings are fine. I'll never be perfect, its just how the 3D graphics work.