Are there plans to improve spotting dots any further?

[RyanR]

Are spotting dots going to get "better" or more customizable at the user end? 

I have dots set to 2px, and at 1440px on a 27" monitor with a 3080, things are still a bit hopeless using DLAA or DLSS. If I use MSAA, it gets better, but it's still hit or miss. Often, I can see a dot for the lead bandit, but can't for his wing man.

Yet, if I set the resolution down to 1080px, I can suddenly see dots at 40 miles. That seems to be in line with the wisdom on the internet: To see best,  turn off all of the things that make DCS visually stunning.

I have a new rig with a bigger (but same resolution) monitor coming, and I hope that fixes things. I don't mind taking a heater from a MiG-19. That's how you learn. But a MiG-19 with a cloaking device isn't really fun.

Thanks!

-Ryan

[SharpeXB]

4 hours ago, RyanR said:

Yet, if I set the resolution down to 1080px, I can suddenly see dots at 40 miles. That seems to be in line with the wisdom on the internet: To see best,  turn off all of the things that make DCS visually stunning.

Yeah unfortunately the current system is exploitable by players who don’t care that it makes their game look terrible. It’s a simple hack to just lower your resolution and make the dots bigger. And see aircraft easily at unrealistic ranges. 

[RyanR]

Even for offline play, it'd be nice to have more control. It helps train your eyes where to expect to find a bandit during some BFM.

-Ryan

[USA_Recon]

On 5/19/2025 at 2:11 PM, SharpeXB said:

Yeah unfortunately the current system is exploitable by players who don’t care that it makes their game look terrible. It’s a simple hack to just lower your resolution and make the dots bigger. And see aircraft easily at unrealistic ranges. 

Exactly. Folks keep wanting “pixels” to solve their problems but it’s made it worse.

I vote ED remove the pixel settings and return to LOD only “no dot spotting”.  
 

ED caved in and it’s not good, not realistic either.  It’s why they made radars and added more sensors irl… 

[RyanR]

You can't really win. A smaller high res monitor wasn't helping me. A bigger monitor at the same res fixed that. I did learn that forcing DLSS with a 3080 wasn't the right thing to do. Now I have a 5080. Much better.

As with all things with DCS, just throw money at the problem.

-Ryan 

[hannibal]

yea.. some of us are VR users, so the topic is made more complicated.