Skins As Resource Hogs ???

[Beebop]

I have heard that having a lot of skins can cause slowdowns in the game?  Is that at all true?

It would seem to me that just having the skins in your Custom folder shouldn't cause a problem but say you were flying a mission where all the planes used custom skins.  Does it slow things down? 

And if so would 4K skins be harder on the mission than 2K?

I have a lot of skins but seldom more than a few in any given mission.  Most I think were ten and my somewhat modest computer (AMD Ryzen 7, 1700; Sapphire RX 580 w/8Gb DDR 5) doesn't even twitch, smooth as glass, on mostly highest Ultra settings.

 

TIA.

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[RedKestrel]

3 minutes ago, Beebop said:

I have heard that having a lot of skins can cause slowdowns in the game?  Is that at all true?

It would seem to me that just having the skins in your Custom folder shouldn't cause a problem but say you were flying a mission where all the planes used custom skins.  Does it slow things down? 

And if so would 4K skins be harder on the mission than 2K?

I have a lot of skins but seldom more than a few in any given mission.  Most I think were ten and my somewhat modest computer (AMD Ryzen 7, 1700; Sapphire RX 580 w/8Gb DDR 5) doesn't even twitch, smooth as glass, on mostly highest Ultra settings.

 

TIA.

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I'm not sure to be honest, but I do notice that in online play, when the non-default skin is applied to another plane, if you look at the plane you often see the default skin for a second before the proper skin is loaded in. So for a detailed, 4K skin this dynamic loading/unloading may cause performance issues. It's been a bug of sorts for a long time, maybe since 4.001 or so.  

[Beebop]

I've noticed that too but it's just the visualization that takes a  1/2 second or so to complete.  Default then custom, sometimes it looks like it's being poured on as you watch.

But I haven't noticed a stutter in the game like in 1946 when a plane would spawn into a mission.

[Dutch2]

Are we sure the 4k skins that we see on the other planes in this game are also actually 4k skins and not being reduced. 

[Beebop]

The game may reduce the size of the skin but not the number of pixels.  Otherwise what is the point to having so many?

[MattS]

3 hours ago, Beebop said:

The game may reduce the size of the skin but not the number of pixels.  Otherwise what is the point to having so many?

 

The game's skins have mipmaps, right?

[Beebop]

2 hours ago, MattS said:

The game's skins have mipmaps, right?

They do when I finish them with GIMP and export as a .dds file.