4k Settings for Best Spotting

[Horizon123]

I know that for best spotting, you should play at 1080, not full 4k.  I also know you should lower AA. 

However - I like the game to look good on the 4k monitor I have, and I'm wondering if anyone's got any tips for increasing spotting ability without dropping your resolution or graphic fidelity?   Are there nVidia color adjustments that help?  Color settings?  etc.  

Thanks for the help if anyone has tips - I hope that in the future, they'll code rendering and LoD so that you don't have the run the game at mediocre graphics settings in order to track targets reliably.  Cliffs of Dover at least, has (or had) the 'glinting' effect, which really made a difference.  This game, due to the flat nature of textures at distances, the Anti Aliasing at 4k resolution just automatically blends the pixels together and you're outta luck it seems.  

 

Edited October 7, 2022 by ShipsBosun

[MAJ_Piranha_]

Any suggestions folks?

[RossMarBow]

Ok lets start off why and how you use 4k
also are you using 4k on a huge tv size screen
or 4k on a small pc sized screen

presuming you are using it on a pc monitor size
you shouldn't enable any AA at all
at 4K resolution theirs absolutely no reason to be using AA
at 1080p MSAA 2x is best because it gives everything a 50% outline
so if a plane in the distance is  pixels with MSAA you get an extra 50% outline around the black 4 
so instead of a 2x2 square you get a 4x4 square
test this out yourself as it will probably still work at 4K
but its probably not worth the FPS hit purely to get a fuzzy grey outline 

 

otherwise all the normal stuff applies
calibrate gamma as best as you can out of game
in game tweak gamma a bit more for preference, boost colour saturation etc.

 

as someone who plays at 1080p spotting is never perfect theirs still a bunch of weird stuff happening
and that's before the actual limitations of being a pilot in a cockpit occur

Personally I would just enjoy it 
at 4K you have a huge advantage in identification over everyone else
play your strengths
maybe try and fly with some dude with a 1080p screen

 

At the end of the day between the game just not rendering targets in multiplayer
you being sloopy on checking your six/surroundings  

and real advantage you have in ID and target identification at close range

theirs no hard disadvantage to not running game mode spotting

 

if you have perfect spotting against the sky
your spotting against the ground suffers

if you have perfect ID spotting (like you have)
your long range spotting suffers

I don't have any personal experience but I bet at 4K its much easier to track targets against the ground
at 1080p with optimal settings losing planes against the trees is a big issue, and I bet at 4K that is going to be far less of an issue for you

Edited March 30, 2023 by RossMarBow

[SharpeXB]

On 3/29/2023 at 10:58 PM, RossMarBow said:

you shouldn't enable any AA at all
at 4K resolution theirs absolutely no reason to be using AA

Yes there certainly is. It might depend on the screen size and distance but even on a 27” screen I found the need to use AA to eliminate jagged lines. Even at 4xAA those are visible on larger screens. On a 48” screen now I could probably try 8x since I can still see jagged edges sometimes.