Cities shining full of sparks like christmas trees under sunny light in VR

[Youtch]

After 1 year playing and fine tuning all settings with Reverb G2, i finally got to a point where i am quite satisfied with the visuals and the performance I m getting.

 

There is only one last thing still driving me completly crazy: the cities shinning full of sparks like christmas trees under sunny light (tends to be less visible under clouds).

 

When looking at a city, instead of having a stable image of the buildings, the image is full of sparks or shimmer.

 

I don t know if I am the only one experiencing this, or if it is what people refers to commonly as "shimmering", but this is very disturbing and break immersion.

 

Is there any parameter in the game or nvidia settings that can help reduce this?

 

I have put negative LOS bias to -0.5 but under sun the city still glitter/spark/shine.

 

Many thanks in advance,

Y.

Edited December 11, 2022 by Youtch
Reworded for better clarity

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

Turn off bloom.

[Youtch]

I have bloom disable.

 

Maybe i didn t express myself correctly when i was saying shining, i refer to cities being visually full of sparks, not visually static.

[firdimigdi]

I don't think there's anything you can do about this as it's actual 3D geometry which causes this shimmering effect and not textures.

[shirazjohn]

This is something that has irritated me also, the only thing that i found helps is using msaa but at a performance cost so i have just learned to live with it.

[Youtch]

29 minutes ago, firdimigdi said:

I don't think there's anything you can do about this as it's actual 3D geometry which causes this shimmering effect and not textures.

I am under the impression that this problem is not visible with a monitor, does it happen only with VR?

[firdimigdi]

1 hour ago, Youtch said:

I am under the impression that this problem is not visible with a monitor, does it happen only with VR?

 

What does the monitor sitting on your desk show?

 

The only way to possibly reduce the perception of this in VR is with higher render resolution. It'll still shimmer though because of the same reason: it's brightly textured 3D geometry with straight lines.

[Youtch]

Monitor has indeed higher resolution, maybe this is the reason why the shimmering is less visible.

[TheSNAFU]

This is one of the things that bothers me the most. I wish the devs would stand down for a while, stop making new stuff and fix things like this and enabling the game to take advantage of modern CPU’s. A multi core processor running at 5 ghz or more with a 3000 series card should be able to run vr better than this game allows. I saw where DCS has announced they are working on optimizing their game to leverage multi thread. That should be happening to GB’s. I know there are economics involved but they can only suck so much from this aging engine. 

Edited December 11, 2022 by TheSNAFU

[Youtch]

Most people are going to be CPU bound with modern graphic card.

 

I seriously hope that multi core optimization will come as part of the improvement of engine they are planning to do, as one of the main priority.

 

 

[shirazjohn]

1 hour ago, TheSNAFU said:

I wish the devs would stand down for a while, stop making new stuff and fix things like this and enabling the game to take advantage of modern CPU’s.

As crazy as it sounds I would be willing to pay for an optimization module, I've bought just about everything there is to support this great sim but this would be preferable over any new aircraft, map or vehicle etc. 

[TheSNAFU]

1 hour ago, shirazjohn said:

As crazy as it sounds I would be willing to pay for an optimization module, I've bought just about everything there is to support this great sim but this would be preferable over any new aircraft, map or vehicle etc. 

absolutely I would pay for that. An entire module price would be ok with me. 
 

To a large extent we can overcome gpu limitations much easier than cpu. 

[RAAF492SQNOz_Steve]

11 hours ago, shirazjohn said:

This is something that has irritated me also, the only thing that i found helps is using msaa but at a performance cost so i have just learned to live with it.

I run MSAA x2 and that helps quite a bit.  As noted by Shirazjohn, it comes at a significant performance cost (until I got a 4090 that has enough juice to allow High settings, MSAA x2 and 90Hz in my Varjo Aero)

[shirazjohn]

11 hours ago, RAAF492SQNOz_Steve said:

I run MSAA x2 and that helps quite a bit.  As noted by Shirazjohn, it comes at a significant performance cost (until I got a 4090 that has enough juice to allow High settings, MSAA x2 and 90Hz in my Varjo Aero)

This is a similar situation for me, just purchased a 4080 which i can run the same high settings with msaa x2 and get a fairly solid 90fps (except in heavy AI scenarios where i become cpu bottlenecked fps drops to around 65).

 

Although i am experimenting with extreme settings and oversampling the g2 110%ss which still gives me a solid 90 fps, just can't decide which i prefer at the moment . But definitely a huge improvement over my old 1080ti.