Board index FlightGear Media Screenshot of the month

Submit your screenshot for the SOTM of June 2021  Topic is solved

Monthly contest to select the best FlightGear screenshot.

Re: Submit your screenshot for the SOTM of June 2021

Postby Bjoern » Fri Jun 04, 2021 10:38 pm

Schönhagen morning departure

Image


I just reinstalled FG to check on its current state (not bad, as usual) and this was actually just a test flight to see how well it runs with all sliders to the right and 4 x MSAA. Turns out that a 6900XT rendered that at 60+ FPS at 1440p.
Bjoern
 
Posts: 484
Joined: Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:00 pm
Location: TXL (RIP)
Version: Next
OS: ArchLinux

Re: Submit your screenshot for the SOTM of June 2021

Postby vnts » Sat Jun 05, 2021 1:03 pm

Try the next branch / nightlies for shadows in a few extra cases and compositor lights.

This is just how FG looks on a 2015+ mid range GPU or better [1] these days: https://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_ ... ld_release .

Bjoern wrote in Fri Jun 04, 2021 10:38 pm:Turns out that a 6900XT rendered that at 60+ FPS at 1440p.

The 6900XT is AMD's answer to the RTX 3090 (NVIDIA's fastest card) [2] , and is overkill by around 4x-6x+ for FG at 1080p (at something less than 60 FPS) which needs around a rating of 3000 (maybe a bit higher for supresampling transparency AA or trees at ultra) - it can probably handle 5k+ with ease - the GPU side of FG rendering (ALS) is massively optimised. FG's high-ish settings GPU requirements are mostly around min settings requirements for other sims - IIRC X-P used to need a GTX 1050 at min settings before switching to vulkan, and the new MS sim needs a 1050 min - and since these are min settings they look terrible.

Kind regards
vnts
 
Posts: 409
Joined: Thu Apr 02, 2015 1:29 am

Re: Submit your screenshot for the SOTM of June 2021

Postby Bjoern » Sat Jun 05, 2021 5:03 pm

vnts wrote in Sat Jun 05, 2021 1:03 pm:Try the next branch / nightlies for shadows in a few extra cases and compositor lights.


That's the next branch and a pull/compile from yesterday. The entire setup was done from the launcher or UI only and I don't know which "under the hood" settings are possible.

The 6900XT is AMD's answer to the RTX 3090 (NVIDIA's fastest card) [2] , and is overkill by around 4x-6x+ for FG at 1080p (at something less than 60 FPS) which needs around a rating of 3000 (maybe a bit higher for supresampling transparency AA or trees at ultra) - it can probably handle 5k+ with ease - the GPU side of FG rendering (ALS) is massively optimised. FG's high-ish settings GPU requirements are mostly around min settings requirements for other sims - IIRC X-P used to need a GTX 1050 at min settings before switching to vulkan, and the new MS sim needs a 1050 min - and since these are min settings they look terrible.


I didn't buy that GPU for FG and even for XP11, it's overkill as at some point, the (mostly) single-threaded architecture limits the attainable FPS. AMD's saving grace is the excellent open source OpenGL driver on Linux as the Windows one is too slow to be competitive and Vulkan isn't an option for XP (and not much faster on Linux anyway) on AMD since third party plugins still render in OpenGL and the driver-level communication between Vulkan and OpenGL is still really buggy (on Linux).
Have not tried FS20, but I figure performance shouldn't be an issue.
Bjoern
 
Posts: 484
Joined: Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:00 pm
Location: TXL (RIP)
Version: Next
OS: ArchLinux

Re: Submit your screenshot for the SOTM of June 2021

Postby Delta5142 » Tue Jun 08, 2021 12:07 am

Into the Night
Image
Delta5142
 
Posts: 340
Joined: Thu Jul 02, 2020 4:18 pm
Location: Northern California
Callsign: DAL5142
Version: next
OS: Mac OS X

Re: Submit your screenshot for the SOTM of June 2021

Postby The epic chicken » Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:52 am

Going on a Trip
Imagefgfs-20210608084659 by The epic chicken, on Flickr
In Thrust We Trust
User avatar
The epic chicken
 
Posts: 283
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:24 am
Callsign: cva1920
Version: 2020.3.9
OS: windows 10

Re: Submit your screenshot for the SOTM of June 2021

Postby kwikius » Fri Jun 18, 2021 6:29 pm

EasyStar slope soaring in the sunset at Rhossili
Image
kwikius
 
Posts: 7
Joined: Fri May 28, 2021 10:24 pm

Re: Submit your screenshot for the SOTM of June 2021  

Postby Anarcho-pilot » Mon Jun 21, 2021 1:38 pm

The submission is over. Now it's time to vote: viewtopic.php?f=88&t=39335 .
User avatar
Anarcho-pilot
 
Posts: 502
Joined: Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:45 pm
Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Re: Submit your screenshot for the SOTM of June 2021

Postby rommel » Sat Jun 26, 2021 4:18 am

Flying over Santiago de Cuba - MUCU

Image
rommel
 
Posts: 48
Joined: Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:34 am
Location: Cuba
Callsign: CUB730
Version: 2020.3.16
OS: KDE Neon 20.04

Re: Submit your screenshot for the SOTM of June 2021

Postby Anarcho-pilot » Sat Jun 26, 2021 5:45 pm

Hello, rommel. The submission was closed and the voting was started on the 21st of June, as it is stated in my previous post. You have submitted too late to participate this month. I'll post your image in the submitting topic for the next month's SOTM.
Last edited by Anarcho-pilot on Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar
Anarcho-pilot
 
Posts: 502
Joined: Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:45 pm
Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Re: Submit your screenshot for the SOTM of June 2021

Postby rommel » Sat Jun 26, 2021 7:18 pm

Thanks you :-)
rommel
 
Posts: 48
Joined: Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:34 am
Location: Cuba
Callsign: CUB730
Version: 2020.3.16
OS: KDE Neon 20.04

Previous

Return to Screenshot of the month

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest