Always struggling to get some more quality while keeping a decent FPS, lately, in addition to earlier big improvement getting rid of any anisotropic filtering, now (thanks to a nice hint by Aviar) a further leap in quality replacing new clouds with old and keeping them at "medium" level. This way I can run with forest=3, LandGeom=3, Water=4 and Effects=2 (which is great with HSFX 5.0.1).

The keys are those mentioned: no AF (neither in-game nor set by vidcard at all - quality got by LandGeom=3 is by far superior) and clouds as low as possible (so TypeClouds=0 and Sky=1 in conf.ini).

FPS (average) is 27. My rig is an old Athlon 64, 2 GHz.

Cheers,
GB

Cool. How do we replace clouds - just those conf.ini changes?

Yes. TypeClouds=0 should be added after "3dgunners=1" in [game] section of conf.ini.

GB

Thanks a lot. Will try it out.

What exactly does "LandGeom=3" do?

I'm always looking for more hints to max out the eye candy.

Increases distance to horizon and distance details of the landscape, AFAIK. Very noticeable at higher altitudes.

Thanks.

But I thought that was automatic when you had your in-game settings at "Perfect", which I did, but I still had "LandGeom=2" in my conf. ini.

@ Cold_Flying

To get the most out of this sim, you need to make little tweaks in the config.ini file. Just setting your game to perfect mode is not enough.

Yeah, I've got the Water=4, Effects=2, and Forest=3, but the LandGeom=3 was a new one for me.

I'm running an i5-2500 & GTX560Ti card so FPS isn't really a problem, and I'm always looking for more eye-candy tweaks. If you know of any more I'd be happy to hear about them.

You must type it manually editing by Notepad your conf.ini, then just "save". Do not "save as..." or it'll became a txt file, no more readable by game.

Cheers,
GB

P.S.: please read official Guide issued with each new patch: there you may find new graphic tweaks. The "LandGeom" command line use was described in 4.09m Readme, issued October 1st, 2009.