Scaling

[antdeedle1]

I would appreciate it if someone would explain what scaling is and is it better to have high or low values for that option in graphics. Thanks in advance.

[aqualite75]

It's the internal render resolution. Having values higher than 100% can reduce performance, and lower values increase performance. As an example, running the high preset on my ROG Ally at 1080p, if I use the default 125% scaling setting the game runs in the high 30's to low 40's fps. If I drop that to 100% where it is rendering at 1080p, I run high 50's to high 60's fps. High values improve visual quality slightly to compensate for the low quality AA. Run it as high as your hardware and performance target will allow you to run.

[hackintoshchap]

It increases the rendering on the GPU. Lets say that you play at 1080P, with 100% resolution, then that would be 1080P rendering, increasing the render scaling can sharpen up some game details. 400% would be a 4k render to your GPU.

Somewhere around 200% to 300% probably suits many players but this also depends on the native resolution of their monitor and the power of their graphics card. While higher is better, there is also a point where you can introduce stuttering, so it is a balance.

[AyMazingATS]

I never run over 100% scaling on my EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 12gb card. I also cap my fps to 60 while running a 240Hz 1440p gaming monitor. I don't need high fps for this game. This is because I use the Nvidia Profile Inspector tweaks from BenjanJ(may you rest in peace) which was posted over at the Ro Extended forums.

Now once SCS decides to give us DX12 along with their improvements then I will drop NPI at the instant and run the game with default settings.

Basically what has been confirmed so far is the following. Pavel mentioned several things during an interview with a Czech news service. This is taken from native language and translated to English as a fair warning.

Spoken by Pavel:

"With the new engine, there should be some performance reserves, there is a lot of talk about image quality about anti-aliasing, now we have implemented some TAA anti-aliasing in real time (in the version that will come) it ensures that the pixels do not jump relative to each other, it will be a revolution in visuals so that people they didn't have to invest power, it will be smoothed out in the native resolution, new possibilities have opened up for us to add new graphic elements/features in the next 1-2 years as part of the new engine."

Another thing he also mentioned:
"That there will be new types of weather and skyboxes"

And this one is specifically about the game engine update:
"about the new game engine, he basically said the same thing as on the 2022 Christmas stream, that "by the end of this year or this winter, maybe a new game engine will be released" pavel joked that "players cry because they have 12 or 16 cores on the processor, but only 1.5 cores he works out of it, as in our case" Pavel mentioned that Vulkan is offered for modern graphics (I don't understand that, I'm just writing what he specifically said)"

So it seems within the next 6 months to a year that the new game engine will be released with new anti-aliasing, new weather and skyboxes, and hopefully true multicore CPU support(this is badly needed).

[antdeedle1]

Thank you for your help on this topic..I appreciate all of your comments.. My scaling right now on ATS is 100% and the game seems to run smoothly without too much stuttering. I just wanted to get feedback as to what others ran and it looks like, with my computer I am running what is appropriate for my hardware. Thanks again and Happy Trucking.

[Armydude Trucking]

And me, the dummy says, what's a skybox ???

[hackintoshchap]

Originally posted by Armydude Trucking:

And me, the dummy says, what's a skybox ???

Not really a dumb question at all, explanation from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skybox_%28video_games%29