Poor performace

[Jan (NL)]

I saw other questions here regarding the performance of Lifoff.
I also found the graphics to be to poor on my system to use this simulator and sadly had to decide to return it.
Overall the sim seems very good, very nice menus etc. and the levels seem excellent, but the inflight graphics are just to poor on my system.

DRL runs at maximum graphics settings 150+ fps on my pc, which agreed, is no top game system.
The frames per second in Lifoff where fine (150+) but the graphics grainy, flickery and simply poor. Strangely enough, scaling down to simple graphics settings did not change much (some flickery details dissappared). Which makes me wonder, what is going on here?

My PC:
- 9th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 9700 (8-Core, 12MB Cache,
up to 4.7GHz with Intel(R) Turbo Boost Technology)
-16GB DDR4 at 2666MHz Dual Channel
-NVIDIA(R) GeForce RTX(TM) 2060 6GB GDDR6

Any insights?

Thx, Jan

[JuniorDiscart]

Hi Jan

Scaling down the graphics settings mainly entails lowering the level-of-detail objects, reducing shadow distance or turning it off altogether, and lower resolution textures.

When you say flickering, perhaps you're referring to the static camera noise effect? This is not entirely tied to any graphics settings, but is a simulation of the image degradation when the video signal is obstructed by objects: https://i.imgur.com/PzjvdOm.jpeg
And depending in where your drone is located in the environment, this effect can be worse. This can be turned off if you don't prefer it.

[Jan (NL)]

Hi, Thank you for your reaction. Perhaps the word 'flickering' is not correct. What I meant was that the overall screen showed grainy noise, stripes, moving, not sharp. Giving an instabile feeling. I tried turning on and off v-sync, and all resolutions and Mhz. but that didn't make a real difference (the overall graphics only became worse in lower resolutions). I do not have it anymore so i can not show you screenshots.
btw: This was in the first level (meadow wit the haystacks) which is not a very demanding level I would think.(In the level with the buildings things got even worse.
Jan

[JuniorDiscart]

Originally posted by Jan (NL):

Hi, Thank you for your reaction. Perhaps the word 'flickering' is not correct. What I meant was that the overall screen showed grainy noise, stripes, moving, not sharp.

This describes the camera noise feature for my earlier reply. Which can be turned off to your preference. It's turned on by default based on what preset you choose during the first-time startup, but can be turned off in the game options, or toggled in-game using the 'C' key on your keyboard.

[Jan (NL)]

I am not sure this 'noise' option was my problem.
Considering my system specs, would you expect Liftoff to run fine?

[LuGus Studios]

Originally posted by Jan (NL):

I am not sure this 'noise' option was my problem.
Considering my system specs, would you expect Liftoff to run fine?

Poor system performance would result in frame drops (yet you get + 150fps), it doesn't usually result in grainy, flickery graphics. It is however a perfect description of the camera noise option.

Have you tried hitting the "C" button as JuniorDiscart suggested?

[Jan (NL)]

I bought and installed Lifoff again. And you are absolutely right. It is the camera noise option!
I hit the 'c' and the graphics clear up. Great! Thx!!

[JuniorDiscart]

Thanks for getting back to us, and great to hear! :)