Rendering Options

The rendering options dialog

Advanced settings that balance frame rate and rendering quality.

Here is an incomplete list of the rendering options dialog, with links to their descriptions.

Basic

• ☐ Throttle frame rate
• ☐ Compensate field of view for wider screens
• ☐ Use disk space for faster loading (DDS Texture Cache)
• ☐ Use point sprites for runway lights
• ☐ Use triangles for directional lights
• ☐ Animated jetways
• ☐ Satellite Photoscenery
• ☐ Wireframe

• Graphics Quality 🔽
• ☐ WS3.0

Advanced settings

General

• ◯ Low specifications ☑ Use shaders
• ◉ Atmospheric light scattering (ALS)

• Terrain quality 🔽
• Model effects 🔽
• Water effects 🔽
• Clouds detail 🔽
• Wind effects 🔽
• Overlay 🔽
• Anti-aliasing 🔽

Shadows and Lights

• Shadow quality 🔽

Scenery Layers

• Pylons and power lines 🔽
• Detailed roads and railways 🔽
• Buildings 🔽
• Autogenerated vegetation 🔽
• OpenStreetMap trees 🔽
• vegetation shadows 🔽
• Scenery objects 🔽

Atmospheric Effects

• ☐ Particles
• ☐ Precipitation
• ☐ 3D clouds