(Poll) SSAO - On or Off ??

[idolismo]

Hm might as well give that a try then, see if does make a difference, especially now that 1.40 is out of beta.

Edit: SSAO on medium does work pretty well actually.

[Mikke]

SSAO on, at high. Every graphical setting maxed out, but I haven't tested the more demanding areas after the 1.40 update.

[flight50]

Hmmm. This thread might seem to be quite useful for a lot of people. I haven't played since 1.40 went live. I'll check out SSAO and how my game reacts. I wasn't having many issue in beta but it could be that I just wasn't noticing. One thing I did notice in beta though is the chasing shadow/light effects. When driving, if you look at a barrier or some border along the road, it seems that you are chasing a light source. I use trackIR so it could be totally different for people that don't use trackIR. But when you move your head more abruptly or unpredictably, you seem to be chasing shadows/light sources. Now this was beta though for me. I'll have to give her a spin with the public release to check things out.

[SmokeyWolf]

I run a GTX 1050 graphics card and here is my results

After testing SSAO even on low caused a lot of stuttering on my end. Turned it off and the stuttering reduced dramatically.

Will you eliminate stutter no you won't as there will always be some stutter in cities.

Even running scaling at 100% helped too. All my graphics settings are on high.

Like I said it is impossible to eliminate stuttering in the cities but I have mine set to where the stutter is barely noticeable but there are times where it really gets bad but nothing can be done about it.

I leave my Nvidia settings to stock.

[angrybirdseller]

The SSAO is off as it eats frames and cant tell the difference visually as I drive in cabin mode 99% of the time.

[SmokeyWolf]

@angrybirdseller Yes it does.

[xXCARL1992Xx]

even in the cab you see where SSAO affect shadows and where not, corners will look much brighter without it because the model doesnt has a dark AO anymore like it used to

[55sixxx]

I have a very keen eye for details, but i gotta be honest here... The difference SSAO makes visually is minimal and is barely noticeable while using first person view... There are some small bits here and there (Mainly under bridges and overpasses) that looks better with SSAO, but it's not worth having a considerable performance drop just to have these little touch ups. I'll be leaving SSAO permanently off, especially now that 1.40 has released.

[xXCARL1992Xx]

there is noticeable difference, but why should SSAO now be a big game changer like some make it out to be ? it was implemented so SCS doesnt need to fake it via AO baking it into textures on prefabs or vehicles and not to make more eye candy, shadow is shadow, or occlusion is occlusion in this case, only that it is real time now and not static baked into the texture wich doesnt allowe any flexibility

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when they finally make the game more modern hardware friendly i hope we get even stronger AO effect, i know when i saw it in BF3 how it looks like without it, boring and plain and noticeable that there was something lacking but turned on it looked "natural" again

[Grizzly]

Once they fix this bug I'll start using it again. First reported 6 weeks ago
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