Blurries are gone! And I have no clue how it happened....

While flying long cross countries I like to look around at the traffic around me. Call me weird, but I enjoy seeing airlines that haven't existed since my childhood. Anywho, when I switch back to my cockpit view, the ground textures around me go completely blurry. I'm guessing this is what everybody is talking about when they mention "the blurries". This has only happened in the last few months and I have no clue what caused the change. I started following different threads down their various rabbit holes looking for an answer and nothing worked...... until I found a YouTube video that suggested changing AffinityMask to 4095. Low and behold it worked!

Now, can anybody explain to me why it works? My AM has been 14,84, and 220 for several years and I never had the blurry problem until lately. Until tonight, I've never even seen anybody suggest changing it to 4095.

Hello Hossfly68,

Its a little hard to say wether you've done yourself a favour or not, even if your blurries are seemingly cured, Values for AM is calculated on a Core count, either HT on or OFF. Which cores are on and which ones are off do you know? That would depend on which CPU you have, and wether you have HyperThreading ON or OFF, I would be wary of just blindly following YT vids without knowing if the author is utilizing the same as yourself (CPU wise).

Nearest I could calculate, Calculating AM's for CPU without knowing CPUID, I could be very wrong :confused: and I am sure to be corrected.:D

a Hex 6 Core CPU with HT on worked out to AffinityMask 4095 All HT and Logical Cores on

4095 = 111111111111 bin- HTC11 HTC10 HTC9 HTC8 HTC7 HTC6 on / LC5 LC4 LC3 LC2 LC1 LC0 on

Quad core 4 Logical with HT off Core Mask 1 for on / 0 for off - bin = binary

14 = 1110 bin - LC3 LC2 LC1 on / LC0 off

15 = 1111 bin - LC3 LC2 LC1 LC0 on

Quad core with HT on 8 Cores 4 Logical & 4 HT

254 = 11111110 bin - HTC7 HTC6 HTC5 HTC4 on/ LC3 LC2 LC1 on /LC0 off

255 = 11111111 bin - HTC7 HTC6 HTC5 HTC4 on/ LC3 LC2 LC1 on LC0 on

220 = 11011100 bin - HTC7 on HTC6 on HTC5 off HTC4 on / LC3 on LC2 on LC1 off LC0 off

OctaCore 8 Cores / 8 Logical

84 = 01010100 - LC7 off LC6 on LC5 off LC4 on LC3 off LC2 on LC1 off LC0 off

85 = 01010101 - LC7 off LC6 on LC5 off LC4 on LC3 off LC2 on LC1 off LC0 on

OctaCore 8 core - HT on - 16Cores - 8 HT / 8 Logical

220 =0000000011011100 bin HT15 off HT14 off HT13 off HT12 off HT11 off HT10 off HT9 off HT8 off

LC7 on LC6 on LC5 off LC4 on LC3 on LC2 on LC1 off LC0 off

I have always set it to 14 or 84 since I got this computer. It's a Core I7 7700HQ in an HP Omen laptop with a GTX 1050TI. I have never even seen a setting of 4095 before and kind of figured it had to be a setting that the card wouldn't read and it would just go with it's default. I'll admit to having a rum & Coke or three while falling down a YouTube rabbit hole and finding that video. After changing a bunch of stuff and checking for stability, I ended up taking a 3.6 hour flight in the Carenado 172. No blurries, no stuttering, no glitches, no crashes. It seems to be just a happy coincidence and I don't think I will ever touch it again.

It's running absolutely perfectly now. I mean, I thought it was before, but it's even better now.