SSAO & VSYNC what does it actually do?

[White Owl]

Your PC is very similar to mine, and I see you've settled on almost exactly the same graphics settings. Cool.

Yes, turning vertical sync on should solve the tearing. Tearing happens when your system is trying to produce more than 60 frames/second on a 60hz monitor. A couple times I experienced a bug where my framerate was capped at 30... but simply restarting everything fixed that.

I'm curious about your selection of 4x anti-aliasing. Does this option actually reduce any of the jaggy lines for you? My anti-aliasing has never worked at all, but I've read some other people report it works for them... They were all using very different systems, though.

For whatever it's worth, I think SSAO does make the eye candy a little bit prettier. I can leave it on and still get playable framerates most of the time. If I know I'll be over London with lots of aircraft I'll turn that one off, shadows off, and maybe turn a couple other settings down.