topic Re: Seeing "Limiting Visual Effects" popup message every time I launch in Fusion Support Forum

Seeing "Limiting Visual Effects" popup message every time I launch Fusion

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 04:49:28 GMT

I enabled High resolution graphics in my preferences. Now whenever I launch Fusion, I see a popup displaying a (partial) message that Ambient Occlusion and Anti-aliasing have been disabled (which I didn't have enabled in the first place).

I don't really need to see this popup every time I launch fusion. Is this intentional? Also, the message is cut off, with no way to read the rest. Hope it wasn't important?

Re: Seeing "Limiting Visual Effects" popup message every time I launch

TrippyLighting — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:03:35 GMT

This means that your graphics card is running out of memory and/or other features.

For pure modeling I would generally turn of all these unneeded viewport gimmicks. The only thing I have enabled is often Antialiasing. But even that is not strictly needed.

Re: Seeing "Limiting Visual Effects" popup message every time I launch

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:37:00 GMT

I don't think it's a memory issue. the message seems to say that antialiasing and ambient occlusion will always be turned off when using high-resolution graphics (yes, to save on video memory and performance, but it's not specific to my system).

...So if it will always be turned off, Fusion doesn't really need to tell me about it every time I launch it.

Re: Seeing "Limiting Visual Effects" popup message every time I launch

TrippyLighting — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:10:30 GMT

Do you get that message if you disable these settings and then re-start Fusion 360 ?

Re: Seeing "Limiting Visual Effects" popup message every time I launch

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:48:30 GMT

If you mean:

Disable "High resolution graphics", then no, I don't see that message any more.
Disable "Ambient Occlusion" and "Antialiasing": These settings have never been enabled. I don't use them. and in fact, I can't enable them when high-resolution graphics are enabled (as this message indicates). But I tried turning off high-res graphics, checking, then unchecking ambient occlusion and antialiasing, then re-enabling high-resolution graphics (restarting fusion between each change), and I still see this message.

Re: Seeing "Limiting Visual Effects" popup message every time I launch

TrippyLighting — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:51:23 GMT

That sounds indeed like there's some room for improvement.

@jodom4

Re: Seeing "Limiting Visual Effects" popup message every time I launch

jodom4 — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:24:16 GMT

Thanks, roach374. Passing this one on to the Development Team.

Re: Seeing "Limiting Visual Effects" popup message every time I launch

splarv — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:05:09 GMT

I still see this tooltip every time. At least fix that the tooltip don't show the message totally, I want read that all.

Re: Seeing "Limiting Visual Effects" popup message every time I launch

markaudacity — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:33:55 GMT

Adding to this, I don't see "Ambient Occlusion" or "Antialiasing" as options in graphics settings.
I sure would like to turn them off so I don't get this error on startup, since I'm always using high-res graphics and apparently haven't missed either of these functions. 😛