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I've spent the past few hours tweaking my FSX to run well on my lappy and in the process I found that on my system when I turn Light Bloom on the aircraft and ground textures become a little blurry, when it is off everything is quite sharp. I'm running Core 2 Duo, 1 gig ram and a Geforce Go 7600. If you have a similar or completely different system to mine please test this and post your results. The difference is most noticeable in the aircraft preview of free flight with thte AirTrike. I'll see if I can make a screenshot comparison.

EDIT: And here it is, the difference is quite clear

Light bloom does take  some resourses that would be otherwise utilized to keep textures sharper and frame rates higher. There are no surprises there.

I had the same problem, but I updated my graphics drivers, and it fixed the light bloom blurriness.

Nice tip. Thanks!

Yup, as always, updated drivers can somtimes make your graphic card a bit more efficeient  when handeling textures.

Always worth a try.  :)

Keep It Simple - It's a bit more than just a heavy load. Even after making the load lighter it still occurs

Mobius - I would do that, but I have to wait for HP to release them  ::)

Pete - No probs

Which card do you have Wingo? If it's nVidia, go HERE to get your drivers, and if it's ATI (AMD apparently), go HERE to get your drivers, you shouldn't have to wait for HP to release specific drivers for your computer.

Oh, i do You see, the basic NVIDIA driver install tool doesn't recognise my card, only the ones from HP do

Oh, weird.

No thanks. I LOVE my light bloom. GeForce 6800 GPU.  ;D

You run the light bloom on a 6800 ??

Light bloom will make fsX run like crap. Untill you get a G80 or R600, keep it off and crank up other settings instead....

OK... I have three options with my 6800 GPU for FSX:

1. MAXIMUM autogen. NO light bloom. Runs at 8 FPS and above.

2. Light bloom ON. Autogen SPARSE. Runs at 8 FPS and above.

3. MAXIMUM autogen. Light bloom ON. Runs at 5 FPS and above up to 7.

I'm starting to use the top option... it just looks so good! But I mainly use the bottom one. If I am in a plane that doesn't hog resources I get 8 FPS and above with option 3.  :o

Only 8 FPS with autogen
Why don't you try to read the FAQ and tweak your FSX instead ?
This is what I get with my 6800 GT, autogen at MAX, scenery sparse to normal, no light bloom, over Seattle...



19 FPS...
Of course, because my memory is too small (1 Gb only, slow memory) and my harddrive is too slow (IDE drives), I get this performance only when I fly slowly, no jets possible for me yet, because my scenery cannot load fast enough...
But anyway, don't you think you could get better performance ? (and run your light bloom with double digit FPS at least ?)

Oooooh. Nice. I must have missed your FAQ. Going to look now.

EDIT: HELP! Daube where is the FAQ located?