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Been out of the FS world for a while, picked up the FSX deluxe edition yesterday, and I have a new CPU with a great graphics card and processor, etc.....what do I need to do in the settings to make this game shine?

-Move all display settings to Ultra High?
-What should the Target Frame rate be set at?
-Full screen resolution setting?
-Filtering?

Thanks so much!

Firstly, no one can say what settings will definitely work for you. I would say that sliders all on ultra high will slow down your rig, not many can handle full FSX yet.

If you have an nVidia card, download nHancer from here: http://www.nhancer.com
It is a tweak utility for the nHancer cards that does wonders! In it there is a unique option called "Enhance in game AA" which basically means you turn the AA option on in the game, but nHancer chooses which level of AA to use.

A good set up for an nVidia card is under AA select"Combined" then 8xS, put a check inside "Enhance in game AA" and a check in "Gamma Correction"

For AA I'ld set it to 16x

Under the optimisations tab set the Texture filtering to high quality and negative LOD Bias to Clamp

Under the Compatibility Tab turn HDR on and if running XP select Single Core under CPU multi core support or under Vista (even with 1 core) or Dual Core select Multi Core

In FSX, under display turn filtering to anisotropic, and put a tick in AA. All the other tabs play with yourself til you find settings that suit you.