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Goodly evening all...

A very big thank you to "Daube" Stephane for helping me get a lot more out of this electronic gizmo.

FSX and Vista
FS Water Configurator set to Steves Favourite
HDE Clouds
3D Lights
Location:  Alaska...USA
Aircraft:   Cessna 305 on floats
Season:   Fall 2010 and it was a Dawn Departure
Mostly all Freeware right here at Simviation...

All settings have been changed or applied that you suggested Stephane and I think the shots show much better...

I left the Fraps on to show the rates I was getting Stephane and I had the Frame Rate set to Unlimited...

Going to be a Glassy Water Departure...


Flaps up...about to level off...


Base Leg...


Next two shots show the Final Approach...





Comments and Advice most welcome...

[color=#0000ff]Wow Doug!!! Congrats on your new computer

Thanks Greg, just itching to fly into some of the float/seaplane bases again...

1 and 3 8-) 8-) 8-)
Awesome Doug....it seems like your fps are a little jumpy though

Great shots Doug.

Great shots Doug, but we have some problems still:
- your FPS is much lower than it was before
- you AA is still disabled :/

This is not normal. Perhaps I've been a bit too optimistic with the recommended settings in NVidia Inspector, so let's try that again:
- I have modified the AntiAliasing settings,
- I have lowered the Anisotropic to a more reasonnable value
- I have lowered the quality setting to "quality" instead of "best quality", which will give you better performance without sacrifying too much texture quality
Of course, ensure you are really modifying the FSX profile. On the top, the tool should display the MS Flight Simulator X profile title, and "fsx.exe" should appear in the green bar. Don't forget to "apply settings" a the end as well.

Ah Doug, two other questions, because I haven't seen the information in your previous topic:
- what NVidia drivers version do you currently have ?
- Have you disabled the DirectX 10 Preview option in FSX ? (if not, you should disable it)

EDIT: bonus question  You said in your previous post that light bloom was disabled, but in this shots it's clearly active (see the sun glowing). The FSX light bloom is a performance killer, at least on the NVidia 8800... you should disable that in the game settings.

Good morning all...

Hi Stephane...

Okay have made the changes...Applied
-yes FSX exe is in green bar and MS Flight Simulator X
shows in profile and menu now...
-Direct X Disabled

Geforce Video Adapter is 270.61 and I think it is the newest one...

-yes AA shows disabled in the game

I turned on Light Bloom to take the pictures and then I turn it off for the flight...think I should have told you...

Will take a couple of shots again...

Thanks again Stephane...
   

Thanks Larry and Chuck for the comments...much appreciated...

Ok Doug, I'll wait for your feedback on the new settings.
Hopefully, at least with bloom turned off, you should get a much smoother flight.