Why its better?

[sonic]

Just wondering for you hardware gurus I recently uped all my Ati settings, Bumped my resolution up 3 notches thinking it would hurt perfomance, but It actually helped alot, smoother and finally no flickering, shimmers or blurs. Why does increasing everything help?

[ctjoyce]

To be truthfully honest, I don't know. But I have also noticed that cranking everything up on any card works best. I think if you unthether the card and let the app use as much of the card it wants, you don't run into any problems.

Cheers
Cameron

[Ashton Lawson]

wouldnt i be lucky if that applied to me...

[Nick N]

It is exactly as Cam says and more

When you set up the video card and the software based on trying to throttle resources for better performance, that is exactly what you are doing.. throttling the system. Assuming a system has a decent card and supporting parts, to set them and the software up to lower setting with the mindset that lower makes it better, is not true.

You have to find the balance between what the hardware can do and set the software up to ask for those resources from the system and the card to deliver them as asked, then the system delivers.

That is why when I have posted FSX and FS9 settings, config tweaks and tossed a set of Windows optimizing tricks into the mix along with a list of driver settings, which are never set low, things work better.

By optimizing the OS and the hard disk, you are freeing resources for the software to use. The video card can then deliver the goods easier and the entire system is happy, including the user.

If you throttle the sim and the hardware, you throttle the experience, visual and performance.