Perfect SETTINGS for FSX?

[andy69fly]

PLEASE HELP! I spend hours and hours to find a perfect setting for my FSX... but still slow and errors....

just bought new items for my pc:

- XP32bit 2002 with SP3

- Intel Core TM Quad CPU Q9550, 2.83GHz, 4 GB RAM

- Evga NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 2 GB

- Evga Nforce 790i ultra SLI Motherboard DDR3/2000 Mhz SLIready, PCI 1.0 2.0

- 1000w Power Supply

anybody can help??? i am grounded.... THANKS

[Ulf B]

First - Tune your system and FSX. Good advice here: http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaB ... 1208959973

Second - There are many different opinions on what's "perfect" display settings in FSX. You have make up your own opinion on how to balance display settings and performance/smoothness. Eventually you might use different display settings depending on the type of flight you do (VFR flying low and slow, IFR flying high and fast).

[jwenham]

First - Tune your system and FSX. Good advice here: http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaB ... 1208959973

Second - There are many different opinions on what's "perfect" display settings in FSX. You have make up your own opinion on how to balance display settings and performance/smoothness. Eventually you might use different display settings depending on the type of flight you do (VFR flying low and slow, IFR flying high and fast).

Hey Ulf, what do you have you AA set to? Multi 4x or do you use the combined 8xs. I get far smoother flight more so while during takeoff and landing with the 4x multi. I do see a bit of shimmer but the performance benefit outways it to me.

[Ulf B]

Hey Ulf, what do you have you AA set to? Multi 4x or do you use the combined 8xs. I get far smoother flight more so while during takeoff and landing with the 4x multi. I do see a bit of shimmer but the performance benefit outways it to me.

Exactly what I found! My experience is that AA 4x, Multisampling is the best trade off between visuals and performance. I don't use nHancer because I couldn't get rid of the shimmering and with the later nVIDIA drivers I got pretty much the same result with 4x Multi as with nHancer 4x combined. I now use the nVIDIA drivers 190.62 and have enabled AA in FSX since the nHancer beta recommended this for FSX due to changes in the nVIDIA 190 drivers. I also have set Enhance the application setting in the CP.

As said, I'm happy with running FSX with 4x multi + Enhance the application setting and AA enabled in FSX.

[laurits]

Interesting perspective....

Do you think these 190.62 Nvidia drivers will work with my old 8800 GTS 640 Mb?

I'm still on the 182.50 drivers, but always looking for ANY new tweak and "miracle" adjustment (can't help it, optimist and perfectionist!)

Do I understand you correctly, Ulf, that you don't use nHancer at all?

[Ulf B]

Interesting perspective....
Do you think these 190.62 Nvidia drivers will work with my old 8800 GTS 640 Mb?

The latest nVIDIA drivers for the Geforce 8-series is 190.62. I think most simmers use older drivers. 182.50 seems to be recommended by most simmers since nHancer do work with these drivers. For now there is only a beta version of nHancer available for the 190.62 driver.

Interesting perspective....
I'm still on the 182.50 drivers, but always looking for ANY new tweak and "miracle" adjustment (can't help it, optimist and perfectionist!)

Do I understand you correctly, Ulf, that you don't use nHancer at all?

I haven't experienced any impact on performance in FSX with any the latest nVIDIA drivers (181.22 - 190.62).

No I'm not using nHancer. I used to, but for some time now I haven't noticed much difference in shimmering (AA performance) in FSX with or without nHancer. But this is my opinion. Running nHancer with combined AA will decrease performance in FSX.

[laurits]

Thanks, appreciate this, I'll try the new drivers and see if any difference with or without nHancer.

[machineman9]

As I said in the other thread... 32 bit operating systems only see 3.7Gb memory (usually. But for this, it is pretty much that)

3.7Gb - 2Gb graphics memory = 1.7Gb actual RAM type memory your computer can use.

But I don't think on 32 bit that any software is allowed to use more than 2Gb RAM, so either way, you have more memory than you think you have.

Getting a 64bit operating system would probably help, but is costly. A cheap solution is to lower the amount of autogen.


I'll let someone else confirm this, but this is probably the issue. You've set up the game for specifications you thought you had, but don't.

[wsciutti]

JW and Ulf,

Pls share how you eliminate shimmering with 4xS Multi?
FSX Settings?

On my system, it looks like an ocean moving.

i7 920@3.8/260 standard with 182.50 and nHancer/3Gb@7-8-7-20.
75% auto/complexity/1x low or 2x low/30 locked or unlimited with Capt Sim 757.
TBM:80
no bufferpools

Thanks.

Jack S.

[Ulf B]

Well,

I have now installed the nVIDIA 191.03 beta drivers and nHancer 2.5.5. I'm now running nHancer with 8x AA combined and I still have some shimmering in FSX, but it's OK. I'll continue to use nHancer.

Pls share how you eliminate shimmering with 4xS Multi?
FSX Settings?

When I used nVIDIA CP settings 4x AA Multi, I set FSX display settings for Filtering = trilinear and Anti-Aliasing checked.

[laurits]

With the rig in your signature, there's still shimmer?

Oh boy, I'll relax now with my Q6600/8800 GTS then!

I think the new Nvidia drivers are OK, I finally moved from the 182.50, and it looks fine.

[Ulf B]

With the rig in your signature, there's still shimmer?

I don't understand that comment? Shimmering textures has nothing to do with performance. You get some amount of shimmer using any graphics card. There was some hope that the new AA features on the Radeon 5870 card would help, but initial reports on another forum is negative on this point.

Some FSX autogen building textures shimmer and that's caused by bad texture design. Only help would be autogen replacements.

[laurits]

Yeah, or a completely new Flight Simulator, huh?

The comment was not to offend or confuse you, just a statement about me not understanding that with High End / Expensive equipment like in your sig, the performance of this flightsim is STILL NOT perfect...

That boggles the mind.

Maybe OK they fired the Aces Team, anyhow...

[Ulf B]

Yeah, or a completely new Flight Simulator, huh?

The comment was not to offend or confuse you, just a statement about me not understanding that with High End / Expensive equipment like in your sig, the performance of this flightsim is STILL NOT perfect...

That boggles the mind.

Maybe OK they fired the Aces Team, anyhow...

Well, you have to explain to me how shimmering relates to performance. 

[laurits]

Hmmm... What's your point?

You mention this yourself:

"Some FSX autogen building textures shimmer and that's caused by bad texture design. Only help would be autogen replacements."

= New Sim, new autogen...

Change the trees too maybe a good idea.